Bulletproof Screenwriting

There is something beautifully unpredictable about independent filmmaking. A movie can arrive with enormous expectations and disappear within months, while another film made with almost no money, questionable equipment, and a group of inexperienced filmmakers can somehow survive for generations. Few films demonstrate that better than Manos: The Hands of...

There is an enormous difference between loving movies and understanding how filmmakers actually make them. Andrew Bloomenthal has spent years exploring that difference from both sides of the table. Andrew is an entertainment writer, screenwriter, and independent filmmaker whose work has appeared in Script Magazine, Creative Scr...

Hollywood has always sold aspiring filmmakers and performers the fantasy of being discovered. You write the perfect screenplay, perform at the right club, meet the right producer, and suddenly someone gives you permission to have a career. But Don Barris built his career around a completely different philosophy: if nobody is coming to disco...

There is a dangerous idea floating around filmmaking that says we need permission before we can begin. Permission from a film school. Permission from a producer. Permission from an agent, financier, studio, distributor, or some mysterious gatekeeper sitting behind a desk deciding who gets to become a filmmaker. But the career of Michael Rousselet