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Interview With Director / Screenwriter, Michael Bafaro

Episode #105 Interview With Direct / Screenwriter Michael Bafaro  Michael talks about how he broke into the business and how he got his new film, Wrecker, produced.....

Interview With Screenwriter, Craig Zahler

Episode #106 Interview With Screenwriter, Craig Zahler  Craig talks about his new film, Bone Tomahawk, and how he broke into the business.....

Festival of Recorded Movement

F-O-R-M is a Youth Movement on Screen Festival looking to present films from youth ages 15-25 that deliver strong imagery of the human body in action.....

Interview With Director / Screenwriter, Lawrence Roeck

Episode #107 Interview With Director Screenwriter Lawrence Roeck  Lawrence talks about his latest film, Diable, starring Scott Eastwood.....

Interview w / Sharknado Screenwriter, Thunder Levin

Episode #109   Sharknado screenwriter Thunder Levin talks about how he broke into the business and eventually got hired to write Sharknado.....

DIY Film Making: One Man's Journey to Sundance and Beyond

We're going to take a little detour from our regularly scheduled podcast and bring you an interview by Jacob Krueger Studio Director Chris Littler, with filmmaker Adam Bowers. Adam shot a feature film, New Low, for $2000 and ended up a official selection of the Sundance Film Festival in 2010. He then managed to parlay that success into Pap....

North American Film Festival

All features, shorts, animation, documentaires, and screenplays are graded by our professional actors, writes, and directors, and feedback is provided free, even to films and screenplays that will not be performed at the festival. All entries are critiqued for quality. Five are chosen for prestigious prizes.....

Hot Springs Documentary Film Festivals

The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, celebrating its 25th Anniversary October 7-16, is the oldest non-fiction festival in North America. HSDFF offers multiple awards categories.....

Cinevana

Cinevana - Rio is a part of A Human Space, which is a California 501 (c) not for profit organization, which was created by a group of global artists.....

National Film Festival for Talented Youth

NFFTY is the world's largest and most influential film festival for emerging directors. In 2015, we screened 248 amazing films from the best filmmakers 24 and younger.....

Sydney World Film Festival

The objective of the Sydney World Film Festival (SWFF) is to introduce quality, non-mainstream films from all over the world. It aims to become a showcase for independent films and new.....

FAMEUS International Film Festival

FAME’US International Film Festival (SPRING) is dedicated to presenting a variety of works of emerging talents with exceptional cinematic creativity to film lovers & the film community.....

New Renaissance Film Festival

Our numerous award possibilities give independents the chance to receive the recognition they deserve.CALL FOR ENTRIES. We are looking for narrative shorts, documentaries and screenplays that embody originality and imagination. Please read the rules for submission prior to entering your film or screenplay. ....

ISA Reviews: Hail, Caesar w/ Fast Track Grand Prize Winner Chris Dewan

The Coen Brothers salute Old Hollywood with a hearty Hail, Caesar! The Coen Brothers have written, directed and produced some of the best American cinema for the past 32 years. And they always push genre into something uniquely quirky, clever, and well, Coen. Hail, Caesar! is no different. It's a comedy set in the early 1950's and it f....

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....

How to Write a T V Bible - Part 2 w / Jacob Krueger

As we discussed in Part 1 of this podcast, when TV producers ask for a series bible with your TV pilot script, they usually request it in a pretty strange form. And a lot of writers get confused about what producers are actually looking for when they ask for a bible and what's supposed to go in it. Most bibles include a series logline, cha....

Interview with Writers / Filmmakers, Robert Palmer & Michael Weiss

Episode #108   Robert A. Palmer and Michael A. Weiss talk about their new found footage horror film, I Am Alone.....

Make 2016 Your Breakthrough Year, with Shawn Tolleson & Max Timm

Most writers do the obvious thing. They write. And when they are done with a script they wonder what to do next, but they lack relationships and strategy. And so they go back to the thing that they know how to do, writing. And they repeat this process over and over again. Join Shawn Tolleson to understand the four reasons why you've not yet....

Fix Your Pitch with Jacob Krueger - February 2016

Another round of pitch fixing from ISA friend, and script guru, Jacob Krueger. Pitching and logline writing is essential to making it in this industry, so listen in and be ready to take some notes. This is a very long recorded podcast that was hosted live on February 18, 2016 - but it's worth every second. Enjoy and keep writing. ....

DEADPOOL: Breaking The Rules with Jacob Krueger

There's just so much we can learn as writers from Deadpool, and not just because the film manages to do that rarest of feats: to be an intelligent, creatively successful superhero movie, but also because Deadpool manages to both follow the rules of superhero movies and break them in really exciting ways.The first rule of superhero movies that e....