by TVWriter™ News Service
We’ve just discovered a new organization that’s not only worth talking about and even visiting, it’s also a primo place to totally hang out.
It’s called Storyshifter and here’s its very impressive mission statement:
Category: Indie Film & Video
Indie Video & Film: Why Nathan Fillion is God
No point in pussyfooting around. As far as this TVWriter™ minion is concerned, Nathan Fillion is the geek’s SuperGeek, a guy with all the right tastes who has made all the right choices in his career, and who not only a has charisma to spare but also the power (in this world that means $$$) to go with it.
Consider his latest project, this live action fan film based on the Uncharted video game, in which he is the producer (well, one of them) and star (well, one of those too.) Anyway:
Indie Video: ‘Video vs. Real’ by Zadi Diaz
by Larry Brody
The reasons artists turn to their art, immersing themselves in it, making it their world, vary from person to person, but as I get older and become more and more introspective, my self-examination tells me that most of the creative people I know pretty much started as I did, trying to hide from or make sense of the world through their art, although our lives have taken different turns from that point.
The 2012 video above, which I accidentally came across on Vimeo yesterday, surprised me by being the perfect extension of my thought on this subject while at the same time also seeming to sum it up.
What do you, as writers, directors, film and video makers, and human beings have to say about this? Is your art more than a supplement for real life? Has it in fact supplanted your real life?
Sometimes It Really Does Take a Village…of Parents
There’s a certain thing that happens when you become a parent. A softening, an increase in empathy. Ever wonder how that affects your creativity? Here’s an interesting discussion of the matter featuring one of our favorite as yet all-too-undiscovered writers, Ms. Cara Winter:
from Moms-in-Film
Cara Winter is the writer and co-director of Division, a short film currently crowdfunding on IndieGogo about a young, interracial couple who find themselves in a long-distance relationship… even though they live in the same city.
Moms-in-Film chatted with Cara about
Web Series: ‘You’re The Pest’
Remember a couple of years back when we were lovin’ on a quaint little series called You’re the Worst? Well, since then You’re the Worst has, in our opinion, kind of spun off in the worst direction possible…as in continued doing what it was doing until becoming just another same old, same old TV series.
But happy days for discerning video nerds who believe in truth, justice, and new weirdness whenever possible are now here, in another little show (as in teeny budget) with big smarts (as in terrific writing, acting, even premising.)