How do you convince a producer to transform your screenplay into a film? In short, convince the producer that the resulting film will make money. Their problem, as you know, is to come up with the money and manage the business aspects of the film. Try to help them solve their …
Where can producers buy screenplays? It’s a buyer’s market. Plenty of screenplays are for sale in this world, and plenty of writers are happy to write something custom for your vision, franchise, or business model. Your problem will be sifting through many, many screenplays and writers, finding the right project and …
Ask not what you can do for your screenwriter! Ask how your screenwriter can help promote your films! That’s right. If you make a film based on any of my short film scripts, even if you change my script significantly from its original form, I’ll help you promote your film. …
A short film can be a vehicle to illuminate the special talents or unappreciated, against-type abilities of an actor or actress. Without waiting for a director or producer to notice your potential, just craft a project with yourself in mind. This is why several projects I’ve written are vehicles to …
The entertainment industry is a notoriously difficult place to build a paying career. I encourage people who want to break in to do something else for a living, and use the income from that other thing to finance their creative careers. Here are some ways that emerging actors and actresses …
Part of the art of filmmaking is film funding. You may have the greatest idea for a movie ever, but no one will pay you to make it unless you can convince them you are worth the investment. What makes it more difficult is that the creative mind and the business mind seem to speak in completely different languages.