Canceled

Posted by ashley on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 in Articles • Featured Articles • Writers • Margaret Dunlap • Script Development • Business Tips • (2) Comments • Permalink •

Work on a first-season show, and you get the joy and excitement of getting in on the ground floor. READ MORE...

Organizing Paperwork is Key Element in Film Production

Posted by Patty Fantasia on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 in Articles • Featured Articles • Writers • Patty Fantasia • Script Development • Business Tips • (0) Comments • Permalink •

Currently, I’m in the midst of co-producing my first short “Accused” and must admit that I’ve been learning many valuable lessons about filmmaking during the process. READ MORE...

Hell - I Just Hit a Freaking Wall!

Posted by Pen Densham on Monday, June 07, 2010 in Articles • Featured Articles • Writers • Pen Densham • Script Development • Business Tips • (0) Comments • Permalink •

Harnessing your creativity can be both deliciously mysterious and overwhelmingly frustrating.  It often will NOT run on rails. READ MORE...

Looking at the Financial Options for Indie Filmmakers

Posted by Patty Fantasia on Friday, May 28, 2010 in Articles • Featured Articles • Writers • Patty Fantasia • Script Development • Business Tips • (0) Comments • Permalink •

When you consider the changing dynamics of the business models available to independent filmmakers, everybody has to take a long hard look at how they plan to produce their projects. READ MORE...

Go West!

Posted by Margaret Dunlap on Thursday, May 27, 2010 in Articles • Featured Articles • Writers • Margaret Dunlap • Script Development • Business Tips • (3) Comments • Permalink •

There’s a short answer to the eternal question of “Do I have to move to Los Angeles if I want to write for television?” READ MORE...

Breaking Up is Hard to Do

Posted by Greg Carter on Monday, May 24, 2010 in Articles • Featured Articles • Writers • Greg Carter • Script Development • Business Tips • (1) Comments • Permalink •

Blogs being what they are at this moment, I need the therapy. We’ve all been there before. READ MORE...

Networking for Non-Networkers

Posted by Margaret Dunlap on Friday, May 14, 2010 in Articles • Featured Articles • Writers • Margaret Dunlap • Script Development • Business Tips • (2) Comments • Permalink •

When I started the graduate screenwriting program at USC, I had classmates who seemed to pick up contacts just by walking out their front doors. READ MORE...

(UN)ORIGINAL IDEAS

Posted by ashley on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 in Articles • Featured Articles • Writers • Ben Magid • Script Development • Business Tips • (14) Comments • Permalink •

I recently went on a general meeting at a studio, which I won't name, and asked if they were looking for original ideas. The answer was READ MORE...

Wait and Worry

Posted by ashley on Monday, April 26, 2010 in Articles • Featured Articles • Writers • Margaret Dunlap • Script Development • Business Tips • (3) Comments • Permalink •

If you started following me on Twitter after my last post, you might be aware that I’ve recently started a new job.

The day before I got a call offering me that job READ MORE...

Navigating, Developing, Producing and Directing the Bio-pic

Posted by ashley on Friday, April 23, 2010 in Articles • Featured Articles • Writers • Greg Carter • Script Development • Business Tips • (1) Comments • Permalink •

Flying back to L.A. from H-town (Houston) I was cornered or, rather, “Blindsided” by Sandra Bullock’s opus READ MORE...