FELLOWSHIP SPEAKERS

The WFP invites industry professionals to meet with the Fellows.   These question and answer sessions provide valuable insights into the speaker's work and writing process and give WFP Fellows a sense of the variety of creative and business experiences encountered by writers in Hollywood. The following is a list of some of the speakers who have participated:

Jim Abrahams (Hot Shots, Airplane)

David Arata (Spy Game)

Julian Barry (Lenny)

Paul Bartel (Eating Raoul)

Warren Beatty (Reds, Shampoo)

Mike Bortman (The Good Mother)

John Briley (Gandhi, Cry Freedom )

Cynthia Cidre (Blue Moon)

Pen Densham (Robin Hood:Prince of Thieves)

Naomi Foner (Running on Empty)

Scott Frank (Minority Report)

David Freeman (Street Smart)

Stephen Gaghan (Traffic)

Bob Gale (Back to the Future)

Keith Gordon (A Midnight Clear)

Heywood Gould (Trial By Jury)

Nick Kazan (Reversal of Fortune)

Anne Hamilton Phelan (Girl Interrupted)

Daniel Pyne (Sum Of All Fears)

Harold Ramis (Analyze This, Groundhog Day)

Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams)

Bobby Roth (Heartbreakers)

Bruce Joel Rubin (Ghost)

Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society)

Roger Simon (Enemies A Love Story)

Ed Solomon (Men In Black)

Steven Spielberg (E.T., Schindler's List)

Wesley Strick  (Cape Fear, The Saint)

Robin Swicord (Matilda)

James Toback (Bugsy)

Michael Tolkin (The Player, Deep Impact)

Roger Towne (The Natural)

David S. Ward (The Sting, Sleepless in Seattle)

Steven Zaillian (Gangs of New York; Schindler’s List)