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by Brad Schreiber Having been the director of development for TV/film director Jonathan Kaplan (Unlawful Entry, The Accused, NBC’s E.R.), I had the unique and special opportunity to read screenplays, as well as fiction and non-fiction books and articles, to see if there was anything which might interest him as a directorial assignment. Anyway, it’s… …
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Keep It Brief by Sebastian Corbascio “If you’re going to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.” ~Tuco, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly “Actions speak louder than words” ~Anonymous “Action is character.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald Writing better dialogue frequently means removing existing dialogue and replacing it with action, or substituting action before putting any dialogue down…. …
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“The last thing I want to see at the movies is a version of my reality. I don’t want to see art imitating life.” ~Fran Walsh www.imdb.com/name/nm0909638 “It wasn’t until about the fifth draft of ‘sixth sense’ that I really began to figure it out. It was then that I realized he’s dead. It took… …
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By Michelle Danner My desire to tell stories on film started a couple of decades ago, and whereas an actor could shoot several movies a year, a director stays with a project for an extended period of time, in my case, approximately 2 years. I have so much respect for independent filmmakers because I… …
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By Steven Joshua Morrison 26 and a half drafts. 3 months of work. And one hell of a discouraging time. The lessons you learn in film school will last a lifetime. I was two months into my first year of film school. There was a 3rd year directing student who I had met on set… …
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StudentFilmmakers.com catches up with S.J. Hermann, a member of the Filmmakers Global Network Online, to ask about his new project and upcoming directorial debut. (Pictured above: The main cast of “Morium: The Film Series”.) StudentFilmmakers Magazine: Can you share with us your insights into writing supernatural fiction, and the possible advantages that the supernatural genre… …
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(Pictured above: From the film, “Get Out”) (Pictured above: From the film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) StudentFilmmakers Magazine: Why is the horror film genre so popular? Neal Bell: Horror movies have always been popular – from the silent era (when “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” was a hit in both Germany and the United… …
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By Fred Ginsburg, CAS, Ph.D. If you can’t film a script in the pandemic world, then film a pandemic world in a script. During the current COVID-19 situation, all of us are wondering how Hollywood is going to resume production. I have read many of the COVID white papers published by various “experts” for the… …
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Scriptapalooza TV Whether you are already an aspiring television writer or a writer interested in exploring other avenues, Scriptapalooza TV is here to promote careers in television and provide exposure for the undiscovered writer. 27 writers have optioned their work 61 writers have been hired to write 18 writers have films in production or release… …
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“Early on in my TV and film production career, I was a “one-man-band”—a common phrase describing one who was doing it all. I quickly discovered that the most important component of my projects was the script, and a bad script leads to a bad project. But over time (and getting a master’s degree in scriptwriting),… …
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StudentFilmmakers Magazine: Can you share with us your thoughts on the importance for screenwriters to “prewrite” their screenplays and the benefits of prewriting? Michael Tabb: First and foremost, every writer has to find his or her own writing method that works best for him or her. So, regardless of how anyone tells writers there is… …
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Filmmakers Global Network :: Community Spotlight with Karlina Veras Reid Dominican Writer based in London. Work and Current Projects: Besides writing for the screen, I also write a wide range of poetry and literary fiction in both English and Spanish. At the moment, I am working on a feature film, written both in English… …
