HAL ACKERMAN

dozen screenplays written in Hal Ackerman’s UCLA Screenwriting classes have been sold. His teachings have been highly praised by many, including those who have found success with films such as A Walk on the Moon, The Big Tease, and Terminal.

For years, Ackerman's students encouraged him to write a book on the craft. The result? The esteemed Write Screenplays That Sell: The Ackerman Way (Tallfellow Press), which has been called an intuitive, inspirational “must have” on screenwriting and has been adopted as a new text by university film studies departments around the U.S.

HAL ACKERMAN is co-area head of the UCLA Screenwriting program and author of the widely acclaimed book Write Screenplays That Sell...The Ackerman Way. As a writer, Hal has sold material to major studios, independents and the three networks. Writers he has mentored have written A Walk On The Moon (Pamela Gray), Terminal, (Sacha Gervasi, The Machinist (Scott Kosar) Matchstick Men (Nicholas Griffin) and many others Over the last decade, a dozen screenplays written in his classes have been sold and six have become films including ones starring Tom Hanks (directed by Steven Spielberg), Gwyneth Paltrow, Hillary Swank and Diane Lane. He was a STAR speaker of Expo 5.