Previous Programs

HLIT Stories of Atonement

5:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Break-Fast Dinner & Storytalk

In preparation for Stories of Atonement, a.k.a. stories to cleanse the soul, please watch in advance: GRACE & FRANKIE, SEASON 7, EPISODE 3 “Bunny” (on Netflix) which focuses on atonement.

Waterstone

Austin, TX 78745

HLIT Special Austin Premiere

8:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Q&A with Filmmakers

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Little Boy VIP Pre-Release Screening

6:00 PM – 6:30 PM

Meet & Greet

Barton Creek Square

2901 South Capital Of Texas Hwy

Austin, TX 78746

(512) 306-1991

HLIT with ThriveFP co-hosts a VIP pre-release screening of a humanity-value based family film called Little Boy from executive producers Mark Burnett and Roma Downey.

HLIT The Future of Storytelling

9:00 PM – 10:00 PM

HLIT VIP Long Table Think Tank for Guest Speakers & Advisory Board

8:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Heavy Appetizers, Full Bar, Coffee, Tea, Hot Chocolate, & Famous HLIT Raffle

Please join us in honoring Roger Lowenstein & Barbara Corday with the Golden Goody Award (the Oscar for Social Good) for their tremendous work with the LA Leadership Academy.

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Program

Main Headliners, Guest Speakers, Storytellers, & Panel

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Reception

Light Appetizers & Complimentary Cocktails

4:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Registration

41 Ocean

1541 Ocean Avenue

Santa Monica, CA 90401

(310) 566 – 3870

HLIT The Future of Transmedia

10:00 PM – 11:00 PM

After HLIT Party

5:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Program

Speakers, Storyteller, Panels, Heavy Appetizers, Host Bar, Dessert, Famous HLIT Raffle, Gift Bags, Screening of Hollywood Goes Back to Story: Time Travelers Edition (27 min. doc)

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Check In

Light Appetizers & Host Bar

Cross Campus

820 Broadway

Santa Monica,CA 90401

(310) 395-3500

The Hollywood Literary Retreat Zaca Lake, CA

The Hollywood Literary Retreat, founded in 1990, presented a unique annual retreat by invitation only for industry professionals to return to the roots of entertainment through the oral tradition of storytelling.

Featured Guest Speakers included Storytellers, Producers, Writers, Actors, Directors, Musicians, Studio and Network Executives, New Technologists and Professors: Jason Alexander, Adam Belanoff, Judith Black, Carl Bressler, Corie Brown, Milbre Burch, Jim Bursnstein, Carolyn Caldera, Don Cheadle, Sheldon Cohn, Donald Davis, Carmen Agra Deedy, Chic Eglee, Cynthia Gibb, Elizabeth Guber Stephen, Ken Hertz, Jason Hoffs, Susanna Hoffs, Tamara Hoffs, Alan Kannof, Nancy Knustsen, Aaron Meyerson, Esai Morales, Stephen Nemeth, David Novak, Jay O’Callahan, Rick Pagano, Jay Roach, Scott Rosenfelt, Tom Schleisinger, Kevin Smokler, Jill Sobule, Gioia Timpanelli, Christopher Vogler, David S. Ward, Lauren Weissman, Janet Yang, Ronnie Yeskel

The Hollywood Literary Retreat Seminars

How to Write for Multi-Media Entertainment with Jon Samsel, Jim Suave, Carl Bressler, Scott Rosenfelt

How to Write Screenplays featuring Producers Stephen Nemeth and Carolyn Caldera

How to Write the Half Hour Sit-Com & One Hour Drama with Adam Belanoff and Roger Lowenstein

How to Compose Film Music featuring Curt Sobel, Joe LoDuca, Terence Blanchard, Bruce Broughton, Ken Hertz, Joel Roman, Robin Burgess

How to Act featuring Cynthia Gibb and Valerie Landsburg from the hit TV series “Fame”

How to Direct featuring Jim Pasternak

How to Write Romance featuring Lynn Isenberg

How to Write Comedy with Author Susan Shapiro and TV writer Charlie Rubin (“Seinfeld”)

The Hollywood Literary Retreat Evening Salon

Marina del Rey, CA
Guest Speaker Literary Blogger-Author Kevin Smokler (founder of BookTour.com)

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