Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Tai-Ying Chi: The story is about a girl who is sexually assaulted by the boy she loves and always wants to be romantically involved with, therefore she doesn’t know how to react at first, and she’s struggled between what her heart really wants and what her heart believes… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Tai-Ying Chi (You Don’t Deserve My Jelly Strips)
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Interview with Screenwriter Chris Desmond (RIFF RAFF)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Chris Desmond: When one of their own gets adopted, residents of a pet store plot to break out, crosstown and bring her back home. Ultimately the story is about the extremes one goes through in order to keep the family together. 2. What genres does your screenplay fall… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Chris Desmond (RIFF RAFF)
Interview with Screenwriter Anthony Catino (Fata Morgana’s)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Anthony Catino: It’s about a dying man who travels to the edge of the universe to visit a brothel staffed with alien sex workers who provide extraordinary services, both real and imaginary, so he can end his life with the help of his wife. The twist is his… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Anthony Catino (Fata Morgana’s)
Interview with Screenwriter Michael R. Barnard (EVERYBODY SAYS GOODBYE)
Matthew Toffolo: What genres does your screenplay fall under? Michael R. Barnard:Drama and thriller. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie? This project became a personal passion project. Every time I’ve thought it would be irrelevant, I’d get drawn back into its vibrancy and imperative. Today, we watch an administration that wants to… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Michael R. Barnard (EVERYBODY SAYS GOODBYE)
Interview with Screenwriter J. Malia Miranda (ACROSS THE NEON HOURS)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? J. Malia Miranda: Across the Neon Hours takes Reese, a local poker room supervisor, and Alex, a card-playing tourist, on a twelve-hour adventure in Las Vegas. Reese initially coaxes Alex to venture out on the town as a way to distract from her husband’s gambling debts that are… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter J. Malia Miranda (ACROSS THE NEON HOURS)
Interview with Screenwriter Greg Emmerth (PALMETTO)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Greg Emmerth: On a basic level, a wayward son returns home for his mother’s birthday. On a slightly deeper level, it’s about how people allow the past, and past grievances and holding onto pain for far too long, to hobble their present lives. 2. What genres does your… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Greg Emmerth (PALMETTO)
Interview with Screenwriter Kelly Byrnes (33 Weeks A Prude)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Kelly Byrnes: “33 Weeks A Prude” depicts the age-old conflict between sinners and saints or in today’s high school terms, Prudes and Sluts. Our protagonist, Nora, who belongs to the latter clique, is uprooted from her native Southern California town and plunked down in the Bible Belt, in… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Kelly Byrnes (33 Weeks A Prude)
Interview with Screenwriter Jerry Kokich (DOCTOR WHO TV Show)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Jerry Kokich: It’s a parody/homage to the greatest TV show, ever, DOCTOR WHO. 2. What genres does your screenplay fall under? Comedy, sci-fi, parody, web series, British TV. 3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie? Well, I’ll be making it into an episode of the… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Jerry Kokich (DOCTOR WHO TV Show)
Interview with Screenwriter Sonja Knyssok (M for Mole Murder)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Sonja Knyssok: My Screenplay is about a young mole who suffers from claustrophobia and has to clear up a murder mystery that leads him in the tunnels where he has to escape from mutated killer roots of flowers to finally overcome his fears. 2. What genres does your… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Sonja Knyssok (M for Mole Murder)
Interview with Howard W. Robertson (THE FORGE)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Howard W. Robertson: Isaac McClure is caught between his mother’s Ehattesaht world and his father’s Scottish. Born at Fort Astoria in 1824, he conceals his Native American identity to come back over the Oregon trail in 1853. He becomes part of racist pioneer society, is outed by chance,… Continue reading Interview with Howard W. Robertson (THE FORGE)
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