Interview with Screenwriter Adam Kelly Morton (VIKE)

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1. What is your screenplay about?

My show is about a cantankerous investigator living in a fantasy city who must not only solve crimes but judge them too.

2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?

Fantasy, Drama & Mystery/Procedural

3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

I think this brings together two very solid markets: those of Fantasy and Mystery, and the show is unlike anything I’ve ever seen (which is why I wrote it).

4. How would you describe this script in two words?

Fantasy procedural.

5. What movie have you seen the most times in your life?

Probably “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”

6. How long have you been working on this screenplay?

About six months.

7. How many stories have you written?

I’ve published a collection of short prose pieces and a novella, and have written several plays and film screenplays. My…

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Interview with Screenwriter Adam Kelly Morton (VIKE)

matthewtoffolo's avatarMatthew Toffolo's Summary

1. What is your screenplay about?

My show is about a cantankerous investigator living in a fantasy city who must not only solve crimes but judge them too.

2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?

Fantasy, Drama & Mystery/Procedural

3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

I think this brings together two very solid markets: those of Fantasy and Mystery, and the show is unlike anything I’ve ever seen (which is why I wrote it).

4. How would you describe this script in two words?

Fantasy procedural.

5. What movie have you seen the most times in your life?

Probably “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”

6. How long have you been working on this screenplay?

About six months.

7. How many stories have you written?

I’ve published a collection of short prose pieces and a novella, and have written several plays and film screenplays. My…

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Interview with Screenwriter Zack Binder (UNFUCKABLE)

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1. What is your screenplay about?

My screenplay is about a gay trans-masc person re-discovering their sexual confidence post-transition

2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?

Fantasy, Drama, Comedy

3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

It would resonate with a lot of trans people, and help cis people understand the limbo space

4. How would you describe this script in two words?

Campy, Sexual

5. What movie have you seen the most times in your life?

Mrs. Doubtfire

6. How long have you been working on this screenplay?

3 months

7. How many stories have you written?

This is my first completed story

8. What is your favorite song? (Or, what song have you listened to the most times in your life?)

Nara by Alt-J

9. What obstacles did you face to finish this screenplay?

Streamlining the story and cutting the excess.

10. Apart from…

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Interview with Screenwriter Andrew John Cahill-Lloyd (CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT)

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1. What is your screenplay about?

It is essentially a look into childhood sexual abuse and the way it changes different people in different ways. One character uses it to draw the strength to help others. One is a twisted individual that believes the world owes him a favour. Two main characters live it and change with it. One character has blocked his abuse. It effects his life greatly without any memory of it. It is a male heavy cast because most of the abuse spoken of or portrayed is male on male.

2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?

Police procedural Drama

3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

To help others that need it. Unveiling and starting the conversation for so many boys and men that struggle without support.

4. How would you describe this script in two words?

Confronting. Dark.

5. What movie…

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Interview with Screenwriter Andrew Wade Bowcock (SOLI DEO GLORIA)

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1. What is your screenplay about?

It’s about a 12-year-old boy named August and his relationship with his father Gustav–an abusive fundamentalist preacher in the early 20th century. It explores how this oppressive mixture of religion and patriarchy unleashes trauma upon the whole family, first via Gustav’s humiliating abuse, then subsequently through August’s violent dreams coming to life.

This is partially based on a true story. It mirrors some traumatic childhood experiences of my film hero, Ingmar Bergman–who was likewise raised by an abusive preacher father, forced to wear a red dress whenever he wet the bed, and locked in a closet for minor transgressions as a child.

This project is intended to be an ode to Bergman; the title itself, Soli Deo Gloria (translation: “Glory to God Alone”), was something Bergman wrote on all of his screenplays, in its abbreviated form: S.D.G. (which he borrowed from J.S. Bach, who…

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Interview with Screenwriter Gayla Kraetsch Hartsough (HELOISE + ABELARD)

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What is your screenplay about?

A young French girl does the unthinkable – she falls in love with her professor, who is 20 years her senior. Their forbidden love became the greatest sex scandal of 12th-century France and spanned two decades amid the searing backdrop of political and religious turmoil. The affair costs the lovers everything they had, but their love for each other prevails.

What genres does your screenplay fall under?

Historic romance, based on a true story.

(Note: Today, Heloise is buried next to Peter in Paris. Many Parisians view their love as the best example of absolute and eternal love. Young lovers visit their grave and leave love notes in hopes that they too will have eternal love.)

Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

Even though HELOISE+ABELARD is set in 12th century France, their love story is relevant to today. Heloise and Peter’s timeless…

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Interview with Screenwriter Matthew Nicholson (SENIOR DITCH DAY)

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1. What is your screenplay about?

When Gwen Wiley hears handsome, local weatherman Hudson Blake announce a rare occurrence of the northern lights, she hatches an escape from her nursing home to spread her late husband’s ashes. Gwen goes to extraordinary lengths and through various hijinks to say goodbye to the love of her life on their anniversary. In the end, her senior (citizen) ditch day manages to bring Gwen even closer to her daughter who’s tired of her mother’s mischief.

2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?

“Senior Ditch Day” started as a comedy. I mean, I certainly think Hudson marching through Harvey’s ashes is pretty funny, but I guess you could also classify that as horror. However, there are certainly heart-breaking moments like when Gwen spreads her husband’s ashes and looks up at the aurora borealis and says, “so, that’s what they mean by breathtaking” which is…

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Interview with Screenwriter Glenn Lissner (SHANEEKA & HOSS)

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1. What is your screenplay about?

Two people forming an unlikely and mutually beneficial friendship beyond race, gender, religion and age.

2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?

Dramedy

3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

There are plenty of negative things people are currently coping with. Having a positive and progressive message may be a nice distraction. Showing two superficially different people connect, as opposed to what feels like an endless divide in this country, is exactly the kind of story we need.

4. How would you describe this script in two words?

Positive connection.

5. What movie have you seen the most times in your life?

Young Frankenstein

6. How long have you been working on this screenplay?

Couple months

7. How many stories have you written?

12

8. What is your favorite song? (Or, what song have you listened to the most times…

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Interview with Screenwriter Arthur Tiersky (WE ARE ALL DEAD)

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1. What is your screenplay about?

It’s based on a terrific novella by Bruno Fischer. It’s about an icy professional crook, a typical noir protagonist, who is recruited by his old friend for a heist that goes very wrong when the young getaway driver is killed. His widow comes to collect his share of the money, and both our hero and his old friend quickly fall for her. Meanwhile, the police are hot on their trail, and the other gang members start mysteriously dying one by one. So it’s part love triangle, part heist flick, and part murder mystery.

2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?

It’s pure classic noir. Ideally, it gets made as a letter-perfect imitation of the classics from the ’40s and ’50s, in black and white, the whole deal.

3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

Noir is such a great lost…

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Interview with Screenwriter Stephonika W. Kaye (REGENESIS)

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1. What is your screenplay about?

Regenesis follows two main characters: Miranda and Atlas, who are set against this futuristic backdrop of a withering galaxy. Miranda is on a mission of revenge to kill the man responsible for all the trauma she’s endured over the last few years. Atlas presents as just some wanderer in the wastes, but really he’s carrying cargo that could save the lives of billions. Ultimately, it becomes a decision for Miranda on whether or not to help him and find some redemption in that.

2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?

Definitely a sci-fi drama. As a short it’s more low-fi as well. It has some action/adventure elements as well but is much more a character driven conversation piece.

3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

Since writing the short, I’ve also been playing with ideas in developing it either into…

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