Independent filmmakers transitioning into television makes perfect sense. Indie filmmakers share a passion for singular characters, earned character development, and edgy storytelling. Television allows you to focus on your characters at least a dozen hours a season. Sometimes – if you’re lucky – you’re living with your characters for hundreds …
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MembersI was graciously invited to write this blog for IFP and was told I should focus on my experience of writing for television. I was actually asked to write about writing. What a fantastic idea! So I gladly accepted. One problem. I forgot that I’d actually have to sit down …
In the fifteen years I’ve been writing professionally, I haven’t heard too many people outwardly admit, “I want to be a TV writer.” That is, until now. For a long time, television has been the red headed step child of the entertainment industry. But as studios take less chances with …
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“After three days he’ll be immortal, and then you’ll need to open a passageway, there’s a sarcophagus, it’s a whole big thing. Just take my word for it, kill it now or it’s a huge pain in the ass.”
It …
Some of the best writing and directing is on cable TV right now and it doesn’t surprise me that some of the people who are responsible for that work are artists who started out as independent filmmakers, like yourselves.
My favorites are Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, The Killing, Boardwalk Empire …
Alrick Brown (Director, Kinyarwanda) discusses how he approached the screenwriting process as writing a series of interconnected shorts.
From the 2011 Independent Filmmaker Conference.
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