Technically the rolodex was a paperweight by the time I got to an office, but I hear they were something special for the busy type-A personalities who used to play putt-putt in oversized offices and choose which film got programmed into what festivals with the dart board. Back before they had interns.
Even so,
MovieBytes keeps a great list of screenplay contests out on the web, and goes the step further with the report card feature to give would-be Tarantinoes and Kevin Smiths the megaphone to voice their experiences with dubious world of contest entry scams. From the slush pile hamburglers that make up the colorful run between spare change and a permanent penthouse in Beverly Hills, a little contest rummy never hurts to keep up your game in the mean time.
Now if someone would just explain teletype I might be able to have an enlightened conversation with someone responsible for DRM management in the latest version of our ebook software. I'd google it but I'm afraid Wikipedia can't pay the internet tax for bandwidth. Oh wait, that's the article about
Net Neutrality for next week. I keep forgetting.
Does
Open Source Journalism work for movie scripts as well as blog topics?
Storylink users seem to think so. Writer/director/producer Mort Nathan covers the balance of writing strong characters in a
feature interview.
Labels: Mort Nathan, Storylink
