Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Ma Troggian: Foreign is a story about love, loss and immigration in a politically polarized America. 2. What genres does your screenplay fall under? Drama, Romantic Drama. 3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie? The script is timely. Foreign sheds light upon the importance of […]

via Interview with Screenwriter Ma Troggian (FOREIGN) — Matthew Toffolo’s Summary

Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Jeremy Kruse: My script, Master of None – Social Media, is about social media and how it can be toxic. 2. How does this script fit into the context of the MASTER OF NONE TV show? The script further explores Dev’s experience with racism. 3. How would you […]

via Interview with Screenwriter Jeremy Kruse (MASTER OF NONE) — Matthew Toffolo’s Summary

Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Whitney Stewart: My screenplay, Steal the Light, is about the resilience of humans through war and disaster, and about family bonds that endure. The story takes place in post-Katrina New Orleans and in World War Two era Europe. A young journalist loses her home and career after Hurricane […]

via Interview with Screenwriter Whitney Stewart (STEAL THE LIGHT) — Matthew Toffolo’s Summary

Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Anthony Catino: It’s about a dying man who travels to the edge of the universe to visit a brothel staffed with alien sex workers who provide extraordinary services, both real and imaginary, so he can end his life with the help of his wife. The twist is his […]

via Interview with Screenwriter Anthony Catino (Fata Morgana’s) — Matthew Toffolo’s Summary

Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Chris Desmond: When one of their own gets adopted, residents of a pet store plot to break out, crosstown and bring her back home. Ultimately the story is about the extremes one goes through in order to keep the family together. 2. What genres does your screenplay fall […]

via Interview with Screenwriter Chris Desmond (RIFF RAFF) — Matthew Toffolo’s Summary

Film Courage: You are moving to Los Angeles, you’ve just done this Woody Allen film, you’ve gone to Cannes, where did you envision your career going once you got your footing here in LA? Did you have this image of how you were going to be booking auditions and things? Writer/Director/Actor/Producer, Barney Cheng: I was […]

via How I Became A Screenwriter by Barney Cheng — FilmCourage.com

Film Courage: Why do you want to make movies to help people feel less isolated? Phillip G. Carroll, Jr., Writer/Director of THE HONEYMOON PHASE: I think one of my core drives as a person is loneliness. Growing up initially in school I didn’t have a lot of friends. I was bullied a lot. It really […]

via How Loneliness Can Drive An Artist by Phillip G. Carroll, Jr. — FilmCourage.com

Mark W. Travis, Director/Author/Writer/Instructor: If you had no fear, if there was no fear, what story would you tell? Film Courage: Right now? On camera? Mark: You can say it on camera, it’s your camera. Film Courage: You are now working on something called The Travis Technique for Autobiographical Storytelling? Mark: The Travis Technique for […]

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How Do You Edit To Build Tension? by Lawrence Jordan, ACE via FilmCourage.com.

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Film Courage: What are the primary reasons that we tell other people stories about our lives? Mark W. Travis, Director/Author/Writer/Instructor: What are the primary reasons we tell people stories about our lives? First of all it’s varied. A lot of reasons but I think the important thing you have to realize is that you do […]

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