On the Extra Criticum blog, Gary Garrison (dramatic writer and Executive Director for Creative Affairs at Dramatists Guild of America) has an interesting exercise for playwrights and screenwriters: 1. Take a page of dialogue from one of your plays that has three characters or more speaking to one another. 2. Using liquid white-out, blank out all the names. 3. Make a Xerox … [Read more...]
Tips
Tips for filmmakers: making a screening guide
On one hand, new ways for filmmakers to promote and distribute their work seem to be popping up all the time, particularly online. These days, filmmakers can more easily submit to festivals, or can stream and repurpose content online using sites like Vimeo or Youtube (see a related Public Humanist post). On the other hand, more DIY possibilities mean a more complicated … [Read more...]
Submit 3-minute fiction to NPR
Writers have until July 18 to submit to NPR's "Three-Minute Fiction," calling for original fiction that can be read in under three minutes. The judge of NPR's contest is literary critic James Wood. He notes in the NPR announcement that writing three-minute fiction (usually around 500 words) "strikes at the very heart of the short story as a project... How do you get a … [Read more...]
Art and Debt
In NYFA Current, a web publication of The New York Foundation for the Arts, filmmaker and artist advocate Esther Robinson writes about managing debt and credit as an artist. Robinson approaches debt with caution but is pragmatic about the usefulness of credit as an artist (she funded a film that way, though smartly avoided wreaking havoc on her personal finances). On … [Read more...]
Making Media Now Conference
Meeting with a community of artists in your discipline to exchange ideas can be just the thing to refocus and invigorate your work. Local filmmakers will have the chance to meet minds with other filmmakers and media professionals at Filmmakers Collaborative's Making Media Now Conference (June 5) at Bentley University in Waltham. The day-long program, which explores both … [Read more...]