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It's All About Desire, with Story Master, Michael Hauge, and Max Timm
Bringing on the great Michael Hauge on the Curious About Screenwriting podcast is always a treat. Michael Hauge has been a screenwriting and story consultant for nearly 40 years, having worked one-on-one with writers at every level, from novice to A-List (Will Smith swears by him). He's one of the best, and it never fails that any time we....
Comedy Producer, Michael Blieden, on TV Writing and Career Momentum
The Director, Producer and Showrunner of the upcoming Comedy Central show, South Side (as well as past credits including Late Night with Jimmy Fallon), sits with the ISA's Max Timm to discuss all things creative, career, and developing your position within the industry.....
Interview with Filmmaker, Mark Stolaroff, on Low-Budget Movie-Making
SYS Episode 256:
In this episode of the SYS Podcast producer Mark Stolaroff talks about his latest low budget production, DriverX. He also talks about his background in production and how that prepared him for a career as a low budget producer. He also offers tips to screenwriters looking to write for this market.....
Interview with British Filmmaker, Jim Hosking, from Shorts to Features
SYS Episode 255:
In this episode I talk with British filmmaker Jim Hosking about his career writing and directing short films and how he worked his way up to his new feature film, An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn starring Aubrey Plaza, Jemaine Clement, Emile Hirsch, Craig Robinson.....
Interview with Writer/Producer, Sean Drummond, on Creating Your Career
SYS Episode 254:
This week on the SYS Podcast I talk with South African writer Sean Drummond about his writing journey. He and several partners started out by creating a production company and slowly working their way up from commercials and videos, to short films and now feature films.....
ISA Reviews - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” showcases the Coen Brothers’ wit and morality.
Movie anthologies can be hit and miss, but “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” from Joel and Ethan Coen shoots bulls-eyes throughout. The six, western-themed stories in their new film run the, ahem, range from farce to pathos, but the Coen’....
ISA Reviews - The Girl In The Spider's Web
“The Girl in the Spider’s Web” needs to realize its lead character isn’t James Bond.
Lisbeth Salander, AKA “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” is many things: computer hacker, Goth girl, and righteous advocate of abused women. But one thing she isn’t is James Bond. So why does her latest film “The Gir....
Episode 51 - Contests, Festivals, and Self-Promotion
As usual, our wine sponsor for this episode was the ever-so-tasty Steele Wines, and the helpful sponsor who gets the word out for and about us, Table Ready My Screenplay. The Table Ready My Screenplay - Park City contest is taking applications now, so hurry over to their website to check it out.
What's the protocol for self-promotion? Is there a p....
Episode 50 - Biopics and True Stories
This episode was sponsored by our wonderful wine sponsor, Steele Wines, and our amazing friends at Cinequest - www.cinequest.org (which has a submission deadline in March that you should be preparing for!)
What makes for a great true story or biopic about an amazing person? Felicity Wren and Max Timm discuss just that in another fun, wine-ind....
Episode 49 - Talking Shop and The Biz with Wendy Kram
Two weeks in a row with a special guest! This time around, Max brought on producer and consultant, Wendy Kram, to talk about the business of screenwriting and how to navigate this crazy town. This episode was sponsored once again by our fabulous wine sponsor, Steele Wines, as well as Wendy's consulting business, LA4hire.com. Check her out - Wendy i....
Episode 48 - Character Flaw and Story Emotion
Sponsored by our lovely wine sponsor, Steele Wines, and the incomparable screenwriting and career coach, Lee Jessup, this episode dives into the importance of delivering character flaw and how it relates to creating emotion - not only within each individual scene and moment, but how the emotion evolves and changes throughout your structured story. ....
A Ghost Hunter Watches: An American Haunting
Episode 4 – An American HauntingAfter visiting the Tennessee location where the Bell Witch Haunting took place, ghost hunters Scott Markus, and Wendy Lynn Staats analyze how screenwriters Brent Monahan and Courtney Solomon struggled to bring this historical haunting to the screen. ....
SellingYourScreenplay.com - Interview with Writer/Director, Jeremy Ungar
SYS Episode 253:
This week on the SYS Podcast I talk with Writer/Director Jermey Ungar. We talk through how he got his new thriller, Ride, produced. He originally wrote and directed a short film as a proof of concept, which helped him gain traction with the feature version, which he recently completed.....
ISA Reviews: Steve McQueen's, Widows
“Widows” goes deep into character to tell its unique heist tale
Director Steve McQueen doesn’t seem interested in telling a typical heist film story. His new film “Widows” is gravely serious instead of a raucous romp like the “Ocean’s Eleven” trilogy, and his characters wear angst on their sleeves li....
SellingYourScreenplay.com - Interview with Writer/Director Ari Gold
SYS episode 252:
This week on the SYS Podcast I talk with Writer/Director Ari Gold. We talk through the early days of his career directing theater, which lead him to short films, and eventually feature films and his new indy drama, The Song of Sway Lake.....
ISA Reviews: Suspiria
The remake of “Suspiria” adds little to the classic horror tale.
Despite the talents of director Luca Guadagnino and screenwriter David Kajganich, their remake of Dario Argento’s classic 1977 horror tale “Suspiria” doesn’t come to much. The film is well-shot, edited, and scored, but most of the rest of it feels ....
A Ghost Hunter Watches: The X–Files - Jose Chung’s From Outer Space
Taking a break from horror movies, Scott sits down with English Professor, Dr. Patrick Gonder to discuss the many layers of the classic X-Files episode “Jose Chung’s from Outer Space." Do you have a ghost story of your own? Share it at WhatsYourGhostStory.com....
A Ghost Hunter Watches: The Conjuring 2
On the heels of the breakout success of "The Conjuring," James Wan tells the story of the Enfield Poltergeist case as framed by real life paranormal investigators Ed & Lorraine Warren (despite them only actually being on the case for a day or two). Do the storytellers report right? More than you may expect. This episode is hosted by Scott....
ISA Reviews: Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House
“The Haunting of Hill House” is an eerie and moving mystery of a mini-series.
Again, Netflix creates a watercooler show, one that dominated most of the Halloween conversation in 2018. This adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s titular 1959 gothic horror novel is perhaps the most compelling one yet. Mike Flanagan’s superb expandin....
SellingYourScreenplay.com - Interview with Horror Director, Jeremy Wechter
SYS Episode 251
In this week's episode of the podcast I talk with Jeremy Wechter about his his new horror film, E-Demon. We talk about his background writing/directing/producing short films and how that lead to this new feature.....
