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Jamaa… stills from our Ugandan film-making adventure
Coming soon to a church near you… Jamaa… a film we’ve made for the Christian relief organization, World Vision. In many ways, the experience of making Jamaa was as much of a journey of faith as it was...
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2010 Crystal Heart Award Winner… Jamaa
From the now-it-can-be-told department: Thursday, in Indianapolis, Indiana, The Heartland Film Festival announced its 2010 line-up of award-winning films. My partner Michael Landon, Jr., and I are...
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The Moral Premise Workshop, Nov. 6
I don’t often recommend screenwriting workshops, because I believe the best training comes from reading great screenplays, and then “going and doing likewise” as I have posted about here. But I’m...
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Abe Lincoln: Vampire Slayer?
Hollywood’s hottest screenplays — the 2010 Blacklist The Hollywood Blacklist of hottest, most-talked about, unproduced screenplays has been published for 2010. Compiled by Universal Development...
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Beverly Lewis’ The Shunning premiering April 16
To my regular readers… please forgive me. I have been AWOL from this blog for far too long. I do have three really good reasons… I’ve been writing for a living, cooking up three new projects I’m very...
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Gametime… some shameless self-promotion
So it has been far too long since I last posted on this blog, but my analytics reports show that a faithful hundred or so of you check in daily to see if I’m still breathing. Well, I am, but I’m...
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Here’s How You Break Into Hollywood…
Over the last several years, I’ve served as a Juror for both the Heartland Film Festival and the 168 Hour Film Project, so I’ve had a chance to screen at least a hundred original short and...
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Must-Listen Writing Podcast with Steven James and… Yours Truly
It’s not often one gets to break bread and break stories with a national best-selling author, but that’s what I got to do this week with novelist Steven James in Asheville, North Carolina, at the...
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Novels into films? The 4 Screenwriter Super Powers
What is the one thing most of us say when we see one of our favorite novels turned into a movie? It’s just wasn’t as good as the book. Right? There are a few reasons for this. First, the world of...
View ArticleTime to Take Hollywood to the Woodshed
I woke up this morning to find this Hollywood Reporter article in my in-box. I thought I had stumbled onto a porn site. I actually don’t even want to repeat the headline. You can read it for...
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