Category: News

Enter the SPLOID Short Film Festival

You’ve put in more time and work than you ever thought possible to develop your video crafting techniques and have the samples to prove it. And you went through all this hell, why? Because you were driven by creative demons? Because you really, really, really wanna go pro? Because you have a need to entertain? Maybe even a need to be – gulp – famous?

If that’s you, bunky, then here’s the next step:

sploidby Casey Chan

Welcome to the first edition of the Sploid Short Film Festival, a celebration of great storytelling and awesome eye candy. We will select the best short films of 2015 in the next five months leading to a November award ceremony at Gawker Media’s theater on Fifth Avenue in New York. read article

Remembering a Forgotten Writer

NOTE FROM LB: In the early 50s, when I was very, very young, my anti-social self learned about the world via this very little box called a TV. One show that fascinated me for reasons I no longer remember but which I think had to do with the fact that no one on it was trying to sell me anything or talking down to me or doing anything other than living their sweet little lives.

The name of that show was ETHEL AND ALBERT. Even at the age of 5 or 6 I knew the life Ethel and Albert were living together wasn’t real. But, man, I sure wanted it to be.

Peg Lynch, the creator, writer, and star of the show, died last week. The following is the best of not-nearly-enough tributes to her pioneering work: read article

A & E Networks Partnering with New York TV Fest

A & E Networks – you know, that set of cable TV channels that used to be good? – has teamed up with the New York TV Festival, and if everybody means what they’re saying, that’s good news for us all.

We here at TVWriter™ can’t, of course, comment too much on intentions, but here’s what’s being said:

360slideby Team TVWriter™ Press Service
(Yes, this is a Press Release)

A+E Networks and the NYTVF today announced partnership on a new initiative that will identify outstanding new writers and producers for potential development opportunities with A&E Networks’ various TV properties: A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime, FYI and H2. read article

Seattle Area Playwright is Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Jordan Harrison has just been named a Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in the playwriting category. That in itself is cool enough, but time now for the extra-cool local spin: Jordan’s from Bainbridge Island Washington, just a hop, skip, no jump necessary from the personal HQ of our Beloved Leader, LB. When are we going to have a Pulitzer Prize winner posting on TVWriter™, boss? Huh? Huh?

 by Seraine Page

Jordan Harrison still isn’t sure he’s made it big in the writing field.

That idea may seem ludicrous to most writers considering the fact that Harrison, 37, recently scored a slot among the crème de la crème in playwriting. In April, he learned his play, “Marjorie Prime,” was selected as one of the finalist pieces in the 2015 Pulitzer Prize playwriting category. read article

HBO Announces HBOAccess Writers Fellowship Winners

hbologogridby Team TVWriter™ Press Service

HBO caused the interwebs version of a riot awhile back when they opened up submissions for their HBOAccess Writers Fellowship Program and the heavy traffic crashed the site, causing the usual hysteria by those who had problems entering.

Fortunately for HBO and our fellow writers, that matter’s been sorted, and last week HBO proved it had gotten itself all together by announcing the winners:

  • Anslem Richardson
  • Jude Weng
  • Sarah McChesney
  • Yolanda Carney
  • Dedi Felman
  • Joshua Levy & Prathi Srinivasan (writing partners)
  • Iturri Sosa
  • Wesley Taylor

Congrats from TVWriter™! You’re inspirations (and potential arch-rivals, dammit) to us all!