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The Craft: Submitting To Contests

As part of Max Timm's ongoing solo podcast, The Craft, this week's recording discusses how to approach submitting to screenplay contests, and what you should know before doing so.Here is a little snippet from the podcast:"So you’ve just written your masterpiece, and then rewrote it another 12 times, r....

The Craft: The Power of a Choice

Welcome back to The Craft, everyone! My name's Max and folks, we're on episode 20 of this podcast! I'll be honest - I never expected to go much further than 12 episodes since my initial inkling when I considered hosting a solo podcast was to just cover the process of sequential writing. 12 sequences, 12 episodes. But this has evolved in....

The Craft: Year In Review

2016 is almost over! Can you believe it? We hear it all the time, "wow how time flies", but it's actually pretty amazing how fast the days, months and years tend to zoom by us. And even though a year in review podcast episode is relatively trite and cliché, I think it's absolutely necessary to take a moment and look back on....

The Cutting Room International Film Festival

C.R.I.S.F.F New York City The Cutting Room NYC We welcome a new year with live events.THE CUTTING ROOM INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL AND SCRIPT AWARDSIMDB AWARD FESTIVALWelcomes Indie Filmmakers and Scriptwriters New York City welcomes hundreds of filmmakers, and scriptwriters to C.R.I.S.F.F. in the heart of New York City.....

The Daily Actor

I started to interview actors, directors, screenwriters, casting directors and I began to write more columns that helped inform actors. ....

The Dead Walk Festival

The Dead Walk Festival is an event dedicated to zombie films and entertainment. This festival is produced by Breaking Fate Entertainment Inc. ....

The Denial of Corey Mandell Launches a Hollywood Screenwriting Career

“This script will launch your career.” Encouraging words from Corey Mandell’s writers group. Corey thought his script was ready to go.“It’s one of the best scripts I have ever read after teaching twenty years at UCLA.”Validating praise from a UCLA professor, to be sure. Corey was gliding and h....

The Diaz Brothers

Our primary focus is Film/TV production and publishing, which a variety of projects currently in various stages of development, production and post production.....

The Disability Film Challenge

The winner of the "Best Filmmaker" category of The 2nd Annual Disability Film Challenge will win a tablet PC and will be mentored by world renowned director Peter Farrelly. ....

The do's and don'ts of copyright for video

Chris and Mike tackle the common questions videographers have about copyright and how to keep your video safe and protected from legal threats. They talk about how to legally use music, images and video clips you don't own, how to copyright your videos and much more. ....

The Documentary Filmmakers Group

The Documentary Filmmakers Group - DFG - is the national organisation working to promote documentary filmmaking talent and innovation in the UK.....

The Dreamality Corporation

This company has produced films for the public and seek writers to help with the demand of the projects needed.....

The Essentials of Winning Studio Writing Fellowships w / Jen Grisanti

The TV writing business is a tough one, but that's why I make sure and tell all of my writers who are interested in writing for television that they need to work on writing specs. A spec script, in case you aren't familiar with the term, is an original script but of an existing TV show - Bones, Criminal Minds, The Walking Dead, you get the....

The Evolution of the Comic's Voice with Stand-Up Comedian, Ian Edwards

Is there a mathematical element to comedy writing? For most of us creative types, we would hope there isn’t simply because it may bring back nightmarish flashbacks of high school trigonometry or something, but in this interview with stand-up comedian and comedy writer, Ian Edwards, Ian discusses the specifics of how a joke is....

The Fall and Rise of Super Mario Bros.

That Time Dennis Hopper ‘Exploded’ on the Set of the Original 1993 Super Mario Bros. MovieBy Margeaux Sippell During the making of the original 1993 Super Mario Bros. live-action movie, there were almost too many problems to count. It went millions of dollars over budget, was hastily shot to make a Memorial Day release date, ....

The Fantastic Story Society - Pilot

Welcome to The Fantastic Story Society. Within the walls of this super-yet-not-so-secret club, you will find stories of the supernatural, paranormal, and just plain weird. In this pilot episode, co-hosts Max Timm and Scott Markus, each with their special backgrounds in storytelling and paranormal research, you'll be introduced to these two masters ....