The Dialogue: Learning From The Masters - Interviews with Jonathan Hensleigh and Robin Swicord Available on DVD April 22

Santa Monica, CA (PRWEB) April 24, 2008

THE DIALOGUE: Learning from the Masters, the groundbreaking interview series that goes behind the scenes with fascinating, in-depth interviews with screenwriters Jonathan Hensleigh (Die Hard: With a Vengeance, The Punisher) and Robin Swicord (Little Women, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Jane Austen Book Club) are now available on DVD.

The acclaimed DVD series is available for order at http://www.thedialogueseries.com, major online retailers such as Netflix and Amazon.com, and at Passion River Films (http://www.passionriver.com) for $19.95 each.

In 27, 70-90 minute in-depth discussions, today's most successful screenwriters share their work habits, methods and inspirations, secrets of the trade, business advice, and eye-opening stories from life in the trenches of the film industry with veteran producer and industry executive Mike De Luca. Each screenwriter discusses his or her filmography in great detail and breaks down the mechanics of one favorite scene from their produced work. The following screenwriter's interviews are available today:

•     Jonathan Hensleigh knows good action. This former attorney stopped practicing law to pursue screenwriting, and with his big break writing episodes of "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" for Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, his foray into the action/adventure genre began. After writing the screenplay for Die Hard: With a Vengeance, he worked on such films as Jumanji, The Saint, Armageddon and The Rock. Hensleigh also wrote and directed the film adaptation of Marvel Comics' The Punisher, for which he is also writing the sequel. In this no-holds-barred interview, learn his approach to developing action scenes, how the attorney in him comes out in his writing and what he really thinks about screenwriting classes.
•     After graduating from Florida State, Robin Swicord made her start in copywriting and playwriting. She eventually migrated west where she has since set up shop as one of Hollywood's top screenwriters. Her first big-screen adaptation was of the Louisa May Alcott novel Little Women, which starred Winona Ryder and proved to be a big success. That was soon followed by the adapted screenplays for The Perez Family, Practical Magic, Memoirs of a Geisha and Matilda, which she penned with husband Nick Kazan, as well as the upcoming "The Jane Austen Book Club," which she wrote and directed. In this interview, learn more as Swicord delves into the adaptations, collaborations and frustrations she's experienced as a screenwriter.

Additional Volumes feature interview with such Oscar® winners and nominees like Callie Khouri (Thelma and Louise) and Paul Haggis (Crash, Million Dollar Baby); comedy masters like Peter & Bobby Farrelly (There's Something About Mary, Stuck on You) and John Hamburg (Meet the Parents, Zoolander, Meet the Fockers); big-budget writers like Stuart Beattie (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl); and industry mavericks like Jim Uhls (Fight Club) and David S. Goyer (Dark City, Blade, Batman Begins).

About THE DIALOGUE: Learning from the Masters: More than two dozen of today's most sought-after screenwriters are featured in an intriguing, original interview series hosted by veteran producer and industry executive Mike De Luca. The Dialogue: Learning From The Masters was created by screenwriter and entrepreneur Aleks Horvat and produced with his partner, personal manager Larry Shuman. Horvat, owner of theOffice, also created the Hollywood Creative Directory. Shot on location at theOffice, a popular creative workspace in Santa Monica (theofficeonline.com) that is a haven for screenwriters, the 27-part series offers provocative and in-depth one-on-one conversations with successful practitioners of the craft. For more information, please visit http://www.thedialogueseries.com.

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