Mentors Chris Vogler Former Disney Exec & Author of The Writers' Journey Catherine Hardwicke Director, TWILIGHT Fred Fuchs Producer & Former President of Francis Ford Coppola's company Andrew Lazar Academy Award-Nominated Producer Joan Lane British producer who developed THE KING'S SPEECH Barnet Bain Producer, WHAT DREAMS MAY COME Madeleine Cotter Literary & Talent Agent Kirsty Bell Award-winning Director & Producer, Founder & CEO of Goldfinch George Parra Producer Margaret French Isaac President of Di Novi Pictures Greg Cope White Writer & Producer Kelly Goode Former Senior VP of Current Programming at Warner Bros. Television Simon Egan Producer of the Academy Award-winning THE KING'S SPEECH Scott Myers Screenwriter, Teacher & Story Consultant Julie Merson Producer Dan Zeff BAFTA-winning director & screenwriter Michael Davies BAFTA-winning director & screenwriter Joe Russo Producer, writer & director Sabrina Parra Script Consultant and Former Vice President of Di Novi Pictures Peter Lydon BAFTA-nominated director and producer Laurence Coriat BAFTA-nominated screenwriter Amy Ferris Author, editor, screenwriter & playwright Ramfis Myrthil Award-winning New York-based filmmaker and producer Diane Drake Million-dollar screenwriter (WHAT WOMEN WANT) Michael Alden Theatre and film producer (THE HOURS) Brooke Warner Publisher of She Writes Press Andrew Cole-Bulgin British producer who produced THE KISSING BOOTH Judi Levine Award-winning feature film and documentary producer Richard “RB” Botto Producer & CEO of Stage 32 Stewart Lyons Producer, BREAKING BAD & BETTER CALL SAUL Jennifer Snow USA Today Bestselling author and screenwriter David Chien Manager and producer at Art/Work Kala Guess Industry liaison at Final Draft Wendy Kram Producer and founder of L.A. For Hire Chris Deckard Literary Manager and Co-founder of Fictional Entity Jen Grisanti Writing Instructor for NBC's Writers On The Verge Niall Johnson British Writer-Director Stan Zimmerman Acclaimed comedy writer (THE GOLDEN GIRLS, ROSEANNE, GILMORE GIRLS) Scotty Mullen Award-winning screenwriter Connor Pritchard Writer & producer Sacha Bennett British Film Director Linda Seger World-renowned Script Consultant Spencer Robinson Literary Manager at Art/Work David Matamoros Independent Producer (THE PLATFORM) Pamela Wallace Academy Award-winning writer (WITNESS) Gerald DiPego Veteran Hollywood screenwriter (PHENOMENON, MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE) Joey Tuccio CEO of Roadmap Writers Kathie Fong Yoneda Former Disney and Touchstone Exec Martin Olson Four-times Emmy nominated comedy writer Luci Lenox Casting Director Morgan Yowell Former agent at The Gersh Scott Collette Screenwriter & film financing expert Pamela Jaye Smith Award-winning Producer and Director Menotti Award-winning Italian screenwriter David Congalton Award-winning author, screenwriter and radio personality Jenni Gold Co-founder of Gold Pictures, Inc.
