This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Martha Stephens. As an accomplished filmmaker, Martha talks about her latest movie To The Stars (2019) and the experience of her work being screened at Sundance and South By South West (SXSW). Martha Stephens's other feature film credits include writing and directing Land Ho! (2014) and Pilgrim... Continue Reading →
Filmmaker David Wall on His Latest Film, Gold Dust
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker David Wall. David Wall talks about his latest movie, Gold Dust (2020), an adventure/comedy which he wrote, directed, and acted in. Topics include who are the best people to send your scripts to. David also answers -- now years after making his debut at Sundance -- are... Continue Reading →
BURDEN: Writer/Director Andrew Heckler on His Sundance Audience Award-Winning Debut
by John Bucher (@johnkbucher) Andrew Heckler spent his time in front of the camera before making the move to write and direct. His years appearing on shows ranging from Ally McBeal to Law and Order helped him understand how to create a good story, both on the page and from the director’s chair. Heckler’s directorial debut drew talent such... Continue Reading →
The Heroine’s Journey: A Talk with Minhal Baig, Writer/Director of Apple TV+’s HALA
by John Bucher (@johnkbucher) Minhal Baig’s Hala was one of the first films acquired by Apple TV+ after taking Sundance by storm in 2019. The semi-autobiographical story centers around a seventeen-year-old Pakistani American woman coping with the unraveling of her family. LA Screenwriter’s John Bucher sat down with Baig recently to talk about how she made such... Continue Reading →
STATE LIKE SLEEP: A Conversation with Writer/Director Meredith Danluck
(L-R) Katherine Waterston as Katherine and Michael Shannon as Edward in the thriller “STATE LIKE SLEEP” a film by The Orchard. Photo courtesy of The Orchard. by Angela Bourassa (@angelabourassa1) Can we ever truly know the people that we love? This is one of the questions that Meredith Danluck explores in her new film State... Continue Reading →
An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn: A Conversation with Jim Hosking
by Angela Bourassa (@angelabourassa1) Director and co-writer Jim Hosking doesn’t have any qualms about admitting that his new film, An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn, is weird. He told me, “It’s got quite a strong personality, and when you meet someone with a strong personality, you might really enjoy speaking to them, or you might... Continue Reading →
ARIZONA: Writer Luke Del Tredici on TV v. Film and Killing the American Dream
by Angela Bourassa (@angelabourassa1) If Leap Day William has become a standard part of your February 29 celebrations every four years, you can thank Luke Del Tredici. Luke has had an amazing television writing career on such shows as 30 Rock, Bored to Death, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and now he’s flexing his muscles in the... Continue Reading →
BEAST: Crafting an Unexpected Fairytale with Michael Pearce
by Angela Bourassa (@angelabourassa1) When you start studying plot structure, it becomes harder and harder to be surprised by a film. You start seeing turning points and act breaks everywhere you look. That's what makes Beast so refreshing, in a wonderfully dark and terrible way. Watching this film, I was kept in suspense from the... Continue Reading →