Notes From A Screenreader
photo via Go Into the Story Billy Wilder believed that “There are only two types of movies, one for the audience with a simple story, nicely decorated and ornate…or a complicated story that is simply put on film. If you put too many ornaments in there, people won’t be able to follow it.” Clarity is the quality in...
READ MORETerry’s Picks: October 8
Congratulations To: NYWIFT member Laurens Grant on winning an Emmy for Outstanding Research for Jesse Owens, This American Experience. Disappointed To Read: in the Director’s Guild’s study on prime-time episodic directors that women are still directing only 14% of TV shows. Please Join Me: if you are in the Hamptons this weekend at the NYWIFT Women...
READ MOREFemale Presence at the Urbanworld Film Festival
//player.vimeo.com/video/71992175 DuVernay | SAY YES from @AFFRM on Vimeo. September 18th through the 22nd, the 17th annual Urbanworld Film Festival presented some of the most interesting feature films, shorts, documentaries, readings, and panels. Although many of the films shown were by male directors, there was a large female presence, both in front of and behind...
READ MORENYWIFT PROGRAMS: OCTOBER
Don’t forget to RSVP for NYWIFT’s October Programs: Monday, October 7, 2013 @ 6:30pm (Members Only) Master Class: Best Production Practices Veteran producer Jane Applegate shares production strategies proven to reduce stress and save both time and money. Tuesday, October 8, 2013 @ 12:30pm (Members Only) Lunchtime Skills Building Workshop: The Key to Being a...
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Apply! Apply! Apply! (Disney/ABC Directing Program) ((Sigh)) Another blow to the NYC filmmaking industry. Twilight Director Catherine Hardwicke on her struggle to find more work. Monkey wrench. Perhaps “Hillary 2016” will be better to watch? A Garfunkel & Oates (not the men) comedy has landed IFC. Congratulations to CNN’s Geraldine Moriba on her new post. Listen to...
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SUCH A JOY. You define inspiration lady @Piper @OITNB @nlyonne @amoore9 @catecurtin @UzoAduba @tanyaTTwright @WPA_NYC — alysia reiner (@alysiareiner) October 2, 2013 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js NYWIFT member Alysia Reiner plays Assistant Warden Fig on my new favorite show Orange Is The New Black. Here’s a veritable follow Thursday for us fans, plus this extra: Amazing advice from...
READ MORENotes From A Screenreader
photo via Go Into the Story You need a logline for your screenplay. It is your script’s calling card. You can’t submit to a competition, pitch or write a query without one. A logline reduces an entire screenplay to a single sentence that expresses its premise. It should include a sketch of the protag, what...
READ MORETerry’s Picks: October 1
Still Image from The Dog Congratulations To: NYWIFT Member Joanna Plafsky, Executive Producer of My Reincarnation, up for a News and Documentary Emmy this week. Crossing fingers for her tonight. Hope To See You At: the NYFF51 LIVE: Spotlight on Documentary Filmmakers panel at the New York Film Festival on October 7 at 7:45 – 8:45...
READ MOREExperTEAs: Filmmaker Lucy Walker
photo of Lucy Walker via lucywalkerfilm.com NYWIFT is a launching a new series along the lines of our popular Power Player Breakfast, but with a smaller more intimate setting and not as early in the morning. The series, ExperTEAs launches with the documentary powerhouse and award winning filmmaker Lucy Walker. Walker’s documentaries have won over...
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Photo via Google+ Sheryl Lee Ralph discusses becoming an “Instant Mom” (on Nickelodeon). In case you missed these historic Emmy moments. Who’s buying spec scripts? The Scoggins Report has answers. Why Enough Said Director Nicole Holofcener is considered ambiguous. Good for you Elizabeth Hasselbeck! Army Wives’ bummer. 22 of Flavorwire’s ”50 most interesting people on tv“ are women. We’re closing in ladies… And just for laughs–21 Questions with Joan...
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@NYWIFT member @STACEYMUHAMMAD named 1 of the 12 smartest women of color on Twitter: http://t.co/yYL8FsCjGP — Stacey Muhammad (@STACEYMUHAMMAD) September 26, 2013 Good on you, Stacey! –@annelabarba
READ MORENotes from a Screenreader
photo via Go Into the Story It’s an open secret that you only have a few pages to convince experienced readers that your script is worth reading. What you might not know is that you can make mistakes on the very first page that prejudice readers, long before you establish the relationships and conflicts that...
READ MORETerry’s Picks: September 24
Director Haifaa al-Mansou (right) and actress Waad Mohammed at Wadjda’s premiere at the Venice film festival. Photograph: Max Rossi/Reuters via The Guardian Just Read: this Indiewire article about the biggest hits among female-centered films in the 21st Century. Excited to Hear: Wadjda, the first ever Saudi Arabian film directed by a woman, has been chosen...
READ MOREFlix Not To Miss : Una Noche (One Night)
(warning some spoilers) Una Noche, a powerful new film written and directed by Lucy Mulloy looks beyond romantic Lonely Planet images of Cuba’s white talcum powder sand, quaint colonial buildings’ creeping mosaics of peeling paint and colorful vintage cars to show the restless desperation of young people living in grinding poverty among crumbling infrastructure. The...
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Photo via snl.wikia.com Now Seth Meyers can have better conversations with SNL’s Cecily Strong Sarah Silverman is old, sensitive and only “kinda” racist? Hmmm… (Video) After NINETY years Time magazine names Nancy Gibbs as their 1st female Managing Editor. Breaking Bad’s Laura Fraser discusses Lydia yet reveals nothing. Smooth! (Video) The Kelly File (great name) is the new 9pm vehicle...
READ MORETweet of the Week
You can’t allow FEAR – for your character, or offending someone – to interfere with your #writing. Why: http://t.co/M5G6Th6B2a #scriptchat — Lucy V Hay (@Bang2write) September 18, 2013 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js -@annelabarba
READ MORENotes from a Screenreader
photo via Go Into the Story If you spend money on an entry fee for a competition, you want it to be well-spent, which means getting past the first few rounds. When you make the semi-final rounds, your logline goes out to production companies and agents who want to read your script. That is success....
READ MORETerry’s Picks: September 17
Mother of George photo via Indiewire Glad to Hear: HBO is developing another comedy series by a woman. Peeples director Tina Gordon Chism will write and Executive Produce Crushed, about an African American family running a wine business in Napa. Best of Luck: to Nikyatu Jusu (Free the Town), Iva Radivojevic (Evaporating Borders), Sabine Krayenbuhl...
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