39 Steps To Better Screenwriting – Paul Chitlik [FULL INTERVIEW]

0:00 – Moment I Realized I Was Supposed To Be A Writer
14:49 – 7 Point Story Structure Found In Every Great Movie
29:27 – Every Movie Has 4 Main Stories
44:29 – How To Figure Out What Your Movie Is Really About
48:14 – How To Write A Beat Sheet For A Screenplay
1:00:44 – If You Don’t Have Structure You Don’t Have Character
1:14:04 – If You Don’t Understand Your Character’s Flaw You Don’t Understand Your Story
1:24:24 – First Steps To Rewriting A Screenplay
1:34:47 – Keys To Rewriting A Screenplay
1:49:56 – How A Writer Reads A Screenplay For Conflict
2:04:33 – Changing Oneself At Midlife

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Paul Chitlik has written for all the major networks and studios in English and in Spanish. He was story editor for MGM/UA’S “The New Twilight Zone,” and staff writer for Showtime’s sitcom “Brothers.” He has written features for Rysher Entertainment, NuImage, Promark, Mainline Releasing, and others. He has directed episodes and been coordinating producer for “Real Stories of the Highway Patrol” and “U.S. Customs Classified.” He wrote and produced “Alien Abduction,” the first network movie shot on digital video for UPN. He wrote, produced, and directed “Ringling Brothers Revealed” a special for The Travel Channel. (He had been a roustabout for Circus Vargas years earlier.) Most recently he wrote, produced and directed “The Wedding Dress,” for Amazon Prime. He received a Writers Guild of America award nomination for his work on “The Twilight Zone” and a GLAAD Media Award nomination for “Los Beltrán,” a Telemundo show. He won a Genesis Award for a Showtime Family movie. He has taught in the MFA programs of UCLA, the University of Barcelona’s film school ESCAC, Cuba’s film school EICTV, Chile’s film school UNIACC, The University of Zulia in Venezuela, The Panamerican University in Mexico City, The Story Academy of Sweden and as a clinical associate professor at Loyola Marymount University. Now writing full time again and living near his grandson in Chapel Hill, NC, with wife, Beth McCauley.

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