Biographie
Laurie H. Hutzler is a media consultant and teaches around the world. She helps film finance fund executives, producers and other creative decision-makers analyze the emotional content of projects. Laurie's unique problem-solving sessions help focus the emotional power of a story and manage the creative risks involved in producing a feature film or television program.
These tools and techniques are available in private client sessions and through her popular classes and lectures in the Master of Fine Arts Program and the Professional Programs at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and, Television. Laurie has also taught Master Classes at the Royal Holloway College at the University of London, at the Sorbonne in Paris, for the Royal Literary Fund in Cambridge, England and has served as an advisor for the Equinoxe workshop program in Marrakech, Morocco among many others. Her website: www.EmotionalToolbox.com provides free information on her methods and approach.
Laurie H. Hutzler is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, New York Law School and UCLA. She is a member of the New York State Bar. While in law school, Laurie wrote The Attorney's Malpractice Prevention Manual, a professional risk management guide for lawyers. This book was distributed nationally by two major insurance companies and widely used in bar association programs across the United States.
Elected as a delegate to the White House Conference on Small Business, Laurie wrote several books on government regulation and small business which were distributed internationally by the United States government through the Small Business Administration. As a magazine journalist, she wrote legal and business-related feature articles for such publications as Vogue, Ladies Home Journal, Working Woman and Savvy. Laurie was also a regular business and legal columnist for several airline in-flight magazines.
Her plays, Invictus, about the legend of Pope Joan, and Pendragon, about the King Arthur and Queen Morganna legends, have had numerous productions in LORT (League of Resident Theaters) venues around the United States. Both plays have been featured in award-winning Lincoln Center programs in New York City, sponsored by the Director's Guild of America.
Laurie moved to Los Angeles, California in 1995 and completed a MFA (Master of Fine Arts) degree in Screenwriting from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. She worked as a staff writer on the PAX television network series, Chicken Soup for the Soul (1999), adapting scores of short stories from the internationally best-selling books by the same name. Laurie began teaching in the UCLA Master's program in 1998.
Her legal, business and creative background combined with her extensive teaching and professional training experience makes Laurie H. Hutzler a uniquely qualified film and television industry consultant and creative team builder. She offers a set of practical tools to create the emotionally satisfying programs that audiences love. She can be reached at laurie@emotionaltoolbox.com.
