What Does A Producer Look For In A Screenplay? by Joey Travolta via FilmCourage.com

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Film Courage: We’d like to hear about your first day or week in the MFA screenwriting program. What topics were initially taught? Was everything an introduction to the courses? Marty Lang, Screenwriter/Director and Assistant Professor of Film at the University of Central Arkansas/Director: It was a little bit of both. The first semester we had […]

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Film Courage: If we were going to disassemble a great screenplay, take it apart and examine it, what would we find? Author and Chapman University Professor Paul Joseph Gulino: If we disassemble a great screenplay, try to reverse-engineer it and construct our own based on that what you would find it…let’s call them techniques or […]

via Screenwriting Tools and Strategies To Keep The Audience Engaged by Paul Joseph Gulino [FULL INTERVIEW] — FilmCourage.com

Film Courage: Does every screenwriter need an agent or a manager? Erik Bork, Author/Screenwriter: You do if you’re not going to produce your work independently and you’re going to try and get it sold/produced by someone else. It’s pretty hard to do it without that unless you have a very close friend of relative who […]

via 4 Ways To Find A Screenwriting Agent Or Manager by Erik Bork — FilmCourage.com

Film Courage: When should someone quit their job to be a filmmaker? Jason Satterlund, Filmmaker: As soon as you can because think about it, what the rule of thumb is it takes 10,000 hours to master your craft and the longer you take to get those hours, the longer it’s going to take to kind […]

via An Artist Should Quit Their Day Job As Soon As They Can by Jason Satterlund — FilmCourage.com

Eric Edson, CSUN Professor and Author: Mentor…two more. These are going to go relatively quickly but I would like you to see tonight at least these six. The mentor can be an person, any age as long as they pass on the skills and wisdom to the hero. There can be more than one mentor […]

via How To Write A Great Mentor Character by Eric Edson [Screenwriting Masterclass] — FilmCourage.com

Film Courage: What do you remember about the day where you said “This will be the last time picking up a camera?” Walid Azami, Photographer/Youtuber: I don’t remember the day that was Okay this is going to be the last time. But…can I flip it and tell you about the day that I got that […]

via Once You Lose Your Art, How Do You Get It Back? by Walid Azami — FilmCourage.com

Film Courage: Do you remember something that was said to you in one of these UCLA writing classes which you never forgot? Patricia Vidal Delgado, Writer/Director: Yes, definitely. Richard Walter [recently retired Professor and Associate and Interim Dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television for 40 years] said Nobody wants to see […]

via Self-Motivated Speculative Writing Is The Secret To Success In Hollywood by Patricia Vidal Delgado — FilmCourage.com

My name is Ryan Harriss and in 2018 I directed, produced and co-wrote my first feature film called ZOOEY. ZOOEY is a low-budget to no-budget feature about a young boy who over the course of a summer escapes from his abusive stepfather and goes to stay in this kind of janky motel. It’s at this […]

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Film Courage: What is the difference between a professional level script and one that is written by an amateur? Mark Sanderson, Screenwriter/Author: A professional level script I would say can compete in the professional marketplace where someone could receive a screenplay, read it and not go Hmm, this has too many problems that this person […]

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