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1 Citation Check out this movie on SnagFilms.com. It is easier to grab a widget and help a filmmaker. Writing a screenplay in hopes of your film getting produced is tough indeed. Check out this film., technorati.com
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1 Citation Aspiring screenwriters took heart on Sunday night: a spec script won an Academy Award. Dustin Lance Black spent years researching the life of Harvey Milk and writing a script, all on his own dime, before crossing paths with director Gus Van Sant. Upon such triumphs do thousands of would-be Hollywood scenarists base their dreams. The odds are heavily stacked against them. Daniel Snyder once worked alongside Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary at a video store, so he knows a little bit about impossi, technorati.com
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Free Documentary of the Week: 'Dreams on Spec' 1 Citation Filed under: Documentaries Documentary takes a poignant look at the screenwriter's struggle. In December, 2007, the quirky low-budget film ' Juno ' became a national sensation and box-office smash, winning fame and an Oscar for its screenwriter Diablo Cody , an inexperienced, ex-stripper and blogger. But Cody's is a needle-in-a haystack-story in an industry where each year tens of thousands of scripts are penned, but only a few hundred are given the Hollywood treatment. ' Dreams on Sp, technorati.com
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1 Citation Add this to your Netflix queue: Dreams on Spec . If you?re reading this blog, you need to see it. A documentary filmmaker follows three aspiring Hollywood screenwriters through the ups and downs of breaking into the biz. Their struggles with writing, the ?how long can I do this with my life?? dilemma, the depression/euphoria/prima donna cycle, all that. Plus commentary from successful writers (James L. Brooks, Steven de Souza, Ed Solomon,?) who went through all this and made it. If you?re a H, technorati.com
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