Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 2:25PM
For the first time ever, step inside a CineStory Retreat 
informal room!
Recorded at the 2011 Retreat, this podcast features two literary managers discussing strategies for writing scripts that sell, spec'ing TV shows, as well as finding and working with a manager or agent.
Just click on the 'Play' icon below:
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 12:32PM Follow three follow three aspiring screenwriters in this documentary that explores how far people will go - and how much they will sacrifice - for the chance to pursue their dreams. The film also features pro writers such as Nora Ephron, Steven de Souza and Paul Guay.
Check it out on Snag Films for free:
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 5:52PM 
CineStory is delighted to be launching its podcast series with this Q&A session with previous CSA winner and mentor, Mark Fergus.
Recorded at a live From Script to Screen event this May, hear this Academy Award nominee discuss his work on CHILDREN OF MEN, IRON MAN and COWBOYS AND ALIENS as well as answering questions about working with producers and his pitching strategy.
Thanks to Mark for participating in the session and for sharing his screenwriting tips and experience.
Thanks also to composer Don Bodin for use of his track Home.
This is an exclusive early release, so download or listen to the podcast here before it hits iTunes!
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 7:32PM
One of the writers who attended the 2011 Retreat, Jamie talks about the importance of understanding Thematic and how the retreat experience has changed him as a writer.
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 2:01PM 
Celeste hails from a colorful family, with a gun-running paternal great-great-grand-father and a maternal grandfather who worked as a press agent for Chiang-Kai Shek. Celeste is proud to be an American-born Ching-Chong despite the endured slurs of “slant-eye,” jap/gook/chink and back to jap again. Like any good Asian, Celeste did well in academics and escaped her traditional home by skipping her senior year in high school and fleeing to U.C. Davis.
After college, Celeste decided she’d head to Hollywood and landed work for Wilhelmina Models and Weintraub Entertainment. Later she became a personal assistant for Brenda Vaccaro, then moved on to being a casting assistant with Henderson/Hanley.
Having had her fun with the feast and famine of Hollywood, Celeste got serious and earned an M.A. in clinical psychology, secured her license as a Marriage and Family Therapist, and promptly got married. After twenty years serving the mentally ill, she decided to try a Second Act – screenwriting. She has two produced “Story By” credits on the syndicated TV show “Andromeda.” Her modern-day M*A*S*H -- “Embrace the Suck” -- was optioned by Fox.
Celeste has won numerous screenwriting competitions, including Best Action Adventure Script in the Los Angeles Film Festival, and her “Grey’s Anatomy” spec “Bad Reputation” was a semi-finalist with NBC’s Writers on the Verge in 2009. Her spec pilot “The Four Reasons” won her a place in the 2010 Producer’s Guild Diversity Program. And now in 2011, Celeste is a Cinestory winner with her cold-war kiddie film, SPOTNIK.
