The Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor will again offer Harvey Ovshinsky’s screenwriting workshop, “How To Complete Your First Movie Script In Six Months, beginning Tuesday, Sept. 7.
The class will meet from 7-10 p.m. on the first Monday of every month ending February 6, 2011. Tuition is $325.
Similar sessions will be offered at the Community House of Birmingham on the last Monday and the Grosse Pointe War Memorial on the third Monday.
“I’ve been astonished by the number and variety of people who have decided that now is the time to tell their stories in the form of a screenplay,” says class teacher Harvey Ovshinsky, president of HKO Media, an Ann Arbor-based production and story consulting company. “Their goal isn’t to make a million dollars; it’s to get their truth off their chest, or to write a new ending to their own story. With so many people feeling like they can’t control things that are going on in their world right now, telling their story in the form of a screenplay provides them with an element of mastery over one portion of their lives.
“What we learn in these groups is that writing doesn’t change anything. It changes everything.”
After briefly rejoining the Cleveland firm when his tour of duty ended, he then went into law teaching at the University of North Dakota, then Florida State, then Texas Tech, and finally George Mason University, from which he retired some years ago.
Along the way he spent several additional years in graduate schools, including two other law schools, as well as a year in Northern Ireland, teaching at Queen’s University of Belfast during “the Troubles,” the period of political and religious conflict that started in the late 60s.
“I’ve also practiced criminal law from time to time; some of my practice overlapped my teaching, for example, at Florida State where I did clinical teaching, as well as traditional teaching,” he says.
He also practiced for a time with the Cook County (Chicago) Public Defender's Office. His practice in Illinois included the representation of two death-row inmates. Since returning to Michigan after an absence of 43 years, he has handled a few appellate cases as a roster attorney of the Michigan Appellate Assigned Counsel System.
“As they say, it’s been an interesting journey,” he says
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