THE MICROBE LAB
invites you to work with renowned story analyst and screenwriter
DONNA LAEMMLEN
invites you to work with renowned story analyst and screenwriter
DONNA LAEMMLEN
ONE-ON-ONE COACHING
This is an exclusive opportunity to be individually coached and mentored by Donna Laemmlen. Contact us and set up a short free consultation with Donna to work out an individual plan-of-action for you to get your stories singing. This is a great coaching process for producers as well as writers and directors. Fees are $100 an hour. Donna takes on only 6 mentees at a time on a rolling basis dependent on her availability. |
TEAM COACHING
Filmmaking relies on the ability to collaborate and pull together your successful “film family” as Guillermo Del Toro puts it. Getting that team together is one of the main benefits of going to film school. Either apply as an already formed development group, or be guided to a group by Donna. Again, your individual goals and schedule will be set in a short free consultation with Donna. Fees are also $100 an hour, so if you are on a budget this could work well for you! |
ABOUT DONNA LAEMMLEN
Donna started with Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope, where she read and analyzed over 1,200 screenplays. As a short story writer, she is the winner of the 2013 Able Muse Write Prize for Fiction. Her work appears in Tin House online, Fourteen Hills, SmokeLong Quarterly, Penduline, Able MUSE, Slice magazine, Switchback, the anthology Flash 101: Surviving the Fiction Apocalypse, and elsewhere. Her screenplay, Sheila the Gila Monster, won Best Animation Feature Screenplay at the International Family Film Festival in Los Angeles (2012), as well as the Cinequest Audience Pitch Award (2014), and with co-writer, Vonti R. McRae, she won the Urban Action Showcase Screenwriting Award in New York City (2013) for their script, Queenpin. Donna earned her MFA in Writing at the University of San Francisco and teaches story development and screenwriting at Academy of Art University.
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“Donna's true-to-life constructive criticism and expert insight pushed me to create believable worlds, characters with depth, and stories that are both meaningful and marketable. Half a dozen screenplays, two feature films, and multiple short form projects later, I continue to employ the strategies, advice, and analysis technique I learned from Donna.”
Justin Baird (Grand Jury Prize, Best Director/Writer, Hollywood & Vine Film Festival 2013) |
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“We were thrilled to publish Donna Laemmlen’s Flash fiction “Kardia” on Tin House’s blog, THE OPEN BAR. Laemmlen is an exciting emerging voice–alive and vibrating with energy. In just a few words, Laemmlen transports her readers and delivers an unforgettable story.”
Masie Cochran, (Editor, The Open Bar at Tin House.) |
“When I began film school, I had little to no background in storytelling. I am forever grateful to have had Donna Laemmlen as my first screenwriting teacher. I received a foundation in storytelling from her that was crucial to my growth as a filmmaker. Today I am fortunate enough to call myself a feature film director, but that is due in large part to the principles I learned in Donna’s classroom.”
Sydney Freeland, (Director/Writer, Drunktown’s Finest, Official Selection 2014 Sundance Film Festival) |