FROM NOVEL TO SCREENPLAY
Join author Charles Ries and writer/producer Michael Angeli to learn about their process of adapting the novel THE FATHERS WE FIND for the screen. You'll hear their perspectives as a novelist and a screenwriter and learn the differences in writing for the page versus writing for the screen. Included with festival passes or $5 suggested donation.

Michael Angeli is an American writer and television producer, best known for his award-nominated work on television series including Monk and the remake of Battlestar Galactica, a show for which he was also a co-executive producer. Angeli was co-executive producer on Black Sails, a pirate adventure drama that premiered on the Starz Network in January 2014. As a journalist, he wrote for Esquire, The New York Times, and several other publications. During his time as contributing editor & writer for Esquire, he employed his outstanding writing skills and interviewed high-profile celebrities including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Joaquin Phoenix, River Phoenix, Michael J. Fox and more. Angeli is currently in pre-production on The Confessions of Al McGuire, a biopic with Anthony Hemingway.

Charles P. Ries is an award-winning poet and author of the memoir Can Boys Fly. He is both the lyricist and voice for the art band Charles P. Ries & the Minktronics. After college, Ries lived in London and North Africa where he studied the mystical teachings of Islam called Sufism. In 1989, he worked with the Dalai Lama on a program that brought American religious leaders and psychotherapists together for a weeklong dialogue. It was during this same week that the Dalai Lama was awarded his Nobel Peace Prize. Ries has done extensive work with men’s groups and worked with a Jungian psychotherapist for over five years during which time he recorded five hundred dreams and learned to find the meanings in small things.