Leonard Schrader takes teacher residency at AFI
August 27th, 2003
Leonard Schrader, who wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for Kiss Of The Spider Woman, has been named head of the graduate screenwriting programme at the American Film Institute (AFI) Conservatory.
In his new position as senior film-maker-in-residence: screenwriting, Schrader will oversee the AFI Conservatorys screenwriting faculty and tuition of first and second year fellows.
We are thrilled to have such an outstanding member of the film-making and higher education community as a member of the Conservatorys core faculty, Sam Grogg, AFI Conservatory dean, said in a statement.
Len is a master of his art form and screenwriting fellows will learn much under his tutelage.
Schraders credits include The Yakuza (which he co-wrote with his brother, the celebrated film-maker Paul Schrader) Kiss of The Spider Woman, for which he received an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay in 1986, and Naked Tango.
In his new position as senior film-maker-in-residence: screenwriting, Schrader will oversee the AFI Conservatorys screenwriting faculty and tuition of first and second year fellows.
We are thrilled to have such an outstanding member of the film-making and higher education community as a member of the Conservatorys core faculty, Sam Grogg, AFI Conservatory dean, said in a statement.
Len is a master of his art form and screenwriting fellows will learn much under his tutelage.
Schraders credits include The Yakuza (which he co-wrote with his brother, the celebrated film-maker Paul Schrader) Kiss of The Spider Woman, for which he received an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay in 1986, and Naked Tango.
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