Arrival is science fiction that twists narrative expectations in profound ways. The best science fiction always comments on society, and indeed, Arrival from director Denis Villeneuve has a lot to say about how we communicate and interact with those alien to us. (It couldn't be more prescient in the aftermath of an election where so m....
The Missouri Film Office was created in 1983 to attract film, television, and video productions to Missouri and to promote the growth of the film and video production industry within Missouri.....
Creating esoteric themed projects with a unique, thought-provoking storytelling style to help widen the audience’s views and reconsider their preconceptions through a fun, entertaining way.......
An excerpt from Jacob Krueger's podcast: "...So learning how to write a successful screenplay is not actually just about learning how to write a good screenplay, it's learning how to know what compromises you can make and what compromises you cannot. Which imperfections your audience will accept, which imperfections are goin....
THE ISAPage 2 Screen podcast # 47 (NOCTURNAL ANIMALS)11/27/16 Nocturnal Animals presents a beautiful world filled with brutality. Tom Ford may have come from the world of fashion and beauty, but his latest movie entitled Nocturnal Animals is all about ugliness. Susan (Amy Adams) may be rich and glamorous, but her life is cold and lon....
SYS Episode #148 Catch an interview conducted by screenwriting consultant Ashley Scott Meyers (Selling Your Screenplay) with friend of the ISA James V. Hart, writer of "Hook," "Bram Stoker's Dracula," "Contact," "Epic," etc. and creator of the HartChart Visual Story Mapping Tool. ....
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....
Jackie is a daring and raw biopic that is one of the year's best films. Biopics are tricky to write. Tell a cradle-to-grave story, and you've bitten off more than can be chewed in a two-hour film. Fail to fill in the blanks of your famous subject and the audience will see them as merely two-dimensional. Neither is a problem in the vivi....
Rogue One is a Star Wars story that is good, just not a great one. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is being promoted as the first stand-alone film in the anthology series. Partly true, but this is still essentially a prequel to the chapter "A New Hope." It is self-contained, and fills in the blanks of the storytelling between chapters 3....
We are presenting this podcast as an introduction to our upcoming TV Weekend, May 5 through May 7 in Chicago. If you don't yet know about TV Weekend, you absolutely must check it out - a two-day event with Lee Jessup, Jen Grisanti and Corey Mandel, giving specific insight and an intensive on all aspects of the TV writing process, business,....
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