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08
Nov
2009
The Mail I Get - Writing the Treatment

47 minutes ago by Lee Goldberg

Bryon Stedman asked me this question in a comment to another post: I have a situation where a broadcast entity claims they want to hear my idea for a boxing series or made for TV movie. The characters belong to my family from a comic drawn by my father. If a narrative is they way to go, what are the ...

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Screenwriting and Selling Your Work

5 hours ago by davidspies

After months upon months, you’ve finished your first screenplay. What next? You’re wondering, “What do I do now? How do I find a literary talent agent? How do I approach a talent agent and will they read my screenplay? Is there a specific process I should follow?” First of all, if you’re new to the ...

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07
Nov
2009
nw films barcamp

8 hours ago by admin

Attended a NW Films BarCamp session this morning that focused on developing character and story within the confines of film shorts… so we’re talking anywhere from three to 30 minutes I guess. Wow. What a challenge. The group included the full range of practitioners, from newbies to career filmmakers ...

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Sweet Collaboration

8 hours ago by keith99h

Well, we finished our two-day writing extravaganza and Blake and I think it went pretty well. We ended up working for about twenty hours in two days. Yikes! Needless to say our brains are fried. We rewrote all of act one and did a lot of planning for act two. There’s still a lot to do before our dea ...

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Big Ideas!

11 hours ago by yourscreenplaysucks

Had a wonderful conversation on Thursday with Derek Haas, who wrote WANTED and 3:10 TO YUMA and seems to be writing every movie that is in development in Hollywood. He’s a hell of a writer and a delightful guy. He was terribly helpful to my class. I’ll be drawing on what he told the students for a l ...

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Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours To Have Over An Hour of No Dialogue

12 hours ago by slashfilm.com

A couple days ago it was reported that Danny Boyle ( Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) had found his next film project, 127 Hours, a story of Aron Ralston, the mountain climber who amputated his own arm to free himself after being trapped by a boulder for nearly five days. Indiewire ...

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AMPTP Negotiator Nick Counter dies — is Harlan Ellison happy?

13 hours ago by Dan_Act4Screenplays.com

Harlan Ellison delivers another subtle message at Paramount; 2007 Nick Counter, the stonewalling negotiator for the AMPTP that battled with SAG and the WGA (and sorta the DGA, I guess, although they always seemed to just skate by at the tail end of all the blood-letting) died today. from Nikki Finke ...

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Joint Activity Programme – IAWG/FSE

14 hours ago by Maura McHugh

The Board of the FSE and the PRG of the IAWG have discussed the strengthening working relationships between the two organisations, which have grown quickly following the solidarity campaigns of guilds around the world with their colleagues in the writers’ strike in the United States which ended in F ...

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World Screenwriters Declaration

14 hours ago by Maura McHugh

In the new digitised and globalised world, we screenwriters have today come together, in Athens Greece, to discuss our central role in the creation of the stories that are carried with such impact to the world’s myriad screens and to people’s minds and hearts. Stories influence our behaviour and sha ...

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Participant profile: Lars Boom

22 hours ago by Maura McHugh

We leave Greece temporarily to travel to the Netherlands to meet Lars Boom. Lars Boom Lars Boom has been writing since 1990 for television, film and theatre. In theatre he has written musical plays like the award-winning In the shadow of Brel (about Jacques Brel through the eyes of his driver and fr ...

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