Let Love Persevere: Five Insights from Marvel’s Victoria Alonso on Creating a Fulfilling Career in Hollywood
1. Understand That Production is Problem Solving Even with Alonso’s impressive resume, she still feels the pressures of recent times. “To try to produce while the world has been shut down left, right and center has been one of the most challenging and heartbreaking moments because, you all [know] from the indie world, you know […]
Casting Director Avy Kaufman on Three Steps to Finding the Right Cast for a Film or TV Show
1. Keep an Open Mind During the Casting Process Over the years, Kaufman has seen the need for casting directors evolve and grow within the industry and has been ready to grow with it. “Back in the day, they didn’t have [casting directors]. Look at old movies, you don’t see a casting person,” she explains. […]
“There is No Going Back”: Brit Marling on Pursuing Your Creative Career
Listen To Your Body and Find Your Purpose Marling’s journey toward becoming an artist didn’t begin right away; in fact, she had a career as a financial analyst prior to working in the film industry. Feeling unfulfilled with the demands of the stock market and the pressure to have a “survival job”, Marling decided to […]
What Actually Happens in a TV Writers’ Room?
The Role of a Showrunner “Showbiz has one rule. The show must go on. And, the showrunner is the only position I can think of where ‘show’ is in that title. Your job as the showrunner is to make it happen,” Glen Mazzara emphasizes. The showrunner is responsible for the vision of the show and […]
Four Essential Tips for Adapting a Screenplay
1. Search for Essential, Dramatic Scenes Once you’ve optioned the source material, you must, “Put yourself completely into the book [or historical event] until you have the sense that there is nothing you do not know about it,” Swicord explains. “You’ve got to get in very deeply and under the skin of the source material, […]
Film Producing: Five Tips for Leading Your Team Through Post
1. Plan To Be Engaged From Start To Finish Simon TaufiQue (Imperium, The Interpreters) describes post-production as a hybrid of both definitions of the word “post.” The term means “after,” which is of course accurate to its place in the process of making a film, but it is also a noun meaning “column or pillar.” […]