Nashville Film Festival and ScreenCraft Announce Nashville Writers Conference 2016

The Nashville Film Festival and ScreenCraft are proud to co-present the Nashville Writers Conference, dedicated to writing, screenwriting and entertainment, to take place within the 2016 Nashville Film Festival.

The Nashville Writers Conference draws on a legacy of screenwriting excellence and combines literary, new media and multi-hyphenate talents to celebrate the best of entertainment writing worldwide.

The conference will kick off Wednesday April 20th and continue with two full days of programming and events on Thursday April 21st and Friday the 22nd , in the heart of the Nashville Film Festival.  Programming will include: panels, keynotes, workshops, live table reads, small-group mentorship and “The Big Pitch” event where writers and filmmakers will pitch directly to agents, producers and A-list writers. The events will bring together aspiring and veteran screenwriters, agents and producers for learning, networking and dealmaking.

Confirmed speakers include: Andrea Berloff (Straight Outta Compton, World Trade Center), Jeb Stuart (Die Hard, The Fugitive), Shauna Cross (Bad Santa 2, Whip It, If I Stay, What to Expect When You're Expecting), Phil Hay (Clash of the Titans, Ride Along, Aeon Flux), Max Borenstein (Godzilla, Minority Report on Fox), Chad Hayes & Carey Hayes (The Conjuring, The Conjuring 2), Keya Khayatian (Sr Agent at UTA, clients wrote Stick It, Dallas Buyers Club, Brokeback Mountain, Serendipity, etc.) and more. In addition to high-level writers the “Indie Track” will offer panels and guidance specifically for writers and filmmakers planning to produce their first film.  There will also be programming dedicated to music in film, drawing on Nashville’s legendary music background.

Learn more about the Nashville Writers Conference HERE!

The Nashville Film Festival is one of the oldest and largest film festivals in the U.S.  At 47 years, it now offers three competitions in film, web series and screenwriting.  In 2016, the competitions will receive more than 6,000 total entries. Filmmakers from across the country and around the world attend the festival every year. Celebrity honorees and participants have included Oprah Winfrey, Susan Sarandon, William Shatner, William H. Macy, Al Gore, Danny Glover, Vincent D’Onofrio, Joey Lauren Adams, Rob Thomas, Craig Brewer, Harmony Korine, Ashley Judd, Kiefer Sutherland, Joshua Jackson, Brad Paisley, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Peter Falk, Paul Reiser, Patrick Swayze, Rick Schroder, Christine Vachon, John Waters, Matthew McConaughey, Robert Redford, James Cromwell, Harry Belafonte, Barbara Kopple, Michael Moore, D.A. Pennebaker and director of the upcoming The Amazing Spider-Man, Marc Webb.