(L-R) Jason Sudeikis as Jim Hoffman and Lee Pace as John DeLorean in Universal Pictures Content Group’s crime thriller comedy DRIVEN. Photo courtesy of Universal Pictures Content Group. by John Bucher (@johnkbucher) Nick Hamm began his directing career on the stages of London. Since then, he has found success in directing television and feature films.... Continue Reading →
by Ashley Scott Meyers This week on the SYS Podcast, William McGregor talks about his career and how he progressed from writing and directing shorts to commercials to television and feature films. And then we talk specifically about his latest horror film, Gwen. You can listen to the audio portion of the podcast by clicking... Continue Reading →
The latest video from Michael Tucker's wonderful YouTube channel, Lessons from the Screenplay, delves into the always tricky topic of exposition. Exposition is information that you need to get across to the audience, but simply telling the audience a bunch of background info rarely goes well. So Michael takes a look at how the Wachowskis... Continue Reading →
by Ashley Scott Meyers In this episode of the SYS Podcast, writer/director (and actor) Cal Barnes talks about his move from Oregon to Los Angeles, what he did when he arrived, and how he was able to get himself into a position to write and direct a feature film. You can listen to the audio... Continue Reading →
by Ashley Scott Meyers On this week's episode, writer/director Timo Vuorensola talks about how he leveraged his 2012 success with the sci-fi epic, Iron Sky, into a sequel, Iron Sky: The Coming Race, which he crowdfunded, appealing mostly to the fans of the first film. And in today's interview, he goes into great depth about... Continue Reading →
by John Bucher (@johnkbucher) Guy Nattiv has been creating short films in his native Israel since 2003. His first American film won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short last year and gave him the opportunity to turn the project into a feature, which interestingly had been written first. Nattiv sat down with LA... Continue Reading →
by Ashley Scott Meyers In this week's episode, screenwriter and director Aaron Harvey talks about his career and how he got his new film, Into The Ashes, into production. Like many aspiring screenwriters, Aaron grew up far from Hollywood and without any industry connections. In the interview he goes through his journey moving to LA... Continue Reading →
Behind the Curtain has posted a new video essay on the writing of Fight Club, and it's pretty friggin amazing. In the video, author Chuck Palahniuk shares his real life inspiration for this story -- which is fascinating -- then screenwriter Jim Uhls and director David Fincher weigh in on how the story adapted to... Continue Reading →
by Ashley Scott Meyers In this episode of the podcast, writer/director/actor Christopher Bradley talks about his new indie drama, The Trigger, which he shot on a modest budget in Mesa, Arizona. We talk through his process making this film as well has his career as an actor and how that helped prepare him for writing... Continue Reading →
This article originally appeared on Write/LA. It is reprinted here by the author with permission. by Angela Bourassa (@angelabourassa1) One of the hardest truths to learn about screenwriting is just how darn hard it is to break in. I think a lot of us (myself included) assumed when we wrote our first screenplays that we... Continue Reading →
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