Filmnut – Season 3 Episodes – Writers/Producers

David Maples

David Maples is a Creator/Executive Producer/Writer of “In Plain Sight”, a great one hour dramedy on the USA network about the witness protection program, which is just finishing up it’s second season, and was recently picked up for a third. Maples talked about the genesis of how the show came about, the challenge of blending more »

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Pilar Alessandra: the Craft of Writing

Pilar Alessandra (script consultant) talked about what else? The craft of writing. Dialogue, writers bloc, three act structure, what writers need more of, habits of good writers, and a lot more. I really enjoy watching her DVD ‘On The page’. I think it is a great tool for writers. After watching the episode, you can more »

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Robbie Consing: Storyboards

Robbie Consing, storyboard artist. Credits include: Transformers, Jumper, The Island, Terminator 3, Minority Report, X2, Mission Impossible II, Bab Boys II, Pearl Harbor, and more. Robbie broke down the creative and technical aspects of being a storyboard artist. We showed samples of his work from ‘Transformers’, as he explained what they were about. Consing has more »

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Producer Andrew Paquin

Producer Andrew Paquin started his career in the world of finance before transitioning to film production. Hooking up with a college friend, writer/director Marshall Lewy, Paquin produced a short film Balkanization. The two later teamed up for the romantic comedy feature “Blue State” starring Breckin Meyer and Andrew’s sister, Oscar winner Anna Paquin. We talked more »

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Producer Kerry David

Kerry David started in the business by working for Paramount, then it was on to being a personal assistant for Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, her “personal film school” as she calls it, to then launching her own production company. We covered projects past and present, including Agent Cody Banks 1 and 2, My Date more »

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Scott Rosenfelt

Producer Scott M. Rosenfelt credits include: Home Alone, Mystic Pizza, Teen Wolf, Kids In America, Smoke Signals, and Extremities. Rosenfelt talked about the role of a producer in films. He emphasized the importance of pre-production and discussed the difference in how he approaches a project that he helps develop from the outset versus being brought more »

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Leslie Zemeckis

Tonight’s guest Leslie Zemeckis came on too talk about her project “Staar: She’d Rather Be a Mistress”, a comedy/mocumentary in which Zemeckis wrote, starred and produced. The piece had many hilarious moments and is based on her one woman show and the exploits of a burlesque dancer. Carrie Fischer, Jeffrey Tambor make great appearances in more »

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