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Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

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Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
List of Recommended Books on Screenwriting and Productions and Online Resources
Celtx's New Web Look and Smartphone Apps
Future Development of Celtx

About the Reviewers

Sabine Asanger, born and raised in Germany, was interested in film at an early age, making short videos with the family camera. She received an award for her short film Canberra, A Guided Tour, at the age of 16, winning a trip to Australia. Then she moved to San Diego, California where she attended San Diego State University Film School graduating with a Masters in Film, TV, and New Media. She has successfully completed several film projects with four of them currently being shown world wide at film festivals. Her most noted film to date "The Cave" has won several awards, including 1st place Short Films (Experimental) 2009 Indie Gathering, Cleveland, OH Aug 2009; The Indie Merit Award, La Jolla, CA Sep 2009; 3rd Place Student in SkyFest II, Asheville, NC Sep 2009; Silver Sierra Award 2009 Yosemite Film Festival, CA Oct 2009; Special Mention, Festival de Cine de Granada, Spain, Apr 2010; Silver Palm Award, Mexico IFF, May 2010; Golden Ace Award, Las Vegas IFF, NV, June 2010.

Dave Burgess is a professional writer and systems engineer living in Omaha, Nebraska. He retired from the Air Force in 1999, where he was a computer programmer for his entire career. He works for his wife's consulting company, Cynjut Consulting Services, as a principal telephony engineer producing custom library systems. Dave has written several books, mostly in the fiction genre. His most successful book is based on the life of Barack Obama's childhood friend, Keith Kakugawa, who Barack called "Ray". In addition, he is an aspiring screenwriter and playwright. His screenplay "Dreams for the Sandman" was a finalist in the both the Omaha Film Festival and at the SkyFest Film and Script Festival last year. His play "Bad for Business" was performed in Ontario, Canada to sold out audiences.

Deondre Ng is a student and a blogger who enjoys living with technology. He enjoys blogging about reviews on software, as well as tutorials of some things he learned from fiddling around with things like WordPress. He is currently teaching himself programming.

Deondre is also fond of writing fiction. Deondre enjoys theater, and so he sometimes writes just for fun, in Celtx, scripts. He has been using Celtx to write scripts for quite some time now.

Beside these, Deondre also occasionally enjoys photography and videography.