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Final 13 CSSC Scripts to Compete for Top Screenwriting Prize
These 13 lucky finalists will be granted full-accreditation to attend the 2013 Yorkton Film Festival in Saskatchewan, Canada, where they can attend industry panels, screenings and networking events, in addition to attending the Golden Sheaf Awards Gala, where the winner of the 2013 Canadian Short Screenplay will be announced as part of the Television Broadcast awards show May 25th, 2013. Continue reading
Top 50 scripts announced for 2013
Tweet Here, without further adieu, we bring to you the creme de la creme for the 2013 competition year. In no order of importance whatsoever, here are the Top 50 Quarter-Finalists for 2013: Tell-All Companion Robert McElheron The Modern … Continue reading
#WW CSSC Writer Wednesday | Blog the 33rd: Stretching for Writers
Tweet Before I go any further with this post, I would like to acknowledge that my fifth grade history teacher showed the film pictured above – Roger Corman’s Pit and the Pendulum – to our class. I’d like to think … Continue reading
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Tagged free writing, prose, screenwriting, writing exercises
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#WW CSSC Writer Wednesday | Blog the 32nd: Modern Romance – The Sweet Smell of Psychosis
Tweet “You ever heard of a no-win situation?… You know, Vietnam, this.” – Albert Brooks (Modern Romance, from the opening break-up scene depicted above). Piggybacking off of last week’s post on Blue Collar, I decided to go with another “How … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Brooks, Eric Rohmer, long take, Modern Romance, monologue, screenwriting
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#WW CSSC Writer Wednesday | Blog the 31st: Blue Collar – Anger and Clarity
Tweet This past Sunday, I cut into my designated writing time with the very noble cause of venturing out into the melting Brooklyn streets to catch Paul Schrader’s directorial debut, Blue Collar, as part of the current Richard Pryor retrospective … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Collar, Harvey Keitel, Paul Schrader, Richard Pryor, screenwriting, Writing
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#WW CSSC Writer Wednesday | Blog the 30th: Fun and Games
Tweet Let’s have some fun. One of my favorite classes in college was my first semester freshman year Intro to Poetry workshop. Lucky duck that I was*, I had placed out of the heinous English 101 requirement, and therefore, was … Continue reading
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Tagged Games, screenwriting, subway, Writing excercises
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#WW CSSC Writer Wednesday | Blog the 29th: On “Deserving” Subjects
Tweet Try as I might to move on from the topic, I keep using this space to come back to the idea of the sympathetic protagonist. This week is no exception. One of the most useful pieces of writing advice … Continue reading
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Tagged Dragonslayer, Nick Schager, Putty Hill, Sandoval, Slant Magazine, subject
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#WW CSSC Writer Wednesday | Blog the 28th: Be Human, Be Merciless
Tweet With foolish prejudice (and no HBO subscription), I had avoided Lena Dunham’s Girls for too long. I wrongfully assumed the series would be irksome, all the more so given my Brooklyn residence. This sort of Brooklyn-based geographical self-inflation mixed … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Ross Perry, Carlen Altman, Girls, Lena Dunham, The Color Wheel
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#WW CSSC Writer Wednesday | Blog the 27th: Django Unchained and “TV in public”
Tweet Without getting preachy and exhaustive in the same breath, I’m no big fan of “awards season.” As a kid (let’s say ballpark eight-to-twelve years old), I used to stay up and watch or listen to the awards shows.* Then … Continue reading
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Tagged Bilge Ebiri, Django, feature film writing, popular cinema, Quentin Tarantino, THR
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#WW CSSC Writer Wednesday | Blog the 26th: The 2013 Writers Resolution Pledge
Tweet Tuesday night, 2012 came and went – and along with it, the passing of the Canadian Short Screenplay’s “Final Deadline.” Lucky for any of you potential submitters who may have been holding for last second edits… or just plumb … Continue reading
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Tagged CSSC, screenwriting, Writing, writing advice
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