Tom Benedek
Tom Benedek wrote the screenplay for Cocoon, The Adventures of Pinocchio, and other films. In addition to teaching the craft of screenwriting, Tom has interviewed dozens of agents, managers, production execs, working screenwriters for his Network Hollywood class at ScreenWritingMasterClass.com. He has written screenplays for Robert Zemeckis, Lawerence Kasdan, Lili Fini Zanuck and Richard Zanuck, David Brown, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Sydney Pollack, Richard Rush, Harold Ramis, Lauren Schuler Donner and Richard Donner, Ray Stark, and many more.
He is a member of the Writers’ Guild of America, West and the Writers’ Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He teaches screenwriting at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where he is a James Gindin Visiting Artist. Tom also teaches at his alma mater, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he received a Bachelor’s Degree with Individual Concentration in Film.
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12 Things to Nail Down Before You Start Your Next Rewrite
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Breaking Story Effectively: Creating the Elements You Nee...
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Creating Powerful Story Outlines: Character Driving Plot
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Gravity: Piece by Piece - The Chemistry and Physics of a ...
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Mapping Out Memorable Scenes
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