The American Gem Short Script Competition has
announced its Call for Entries in the
2004 Competition.
FilmMakers.com will produce the winning script. Ten
dollars from every entree will be donated to The FilmMakers Film
Fund.
FilmMakers.com presents the 6th annual
Filmmakers International Screenwriting Awards. The Top
50 scripts will be read by the Radmin Company; consideration for representation.
The ten finalists will have the opportunity to pitch their scripts to
Hollywood producers and agents.
If a screenplay focuses the story for a film, the treatment does the same thing for a screenplay. A treatment could be considered a written pitch; something that catches the buyers attention and makes
them want to see more.
No matter how spontaneous a television show or film may seem, you can be absolutely sure that there was a script involved. How do these scripts get developed? Where do ideas begin? What is the first step towards creating a great script?
His
first memories of film were when his parents would take him to
the movies around the age of five. He lived in walking distance
of 25 or so movie theaters.
Oliver Stone devoted so much of his time writing his novel that his grades suffered and he eventually dropped out... After failing to interest a publisher,
he threw half of the manuscript into the East River
Very successful at spotting young talent, Ken has introduced such notables as Uma
Thurman (Kiss
Daddy Goodnight), Portia de
Rossi (American
Intellectuals), and most recently Theo Pagones,
(Boys
Richard Zanuck once stated, "The producer is
like the conductor of an orchestra. Maybe he can't play every instrument, but
he knows what every instrument should sound like."
Mamet’s dialogue is so unique that it has become known as “Mametspeak.”His language is not so much “naturalistic,” as it is a
“poetic” impression of streetwise jargon...
