We are sponsoring a fantastic event featuring award-winning writer/actor/director Jim Picariello and you're invited. This is our first workshop/screening of the fall 2021 schedule. And it's Thursday evening, September 30th from 7:00 - 9:00 PM EST. On that night you'll be introduced to Jim who will discuss three of his projects with us. This will be a virtual event and anyone who signs up will be given links to watch three of Jim's amazing shorts: THIS TIME IT'S SHOPPING Comedy Jim's first short film, made for $100 in a single day and was selected by 18 festivals, won 5 top
We'll take a look at Joe McIsaac's significantly altered re-think of the 1970s sci-fi movie classic, Silent Running. C'mon out sci-fi buffs and others! LOGLINE: When the space station carrying the final forests of a barren Earth calls for help, a reluctant, self-hating pilot leads a rescue mission to deepest space and finds unexpected purpose and self-fulfillment defending it from enemies set on its destruction. GENRE: Science Fiction. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joe has a long career in software development and publishing. He's created many products for multiple industries including bio-tech, healthcare, finance and digital security. Joe has been granted multiple
Next Monday, we take a new look at Andrew Lemelman's re-write of his TV pilot Iron Walkers. Andrew has been refining this intriguing tale of ambition and family dysfunction for over a year. LOGLINES: Series Logline: An overextended, family-led construction company battles jealous rivals, public officials, and uninspired, greedy and distracted relatives to stave off collapse. Season 1 Logline: After her unlikely election, the company’s epileptic president confronts an overzealous, revenge-driven investigator determined to prove a workplace accident was no accident. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Andrew Lemelman has been an attorney in Boston for over 30 years and became interested in
It's tough writing as a team, but when Genine first read Bob Tremblay's heartfelt comedy about a couple who unexpectedly die and are then reborn as an unlikely pair - exotic Siberian tiger wife and mangy mutt husband, she wanted to collaborate. Bob had pitched this animated feature to a high school pal who used to work at CAA and she'd cautioned, "You need to make it kid-centered if it's being pitched as animation." Genine took a crack at the script after Bob did a first extensive revision in which the couple's 9 year old grandson was given a
Andrea Squires worked for years as a Colonial re-enactor. When she was asked to play the part of Mary Douthwaite Wall, she began to imagine the role expanded into a series. Proposed alternate titles - The Company of Players or The Company. Logline (series and pilot): A young man discovers his identity with a touring theatrical company in the time of the American Revolution. Target Audience: Young Adults–Seniors (history and costume-drama lovers, PBS lovers.) About the Author: Andrea Squires has a B.A. in Theatre from Bard College, and an M.Ed. in Instructional Design from UMass-Boston. She works as an Instructional
On Thursday October 28th from 8:00 - 10:00 EST/5:00 -7:00 PT, join us for a virtual webinar, featuring the vice president of film and television for John Goldwyn Productions, Mike Blutstein. During this two-hour webinar Mike will discuss how writers need respond to producers if they hope to sell their scripts and see their projects underwritten. Don't miss this opportunity to get inside the mind of a key executive from the renowned John Goldwyn company. You'll also learn about Mike's master class IDEA, SCRIPT, SALE: A HOLLYWOOD GUIDE AND have the opportunity to send loglines to Mike. If interested in
Next Monday we review Joel Karlinsky's latest feature Say Good Night Gracie, a sci-fi adventure. It will be moderated by the awesome Eafat Newton. LOGLINE: With the help of an alien robot, a small-time waste disposal man seeks revenge from an evil corporation determined to destroy them. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joel holds degrees from MIT, Tufts University School of Medicine, and the BU Graduate School of Management. He earned a Certificate in Screenwriting from UCLA online. He’s now a retired Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at BUSM and has been a member of the Harvard Square Scriptwriters for
You've written your best script ever. Now it's time to persuade industry pros to actually read it and hopefully give it a "recommend." What is one of THE best ways to get a busy decision maker's interest piqued? Enter the pitch deck - a visually compelling overview of your story. Next Monday from 7:00 - 9:15 PM EST we take a look at 4 pitch decks from very different projects and meet the presenters behind them. Each presenter (see below) will walk you through their pitch and then you'll have an opportunity to react. - did it make you want
Next up, we review new/old member Jack Christie's feature Bell Bottom Brothers, a sweet coming of age feature. Logline: A year after Woodstock but still under the dark cloud of the Vietnam War, three young men struggle to navigate the fault lines erupting between the traditional world they have always known and the brave new world dawning all around them. About the Author: Jack grew up in a large family in the suburbs of NYC. He attended Catholic School K-12 and then went to the University of Colorado at Boulder where he graduated with a degree in Communications Theory and
Judy Richland has deep connections to the place where her story is set - she both lives and works there. But it was only after extensive research into the early life of Tennessee Williams that she decided this era of amazing creativity was worth exploring - right in her home town. LOGLINE: The unknown struggling playwright, Tennessee Williams, experiences love and loss in the summer of 1940 in Provincetown, when he is embroiled in love affairs with a female singer and male dancer. GENRE: Biographical Film or Biopic FILMS TO COMPARE IT TO: Up in the Air, A Single
Filmmaker and aspiring screenwriter Spencer Cohen has long been interested in the issues involving immigration rights and the path to citizenship in this country. Inspired by a real-life challenge faced by one of his friends, hoping to stay in the US beyond his visa, he imagined this darkly funny story. Logline: Two estranged friends reunite after years apart and enter into an awkward, often tense relationship that culminates with one agreeing to participate in a sham gay marriage with the other as a means of avoiding deportation. Genre: Comedy/ Dramedy Type of Project: Feature Film About The Author: Spencer Cohen
Come on out on Monday, January 10th to review Bill Holland's latest feature, The Sixth Sun. LOGLINE: After discovering his family's involvement with extraterrestrials, a young man travels to Guatemala with his father and aunt. Together, they set about thwarting his long-lost uncle's alien-abetted scheme to exterminate the human race and replace it with a more intelligent species. GENRE: Grounded Sci-Fi TYPE OF PROJECT: Feature-length ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Bill Holland started writing screenplays back in 1978, and life has never been quite the same. After seeing Breaking Away, he became obsessed with getting a similar movie made, featuring the sport of cross-country ski racing. Sometime in
