“Filter Through Character First” Eric Martin on ‘Heels’ and Marvel’s ‘Loki’ Season 2
“Movies and television are always what I wanted to do,” says Eric Martin. “I don’t remember a time when it wasn’t the main interest in my life, but screenwriting is something I was a little bit late to. I was a latchkey kid and I viewed writing as work, something to get done to go […]
“Write a Movie You Want to See” BenDavid Grabinski, Co-Creator Netflix’s ‘Scott Pilgrim Takes Off’
“I wanted to direct movies. That’s all I ever wanted to do. I never had a plan to write movies,” says BenDavid Grabinski. “In college one summer, I wrote a script and people seemed to like it. So I wrote a few more and moved to LA.” Initially, Grabinski was writing with the goal of […]
“Connecting To That Inner Child,” Abe Forsythe on ‘Wolf Like Me’
The son of an actor, Australian screenwriter Abe Forsythe grew up around creatives. “I spent a lot of time backstage as a kid,” he says. “Sitting in the green room, watching Dad perform, subconsciously it made me realize you can have a career following your creative path.” Outside of his immediate influences, Forsythe was influenced […]
“Human Stories Behind a Haunting” ‘Surreal Estate’ Creator George Olson on Writing for Television
“I spent most of my career in advertising,” says George Olson. “I had always wanted to write for movies and television, but I live in Colorado, not exactly the screenwriting mecca of North America, so I started reading scripts, screenplays, and just started writing.” As a former copywriter and creative director, Olson his start really […]
“The Good Kind Of Scary” Writer/ Director on Anna Zlokovic on Hulu’s ‘Appendage’
“I always had a camera growing up. I know that’s cheesy, but I didn’t know it could be a job,” says writer/ director Anna Zlokovic. “I didn’t know what to do with that interest. No one in my family did film. No one I knew did film, so I ended up going to music school […]
