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Should I Work For Free?
Should you work for free?
That depends on what you mean by “work” and by “free.”Work is what you do as a professional, when you make a promise that involves rigor and labor (physical and emotional) and risk. Work is showing...
You're Not Going To Win An Oscar...
You're Not Going To Win An Oscar......but hold on, I'll explain.I'm sure most of you did it Sunday night at some point in the evening (if you watched the Academy Awards). You imagined what you would say if you were up on that stage accepting...
Scaring Up Funds: How to Acquire Investors When Your Movie’s in Horror
Scaring Up Funds: How to Acquire Investors When Your Movie’s in Horror, the Most Profitable Genre of Them AllBy Brian Herskowitz and Tony Timpone on November 14, 2017There are a few paths you can take to finding investors for your...
Desperation, Dread, & Determination
I call them the triple D’s of screenwriting.
Dread. Every screenwriter experiences this eventually. You get to a place where it feels like it’s all over. You’ll never get that agent. The manager will never call you back. Will...
Have a Horrible Holiday
Horror Equity Fund discusses the relationship between Horror and the Holidays.
'Twas the night after X-mas and all through the house… bodies and corpses were starting to mount...Most people don’t think of Horror when they think...
Money for Nothin' and Copyright For Free
There are all kinds of works in certain subject or use categories that copyright will not protect. These “uncopyrightable” works can be freely copied and exploited by everyone.[1]
1. Ideas
Copyright does...
Model NDA: Nondisclosure Agreement
This Guide provides a simple Model Nondisclosure Agreement (NDA), controlled by California law and venued, for any action, in San Francisco. This is a fairly broad NDA for parties seeking to collaborate, partner, or buy or sell interests in...
Model Screenwriter Collaboration Agreement in California
This Guide provides a simple Model Screenwriter Collaboration Agreement to be performed in California and arbitrated, if necessary, in San Francisco. The Agreement assumes that the two writers are equal in authority (no one is the boss over the...
Model Graphic Novel Collaboration Agreement in California
This Guide provides a simple Model Collaboration Agreement between a writer and an artist to create a graphic novel. The Agreement is controlled by California law and arbitrated, if necessary, in San Francisco. The Agreement assumes that the writer...
Ghostwriting Agreement for Screenplay in California
This Guide provides a simple Model Ghostwriting Agreement to be performed in California and arbitrated, if necessary, in San Francisco. The Agreement assumes that one screenwriter, or producer for that matter (the "Writer"), will pay the second...