by Tridib Chakraborty | 8 May, 2021 | Directing, Festivals, Filmmaking Career, Screenwriting
When the pandemic first hit, people of all ages found themselves stranded at home unable to participate in any activities. Kids found themselves logging onto Fortnite dozens of times a day while adults found themselves streaming Netflix much more often than they...
by Elliot Grove | 3 May, 2021 | Screenwriting
According to stats from the Writers Guild of America, there are approximately 50,000 screenplays submitted for registration each year. How few of these are interesting screenplays? Film producers consistently complain about the lack of entertaining screenplays. A...
by Elliot Grove | 25 April, 2021 | Screenwriting
A favourite film school phrase is “develop your audience profile.” It’s a staggering question to face especially if like me you have never ever been to film school. What do you mean by ‘developing an audience profile? One way to look at...
by Nina Romain | 15 April, 2021 | Directing, Film History, Filmmaking, Screenwriting
Hollywood has always been in love with portraying its own process of creation. Picking a random 1988 example, viewers of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? see the cartoon lead working on the fictious cartoon Somethin’s Cookin’. Later, Schwarzenegger’s alterego Jack Slater in...
by Finnergan Pierson | 11 April, 2021 | Directing, Filmmaking, Producing, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution, Screenwriting
Many people have a romanticized idea of what filmmaking is like. Most people think automatically of an actor on location or on a set, and a director in a tall chair, calling the shots. The truth is that while filming is an important part of filmmaking, it is also a...
by Susan Harris | 9 April, 2021 | Directing, Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, Producing, Screenwriting
Whether you’re an experienced professional filmmaker of long standing or a film student newbie trying to break into the industry, you know how important it is to have the best possible tools for your profession. Just as musicians depend upon their instruments to...
