Robert McKee’s “Story”: a great success in Colombia

“Story” the seminar completed successfully, given by U.S. Robert McKee, considered the world’s most influential script guru, TVMAS was in attendance.

Delivered in Colombia and organized by The National School of Film and Latente, the seminar during the 36 hours proffered achieved all the expectations to support the making and development of films and storytelling.

McKee highlighted important elements on script building, as well as the structure of the story, the title, character presentation, act design, text and subtext, the antagonism, gender specter and human beings related experiences, all of this with the goal of rethinking and understanding how Colombian film and TV has been, is and will be conceived.
On the last day, McKee exemplified and analyzed everything learned during the seminar, scene by scene of the movie Casablanca (1942) of Michael Curtiz, which got three Oscar Awards, among them the best script (Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch) and best director (Michael Curtiz).
In the words of the attendees this experience truly enriched their formation, as reaffirmed by Amanda Ospina, journalist and director of TVMAS who actively attended the seminar “it is important to have these references, because writing for film and TV is a science and a skill, it has its rules and requires study and this is what we have seen these last four days. Robert McKee has demonstrated that when one writes one must apply strictness, grace and depth. This also applies to the director, the producer and the actor."
In attendance at the seminar were known writers, producers and actors, among them, journalist and writer Beatriz Parga, Paula Arenas, Gustavo Bolivar, producers Jaime Sanchez Cristo,and Sebastián Ospina and actor Manolo Cardona among other industry personalities both national and international.