Peer Production: SILVER LAKE DETECTIVE

At last! The interwebs have their own BORED TO DEATH, with SILVER LAKE DETECTIVE, a web series that combines film noir (00h, it’s in black and white) and hipsters in L.A.

A great example of creative film making on a miniscule budget. Director Aaron Toft obviously remembers every movie shot he ever saw, and uses them wisely. read article

Mark Your Calendar with These Important TVWriter™ Dates

Ooh, so important it's sexy, yes?
Ooh, so important it’s sexy, yes?

Well, we think they’re important, so:

Thursday, May 29th:

An all new TVWriter™ Advanced Online Workshop starts – and this one’s wide open to the first 5 people who register!

Sunday, June 1st:

This is the last day to enter and upload your entries to the TVWriter™ 2014 People’s Pilot Contest. You’ve got till 11:59 pm so – hurry! read article

Everyone Deserves Fulfillment, Not Just Writers

YOU LEARN BY LIVING by Eleanor Roosevelt
YOU LEARN BY LIVING by Eleanor Roosevelt

…Which is why we aren’t messing around here today and are going right to the heart of the matter: Read this book! It was written 50 years ago, sure, but how can you not gain by learning things like this:

“Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each new thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.”

And this: read article

LB’s Master Class Alum Kelly Jo Brick’s New Film Is Out

It’s called PAUSE, and it isn’t your average break-out production. It’s part of The Pause Project, a Wisconsin Rotary Club’s endeavor to drive home the very worthwhile theme that:

“…If a person paused for only a moment before making a decision to realize that there are real-life, permanent consequences to the decisions that you make and the actions that you take.” read article

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 5/18/14

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
by munchman

  • Andrew Chambliss (ONCE UPON A TIME) has a new overall deal with ABC studios, where he’ll continue writing-producing ONCE and develop new projects as well. (Congrats, Andrew. Although just between you and the munchy one, your talent is horribly wasted on that show. Hope you get to develop shows with style and substance soon!)
  • Spike Lee (Remember him?) is writing the pilot for a Showtime adaptation of his 1986 feature film classic, SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT. (And this one really intrigues me cuz, well, the Spiker doesn’t seem to at all be the same writer-director now that he was then. A whole different attitude, y’know? So will he recapture the magic? Or continue coming off as kinda dickish? I’m looking forward to finding out.)
  • Rich Blumquist (THE DAILY SHOW) has a new overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV, where he’ll do the usual new project development thing. (Which I think is a shame cuz this guy is so damn funny we should be seeing the results of his crazed brainstem activity every day on a show that’s already on the air, like we used to. C’mon, Rich, entertain us before the powers that be decide you’re no longer hot.)