From Idea to Script to Sale
Diane Lake
Diane Lake’s film Frida opened the Venice Film Festival in 2002, was named one of the 10 Best Films of 2002 by numerous top 10 lists, including the National Board of Review, and won American Film Institute’s Film of the Year. Frida was also nominated for six Academy Awards, winning two.Diane has been commissioned to write films for Columbia, Disney, Miramax and Paramount, and her television credits include a mini-series for NBC and a half-hour series for ABC. Most recently, her script Hemingway in Paris has been purchased by Fairlink International and filming is expected to take place in Paris and Budapest. She also adapted Thomas H. Cook’s novel Instruments of Night for producer Tony Greenburg. In addition, her short fiction has appeared in the Grey Sparrow Review.
Click above to hear Diane talk of her work as an Emerson professor.
To learn more about Diane's journey to screenwriting check out www.DianeLake.com.
2027
Jan. 23-Feb. 8—Peru, Easter Island, Pitcairn Island, Islands in Polynesia, Tahiti sur Crystal
March 12-28—Singapore/Thailand/Sri Lanka/Maldives/Mahe sur Silversea
2025
Jan. 7-23—Miami/Panama Canal/Caribbean/Colombia/Peru sur Azamara
Feb. 3-19—New Zealand/Australia sur Azamara
Feb. 19-Mar. 4—Australia/Bali/Singapore sur Azamara
Mar. 9-23—Singapore/Vietnam/Hong Kong/Japan sur Azamara
Nov. 2 - 15—Malaga, Spain to San Juan, Puerto Rico sur Sea Dream I
2024
Jan 4–21—Sydney/NZ/Sydney on Crystal
Feb. 3-21—San Diego/Hawaii/Bora Bora/Moorea/Tahiti sur Crystal
April 13-25—Athens/Turkey/the Greek Islands sur Crystal
Aug. 12-24—Denmark/Norway/Edinburgh sur Windstar
Oct. 14-28—Spain/France/Malta/Italy sur Crystal
Nov. 3-17—Barcelona/Malaga/Bermuda/Miami sur Regent Seven Seas
Dec. 14-21—Southampton/NYC sur Cunard’s Queen Mary 2
2023
May 14-25—France/Amsterdam sur Windstar
Nov. 26-Dec. 9—Lisbon/Madeira/St. Martin sur Sea Dream II
[by invitation of the American Embassy] Opening Keynote Speaker: Adapting America, America Adapted
Aloha Writer's Conference, Maui, Hawaii
Keynote Speaker on Screenwriting
American Library in Paris, Evenings with an Author series, Paris, France
The Art of Screenwriting
AWP Conference, Boston, MA
The Place of Screenwriting in the Literary World
BFI [British Film Institute] Literature on Screen Conference, London, UK
Adapting the Unadaptable: The Screenwriter's Process
Boston Aetheaneum Civic Discourse Series, Boston, MA
The Candidate and Political Consulting in Today's World
California Arts Festival, Fresno, CA
Featured Presenter on Screenwriting
Cape Cod Writers Conference, Nantucket Sound
Writer-in-Residence - Screenwriting
Emerson Public Talk, Los Angeles Campus
Writing a Killer First 10 Pages
European Jamesian Society Conference, Paris, France
Speech on American Naïvité versus European Sophistication in Daisy Miller
General Motors/Women in Film, Boston, MA
Endowed Speaker on Screenwriting Today
Griffon International Film Festival, St. Joseph, MO
Keynote Speaker on Screenwriting
Hawaii Writers' Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii
Featured Speaker on Adapting Unfilmable Books/Unfilmable Lives
Hawaii Writers' Retreat, Honolulu, Hawaii
Featured Speaker, Five Things You Should Know About Hollywood
Maui Writers' Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii
Featured Speaker on True Stories: Adapting a Life to the Screen
Featured Speaker on Getting to the Heart of Your Characters
National Museum of American History and the Smithsonian Latino Center, Boston, MA
FRIDA and the Mexican Revolution
PCA/ACA Conference, Boston, MA
The Icon in Film Adaptation
PCA/ACA Conference, San Francisco, CA
Adaptation Theory in Practice - a roundtable devoted to Diane's work
PCA/ACA Conference, Washington, D.C.
Violet Strange: Bringing Anna Katharine Green's Heroine to a UK Radio Audience
SAMLA Conference, Raleigh, NC
American Naïvité vs. European Sophistication in Daisy Miller: From Novella to Play to Film
Stonecoast Writer's Residency, University of Maine
Featured Presenter - Screenwriting
Tmol-Shilshom, Jerusalem, Israel
Screenwriting in the Modern World
We Care Charity Event, Chatham, MA
Panel Chair, Speaker on Adapting Women's Stories to the Screen
Writers on Writing, Bay Path College, Sturbridge, MA
Screenwriting for Today
University of California, , Fullerton, CA
Guest Speaker on Creating Idiosyncratic Dialogue
University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Frida - From Canvas to Screen
University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, Wales UK
Keynote Speaker, Screenwriting in America: Major Themes in US Drama and Culture
University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC
Guest Speaker on The Business of Screenwriting