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5 Greatest Films in American Film History

Presented by Helium Comedy Club at Helium Comedy Club

August 8, 2012

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Marc Lapadula is a full-time lecturer at Yale University, where he runs and teaches the entire screenwriting curriculum in the Film Studies Program. Marc is a senior lecturer and conducts screenwriting, playwriting and film analysis workshops on both the graduate and undergraduate levels for The Writing Seminars Department at Johns Hopkins University. He has also lectured extensively on film and conducted screenwriting seminars at Columbia Graduate Film School, the University of Pennsylvania (where he originated the Screenwriting Program), as well as a Screenwriting Series at the Smithsonian Institution. He has been a consultant and expert analyst for movie producers and New Line and Paramount film studios. Marc produced the film Angel Passing, starring Hume Cronyn, which premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival and then went on to win the Grand Jury Award at Worldfest, the Houston International Film Festival. Marc also co-produced the film Mentor, starring Rutger Hauer, which was screened at The Tribeca Film Festival 2006.

Marc’s former students have written the screenplays for The Hangover, (500) Days of Summer, The Break Up, Bride Wars, Thirty Minutes of Less, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, and Olympus has Falley, to name only a few. Several have written successfully for TV with scripts for

Family Guy, Scrubs, Happy Endings, Law and Order, SVU, The Agency.

Marc has had stage plays produced in New York and regionally and has had several original as well as adapted screenplays optioned and commissioned. Most recently, At Risk, a dark drama about a troubled teen sent to a behavior modification camp in remote Montana, has been optioned in Los Angeles.