Join Film Fatales for a hands-on workshop with writer/director Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight, Miss Bala, Lords of Dogtown, Thirteen)

Celebrated writer and director Catherine Hardwicke discusses her journey from pre- production to final screening in her Master Class presentation. Fix It In Prep details her preparation process for film and television projects with clips, storyboards, shot lists, rehearsal practices, drawings, and more.

Upon arrival at this private workshop you will be placed in a waiting room until the event begins. Plan to log in a few minutes early to check your tech to make sure you don’t miss anything. Adjust the lighting in your space so other participants can see your face. Please mute your audio and consider using headphones to minimize external noise. Please contact us with any questions.

This event is open to the public and will be accessible with live captioning. The registration link will be shared the day of the event and a video replay and chat transcript will be shared after. See you soon!

Catherine Hardwicke’s first film as a director was the critically-acclaimed Thirteen, which won numerous awards including the Director’s Award at Sundance, Golden Globe nominations for Holly Hunter and Evan Rachel Wood, and an Academy Award nomination for Holly Hunter. Hardwicke has since then become best known as the director of Twilight, which launched the blockbuster franchise and earned nearly $400 million at the global box office. Hardwicke’s other credits include: Lords of Dogtown, Miss You Already, Red Riding Hood and Miss Bala. For television, she has directed episodes of This Is Us, Eye Witness, Low Winter Sun, and Hell on Wheels. She previously worked as a production designer on films directed by Richard Linklater, David O. Russell, Cameron Crowe, and Lisa Cholodenko. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from UT Austin, and did graduate work in animation at UCLA Film School. Most recently, Hardwicke directed and exec. produced the 14 part Quibi series Don’t Look Deeper (starring Don Cheadle, Emily Mortimer and newcomer Helena Howard), set “fifteen minutes in the future."

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