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Monthly Archives: May 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Brooklyn Brothers Win Canadian Short Screenplay Competition Top Script Prize
David Cormican, founder of the Canadian Short Screenplay Competition, announced Jesse & Zachary Herrmann as co-winners of the CSSC for their short film script “Elijah the Prophet”. Continue reading
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JESSE & ZACHARY HERRMANN winn the 2011/12 Canadian Short Screenplay Competition
Tweet Jesse and Zachary Herrmann have taken top prize in the 2010/11 Canadian Short Screenplay Competition at this year’s Golden Sheaf Awards gala as taking place during the Yorkton Film Festival with their script “Elijah the Prophet”. The announcement, made … Continue reading
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A message from ABC Life Literacy
Thanks to Margaret and the staff at ABC for all that you do! And I look forward to seeing everyone tonight in Yorkton at the gala! Continue reading
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Tagged ABC life learning, ABC Life Literacy, charity, congratulations, david cormican, financial support, golden sheaf gala, literacy, Margaret Eaton, progrmming, read, screenwriters, sponsorship, thank you, write, Writing, Yorkton Film Festival, your help
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The Road to #YFF11 (Yorkton Film Festival) 1-Day-to-Go: IAN JOHNSTON
Q: Glad to see you don’t hold back any punches. Do you have any advice for other writers who may be considering entering the CSSC next year?
A: Don’t talk to me about your script ideas. Put it on the page, dammit. If it’s in your head, it don’t exist. Everyone has an idea for a script. You become special when you put pen to paper.
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Tagged atlantic film festival, cbc, cocksucker, cummerbund, david cormican, famous monsters, horror tv shows, houseparty, liography, monsters, Paul JOhnston, screenwriter, street cents, Telefilm, the big sleep, the business, The Great Ghouldini, toronto, TSN, william faulkner
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The Road to #YFF11 (Yorkton Film Festival) 2-Days-to-Go: LISA EISMEN
Tweet We asked each of our finalists to take some time out of their busy schedules to answer a few questions we have about their Top 13 placing script, their career and inspiration(s) and life in general. Today, we speak … Continue reading
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Tagged Annie Proulx, Arundhati Roy, australia, chicken and the egg, david cormican, J. R. R. Tolkien, J.R.R. Tokien, J.R.R. Tolkein, james cameron, JRR Tolkien, kate vinnen, lisa eismen, love invented on a saturdaqy night, mum, rinse, Rohinton Mistry, Sam Sheppard, the bunker, tintinnabulation, Toni Morrison, Vikas Swarup
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#WW Blog the 47th: Writing’s Deadly Sins
Tweet It could be said that today is a true experiment in pushing the boundaries of a deadline given that it is now lunchtime on the West Coast and I’m just starting the writing of this post. I could blame … Continue reading
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Tagged cocoverse, ComicCon, CSSC, david cormican, deadly sin, Glee, guitar, Minus Lara, rusted pyre, Silence of the Lambs, The Lobby
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The Road to #YFF11 (Yorkton Film Festival) 4-Days-to-Go: SCOTT SUMMERHAYES
SS: Short is better. My screenplay is only six pages long I think. But it says all that it needs to say. When I first adapted the short story I was adding scenes and character plots and stuff to try to make it longer. But when I came back to it in November I had to realize that the story said all that it needed to. Keep it small and don’t give away every little detail of the screenplay. That’s how you catch a person’s attention. If you leave all these questions in your audiences mind then that’s the story they’re gonna remember and come back to. Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Ball, American Beauty, Cameron Crowe, cast and crew, david cormican, Hardware, James Reany, Lovefield, Porcupine's Quil, scott summerhayes, The Box Social, toronto, Triggerstreet, wes anderson, WILDsound
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The Road to #YFF11 (Yorkton Film Festival) 5-Days-to-Go: ED JORY
“Simple stories told well” is a good mantra to tattoo on your arm – you want something that translates easily abroad, and strums the right chord regardless of where they’re watching the film from. Continue reading
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Tagged Australian Summer, becoming a man, comic-con, Comicon, death in the garden, ed jory, edmund jory, fairy tales, growing up, high noon films, hunting, lord of the rings, oeuvre, once upon a time, rite of passage, scott lynch, tattoo, the ridge to the river, tropfest
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The Road to #YFF11 (Yorkton Film Festival) 8-Days-to-Go: JESSE & ZACHARY HERRMENN
Nothing exists until you’ve written it down. So write it down. After that, your guess is as good as ours. In the very least, you’ll have done something concrete. Continue reading
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Tagged brooklyn screenwriters, brooklyn writers, Charlie Chaplin, Chris Marker, elijah the prophet, harrisburg, jesse & zachary herrmann, jesse herrmann, John Steinbeck, La Jetee, passover, Phillip K. Dick, playful blasphemy, prophets, Quelquefois, seder, the four letter word, The Pawnshop, Unequivocally, VCR, VHS, zachary herrmann
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The Road to #YFF11 (Yorkton Film Festival) 9-Days-to-Go: MATTHEW LAYDEN
Give it a shot. I entered it without expecting to place anywhere near the top 50 and I made it to the top 13. You never know who might be out there, so get your work out there and noticed no matter what. Continue reading
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Tagged Canadian, charlie kaufman, david cormican, Matt layden, matthew layden, NYCMidnight Short Screenplay Competition, rain, shattered worlds, tim burton, Top 13, top 5 aadvanced, top 50, vincent, withoutabox
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