Writing for Weirdos with Bruce Dellis
On October 20, the IFP Phoenix Screenwriters Group welcomes the multi-award winning, bizarre and creative screenwriting talent, Bruce Dellis.
Are you a screenwriter? Are you weird? We know you are, and that’s ok. Join fellow weird screenwriter/director Bruce Dellis to embrace your weirdness and turn it into brilliant and memorable storytelling at the October IFP Phoenix Screenwriters Group Meeting.
Bruce will discuss his array of unique short film projects including “Little Victim” which was produced with stars Robert Wagner and Lori Singer. He’ll also discuss how his short film “The Netherbeast of Berm-Tech Industries, Inc.” was then developed into a feature, “Netherbeast Inc.” which was produced starring Darrell Hammond, Steve Burns, and Judd Nelson. He’ll also discuss how his unique combination of history and musical ability has won him several Rocky Mountain Emmy awards. Intrigued? So are we!
Bruce Dellis was also one of the semi-finalists in the August Script to Screen challenge, with his short script “The Matador.”
Details for the October 2011 Screenwriters Group Meeting
Price: FREE to the Public!
When: Thursday, October 20
Time: 7:00PM – 9:00PM
Where: The Art Institute of Phoenix (2233 West Dunlap Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85021-2859)
About Bruce Dellis
BRUCE DELLIS is a writer/director from Tempe. He was selected as the 2006 Arizona Filmmaker of the Year by the Phoenix Film Foundation.
His short film, “A. Lincoln: a Life Embellished,” won several awards, including Best Local Short from the Phoenix Film Festival. Bruce wrote and directed three films for the TV show, Screen Wars: “Doug, Mitch, and the Ironclad Argument;” “The Intervention of Brad;” and “John Philip Sousa Gets a Haircut” — all of which starred co-producer Max Bullis. This collaboration resulted in multiple awards at the Screen Wars award ceremonies, and three Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards.
Bruce wrote a short film, “The Netherbeast of Berm-Tech Industries, Inc.,” which was produced and directed by local filmmaking brothers Brian and Dean Ronalds. The film had a long life on the festival circuit, picking up a hatful of awards. The filmmaking team followed that with another short, “Little Victim,” starring Robert Wagner, Laura Durant and Lori Singer.
Teaming up with the Ronalds brothers again, Bruce’s first feature-length screenplay, “Netherbeast Incorporated,” was produced in 2007. The film starred Steve Burns, Judd Nelson, Jason Mewes and Dave Foley.
In 2008, Bruce won two more Rocky Mountain Emmy awards for an oddball film about the PTA, and received another nomination for his three-minute short film, “Michael’s Hearing Problem,” which featured 18 speaking roles.
Recently, Bruce wrote and directed “The Benevolent Byzantine Order of the Nobles of the Enigmatic Oracle” — a chapter of “Locker 13,” an anthology feature film produced by Brothers’ Ink Productions. He then wrote a short musical, “Cocktail Wizard” (featuring Jennifer Pfalzgraff and Amanda Melby) for the A3F 48-Hour Film Challenge, which won the award for Best Script, as well as another Rocky Mountain Emmy nomination.
Recently, Bruce has been writing a couple of feature screenplays: one is an odd Christmas-based tale; the other is a rock musical about mediocre president Franklin Pierce.
