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How can creating short form work inform the creation of your features? Hear from filmmakers working prolifically in shorts, features, web and fine art contexts about how small projects enhance the creation of their features. …
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I was graciously invited to write this blog for IFP and was told I should focus on my experience of writing for television. I was actually asked to write about writing. What a fantastic idea! So I gladly accepted. One problem. I forgot that I’d actually have to sit down …
In the fifteen years I’ve been writing professionally, I haven’t heard too many people outwardly admit, “I want to be a TV writer.” That is, until now. For a long time, television has been the red headed step child of the entertainment industry. But as studios take less chances with …
Brooklyn, NY (February 28, 2012) – IFP announced today the speakers for the 2012 version of their popular writer/directors conference, Script to Screen. Hosted at 92Y Tribeca, IFP’s Script to Screen Conference will take place March 17, and is presented in partnership with Writers Guild of America East, the New …
Or: So You Have 70 Pages of Room Notes. Now What?
“After three days he’ll be immortal, and then you’ll need to open a passageway, there’s a sarcophagus, it’s a whole big thing. Just take my word for it, kill it now or it’s a huge pain in the ass.”
It …
Some of the best writing and directing is on cable TV right now and it doesn’t surprise me that some of the people who are responsible for that work are artists who started out as independent filmmakers, like yourselves.
My favorites are Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, The Killing, Boardwalk Empire …
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Alrick Brown (Director, Kinyarwanda) discusses how he approached the screenwriting process as writing a series of interconnected shorts.
From the 2011 Independent Filmmaker Conference.
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Full Panel. Hear from the team behind one of the year’s top grossing documentaries, Sundance Audience Award winning Buck as they discuss the challenges of their filmmaking process from inception to release.
Julie Goldman, Producer, Motto Pictures
Julie has produced a wide range of award-winning documentaries that have been distributed …