photos courtesy Robbye True It’s been an amazing week in LA for Dean, Bill and SagePresence. Bill was a headliner at this amazing festival, which offers a day of speakers and intensive seminars, followed by an unprecedented pitchathon where over a hundred real movie industry companies take pitches from screenwriters looking for their big break. [...]

It’s amazing how often we talk to people about what SagePresence has to offer, and they suggest a fit for a population of people who fall outside of our primary target markets. Here are some of the suggestions we’ve gotten recently: * Lawyers. It’s so important for them to create convincing arguments, make meaningful connections [...]

Saturday, May 21 at the Northwest Screenwriter’s Guild, Bill and I offered a workshop on powerful pitching, followed by a unique brand of pitch critique for participants in a pitch competition. In both the training and the judging, we tag-teamed as a writer/director to cover both the story being pitched, and you as the presenter [...]

photos courtesy Robbye True I have to admit, I felt a bit like a fish out of water in a convention of screenwriters, where Bill seemed completely at home, swimming in the school of fish. That’s because Bill is a writer and I’m a director. It’s not like we don’t all talk about movies, but [...]

Okay…we’re catching up on some sleep and some emails and it’s Bill’s wife’s (Robbye) birthday.  That means it’s probably going to be tomorrow before we’re able to share with you all the cool, fun, and amazing highlights of our recent speaking engagement with the Northwest Screenwriters Guild. BUT!  We wanted to make certain we shared [...]