Screenwriting From Iowa

“Two years ago [Nick] Foles was ready to retire from football at age 26, frustrated with his situation, lacking in his motivation, uncertain either would ever improve.” Dan Wetzel Yahoo Sports  Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Nick Foles may have started the year sitting on the bench, but he finished it Sunday night as the Super Bowl […]

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“I was a big math and computer geek, that’s true.” Brian Acton (Lake Howell High School grad and now billionaire) I know there’s a big football game today in Minneapolis, but just to mix it up a little here are some photos and memories surrounding an alumni baseball game I played in yesterday at my […]

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Two things happened fairly recently to The Florida Project:  It ended the year on several top ten films lists including The New York Times and AFI, and Willim Defoe received an Oscar nomination. This week it was announced that 5% of digital download sales (through February 5) would go to Community Hope Center —a central Florida charity […]

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Producer/screenwriter Brian Koppelman on his podcast asked indie producer Christine Vachon about what advice she had for young people today making their way into the entertainment world. Christine Vachon: Stop calling yourself a filmmaker. Call yourself a storyteller. Call yourself a content maker. Start looking at everything as all the different ways, all the different platforms, […]

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In the podcast Launch novelist John August gives an insider look into the book making process, down to the font selections and the voiceover narrator for the audio book. Because August is also a screenwriter, there’s a better than average chance that his book Arlo Finch and the Valley of Fire will become a book. But […]

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In the podcast Launch novelist John August gives an insider look into the book making process, down to the font selections and the voiceover narrator for the audio book. Because August is also a screenwriter, there’s a better than average chance that his book Arlo Finch and the Valley of Fire will become a book. But […]

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“Feeling completely lost is absolutely necessary to finding your way out [of the dark forest] and becoming good.” Stephanie Foo (@imontheradio) This American Life producer Last week Screenwriter John August launched the podcast Launch. It’s a creative way of exploring his getting lost in the woods as a six-year-old, through the inspiration and publication process of his new book Arlo Finch in […]

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“Feeling completely lost is absolutely necessary to finding your way out [of the dark forest] and becoming good.” Stephanie Foo (@imontheradio) This American Life producer Last week Screenwriter John August launched the podcast Launch. It’s a creative way of exploring his getting lost in the woods as a six-year-old, through the inspiration and publication process of his new book Arlo Finch in […]

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One thing I learned from my experience writing scripts with Noah Baumbach for two movies, is that he’s relentless about trying to get it right on the page, because you only answer to yourself during that period of time, so you can really make it as perfect as possible. I don’t do any improvisation, and I don’t […]

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Here’s writer/director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) hitting on a theme that’s been central to this blog for ten years. I’m interested in cinema representing places that don’t usually get representation. I think cinema is one of the better documenters of place. When I go to movie theaters  and I see a world that I haven’t […]

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