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University of California, Los Los Angeles Nebraska Wesleyan University. Northwestern University.
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Lew Hunter
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He is recognized as one of the best screenwriting teachers in the United States. His former students and advocates include such people as Adrienne Parks, Allison Anders, David Koepp, Mike Werb, Sacha Gervasi, Dan Pyne, David Titcher, Diane Saltzberg, Michael Colleary, Don Mancini, Kathy Stumpe, Darren Star, Alexander Payne and Tom Shadyac. Other students include Chuck Loch, Paige Macdonald, Robert Wolfe, Joel Schumacher, Megan Steinbeck, Robert Roy Poole, Lon Diamond, Laurie Hutlzer, Pamela Gray, William Missouri Downs, Robin Russin, Brad Silberling, Greg Widen, and many others
Steven Spielberg has called Hunter "the best screenwriting teacher going".
Hunter lives in the small town of Superior, Nebraska where he teaches seminars for aspiring screenwriters. Every winter, Hunter returns to University of California, Los Angeles to teach his Screenwriting 434 course to graduate students in the screenwriting Master of Fine Arts program, the modern form of which he helped create.
In 1998, nine of the ten top-grossing films were written by graduates of University of California, Los Angeles"s screenwriting Master of Fine Arts program His bestselling book on screenwriting is entitled Screenwriting 434.
Hunter helped to found the American Screenwriters Association and has been inducted into its Hall of Fame.
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A native of Nebraska, Hunter has a bachelor"s degree and honorary doctorate from Nebraska Wesleyan University (where he was a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity) and has masters degrees from Northwestern University and University of California, Los Los Angeles
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