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Staying indie after getting big

May 2, 2011 Film Industry, Indie, Talk

Following up on an email exchange, I sat down for a conversation with writer/director Jay Duplass to talk about his Kickstarter-backed indie documentary, and the larger questions of balance indie projects with studio features.

Can my script be as short as Somewhere?

April 23, 2011 Film Industry, QandA, Words on the page

As a screenwriter, with no aspirations of getting behind the camera, how hard is it, or would it be to sell a spec script, that could possibly be a 100-110 min movie, but only a 65-70 page script? Understanding that execution is key, is it even possible to get your screenplay looked at, with it being so short?

The podcast with me in it

April 12, 2011 Film Industry, Web series

I’m the guest on the most recent installment of the New Mediacracy podcast, discussing The Remnants, this blog, and the shifting role of the screenwriter.

Revenge of the snarky script-reader

March 7, 2011 Film Industry, QandA

I wrote a lot of coverage during my first few years in Los Angeles. Sometimes, the only way I could get through 120 terrible pages was imagining what I’d get to write about it.

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