How Quentin Tarantino Has Influenced Cinema (Part 1)
In the mid-1980s, a video rental store in Manhattan Beach, California blended in with the traffic on North Sepulveda Blvd. It was called Video Archives, owned by film fanatics Lance Lawson and Rick Humbert. VHS and Betamax tapes lined the shelves, the aisles stacked with Westerns like Shane and The Searchers, classics from the Golden […]
From Law To Laughs. Screenwriter David H. Steinberg Talks ‘American Pie’, ‘No Good Nick’ & ‘The Simpsons’
The life and career of screenwriter David H. Steinberg has been a movie in and of itself. After entering Yale at sixteen, he earned a law degree at Duke University and practiced entertainment law for four years until attending USC’s Peter Stark Producing Program. It was there he wrote Slackers as a spec script. Once […]
Diana Ossana, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter, Reflects On “Brokeback Mountain”
The works of Oscar-winner Diana Ossana have opened the door for universal, controversial subjects once hidden in the dark. Often bringing to life tragic characters at grips with deep-rooted inner turmoil, discussions have been sparked on a worldwide level. The artistic bond close friendship between Ossana and bestselling novelist Larry McMurtry began in 1992 and continued until he […]
Writing A Biopic Your Audience Will Love
I can’t change the fact that my paintings don’t sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture – Vincent van Gogh On the night of December 23, 1888, he stood before fellow painter Paul Gauguin in the bedroom […]
Why We Need Film Festivals
In the summer of 1932, Rouben Mamoulian’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde played for an audience from nine countries on the terrace of the Excelsior Palace Hotel in Venice. The occasion: The first screening at the first film festival in history, the Venice International Film Festival. In the last eighty-eight years, over three thousand others […]
