About this Event
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🧠Lecture: From Page to Screen: Hunger Games & The Art of Adaptation
🎤 Speaker: Professor Isabella Tecson
Join us for an evening as Professor Isabella Tecson unpacks how The Hunger Games leapt from the page to the big screen and sparked a global phenomenon. Together, we’ll dig into how modern novels and screenplays are structured, why they function so differently, and what gets lost—and gained—when a beloved book becomes a film.
Using The Hunger Games as a case study, Professor Tecson will explain why a true 1:1 adaptation is impossible, and why that’s actually great for both storytellers and audiences. You’ll leave with a sharper eye for adaptation choices, from character arcs and pacing to world building and theme.
Professor Isabella Tecson is an adjunct screenwriting, creative writing, and English professor at Queens College and CCNY, where she also earned her MFA in creative nonfiction. A former film critic for Asian Cinevue and a script doctor for nearly a decade, she’s helped shape numerous documentaries and indie films with her “structure first, ego later” approach.
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Agenda
6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.
6:55 PM – Host introduction
7:00 PM – Lecture begins
7:45 PM – Audience Q&A
8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round
8:30 PM – Wrap up.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Lower East Side, Address found in email confirmation, New York, United States
USD 41.32
