“Black Women, New Orleans, Party Movie, Go!” Tracy Oliver on Girls Trip
Tracy Oliver discusses transcending color and background, making characters likeable, and writing friendships.
Tracy Oliver discusses transcending color and background, making characters likeable, and writing friendships.
Working Quietly: Jon Ronson on Okja
Jon Ronson discusses setting the tone, putting aesthetics above ideology, and the perfect budget for a film.
Jon Ronson discusses setting the tone, putting aesthetics above ideology, and the perfect budget for a film.
She’s Funny That Way: Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich on screwball comedies, strong female characters, and how to pace your script.
By Holly Grigg-Spall. Peter Bogdanovich, writer-director of classics such as The Last Picture Show, Saint Jack, and What’s Up Doc? returns to feature films with She’s Funny That Way, a screwball comedy starring Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots and a whole host of A-listers including Quentin Tarantino in a cameo role. The New York-shot movie was […]
“Character is Story.” Richard Walter on Screenwriting.
Richard Walter discusses teaching, the importance of new media platforms, and explains why we should rejoice in the collaborative process of film-making.
By Holly Grigg-Spall. Richard Walter is the chairman of UCLA’s prestigious graduate program in screenwriting. A screenwriter himself and novelist, he has produced some of the most popular screenwriting texts around, including Essentials of Screenwriting. He has given master classes all over the world and produced a series of DVDs. His students have gone on […]
Running the Asylum: Part II
From monsters to mockbusters: the art of the D.I.Y. moviemaker.
By Holly Grigg-Spall. In Running the Asylum: Part I, we began our series of interviews with the inmates of film production company The Asylum, who produce a movie per month. Part II concludes these interviews. Kalie Acheson, Production Designer 1) Being resourceful and thinking outside the box is imperative when taking on a low budget […]
