"I wish I had "The Portable Film School" years ago before I started writing. I highly recommend it to anyone struggling with a script or film project. It could save you hundreds of hours of work and help make for a much finer project." Bennett M. Cohen Former student & Finalist, 2003 Nicholl Screenwriting Competition

"Our writing has benefited greatly fromthe techniques we learned and the inspiration we received studying with D.B. Gilles." Lorri Shundich and Daniel Ezell Third Place winners in the 2004 Nashville Screenplay Showdown

"I've worked with D.B. Gilles and know first hand that he really knows his stuff. The Portable Film School covers all the bases and covers them well. A home run." Lawrence Turman Chairman, Peter Stark Producing Program, USC’s School of Cinema-Television. Producer of such films as The Graduate, Short Circuit & American History X

> Contact D.B. Gilles at Dbgilles47@aol.com

D.B. Gilles teaches Screenwriting and Writing For Television (both sitcom and hour-long drama) in The Undergraduate Film and Television Department at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He has also taught in The Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU and in the Graduate Film Department at Columbia University. Many of his former students have gotten deals, won screenwriting competitions, sold scripts and had movies made. He is also a produced and published playwright, TV writer and screenwriter. He did the screen adaptation of the play “Spinning Into Butter” starring Sarah Jessica Parker. In addition to writing “The Screenwriter Within” (Random House 2000) and “The Portable Film School” (St. Martin’s Press 2005), he is co-author of the George W. Bush parody “W. The First Hundred Days: A White House Journal” (Andrews McMeel 2001). His article “How Old Is Too Old To Be A Screenwriter” is published in the anthology “Ask The Pros: 200 Questions Answered By Industry Professionals” (Lone Eagle Publishing, a division of iFilm. His article “The Cat Therapist and Other Sitcoms Not To Be” was published in The New York Times Arts & Leisure Section. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and The Writers Guild of America, East.