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Our friends at Scripped.com are hosting their next event at UCLA tomorrow.

Special guest will be Steven de Souza, writer of Die Hard, 48 Hours, Tomb Raider Cradle of Life and other blockbusters, he will answer questions and screen his his groundbreaking, award-winning web series Unknown Sender. This event was completely full, but we just opened up 15 more spots.

We would love to have you there – here are the details:

• When: Wednesday April 7th, 2010 at 5 pm
• Where: UCLA Anderson School, Room A201
• Cost: Free
• Who: Steven de Souza
• RSVP by sending an email to sunil@scripped.com – only 15 spots left

Steven E. de Souza’s credits include genre-setting action films such as Die Hard and 48 Hours, as well as hits like Commando, The Running Man, Ricochet, Die Hard 2, and The Flintstones. His most recent projects include the critically acclaimed docudrama about the true events that inspired The Exorcist, Possessed, which he also directed; Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life; and the Web’s first suspense anthology, Unknown Sender, which was an unprecedented triple honoree in the 2009 Webby Awards for Best Writing, Best Dramatic Series, and Best Individual Performance.

We are looking forward seeing you tomorrow, Frederik from our team will be representing Talenthouse.

We recently teamed up with the horror experts at FEWDIO and script writer community Scripped.com to give aspiring writers the opportunity to scare the hell out of the horror film community.

“We were very excited to work with Talenthouse because FEWDIO was founded as a collaborative endeavor. Talenthouse has given us a great opportunity to connect with other like-minded artists on a much larger scale, in a more global community. We have really enjoyed meeting people who appreciate what we do, many of whom are incredibly talented artists themselves and as a result, we have become mutual fans.”

With well over 300 submissions making it into the semi-finals, both Talenthouse and FEWDIO were impressed by the quality of scripts entered in the contest and we are all pleased to announce Ashley Maniw from Toronto as the winner!

“There were a number of criteria that we kept in mind while reading:  the budget / challenge of production, whether the tone fits our ‘Nightmare House’ anthology series, and – of course – the quality of the storytelling. Ashley’s ‘Firsts’ scored high across the board.”

Ashley has been writing and telling stories since her childhood and recently graduated from York University with an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Creative Writing, with a focus on screenwriting.

“I heard about the contest through an email I got from Scripped.com. Since I was already working on a couple of shorts at the time, I thought it’d be a great opportunity and a motivator for me to write something new. When I found out that I won, I was very grateful and really, really excited. “

The FEWDIO team, a partnership between 6 writers, directors, producers, actors, and executives (Marshall Carr, John Crye, Paul Hungerford, David Schneider, Todd A. Sharp, and Kirk B.R. Woller), will work directly with Ashley to put her winning script into production in the next couple of weeks and probably debut the short at an upcoming film festival.

We are very excited for you, Ashley – congratulations!

Talenthouse is proud to co-sponsor our friend Scripped.com’s next event as part of their Hollywood 2.0 series and we would love to invite you to join.

On Wednesday March 3rd at 7:00pm, Scripped is hosting its first “Hollywood 2.0″ event of the year at Mahalo‘s offices in Santa Monica, CA.

The topic of the discussion will be “Film Production and Online Distribution – Strategies for Success” This will be an especially useful chat for those of you interested in hearing how quality content is put together, and how to go about distributing content on the web. Our panelists for this event will be:

  Sean Percival – Director of Content Socialization, MySpace, founder lalawag.com
  Shira Lazar – Blogger, show host and television personality, shiralazar.com
  Tyler Crowley – Director of Strategy, Mahalo, producer of several web series
  Mali Elfman – Editor-in-Chief, Screencrave, producer

Plan on arriving at about 6:45 pm for drinks/light appetizers. The panel will last from 7:15-8:00 with ample time to chat up other attendees after the event, admission will be free.

We can only accept 100 people into this event due to the limited space @ Mahalo, so please RSVP via email at hollywood20@talenthouse.com as soon as you can.

We are looking forward seeing you at the Mahalo offices.

The Talenthouse and Scripped Team