This episode we talk to the filmmakers who made the beautiful film "See You Then", which is an official selection at this year's South By Southwest (2021).    The film is about a trans woman who meets up with an ex girlfriend for...

This week we talk to Director/Writer Emily Ting about  her first feature It's Already Tomorrow In Hong Kong and the rest of her films.  She gets into filming in Hong Kong, casting for indies and making the transition to a...

This week we talk to the writer and director of the new movie The Old Ways, available on Netflix tomorrow, Wednesday August 25th.  Take a listen to hear about shooting mostly in a studio space, doubling Puerto Rico for southern...

This week we talk to the wise and witty Lynn Chen about her film I Will Make You Mine, a black and white indie drama which is actually the final film in the Surrogate Valentine trilogy.  This badass writer, director and actor talks...

There's more than one way to tell a story & sometimes you need a good dice roll before you can write, "the end." We speak with prolific game designer Rob Daviau. His resume is basically our game shelf, including Betrayal at the...

Jeffrey Cranor is a partner in and co-founder of Night Vale Presents. He co-writes the podcasts welcome to night vale and within the wires. He co-wrote with Joseph Fink the novels Welcome to Night Vale and It Devours! An alumnus...

Last Night in Soho co-writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns, an Oscar nominee for co-authoring 1917, offers the screenwriting advice that good writing is all about manipulation — and that the most effective manipulation is invisible. In...

A twentieth-century man is trapped on a twenty-third-century ship that is trapped in the twentieth-century. Can everybody get back to their own time without wrecking time for everybody? Find out as we put “Tomorrow Is Yesterday”...

This episode we talk to Writer and Director Paul Shoulberg about taking a short film Walter and making that into a feature film. We also chat about his directorial debut The Good Catholic.

For this episode Jake and Nate talk to their friend Michael Rousselet about his film Dude bro Party Massacre 3.  They talk about 5 Second Films, Kickstarter campaigns, "killing" Larry King on camera and writing a movie with eleven...

BUDDY BUDDY. Join filmmaker Josh Kim (How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) and the upcoming HBO series Forbidden) as we talk buddy cop movies: Rush Hour and a precursor to the subgenre, In the Heat of the Night. “They call me...

This week we talk to writer-director-actor-producer and all around multi-hyphenate about his career and his organization the International Screenwriters' Association.  If you are a writer, you must listen into this one.  There is...

Episode 400In this, very special 400th episode of The Selling Your Screenplay Podcast Ashley Scott Meyers and Richard Finney analyze storytelling techniques.Some of the popular movies and television shows they study as examples...

When combat is ship to ship with an unseen enemy, Captain Kirk is ready to kill. But would he make the same decision face to face? Find out as we put “Arena” in the Mission Log.

Episode 398This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Brendan Steere.He is the Writer/Director of The VelociPastor (2018), a wild Action Comedy which started out as a short film that went viral.Brendan Steere also talks...

Episode 399This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with Iranian Filmmaker Ramin Niami.He is the Writer/Director of the Horror/Thriller Eye Without A Face (2021).They talk about that movie and what it is like starting as a filmmaker in a...

This week Liz and Alrik sit down with filmmaker and commercial director Chelsea Christer to talk about her first feature film, Bleeding Audio, which she made over the course of six years and which played at the 2021 Slamdance Film...

Episode 397This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with fellow podcaster Geoffrey D. Calhoun.He is the author of the book, The Guide For Every Screenwriter and has writing credits on movies such as S.O.S. and Sirens Of Chrome.Geoffrey...

Liz and Alrik chat with Actor, writer, producer and director Nitzan Mager to talk about her web series Quarantine I Love You which she wrote/produced/directed three seasons of since the start of the pandemic. Nitzan talks about her...

Episode 395This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with Actor and Musician Courtney Gains. His acting credits include Children Of The Corn (1984) and Back To The Future (1985).He talks about being a child actor, about his music and his...