Katherine Fugate! Josh Olson! Ooh, we feel like we know them (cuz, hey, LB does…which reminds us, why won’t you introduce us, Guv?)
Anyway, this looks like a very worthwhile activity. Looking forward to seeing you there.
Month: February 2013
RIP Gerry Day
Gerry Day was one of the greats of television writing, with a career that spanned almost the entire existence of the TV industry. Almost all of us writing and reading this have seen something she wrote – because she wrote a helluva lot and it was all good stuff.
Most television sites on the web have overlooked Gerry’s passing. Stephen Bowie’s Classic TV History Blog did not, and for that we should all be glad:
John Ostrander: Telling Secrets
…Cuz that’s what good writers do.
by John Ostrander
Everyone has secrets. The thing is, secrets want to be told. The level of intimacy we have with another person is reflected by the number of secrets we share with them.
Peer Production: DEATH STAR PR is a helluva series
And now for something completely different…okay, so “completely” isn’t quite the word. Look at it this way:
It is a period of civil war. The benevolent GALACTIC EMPIRE have just unveiled their secret weapon. No, not the DEATH STAR, its PR TEAM. Hounded by calls from evil REBEL ALLIANCE supporters, WILSON, Head of PR, and his scruffy-looking off-sider, SHARPE, set out to prove that the Death Star will restore peace to the galaxy…
What’s Happening in Indie Financing?
Alex Epstein knows:
CROWDFUNDING FOR FILMMAKERS
by Alex Epstein
I keep hearing that traditional funding for indie films is getting harder and harder.
I’m not sure it was ever that easy, unless you count the moment right after video stores came in and you could put together almost any cheesy erotic thriller or teenagers-in-a-cabin-in-the-woods horror movie and make a direct-to-video movie. If you read Joe Camp’s book about how he funded BENJI, the sleeper dog movie hit of 1974, he had a lot of trouble getting his movie made, and then more trouble getting it into theaters.