From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sara Caldwell
Sara Caldwell
for Boston Scientific, and a frequent workshop leader. In
Sara Caldwell (Sara Coover Caldwell, born Sara Chapin 2010 she partnered with Walter Gorey (video technician
Coover in 1961 in New York City) is an American author at Sony Pictures) to form House of Gorey Productions.
and screenwriter/filmmaker. She was founder and pro- Their first short film, Shadow Man, is in post-production.
ducer/writer of Amphion Productions from 1991-2006 She lives with her two children in Valencia, CA.
and is currently a co-producer/writer for House of Gorey
Productions.
The daughter of writer Robert Coover, and Spanish
Books
needlepoint artist Pilar Sans Coover, Sara Caldwell lived • (with Maria-Eve Kielson) So You Want To Be A
in many different locations when growing up, both small Screenwriter (New York: Allworth Press, 2000).
towns and large cities in Guatemala, Spain, England, and • Jump-start your Awesome Film Company (New York:
various parts of the United States. She attended the pro- Allworth Press, 2005).
gressive boarding school, Dartington Hall School, in • Splatter Flicks: How to Make Low-Budget Horror Films
Totnes, England. Returning to America at the age of 17, (New York: Allworth Press, 2006).
she pursued a bachelor’s degree in Communications from
the University of Iowa, where she was a member of the
undergraduate Iowa Writers Workshop. Sara graduated
External links
in 1984 and moved to Chicago, Illinois. Here she worked • Website of House of Gorey Productions
in the audio-visual department of the American Hospital • Review of ’So You Want To Be A Screenwriter’ on
Association from 1985-1989, initially as a production as- Bellaonline
sistant then as a writer/producer of live satellite telecon- • Interview with Sara Caldwell on her book ’Splatter
ferences. Flicks’
Whilst in Chicago, she became involved with an inner • Review of ’Splatter Flicks’
city tutoring program, resulting in the production of her
first documentary, Cabrini Green... what you don’t see which Persondata
aired on the Chicago PBS station. She eventually became Name Caldwell, Sara
an original founder and board director for the Tutor/
Alternative Caldwell, Sara Coover (full name);
Mentor Connection.
names Coover, Sara Chapin (birth name)
Sara moved to Washington, DC in 1989 to work for
Worldnet Television, a division of USIA. Here, she was a Short de- Author, screenwriter, filmmaker
writer/producer for live interactive broadcasts to Africa, scription
East Asia, and the Middle East. She worked at Motion Date of 1961
Masters in Charleston, WV for six months before return- birth
ing to Chicago in 1991 to form Amphion Productions. She Place of New York City, New York, United States
then worked as a freelance writer/producer on hundreds birth
of projects and was a 1997 competition winner for the
Chicago/Illinois Screenplay Contest. She moved her com- Date of
pany to Los Angeles in 1998 and has since written three death
books on screenwriting/film production topics. She is al- Place of
so a professor of film/screenwriting courses at College death
of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, CA, a technical writer
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