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ack Epps Jr. learned screenwriting
years ago while attending
Michigan State University, and he
is returning to his home state this spring
to teach that craft to others.
Epps, who has co-authored more than
25 scripts and become a professor of his
favorite subject at the University of
Southern California, will be one of two
seminar leaders conducting the
Screenplay Writing Weekend Workshop
June 11-12 at the Birmingham
Community House.
Bonnie Garvin, a former Detroiter
and active screenplay writer who teaches
at Columbia College of Hollywood, also
will share the podium.
"We will be covering the essential fim-
damentals of screenwriting," explains
Epps, 55, whose credits include Legal
Eagles, Dick Tracy and The Flintstones in
Viva Rock Vegas: "It's based on the same
sort of materials that I teach at the uni-
versity. Character and story development
as well as structural ideas of conflict and
tension will be part of the program."
Epps defines his approach as focusing
on the emotional part of screenwriting.
That means he wants students to learn
how to put the emphasis on character
with plot and scenes taking secondary
status.
"Movies are really about people's lives
in crisis," Epps says. "Unless writers can
create an emotional attachment to the
story through characters, script readers
and audiences will not become involved.
All of us are fighting our own problems,
and we can learn a lot from characters
trying to solve their problems in movies."
Epps, who grew up in the Palmer
Woods area of Detroit and attended
Country Day School, credits his mother
for stirring his interest in compelling sto-
ries. She was an enthusiastic reader and
kept lots of books around their home.
When he started at Michigan State,
Epps took creative writing classes and
found that he enjoyed developing fiction.
He went on to take screenwriting classes
and decided to pursue a film career in
California with the support of his wife
Cynthia, whom he met at college.
After coming up with a script for the
TV series Hawaii Five-O, Epps became