Bennington College Roundtable: Adaptation, True Stories and the Screenwriter’s Obligations

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, Registration Required 

Panelists include novelist and MFA Writing Faculty Peter Cameron (the upcoming What Happens at Night, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence), screenwriter and MFA Screenwriting Advisory Council Member Melissa Rosenberg (the Twilight films, Jessica Jones), and screenwriter and MFA Screenwriting Faculty Aaron Rasaahn Thomas (Friday Night Lights, S.W.A.T.) and Academy Award Nominated screenwriter Robin Swicord (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Memoirs of a Geisha, Little Women). The conversation will be moderated by the director the MFA Screenwriting Program, Ted Braun (Darfur Now, Betting on Zero, ¡Viva Maestro!).