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Dean Movshovitz
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America (the)
Genres: General Nonfiction, Academic, Other, Advice & How To, Writing & Publishing
Skills: Performance/Spoken Word, Press/Media Interview, Reading/Literary Event, Speaking Engagement/Lecture, Writing Workshop
Dean Movshovitz is a screenwriter, speaker, and author known for his #1 Amazon bestseller Pixar Storytelling: Rules for Effective Storytelling Based on Pixar’s Greatest Films, which is taught on campuses worldwide and has been translated into several languages.
He has given storytelling workshops at the BBC, Microsoft, the Boston Museum of Science, among other venues. As a screenwriter, Dean has worked on TV projects for Disney Junior, Cineteve, Blackpills and UFA. He is currently in development as co-creator on a sci-fi series for Cineteve, and working on a new book.
Dean Movshovitz's books
Pixar Storytelling: Rules for Effective Storytelling Based on Pixar’s Greatest Films
“Pixar Storytelling” is one of my favorite screenwriting books. It’s not specific to animation. All screenwriters can benefit from reading it. It breaks down storytelling techniques and principles using Pixar films. So helpful.”
—Kirk A. Moore (Writer/Producer: JACK RYAN, 13 REASONS WHY)
“This should be in every writer/director/storyteller's library TBH.”
—Travon Free (Academy Award winning Writer/director: FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE, TWO DISTANT STRANGERS, CAMPING)
PIXAR STORYTELLING is the first book to offer an in-depth analysis of the screenwriting techniques and patterns that make Pixar’s immensely popular films so successful and moving. Each chapter of the book explores an aspect of storytelling that Pixar excels at: what do Pixar’s story ideas all have in common? How do they create such compelling, memorable characters? What makes their films’ resolutions so emotionally satisfying?
First released in October 2015, the book has sold over 35,000 copies without any marketing or PR. It has over 800 organic Amazon ratings with a 4.6 star average, and is nearly always among the top 3 Kindle books about animation—usually among the top 20 Kindle screenwriting books overall. PIXAR STORYTELLING is taught on campuses worldwide, from Norway to Argentina, to Northwestern’s Qatar extension, and is cited in works and books from Finland to the US to Russia. It has been translated into Vietnamese, Russian, Hebrew and Korean.