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Short Film Funding is HARD!

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Short film funding is hard! Not any longer! Writers and Filmmakers uses a peer based funding model! Check us out! We Fund Writers and Filmmakers! Writers judge filmmakers, filmmakers judge writers! Winning writer gets their script made by the winning filmmaker! The writer gets their script made and they get paid. The filmmaker gets funded to shoot it! Very limited entries and everyone gets lots of coverage of their work!   The winning filmmaker wins $50,000 (Feature) or $25,000 (Sh...

Who is Funding Shorts?

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WRITERS AND FILMMAKERS.COM - THAT'S WHO! We Fund Writers and Filmmakers! Writers judge filmmakers, filmmakers judge writers! Winning writer gets their script made by the winning filmmaker! The writer gets their script made and they get paid. The filmmaker gets funded to shoot it! Limited entries and everyone gets coverage of their work! The winning filmmaker wins $50,000 (Feature) or $25,000 (Short) to shoot one of the top 10 scripts. WInning writer receives $20,000 (Feature) or $10,00...

We will be on FOX TV!!!

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We applied and were accepted on a Crowd Funding Television show! We don't actually need funding, but love the exposure! Writers and Filmmakers.com will be featured on FOX 29-WUTV Sunday the 29th at 11:30am!  RIGHT BEFORE NFL SUNDAY FOOTBALL! RIGHT BEFORE NFL SUNDAY FOOTBALL! RIGHT BEFORE NFL SUNDAY FOOTBALL!   We are slowly starting our marketing campaign...because the back-end of site is still under development! The Front facing is nice...chec...

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We Fund Writers and Filmmakers! Writers judge filmmakers, filmmakers judge writers!  Winning writer gets their script made by the winning filmmaker!

The PROBLEM!

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The Filmmaker Problem: Funding. The screenwriter Problem: Finding Production. Solution: Writers and Filmmakers.com ...

The Search for Inspiration Gone

"The Search for Inspiration Gone", directed by Ashley Michael Briggs, is a new submission to ÉCU 2014 in the category European Experimental Film.  « A poet awakens within a strange garden in need of his notebook, pencil & inspiration. A divine couple, breakfasting, observe. A debate unfolds; would inspiration arise from help, or hinder? Will the poet find his inspiration? » « Un poète se reveille ...

Land of La Dolce Vita Awards "Found Objects"

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"Found Objects" screenwriter/director Dawn Westlake received a Special Jury Award for Best Screenplay at CinemAvvenire Film Festival in Rome, Italy on Sunday, June 23, 2013. Festival director Sergio Di Lino communicated with award winners ahead of time to ask for an acceptance message or video from those unable to attend the festivities. Dawn Westlake used 'found video' from a recent visit to Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas to craft her remarks. Check out her acceptance speech...

PRODUCE A S3D MOVIE FROM CONCEPTION TO SCREEN

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PRODUCE A S3D MOVIE FROM CONCEPTION TO SCREEN November 19 to 28, 2012 This training, unique in its conception, offers the trainee to produce a S3D short-movie pilot in 8 days. The participants are divided into groups of 5 to 7 people. They are confronted to the problematics linked to S3D content creation during practice workshops punctuated by educational breaks. Each trainee supervises the stereography of a plan/sequence with challenges to overcome. The plans are then edited and calibrate...

NOTE TO SELF:

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Note To Self:by Kimberly Deisler  The one thing I really love about the LA ComedyShorts Film Festival, well, there are many things, but in particular are thepanels.  While I may have mentionedthis before it bears repeating because the panelists are the most honest,irreverent and hilarious.  Youlearn a lot, you get it straight and you know exactly where you stand … in along line of other people trying to get jobs in the industry.   The hunger of interest in the audience is palatableunlike...

CALL FOR ENTRIES! FINAL DEADLINE: 01/05/10! $20 - ONLINE SCREENPLAY CONTEST - MEET 100 HOLLYWOOD EXECS - ROBERT MCKEE LESSONS!

CALL FOR ENTRIES! FINAL DEADLINE: 01/05/11 for our ONLINE CONTEST#1! $20 Entry!

Sophia Gilberto

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NEW Sophia was just cast as a "Godess' in the new feature film 'Falcyyr' of Unicovia Pictures Sophia started out in dance, community theatre and playing piano since she was five years old. Sophie's first introduction to film was in ”Santa Claus in Baghdad” RA Visions Productions" as an extra and was hooked. She then participated as an extra in ”Soul Sister”OracleVoice Films" . She started taking acting classes and loved it with a passion that would contin...

FROM PAGE TO SALE! SCRIPTBIZ™ 2008 TWO-DAY SCREENWRITING WORKSHOPS

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Two-Day Screenwriting Workshop to take place at this year’s Rhode Island International Film Festival (PROVIDENCE, RI) ScriptBiz 2008 has a developed two days of interactive and informational workshops for aspiring screenwriters desiring to hone and harness their craft. Special guests include Hollywood filmmaker MICHAEL CORRENTE (“Federal Hill,” Outside Providence,” “American Buffalo,” “Brooklyn Rules,” “Dumb & Dumber,” “There’s Something About Mary”), PILAR ALES...

Screenwriting for Film & Television

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Screenwriting is an exciting area within the film industry. In fact everything rest of screenwriters. There would be no films without screenwriters. The writers are the creative genius behind the masterpieces which have been created since the beginning of film. Screenwriters can be said to be the cornerstone of Hollywood and the movie industry in general. Without their scripts actors would not be working, directors would not be directing and the food cart would have no cast and crew to sel...

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