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Get Connected with Scriptapalooza
Now in its 14th year, Scriptapalooza remains unlike any other screenplay competition. When you submit your script to Scriptapalooza, it will be read by the elite of the film industry: Over 90 producers, managers and agents with the power to turn your script into a feature film. With the next deadline—March 5th—looming on the horizon, MM recently caught up with Scriptapalooza president/co-founder Mark Andrushko to find out more about this year’s competition.
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Dani Faith Leonard Helps Writers With Big Visions But Empty Wallets
Dani Faith Leonard and Alex Cirillo know how important it is for independent artists to have a sense of community. To that end, the two moviemakers created Big Vision Empty Wallet, an organization that gives artists the chance to network and share their talents.
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Tracy J. Trost Believes in The Lamp
It’s hard to regain one's faith once you’ve lost it. Director Tracy Trost explores this spiritual struggle in his latest film The Lamp, in which he offers viewers a much-needed message of hope.
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Steven Arvanites, NYCscreenwriter
Screenwriting can be a time-consuming and creatively exhausting process. When writers have trouble getting motivated or can't get over their writer's block, it is helpful to have fellow screenwriters to whom you can turn; you know, people who have experienced the same demands of the creative process. At NYCscreenwriter.org, New York-based scribes will find a group of fellow writers who are eager to share their experiences (and their work) and learn more about their craft.
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Dan Hannon Visits The Pond
New Hampshire provides the location—and inspiration—for award-winning short film
Short films don't always get the respect they deserve. You can see Transformers anywhere, but it takes a dedicated fan to track down a short film he or she wants to see. Unless they are attached to the beginning of a Pixar movie, short films have a very limited theatrical exposure to the public.
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Scriptapalooza: All About the Writers
So, you’ve finished your first screenplay. Congratulations! It’s been formatted correctly, with all the right margins, headings and spacing? Good. So what will you do with your script now? For many screenwriters, the next step is submitting to screenplay competitions. They have different entry fees and prizes. Some are standalone writing competitions, while some are a division of a larger film festival. But when you start to do your research, you’ll notice one name pop up again and again: Scriptapalooza.
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Jeb Stuart Focuses on Civil Rights in Blood Done Sign My Name
Jeb Stuart has written such screenplays as Die Hard and The Fugitive, but for his second directorial effort , he has chosen to focus on the North Carolina civil rights movement of 1970.
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Joshua Zeman Investigates the Truth Behind Cropsey
Imagine the basic premise of The Blair Witch Project—young moviemakers on a quest to unravel a bogeyman of their past—but then imagine that it all really happened.
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Can Scriptapalooza Launch Your Career?
Scriptapalooza is not all about prize money (though there is that; the first place winner gets $10,000). Three recent Scriptapalooza top-placers have taken the time to answer a few of MovieMaker’s questions about their scripts, Scriptapalooza and how the competition has helped them get their screenwriting careers off the ground.
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Circalit Creates a Social Network for Scribes
Labeled as the first-ever social networking Website just for screenwriters, Circalit allows scribes of any experience level to upload their screenplays and showcase their work to producers, agents and directors. MM recently caught up with CEO and founder Raoul Tawadey to discuss this great opportunity for screenwriters.
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Christopher Kyle Brings The Seven Sins to the Silver Screen
Christopher Kyle—screenwriter of Alexander and K-19 The Widowmaker—talks to MovieMaker about his latest project, The Seven Sins: The Tyrant Ascending, and why comparing a novel to its cinematic adaptation is like saying steak is better than bicycles.
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Teresa Fahs is Haunting Kira
Renowned as the "female version of Tom Savini," special makeup effects artist Teresa Fahs began her career a decade ago as a figure sculptor. Today, she is a highly successful prosthetic designer and macabre makeup effects wizard.
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Find The Perfect Script on InkTip
Are you a movie producer or other entertainment professional searching for a stellar script? Or a savvy screenwriter eager to have your work produced as a feature film? If you answered "yes" to either question, then be sure to check out InkTip.
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Write on at the Santa Fe Screenwriting Conference
Are you an aspiring screenwriter in need of a helping hand? If so, consider attending the 11th annual Screenwriting Conference in Sante Fe (SCSFe), which will be held May 26-31st in Sante Fe, New Mexico.
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Get Your Pens Ready—Scriptapalooza Is On Its Way
After 11 years in the screenwriting competition game, Scriptapalooza president Mark Andrushko knows all the ins and outs to getting a script read—and purchased. MM asked him to share his secrets.
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Towelhead: Alan Ball's Controversial New Film
Writer-director doesn't shy away from controversy, as he's proving once again with Towelhead
In 1999, a plastic ball floated in the wind—the most beautiful thing ever seen by the strange boy next door—and with that, Alan Ball won an Academy Award for his very first screenplay, American Beauty. Nine years later, he's making his feature directorial debut with Towelhead, which, even before its release, is confronting controversy for its title and few key scenes.
