Wednesday, February 24, 2010
This Saturday I’ll be at WGAw in Los Angeles for another “The Best Short Film Workshop Ever” hosted by filmmaker, author and former Sundance programmer Roberta Munroe.
I’ve been both an attendee and speaker at previous workshops, and have met a great slew of filmmakers and industry folk.
Saturday February 27th, 2010
Los Angeles
The Writers Guild Of America
7000 [...]
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Back in 2002 I was studying to be an audio engineer at The Sheffield Institute for the Recording Arts. I reasoned that since I fancied myself a musician, it was an important step to learn how to produce my own music.
I further studied and later re-directed my focus on production and post-production for film. It [...]
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Back in September, I was invited to speak on a panel about different aspects of short filmmaking at Roberta Munroe’s “Best Short Film Workshop Ever.” It was a great workshop, filled with wonderful discussion about writing, production and distribution of short film. (You can read my notes on the workshop, and notes from Roberta Munroe’s [...]
Monday, September 21, 2009
Good news folks! I’ve been invited as a special guest to Roberta Munroe’s Best Short Film Workshop Ever, this weekend September 26th in NYC. I will be speaking with Roberta about short film script structure, things like how to creating characters that are immediately engaging.
You may recall Roberta put on a great workshop at DCTV [...]
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I’m back from a five day stint at the Southampton Screenwriters Conference, which was held at Stony Brook University, Southampton, Long Island.
What a wonderful experience! Back in May when I was accepted to the conference I had some very specific goals in mind. I was going to workshop my feature script Through the Broken Glass. [...]
This past weekend I went to the New York City opening of Duncan Jones‘ Moon downtown at my favorite theater, Sunshine Cinema.
There are plenty of great reviews of the film and interviews with director Duncan Jones. The buzz around Moon is burning white hot, there’s plenty out there to sublimate your media desires. As I [...]
Writer and blogger Scott Kirsner, known for his CinemaTech blog and columns from publications such as Variety and The Boston Globe knows a thing or two about technology as it relates to the entertainment industry. His new book Fans, Friends and Followers takes a much needed look at new distribution models and ways of garnering [...]
I posted this to an online screenwriting group, I figured I’d share here as well.
Gods and Monsters, Directed and Written by Bill Condon, adapted from the novel “The Father of Frankenstein” by Christopher Bram. Won Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay in 1998. I was working at an independent video shop at the time and [...]
I’m excited this week because I’ll be speaking as a guest to an Advanced Screenwriting class at the New York Film Academy. I was invited by my former screenwriting teacher Peter J. Hobbs at Elyria Pictures and I’ll be speaking about my experience as a script reader.
For a while now I’ve been reading and evaluating [...]
