Tales from the “Screenwriter’s Festival”
…an actual situation and push it into different directions. Then keep pushing. Jokes come last. Story comes first. If need be, go to the darkest place and then bring it…
…an actual situation and push it into different directions. Then keep pushing. Jokes come last. Story comes first. If need be, go to the darkest place and then bring it…
…that), about the lack of women directing major motion pictures. In contrast, a wealth of movies directed by women have emerged from the independent community for decades. Some are in…
…Senate-House conference committee agreed to fund the NEA at $98 million for FY ’98. Because conference committees are widely seen as compromise bodies, the final budgetary appropriation was widely anticipated…
…artist for distribution, we commit to that artist’s complete body of work; that is, we represent an artist, not a title. Other distributors you admire and why? Our colleagues in…
…where independent producers have the best entry point. This new form, the agency explains, “will combine the flexibility of the interactive computer with the engagement of storytelling to create a…
The Independent catches up with Yvonne Michelle Shirley, creator of the new documentary,Β Miasia: The Nature of Experience.Β The film, which featured at BlackStar Film Festival, chronicles theΒ life of Brooklyn teenager Miasia Clark as she navigates her everyday world and prepares to present at the first ever Black Girl Movement National Conference. Miasia is joined in this effort by members of her activist group, Girls for Gender Equity.
…room. Finally, when we take on an artist for distribution, we commit to that artist’s complete body of work; that is, we represent an artist, not a title. Other distributors…
…Rogers’ The Cook. But Dominique Monfery’s Destino and Kenneth Branagh’s Listening were the crowd favorites. The animated Destino is the completed version of a project that Walt Disney commissioned in…
…winner from the Scenarios New York City contest, which is still in progress. A national contest will take place in 2006. Scenarios USA stems from Scenarios from the Sahel, a…