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Diana Vacc sees “Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi”

by Diana Vaccarelli

EDITOR’S NOTE: The first of two reviews of The Last Jedi on TVWriter™ today because…hey, it’s Star Wars!

—SPOILER ALERT—SPOILER ALERT—SPOILER ALERT— read article

Indie Video: Why Film Students Are God’s Chosen

EDITOR’S NOTE FROM MUNCHMAN:

I didn’t make this video, but I sure wish I did.

If yer friendly neighborhood munchaderio ends up not being able to live forever (although I sure don’t know why, or how, that could possibly be) then I want to die and live in the same hell as the crew in this behind-the-scenes. Christ knows that I already feel like I know ’em. read article

‘SEEfest’ Is A Must-See

From left: Chantal Chauzy, Director of Feature Programming for SEEfest, with Veronique Siklosi, Cultural Attaché from the Belgian Consulate and Vera Mijojlic, Founder and Director of SEEfest.

by Dawn McElligott

Having trouble catching films from Croatia or thereabouts? Itching to have your movie shot in Belgrade screened in Beverly Hills? Rather than leaving cinephiles stranded, SEEfest has been connecting moviegoers with films from South East Europe since 2002.

As it says on the festival website, “Founded in 2002 and incorporated in 2006, the South East Europe Film Festival in Los Angeles (SEEfest) pioneered the concept of regional, cross-border programming with issue-driven films that tell a larger story about South East Europe, where borders of all kinds are fluid and porous just as often as poisonous.”

By 2012, it was judged by Flavorwire.com to be among the 10 best “under-the-radar” film festivals in America.” During last year’s event, festival goers were still able to snatch up tickets, refreshments, and parking at bargain basement prices. read article

The Reality of Conversations

There’s book dialog, film dialog, TV dialog, and – you may even have heard it once or twice – real-life dialog. The following video brilliantly analyzes conversational speech and gives major insight into how we, as writers, can, well, you know, write it:

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‘Freedom Snatch’ is now on the Web…and in L.A. too

Are you an oldtimer who misses the ’60s and ’70s and the creative freedom that went with them?

Or a spoiled, spite-filled, lost and floundering millennial longing to have a crack at the wildness you’ve missed?

Or, oh, how about a person who just plain enjoys the hell out of good comedy? read article