MASTERCLASS: QPOC WRITERS ON WRITING AND PITCHING
Date: March 11, 2018
Time: 12:30 PM
Location: Egyptian Theatre, Spielberg
Come join some of Outfest's favorite writers as they discuss their experiences writing professionally in the film and television industries. Bring pitches for your own projects and be ready to share!
Panelists:
Steven Canals (Co-Executive Producer and Co-Creator Pose)
Michelle Badillo (Story Editor, One Day At A Time)
Chuck Hayward (Story Editor, Dear White People)
Steve...
MASTERCLASS: QPOC WRITERS ON WRITING AND PITCHING
Date: March 11, 2018
Time: 12:30 PM
Location: Egyptian Theatre, Spielberg
Come join some of Outfest's favorite writers as they discuss their experiences writing professionally in the film and television industries. Bring pitches for your own projects and be ready to share!
Panelists:
Steven Canals (Co-Executive Producer and Co-Creator Pose)
Michelle Badillo (Story Editor, One Day At A Time)
Chuck Hayward (Story Editor, Dear White People)
Steven Canals, hailing from The Bronx is a 2015 graduate of UCLA's MFA Screenwriting program. He began his writing career as a Research Assistant at Hungry Jackal Productions for Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black. Steven served as the Staff Writer on Freeform's Dead of Summer, the same year his short film, Afuera, premiered at the 2016 LA Film Festival, He is Co-Creator and Co-Executive Producer of Pose (2018).
Michelle Badillo was born and raised in Queens, New York and grew up watching reruns of One Day at a Time in her Forrest Hills apartment with her own divorced mom. Michelle graduated from Loyola Marymount University in December 2013 and now is a story editor on the newly revamped Netflix Series, One Day at a Time.
Chuck Hayward was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware. Next stop, Syracuse University where he majored in Television, Radio and Film. Chuck then moved to LA where he worked as an assistant at production companies before assisting on the hit shows Everybody Hates Chris and Entourage. Chuck landed his first staff writing gig on the NBC series Bent. In 2014 Chuck became a staff writer on the new NBC series, One Big Happy. Then in 2015 he worked on the Fox series, Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life. In 2016 he had two movies produced, Fat Camp and Step Sisters, and sold The Untitled Urban Pitch Perfect Project to The Firm and PepsiCo. He's currently a story editor on the Netflix series, Dear White People.