Screenwriting From Iowa

 
Florida has had an awkward dance with movies for the past 100 years. While it’s had its share of feature films and TV programs filmed there over the years it’s almost as if the industry there is a façade. (Just like the above New York façade I shot on the Universal Studios Florida back lot [...]

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Yesterday I returned to Lake Howell High School where I graduated from years ago to talk to five classes and around 350 students total. The groups were a mix of students in video and TV production, radio, graphic design, journalism and entrepreneurship.  Since Lake Howell was where took my first photography class and wrote and directed my first [...]

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On Tuesday morning in Cedar Falls, Iowa I got tired of trying to scrap the ice off my SUV windows and ended up riding my bike to work on the snow packed roads. (My office is only a few blocks away.) Three days later I was riding a bike on the beach in New Smyrna [...]

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“There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.“
                                                                    Maj. Gen. William T. [...]

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 Tender Mercies was filmed in Texas in the Waxahachie area with mainly Texas crews.
                                                               Horton Foote, Texas-born screenwriter
                                                               Tender Mercies, A Trip to Bountiful
I was born and raised in Texas in a family with 10 brothers and sisters. I was a daydreamer and bored at school, so I’d [...]

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Does anybody really know what time it is?
                                                             Robert Lamm/Chicago

Did you know that Three Days of the Condor was based on Six Days of the Condor?
That [...]

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“You don’t just throw a whole life away just because it’s banged up a little.”
                                                                Tom Smith (played by Chris Cooper)
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“I work in a business that is run by middle age men who make films for teenage boy fantasies.”
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“It is not easy to cut through a head with a hacksaw.”
                                           Michael Crichton 
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