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Paula Mazur Imagines Nim's Island
For most moviemakers, the only place to go after winning an Oscar, ACE and Emmy award is down—or rehab. But multi-hyphenate Paula Mazur is changing the rules. Best known as a producer, Mazur has spent the last three decades building a reputation as a moviemaker with a discerning eye for high-quality content, whether in television or film, fiction or documentary. After shifting gears to make her directorial debut in 1992, Mazur is adding a new title to her business card, this time as a screenwriter on Nim’s Island.
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David Magee Lives for Miss Pettigrew
A self-described Midwestern boy from Michigan, screenwriter David Magee is frequenting Hollywood these days. Magee, who actually started as an actor and later honed his writing skills doing novel abridgments, scored both Oscar and Golden Globe nods for his “freshman” feature-length script, Finding Neverland. Now he awaits the release of his “sophomore” effort, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, starring Amy Adams and Frances McDormand, which he calls a lovely, light comedy.
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Hank Nelken: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
"Don't believe the hype" and other lessons from the writer-director behind Mama's Boy and Something Borrowed.
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Hank Nelken is a Mama’s Boy
Screenwriter-turned-director Hank Nelken awaits the release of three new movies
If it’s true that people are born to do certain things, then Hank Nelken was born to be a moviemaker. Because whether he was filming Bar Mitzvahs as a kid to fund his own short films or editing wedding videos right out of USC Film School to buy bread, Nelken has always known what he wants to do with his life: Make movies.
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Robin Swicord: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
"When possible, bake cookies in the editing room" and other lessons from one of Hollywood's most prolific writer-producer-directors.
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Robin Swicord Takes on Jane Austen
The longtime writer-producer helms her first feature film with The Jane Austen Book Club
Even as one of Hollywood's most powerful writer-producers, it has taken 15 years for Robin Swicord to get the chance to direct. But she's doing it now with The Jane Austen Book Club.
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Cinematic Storytelling
Editing and sound are just two of the elements that can make any script more “cinematic”
From Citizen Kane to American Beauty, the history of cinema is filled with examples of "cinematic storytelling" - films that use the full complement of moviemaking tools to tell theis stories.
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Balancing the Roles of Writer and Director
Determining the roles of "writer" and "director" begins and ends with one simple question: What is the story I'm telling?
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Cycle of the Screenwriter
Every Story—and Screenwriter—Needs a Beginning, Middle and End
Just like the stories they write, a screenwriter's life is one based on cycles. One of Hollywood's most in-demand scribes sounds off about his own.
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Script Criteria Checklist
Six Must-Have Elements for Financiers and Buyers to Take You Seriously
Whether you're looking for investors for your latest project or getting ready to finance it yourself, make sure your script has these six essential elements - which translate to audience appeal.
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Great Adaptations: A Winning Script Doesn’t Have to be Totally Original
With so many of today's successful movies based on existing material, it pays to know how to translate a literary work into a cinematic one.
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Coming Clean: Confessions of a Hollywood Hack
Know thyself. A Hollywood screenwriter comes clean on the freedom he found when he got his mind and his talent in alignment.
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Writing Backwards: Plot Construction Using Reverse Cause and Effect
Every script has a beginning, middle and end - but sometimes it can be helpful to write them in reverse order.
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Killer Script
James Vanderbilt goes back in time for David Fincher's Zodiac
Selling a spec script is no easy task. Selling a spec script about a real-life serial killer who was never caught is slightly harder. So how did writer James Vanderbilt manage to do just that with Zodiac? By writing a cohesive, suspenseful and surprisingly humorous screenplay about one of the most fascinating manhunts in U.S history. (It didn't hurt to have David Fincher attached to direct.)
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James Vanderbilt: Things I’ve Learned as a MovieMaker
There are a lot of smart and intelligent people working in this business who are excited to make challenging films.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
The budget doesn't matter. $5,000 or $50 million, there's always someone to tell you "there's not enough money."
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Bridging the Gap
David Paterson brings his mother's famous novel to life in the big-screen adaptation of Bridge to Terabithia
Most screenwriters will tell you they feel a personal connection to the scripts they write, but David Paterson has a whole other layer of attachment. His most recent effort, Bridge to Terabithia, is based on the Newbery Medal-winning novel written by his mother, Katherine.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Only a madman would sit down to write a script believing that it will one day become a successful movie. Be a madman. As the Book of the Samurai notes, "Nothing great was ever accomplished through common sense. One must become insane and desperate."
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Family Values
Screenwriter Michael Arndt gives the family road trip a whole new meaning in Little Miss Sunshine
For a screenwriter, there's no greater risk than throwing in the towel of a life of secure employment and handing yourself over to the writing trade. And there's no greater payoff than writing a hit movie the first time out. As the awards season kicks off, MM chatted with Little Miss Sunshine scribe Michael Arndt about risking it all for Hollywood.
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