Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Paul Watkins: On the surface it looks to be just another Star Wars movie but to me it is about how one’s past does not define us but it’s the choices based off our past that show who we really are. A noble Jedi can become sinister and… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Paul Watkins (Kenobi: A Star Wars Story)
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Interview with Screenwriter Rodgers Wilson (ELLA, WITNESSING)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Rodgers Wilson: My screenplay is about the life of the first Black female physician in Louisiana. She faces racism and discrimination. My story is based on true events. 2. What genres does your screenplay fall under? This is a drama with periods of sadness and happiness. 3. Why… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Rodgers Wilson (ELLA, WITNESSING)
Interview with Screenwriter Isaac Sweeney (SHOOTING)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Isaac Sweeney: It’s a short about a young man with hoop dreams who has to make a decision between life on the streets and a real future. 2. What genres does your screenplay fall under? urban drama 3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie? It’s… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Isaac Sweeney (SHOOTING)
Interview with Screenwriter Peter Lloyd (STREET LAW)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Peter Lloyd: It’s Episode 1 of Street Law, a TV series set in a multi-ethnic law practice in Singapore. 2. What genres does your screenplay fall under? Crime/drama. 3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie? We think the series should be commissioned because a fast-paced,… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Peter Lloyd (STREET LAW)
Interview with Screenwriter Michael Head (LIGHTKEEPERS)
LIGHTKEEPERS was a HORROR screenplay winner for October 2018. Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Loosely inspired by the real-life Eilean Mor lighthouse mystery, three lighthouse keepers are overwhelmed by a tremendous storm that destroys their stores of food and water. When a shipwrecked castaway washes up, their hunger pushes their morality to its… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Michael Head (LIGHTKEEPERS)
Interview with Screenwriter 42 Tribes (Nyobaywa)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? 42 Tribes: Slamdance created a logline: Arcane Africa comes to life in this epic adventure of warring tribes and the shadow of the resurrected scorpion king who threatens them all I like it. I prefer it to my log line: Under the malaise of an apocalyptic desertification a… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter 42 Tribes (Nyobaywa)
Interview with Screenwriter Rita Martinos (ON THE VERGE)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Rita Martinos: A 26-year old Lebanese Muslim faces an internal cultural struggle while living in New York City, motivating her American roommate to travel to the Middle East, seeking a better understanding behind her friend’s suicidal escape. 2. What genres does your screenplay fall under? Drama. 3. Why… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Rita Martinos (ON THE VERGE)
Interview with Screenwriter M.V. Montgomery (DON-JOHN’S DISAPPOINTED MAM)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your script about? M.V. Montgomery: It’s a contemporary “Christmas Carol” featuring a Trump-like central character as a retired Scrooge who receives three visits from the ghost of his Scottish immigrant mother. 2. What genres does your script fall under? Drama, black comedy, political satire. 3. Why should this script be produced?… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter M.V. Montgomery (DON-JOHN’S DISAPPOINTED MAM)
Interview with Screenwriter Colleen Asbury (The Dance of the Desert Mermaids)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Colleen Asbury: An older man stumbles through the desert, lost. He has no idea where he is or how he got there; he is just pulled by the silky siren song of the Desert Mermaids. He doesn’t know they are there, and when they appear after he spits… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Colleen Asbury (The Dance of the Desert Mermaids)
Interview with Screenwriter Chloë J. Hightower (Monochrome)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? . My script is about a Creole-American woman and a Japanese-American man who move to California together to escape their pasts in Lousiana. But when their house gets invaded by a gang of extremists, they must hide in their haunted basement, which taunts them with their traumatic pasts.… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Chloë J. Hightower (Monochrome)
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