Zhura – still troubling after all these scenes.

UPDATE:
After my FIRST Zhura posting, I told you that I’d tried creating a new doc from a TEXT file to purge the technology demons from my script.
So far less than perfect. I’ve still got niggling problems like whole portions of the script (a dozen pages or more) suddenly and inexplicably becoming BOLD, or the startling [...]

WGA: Sundance screenwriters on writing for indies

Thanks to my good friend Jeff Palmer for this link:
WGA’s Angle On series features a video interview of several screenwriters at Sundance, discussing the constraints and advantages of writing for indie film, and some of the best advice they’ve gotten in their careers.

BLUR screening in LA – May 6 2009

BLUR, a feature film I art directed a few years ago, is screening in Los Angeles on May 6th, at 6pm.
British Film Festival Los Angeles.
Starring Charlie Hofheimer, Burt Bulos and Katherine Towne.
Charlie is nominated for best actor in a feature… Break a leg, Charlie!
Sadly not nominated for best art direction but there was no such [...]

According to who?

Acting class today. Had a scene from According to Jim. I played the electronics store clerk.
The store was called “Lazy Al’s”. The script said I was wearing a bathrobe over my clothes, hands in pockets. My dialogue is clearly “scripted customer service” — stuff like “Welcome to Lazy Al’s where we’re too lazy to raise [...]