Attention, aspiring screenwriters
The London Film School is looking for nine writers or writer-director teams for HOTHOUSE, a 15-month “atelier” (no less) to develop first or second feature films. You need to have some track record in an “expressive medium” – film, performance, theatre, visual arts, broadcasting, new media, or literature and referrals are required. Deadline is Feb. [...]
The Six Ages of Clothes
1) Party/job interview
2) out to dinner/ work
3) weekends/casual
4) around the house/in the country
5) gym
6) Oxfam
Link Me Baby One More Time, Pt. 2
Berger and Wyse’s wonderful The Pitchers is like Entourage but about writers. Only since it’s writers, you get lots of angst and resentment in place of dream cars and hot babes.
The Princess And The Frog – Good Intentions or The Road To Hell?
So, as I was saying, Bidisha’s article in The Observer takes Disney to task for what she perceives as racial and gender stereotyping in The Princess and the Frog. However, the ratio of opinion to factual accuracy suggests the piece is not suited to a newspaper so much as to a, er, blog.
For starters, she [...]
The Man With One Name
Being a mono-named artist may seem like a short cut to adding mystique or standing out from the crowd, or it might be a tiresome gimmick. Either way, it helps to be either French or a person of color. Or a folksinger.
