Screenwriting
Summer Reading
10 Blogs Filmmakers Need to Read As I emerge from my NDA-driven rathole and rediscover the things I did before work consumed me, I’ve been catching up on some reading. Specifically blog reading (and a book or two as well). My friend Jenelle likes to make fun of me for being late to the Blog [...]
The Myth of Indie
I’m Getting Tired of Asking Where We Went Wrong My friend and fellow filmmaker Tom Moser said something about my last post that I think merits its own topic. The post was about how awesome 1981 was for genre fans, how many amazing and landmark horror, sci fi, and fantasy movies were released that year. [...]
Half Empty
Why the Long Face? Over the weekend of June 19th, my wife and frequent collaborator Alicia Conway and I attended a two day indie film financing/marketing/distribution seminar put on by the Los Angeles Film Festival at the Grammy Museum in downtown LA. Entitled “Seize the Power: A Marketing and (DIY)stribution Symposium,” it promised to educate [...]
Best Worst Fanboys
Have We Gone From Loving Indie Film to Loving Hating it? I think I began to notice this trend with Christopher Guest‘s hilarious 1996 send-up of small-town theater and its unrequitable aspirations toward greatness, “Waiting for Guffman.” Even though when that film came out I was fully-invested in a small-town theater and had the kinds of [...]
