another festival
i just found out my short film Martial Artsy was accepted into the 2007 DC shorts film festival! it’s held sept 13 – 20, and i’m going to try to make it out there for at least a couple days.
i just found out my short film Martial Artsy was accepted into the 2007 DC shorts film festival! it’s held sept 13 – 20, and i’m going to try to make it out there for at least a couple days.
I’m repped by Kaplan Stahler! I don’t want to go into detail, but it involves a meeting at ICM last August, leaving a day job, a stock trade on Apple quarterly earnings, and a certain reader of this blog. Seriously, it’s crazy how it happened, but luckily, I was ready and had my script ready when the opportunity came, and…
craig mazin shares his thoughts on managers vs. agents. it’s in reference to screenwriters but i’m sure it can’t be all that different for directors. http://artfulwriter.com/archives/2006/12/wither_managers.html
I was a fan of Hannibal on NBC, so when I met Kai and learned she was a writer on the show, I was pretty excited. Then she told me how she ended up getting staffed, and I wanted to share. Can you talk a bit about your background? Did you study writing in school?…
UNCERTAINTY i’m a planner by nature, and having nothing lined up as the fellowship comes to an end has been very stressful. some days were ok. other days, i couldn’t sleep, lost my appetite, and couldn’t focus. but then i realized that all this uncertainty is something i better get used to, because i can be certain my life…
alex epstein interviews Chad Gervich who wrote a book on how to break into tv. part 1 – tv vs film, queries, getting an industry job part 2 – new media, contests part 3 – reality show pitches (i have no interest in reality but you might) part 4 – spec vs pilot, networking, short…
I had another wonderful time at the Austin Film Festival. It was 4 days full of panels, roundtables, parties, meeting other writers, hanging out at the bar at the Driskill hotel, and lots of beer and brisket. It would take me too long to write a detailed post about Austin, so here are some bullet…