Month: May 2017

Film Festival Frolics & Nutritious Networking! – @Stareable


Criminy! Why do screening rooms have to be so darn dark…?

So You Want To Make a Web Series – Step 13
by Bri Castellini

Releasing your web series is just the beginning. As I mentioned in the marketing post, once your series is online, it’s always online, and you’re always going to be promoting it in some way. That promotion will be a lot easier, though, if you can get some film festivals under your belt.

In a post about faking your own legitimacy for Stareable, I had a whole section about why film festivals and the laurels they come with are so important for filmmakers, especially new ones. In high-fashion circles, having the most expensive Prada/gucci/glamour bag is a sign of status and guaranteed entry. In the film community, having laurels (those fancy leaves framing a film festival’s name ) fills that role. read article

Diana Vacc sees “Prison Break” Season 5 Episodes 4 thru 6

by Diana Vaccarelli

—SPOILER ALERT—SPOILER ALERT—SPOILER ALERT—SPOILER ALERT–

The last three weeks of Prison Break: Episodes 4, 5, and 6 have been intense and all blend together as, in effect, one long episode, so I’m writing one review for all three. Plotwise, they cover Michael escaping Ogygia Prison and reuniting with his brother Lincoln, with Isil on their tail as they are running through the desert.  Oh, and at last Michael reveals to Lincoln the real reason why he faked his death.

Whew! read article

Can You Increase Your Talent?

Well, you certainly can increase your ability to utilize it. Case in point:

Found on the interweb home of James Leath and definitely appropriate for all creative endeavors we here at TVWriter™ can think of!

Robert Glenn Plotner sees ‘Twin Peaks’ 2017

by Robert Glenn Plotner

Two episodes in to the Twin Peaks Revival I find myself still giving it a chance. I love David Lynch. I get the metaphysics — we construct an artificial reality over a quantum universe which is the ‘real’ universe(s), but I am increasingly irritated by the seeming conclusions — that we have no real agency or responsibility for our actions in this world, and that agency is but an in-habitation from a mysterious meta-reality.

While that paranoia anchors the foreboding of TP and has been the subject of Lynch’s work since Eraserhead (which is echoed in much of the new TP), it is never anchored in much beyond stream-of-consciousness associations. One is constantly left with the feeling of an auteur professing something profound in the margins but not actually having a core epiphany.

Yes, consciousness is akin to a nested Russian doll, elusive and receding, and yet the leap to a quantum explanation for agency does nothing to resolve the dilemma. It just reassigns it, and while that idea is appealing in a spooky way, it disconnects the problem from behavior, an evolutionary process. Specifically, primates exhibit both violence and altruism as a product of their social evolution. We don’t need a meta-dimensional possession to explain our tendency toward nasty behavior. read article

Cartoon: ‘The Anti-Muse’

Irresistible, no matter what kind of writer you are:

Non Sequitur is Wiley Miller’s wry look at the absurdities of everyday life. A hit with fans of all ages, the strip is syndicated in more than 700 newspapers. Non Sequitur has received four National Cartoonists Society divisional awards, the most prestigious in cartooning. It is the only comic strip to win the coveted award in its first year of syndication and the only one to ever win in both the best comic strip and best comic panel categories. read article