ourstage.com interviewed some filmmakers at dc shorts, including some new friends i met there, and yours truly.
the link to the video is on the right under “what’s happening”.
ourstage.com interviewed some filmmakers at dc shorts, including some new friends i met there, and yours truly.
the link to the video is on the right under “what’s happening”.
i went to the dc shorts film festival again this year with ku klux kornea. the screening went well and the audience reaction was great. it’s always a relief when people laugh at your comedy. last year i did some sight seeing but this year i stayed at the theater and watched as many films…
i wanted to do some interviews with other writers who have gone through the writing programs. i’m starting with fellow nick fellow brian stampnitsky. i actually met brian before the fellowship in a tv writing class at io west, and just by coincidence, we both made it as finalists, and then made it in as…
here are notes from “Five Secrets of a Killer Pitch” with Carole Kirschner, from the free GAPF class this past weekend. carole runs the cbs writers mentoring program, and wrote a book Hollywood Game Plan which i haven’t read but have heard good things about. the notes were taken by fellow writer beau henry, who won the…
i’m all done with my first tv spec! the deadline for the nick writing fellowship is tomorrow, but i finished and mailed it off today. the fellowship announcements will be made in late august / early september, so now i have to forget this project and move on to my next one. i ended up…
2012 was, without exaggeration, the most difficult year of my life. it started with a root canal caused by grinding my teeth, the pressure which killed the nerve. grinding my teeth came from the stress of finishing the nick fellowship in oct 2011 and having nothing tangible to show for it. i had had no writing…
I haven’t had the fortune of actually meeting Nora and Lilla, but Brian is friends with them and asked on my behalf if they’d be interested in doing an interview. They were gracious enough to agree! After they finished the WB Writers’ Workshop in 2009, they’ve worked on FRINGE, HUMAN TARGET, and are currently on…