Getting Started With Screenwriting & More (From Script)
In this week’s roundup brought to us by Script magazine, writing coach Jenna Avery answers a series of shorter questions from writers wondering about getting started with screenwriting, getting an MFA, and more. Plus, read about prolific director Martin Scorsese’s approach to filming on location, collaborating with Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio, and above else respecting the Osage people when telling their story when making the film, The Killers of the Flower Moon.
SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep. 505 – Writing a Script That Gets Made with Jon Garcia
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Jon Garcia about his film Summoning the Spirit, his highly successful The Falls trilogy of movies that found niche appeal by having the Mormon Religion and LGBTQ as part of the stories, and on writing scripts that get made and how he works with different budget levels.
Festival of Benefits from a Professional Table Read
2022 panel of actors reading a submitted script in front of the writer and audience at the FilmColumbia Screenwriting Panel. Photo credit: Kevin Canfield, Courtesy FilmColumbia Film Festival
Script‘s Christopher Schiller sits down with the two principals in charge of the Screenwriters Panel at the FilmColumbia Film Festival, Scott Cohen and Anastasia Traina, ahead of the event and gets some insights into the process and benefits that can come from cold table reads by professional actors.
Poems, Plays, Pulitzers: Screenwriter Zoe Akins Did it All
Dr. Rosanne Welch celebrates the female screenwriters who came before us with this month’s spotlight on the prolific powerhouse screenwriter, poet, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Zoe Akins.
Odds & Ends: Getting Started with Screenwriting & More
Writing coach Jenna Avery answers a series of shorter questions from writers wondering about getting started with screenwriting, writing and learning screenwriting in another country, getting an MFA, and finding other screenwriters.
A Symphony of Tragedy: Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon
Lily Gladstone and Martin Scorcese in “Killers of the Flower Moon,” premiering in theaters around the world on October 20, 2023. AppleTV+
Martin Scorsese’s “snapshot of the human struggle” is a kaleidoscope of colors and emotions that is a masterpiece. It’s a piece of art that can be revisited and appreciated like the finest piece of classical music or jazz masterwork.