Gloria Film Festival 2008

The exploration of Tee who is searching the happiness of her life.

An interdisciplinary film study project produced by the Foursite Film Institute and Weber State university. A dance for the camera exploring the intertwining of five dance forms representing a multicultural mix.

On March 1st 2006, an 89-year-old woman, Matty Kahn, volunteers for a Never2Late project, to begin learning to play the cello in a month's time. Having no prior musical knowledge, she is bravely embarking on the path of musical training to rediscover the strong connection between life and music.

"Dialogue and Characterization." Dialogue arises out of characterization and situation. Characterization arises out of back story. Until you understand these concepts and elements, your dialogue will never be completely believable. We've all seen those films in which the characterization and dialogue alienate us from the story because they are not believable and do not help drive the story forward. You need to know how to create your protagonist, antagonist, hero's ally, their backstories and motivations and the enabling circumstances that they all find themselves in at the beginning of your screenplay. Characters and dialogue are the two elements that will make or break your story and if you do not know what you're doing when creating those two elements, you will lose your credibility with the audience, you will pull your audience out of your story and may never be able to pull them back in. These are the two most crucial elements of a well-written screenplay and the success of your script and of your screenwriting career depend on mastering their use.

Rob Tobin, one of the most highly respected experts on screenwriting and story structure, does more than just describe the elements of a good screenplay, he discusses and explains the relationships between those elements that are necessary to create a cohesive, bullet-proof screenplay structure. "Story structure is to story what a glass is to wine," Rob states. "The glass allows you to hold and present your fine wine to those who wish to taste it. The story structure allows you to hold and present your story to those who wish to hear and see it. Every element of a well-told story arises out of structure: characterization, dialogue, theme, plot in the same way that every element of a house rests on, depends on and arises from the foundation of that house. Structure is not limiting, it is freeing. With a solid structure in place you can go wild with your imagination, creating the most amazing stories, safe in the knowledge that you will be able to hold and present even the wildest most untraditional story to your audience in a way that they can accept and appreciate it." No-one explains story structure, the elements or story and the needed relationships between those elements as clearly or in as much detail as Rob does.

How far can you go to leave your past behind?