“A Con Movie in Reverse” Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka on Apple’s ‘Sharper’
Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka met in the graduate program at Columbia Film School. Gatewood recalls, “We weren’t friends. We didn’t hang out, but we had our first screenwriting class together and we liked each others’ writing.” “We started to talk and found we had uncanny similarities in terms of taste, what movies we liked, […]
“A Fresh Take on an Old Ghost Story” Christopher Landon on Netflix’s ‘We Have a Ghost’
“I grew up watching horror films,” Christopher Landon said. “I started at a pretty early age, probably when I was about six. And, I was just obsessed. There was never a doubt or question of was what I was going to do.” Landon followed the traditional route, making shorts in high school, working internships as […]
“Creating Meaningful Stories of Impact” Sara Dosa on the DGA Award-Winning Documentary ‘Fire of Love’
“Growing up, I thought I would be either a professor of cultural anthropology or a non-fiction, long-form writer, but then I fell in love with cinema,” said Sara Dosa. Combining these childhood dreams into one career, Sara found herself behind the camera on films like The Last Season, The Seer and the Unseen, and most […]
“Five Pages Ahead of the Beast” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on ‘Kindred’
“I’m pretty sure that what started me writing was reading,” said Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. “I was always bookish and I remember a day when I read something and thought, ‘I don’t think that was good’ and realized maybe I could do it better. Maybe I could tell stories?” As a teenager, Branden wrote short stories, fiction, […]
“Two Cultures, Three Languages & A Ton of BS” Mo Amer on Netflix’s ‘Mo’
“Most people don’t know stand up is an indigenous art form to the states,” said Mohammed Amer. “It’s jazz, hip hop, and stand up comedy, as far as I know, which are the three indigenous art forms of the States. I saw stand up live for the first time when I was ten years old […]
