My short film will also be screening at Newport Beach Film Festival! I’m so excited!
Details here: Newport Beach Film Festival
My short film is hitting the festival circuit!
Sonny Poster
I’m so excited and proud to announce that my short film, SONNY, will have it’s world premiere on March 22nd at a film festival in Los Angeles. Then it will hit a festival in Austin, TX in April. Then it will return to California for a screening at a festival in Burbank! Here’s the details!
Los Angeles Women’s International Film Festival - tickets here.
March 21, 2013 to March 24, 2013
International Family Film Festival
May 1, 2013 to May 5, 2013
The ATTIC Film Festival
April 19, 2013 to April 20th, 2013
How to write a screenplay!
A friend of mine asked via email how one goes about writing a screenplay. I answered his question with this silly little list:
- Start with an idea. Often this sounds like: “What if this happened?” Where “this” is the crazy idea.
- Give the idea a hero.
- Give the hero a goal.
- Set up obstacles to that goal.
- Write an outline (which is basically just a list of “things that happen”).
- Flesh out the outline with more details in for each of the “things that happen.”
- Run the outline by someone who understands story. Revise accordingly.
- Repeat Step #7 until the outline is really good.
- Imagine the “things than happen” in your head and then write down what you “see” and “hear” in proper script format.
- Run the script by someone who understands story. Revise accordingly.
- Repeat Step #10 until the script is really good.
Then what? Well, then the real work begins.
Is this how you go about writing? What would your list look like?
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The poster for my short film!
Here it is! Hot off the presses! The poster for my short film, SONNY! We’re getting so close to begin done with post-production. I can taste it!
Design by Marilee Sweeney. Photography by Lonnie Urven.
My Current Project
It’s been a while since I posted. You might remember in February I mentioned that I had three projects in their third trimester?
Well, one of them has been born!
Meet our little girl, Olivia Grace Fritzsche.
Olivia Grace Fritzsche, on her birth day.
Olivia Grace Fritzsche, at 8 weeks old!
She was born at home, weighing 8 lbs 12 oz and measuring 21 inches long. She slept through the night at 1.5 months and is a sweet and joyful babe. We are so blessed to have her!
The other two projects, the short film, Sonny, and the short film, Jerry & Diane, are still in post. We’d hoped to get them done before Olivia arrived but it just didn’t happen. Soon enough!
Film Friends: Bryan & Amy Storkel, and Jason Connell
My film friends, Bryan & Amy Storkel and Jason Connell have produced a film about card-counting Christians who are professional blackjack players called Holy Rollers: The True Story of Card Counting Christians! I’ve been following this film for a while. I’ve seen several pieces of advanced footage and have been honoured to support it’s development in several ways. It’s a fascinating look into a niche world of Christianity and professional gambling! AND IT DROPS TOMORROW!! Check it out on Amazon.com, iTunes or YouTube!
Bryan is currently directing another documentary with Oscar-winning documentarian Daniel Junge called Fight Church. As someone who loves amateur MMA, I’m super excited about this one!!
And I can’t finish this post without noting that Daniel Junge’s Oscar-winning co-director on Saving Face (2011), Sharmeen Ohaid-Chiney, is Canadian (like me)!
Film Friends: Vessie Kazachka
Vessie Kazachka in the set of The Artist (first from the left)!
My friend Vessie Kazachka was Second AC on the Oscar-winning film “The Artist” and I remember her telling us while it was being shot that she thought it was a good film and that she was proud to be working on it. This was before the Weinsteins got wind of it.
Vessie also worked on my short film, Sonny! We are so grateful to her for sharing her mad skillz and very proud to call her friend!
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