34 - Wednesday, October 27, 1999 — North Shore News

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CAPILANO College
Film Studies student
Michael David Kwan
has won a national
screenwriting competi-
tion.

The Praxis Centre for
Screenwriters in Vancouver
has selected his script to go
through = the ~—s workshop
process later this month.

Kwan enrolled
Introduction to Screenwriting
offered through Continuing
Education Film Studies. He
had written a story called The
Undaunted and wanted to
learn how to develop it into a
screenplay.

“It (the course) was excep-
tionally good,” said Kwan.
“When we got into the actual
writing of the scripts, it gave
me the chance of hearing

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mine read by other people.
That’s when I realized that
yes, that line works or had to
ask myself, ‘Did I really write
thar?’”

Kwan is a full-time writer
and has been since 1987. He’s
written two stage plays that
have won awards and he
wanted to try writing a
screenplay.

“At Cap I could take a spe-
cific course that focussed on

what [ wanted to Icarn.”

One of the things that
impressed Kwan the most was
the feedback on the actual
setup of the scenes in the
script.

“You need to hear from
others whether something
that’s written on paper is
going to work in front of a

* camera.”

Kwan’s_ story is about
Chinese labourers who built
the Trans Canada Railway
through the Fraser Canyon in
the late 1880's.

He says somcone suggest-
ed the idea to him and after
some initial reading on the
subject. “I dreamed up a plot
and decided to do something,
with it.”

im Script wins prize

Through Praxis, Kwan’s
screenplay will be further
developed under the guidance
of working professionals in
the film industry.

Introduction to
Screenwriting is offered
through Continuing
Education Film Srudies every
term.

Call 984-4961 to register.

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