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Frank Daniel | |
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Born | František Daniel April 14, 1926 Kolín, Czechoslovakia |
Died | February 29, 1996 Palm Springs, California, US | (aged 69)
Nationality | Czech American |
Occupation(s) | Film screenwriter, Teacher |
František "Frank" Daniel (April 14, 1926 – February 29, 1996) was a Czech-American screenwriter, film director and teacher. He is known for developing the sequence paradigm of screenwriting, in which a classically constructed movie can be broken down into three acts, and a total of eight specific sequences.[1] He served as co-chair of the Columbia University film program, and as a dean of FAMU, the American Film Institute and the USC School of Cinema-Television. He was also an Artistic Director of the Sundance Institute.