You call that a screenplay!?

Well, as some of you know, I decided this semester to take Screenwriting as one of my classes. Writing has always been a love of mine, but as time goes on it seems I have less and less time to actually write. I figured this way I'll solve everything because now I have to write.

Any way, our first writing assignment was due (for me) last Friday and as such I turned in almost the entirety of a first Act of a feature length film. To be honest, I didn't think I was gonna get there. A week before it was due I still had no idea what I wanted to write, but thankfully something came out.

And I think it's ok surprisingly (I usually hate the things I write). I also managed to survive the workshop as well, got a few laughs during the read through and the professor even made a couple good comments. So I forge ahead I guess.

Although now the problem is I have another idea for a different feature length and they are currently duking it out in my head.

So, after all that, if you're interested in reading it....keeping in mind it is still very much a work in progress....I'd be happy to email it to you. All you need is Adobe to be able to vew it.

Oh Yeah. I'm in Film School

Every once and a while events occur that gently remind me why I'm here and the wonderful opportunities I get to experience through my relocation to Boston.

Today one of these events occured as I had the pleasure of attending a small Q&A session with the director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Amores Perros, 21 Grams). With the small amount of people who showed up for the event the Q&A took on a very comfortable conversation like atmosphere as question after question was raised by the students in the classroom.

It was refreshing to have the Q&A run that way rather than have someone sitting up there with the director asking a bunch of canned questions.

Any way he had many, many interesting things to say and hey ...it turns out we share similar tastes in films as he mentioned his love for Jean Luc Godard and Alan Resnais..."A 100 years ahead of everybody, and they were doing it 50 years ago."

So tonight I go to see his new film Babel. I'll fill you in on how it is. Edit: Turns out it was full so I'll have to wait for the actual release of the film =(.