Weekly Film & TV News Roundup
Photo: Russell James Glamour magazine’s 2013 Woman of the Year honoree Barbara Streisand has 5 pieces of advice. We can certainly get behind this student filmmaking PACT5. Will Deadline.com still be worth reading? Television love triangles may not be the best thing for women. Maybe. 2nd 2nd AD Alicia Lewis knows a thing or three about...
READ MORE2013 Award Season Scripts
‘Tis that time of year again. That joyous time when the studios release all their award scripts for you to download for free. Enjoy!
READ MORETweet of the Week: Muse Awards on Variety
Connie Britton, @EllenBarkin, Robin Wright, @SoniaMManzano and Frances Berwick to score @NYWIFT’s Muse Awards. http://t.co/z05QgHW2b5 — Variety (@Variety) October 31, 2013 Hope to see you all there! – @annelabarba //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
READ MOREProject Spotlight : In Montauk by Kim Cummings
Note: some spoilers Written and directed by NYWIFT member Kim Cummings, In Montauk is a full length feature about Julie (Nina Kaczorowski) a married photographer, who heads to a small Montauk motel after the summer crowds leave to prepare for her first photography exhibition. While at the hotel, Julie meets Christian (Lukas Hassel) a musician...
READ MORETweet of the Week: AUSTIN TIME!
Stay connected! This year’s official hashtag: #AFF20th — Austin Film Festival (@austinfilmfest) October 24, 2013 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Still not sure about how to tackle #AFF20th? Get the do’s & don’ts from @mmayhorn & @citygrammag http://t.co/4NNOk7qs2R — Austin Film Festival (@austinfilmfest) October 23, 2013 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js This year’s film and conference schedule: http://t.co/fQT6pxFhP8 | #pdf #AFF20th — Austin...
READ MORENotes from a Screenreader
photo via Go Into the Story Real conflict is critical to getting your script past the first round of readers in a competition. All competition specs have an idea and an intent. Few of them deliver an emotional experience of that intent because writers avoid the serious conflict it takes to build an inevitable crisis. Conflicts...
READ MOREWebisodes Not To Miss: Ghost Ghirls on Yahoo!
Ghost Ghirls Trailer Television programming continues its march online, and with Halloween just around the corner, it’s a great time to check out Yahoo Screen Originals‘ new series, Ghost Ghirls, a comedic web series featuring Angelica and Heidi, two ghost-busting women solving paranormal cases. Created by and starring Amanda Lund and Maria Blasucci, each episode features not only the bumbling ghost...
READ MORETweet of the Week
Get to know ten of the world’s most powerful women http://t.co/FUQBZTbpz7 via @guardian — UN Women (@UN_Women) October 14, 2013 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
READ MORENotes from a Screenreader
photo via Go Into the Story A vast majority of spec scripts submitted to competitions open with mundane images. It seems like a logical choice. Establishing normal life is an explicit instruction in many structure templates. Filmmakers often open with shots of unremarkable details. That is misleading to writers. It’s one thing to watch eggs frying...
READ MORETweet of the Week
‘How Women Can Save the World by Telling Epic Stories in the Movies’ (via @HuffingtonPost) http://t.co/kMFZanmSSu — Women in Film & TV (@WFTV_UK) October 7, 2013 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js -@annelabarba
READ MORENotes 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 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 MOREWEEKLY ROUNDUP
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...
READ MORETweet of the Week
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 MORETweet of the Week
@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 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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