Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House presents

From Page to Screen:

John Matteson

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and historian

and

Scott Halvorson

celebrated screenwriter

Saturday, October 29

7:00 pm

Concord School of Philosophy

at Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House

399 Lexington Road Concord, MA

Join Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer John Matteson and celebrated screenwriter Scott Halvorson as they discuss the process of turning a celebrated biography into a compelling screenplay.

How does the storytelling of a biography differ from biographical narrative in film? What are the constraints imposed and freedoms created by each genre? How true to the facts should a movie try to be? Does the nature of "truth" transform in the movement from the printed page to the visual image? These questions and others will be addressed by biographer John Matteson and screenwriter Scott Halvorson, who are at work on a screenplay based in the life of Louisa May Alcott.