Tag: screenwriting
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Join the ranks: Nashville Film Fest looking for a few good readers
Since it’s Giving Tuesday, I thought I should share a unique way for you to give back: You can be a volunteer reader for the Nashville Film Festival’s Screenwriting Competition. This is my second year as a reader for the competition, wherein I get to read dozens of scripts and…
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Writers: You don’t have to do this … but you probably should
It’s a simple enough line of dialogue: “You don’t have to do this.” But it’s also one of the most common and, perhaps, overused lines of dialogue in today’s movies and TV shows as well. Listen for it, and you will hear it uttered more often than not. The line…
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Magnificent movie dialogue to remember
As a practicing screenwriter, I’ve found myself paying a lot more attention to dialogue that sparkles in TV and movies. I have to say that the following exchange of dialogue from Maleficent is one of the most chillingly effective exchanges among all the big movies released so far this year: Princess…
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NaFF: The Identical superbly written, acted, directed
Made it to the Nashville Film Fest (NaFF) today. Saw Something, Anything and The Identical. The first story focuses on a young woman who loses her first child in birth and suffers a long bout of depression afterwards that basically ends her marriage and former friendships. She seeks out an…
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Nebraska a funny, deeply moving script worth reading
My brother Wayne Frazier and his friend Natalie Lipka are co-hosts of an awesome weekly podcast Hollywood Close-up. Each episode features an interview with movie and TV industry types, from actors to screenwriters to casting agents and more. I’m particularly interested in the screenwriting aspect of the movie biz. Followers…
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Writer’s block? Just pull out the old plague script
If there’s one sure thing you can count on with a new television series, it is a plague episode. Admit it. You’ve seen this storyline over and over again, especially in genre-type TV shows. A mysterious super virus runs rampant, bringing down most of the main stars and threatening to…
Story By G. Robert Frazier 