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ORTOLAN is there!✌🏼

ORTOLAN wins BEST DRAMA + BEST MISE-EN-SCENE at Hastings Rocks Film Festivals this weekend! 👏🏼 so proud and what perfect awards to honour the teamwork that made this film possible. See us Friday LIFF Genesis Cinema Shorts Block 7 @_KateWinter_ Pete Hills #shortfilm #womeninfilm

Such an inspiring talk about networking and forging friendships and connections in the industry by Female Film Club today at LIFF ✨becoming a member of the club has been the most enriching thing I’ve done this year💗

Looking to connect with feature producers for CLUTCH: a Days of Thunder meets Million Dollar Baby ON MOTORCYCLES(!!) topgun-esque action/adventure feel good movie! Script is ready to read and I’m looking for the right partner on this. Recommendations welcome!

Writers strike picket signs still undefeated perfection

Why The Studios Are Wrong About Using ChatGPT To Write Scripts During The WGA Strike After many experiments in recent months, it’s clear to me that AI is nowhere near capable of writing a good script - at least for now. At this current moment, AI models understand the basic

Another #officialselection for ORTOLAN Rocks Film Festivals next month! Looking forward to screening at BAFTA qualifying #CBFF2025 in one week! #shortfilm #womeninfilm

Wow. Pretty brutal statement of alliance from ChatGPT in the current contract dispute. #WGAStrong

“I’m old. I read stuff ... I want to tell stories, & there’s no more time. [Akira] Kurosawa, when he got his Oscar … he said, ‘I’m only now beginning to see the possibility of what cinema could be, and it’s too late …’ Now I know what he means” — Martin Scorsese

💯 days to go 🎉 The British Superbike Championship 'Party in the Park' is in touching distance 💪💪 Book tickets now: cadwellpark.co.uk/2023/august/be… (but also go to Donington this weekend first 😉)

We can argue about the concept of souls and creativity all we want, sure. But what an artist provides that I think people are starting to hate and fear is perspective.

Now, finding your own perspective isn’t bad! It’s how artists become artists! But this version of it - where you want a computer to remove the artist and just give you the product - is lacking a major thing that artists need: empathy.

“What would you like to tell young people?” “Learn to love solitude.” Andrei Tarkovsky from A Poet In The Cinema (1983)

That small detail yanked me out of the movie. If the writer/director screwed up such an obvious detail, right up front, what else was going to irritate me about this movie? That’s what reading your first ten pages is like for agents, editors, and readers.

We're told early not to direct the screenplay on the page. It's just terrible advice. You want the reader to see the movie on screen as they read. This will often mean evoking shots. Here's how to do it without ever referencing the camera. 🧵👇

Looking for audio work currently. Do you have a project that needs some audio editing/sound design/scoring? I can do it! HMU 🤙 I can make all manner of synthetic and organic textures

Friendly Neighborhood Script Reader here: let me talk a little about unfilmables before I walk into the sea about them.

Filmmakers Tracy Mathewson & @_katewinter_ speak about authentically portraying the drug induced high experienced by the estranged trio of sisters in "ORTOLAN", their dark comedic short about the tenuousness of memory, buried trauma, food... and psychedelics directorsnotes.com/2023/12/18/tra…

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