About Wally Lane.
WALLY LANE has sat on the Board of the Northwest Screenwriters Guild (NWSG)
for many years. He is an award-winning writer and filmmaker, a published
poet, and has written articles and book reviews for several publications,
including Journey. Wally’s film, “Winos & Pigeons”
was honored at the Houston WorldFest. As long-time Chairman of the NWSG's
Compendium committee, Wally has mentored scores of new screenwriters by
helping them write to “Industry Standard.”
Wally has been writing screenplays for fifteen years. He and his writing partner, Wash Phillips, have over twenty screenplays completed or in development across a wide range of genres. Many of these scripts have been or are currently optioned.
Wally is an alumnus of the University of Washington Extension Certificate Program in Screenwriting and The Film School, a Seattle-based institution of national repute. He is also a regular panelist at the Pacific Northwest Writers Association's annual Writing Conference.
It wasn't until he took all the rules we thought we knew in theory, and actually applied them to our own screenplay, that we were able to understand the problems with our writing. Once he showed us how to rectify our work, we were able to identify the pattern of mistakes we were consistently making and change our writing forever. Because of this, he instilled confidence in our work and we are proud to put our work out there now.
We just placed in the Washington State Screenplay Competition and are looking forward to the public reading of our screenplay coming up in the fall. We couldn't have done it without Wally and highly recommend him to all screenwriters.
- Carinn & Betty (Dos Divas)