Author, screenwriter, filmmaker Rex Pickett to speak at Your College

On Friday, March 2, Rex Pickett will entertain MC students and the community with an inspirational lecture on the writing life, its vicissitude and more. In addition, he will discuss the inception of his Academy Award-winning film SIDEWAYS and its long road to being a critically acclaimed feature film. The novel Sideways continues to be a hit and has been translated into 12 languages.

In 2004, the film SIDEWAYS was released and ended up winning over 350 accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. It swept the New York Critics Circle Awards, the Los Angeles Film Critics Awards, the Indie Spirit Awards and won two Golden Globes (one for Best Picture and the other for Best Screenplay). The prestigious Writers Guild of America recently voted SIDEWAYS one of the 101 Greatest Screenplays of All Time and honored those 101 selections with plaques in the WGA Theater in Beverly Hills.

Mr. Pickett?s Midland College lecture is part of his two-week Texas tour, in which he will be conducting research for his current screenplay entitled ON TOUR WITH MAX about a poet currently teaching at the University of Texas. The film is set almost entirely in Texas.

Pickett explained, ?ON TOUR WITH MAX involves a 50-something-year-old, once-famous poet who embarks on a sometimes hilarious, alternately heartbreaking reading and book signing road trip and tour of 2nd and 3rd tier colleges in Texas. He is accompanied by a starry-eyed, 20-something-year-old Ph.D. candidate. I?m not familiar with the state of Texas. As a screenwriter, I need to research this fictional tour that my characters take in order to do the story justice.?

Mr. Pickett will be presenting his Midland College lecture twice on Friday, March 2 ? once at 9:00 a.m. and again at 11:00 a.m.

For more information, please contact Diane Allen at (432) 685-6458 or dallen@midland.edu

CLICK HERE to visit Rex Pickett's website.

Source: http://yourcollegeblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/author-screenwriter-filmmaker-rex.html

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