Shaping True Story Into Screenplay
Candace Kearns Read has worked for twenty years in the film industry as a story analyst, screenwriter and screenwriting instructor, many of those years in the demanding and high stakes world of talent and literary agencies. Read began her career as a story analyst for talent and literary agencies, primarily the William Morris Agency and International Creative Management. The clients she has read scripts for include Michelle Pfeiffer, Denzel Washington, Anthony Hopkins, Marlon Brando, Mel Gibson, Nicolas Cage, Roger Spottiswoode (Director, TOMORROW NEVER DIES), Jeff Woolnough (Director, THE DON CHERRY STORY and CELINE), John Wells Productions and Village Roadshow Pictures. Over the years she has worked on many films, including DANGEROUS MINDS, NIXON, WHITE OLEANDER, CRIMSON TIDE, COURAGE UNDER FIRE, TRAPPED IN PARADISE, THE EDGE, INSTINCT, MEET JOE BLACK, ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU, and many others. She has written over a dozen screenplays, all of which have been either optioned or commissioned by producers. Her scripts have been in development with Fox, Disney, Lifetime and HBO.  Read teaches writing at Metropolitan State College of Denver and Antioch University, and is a script consultant to film industry professionals as well as aspiring screenwriters all over the world. She earned her BFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University and received an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University.