Tweet Write On Review: Entrepreneurial Publishing by Elias Kamal Jabbe, Founding Editor of MulticulturalMatters.org Entrepreneur Scott Asai shared best practices for individuals interested in self-publishing their books earlier this month at The OP Cafe in Santa Monica. Asai’s CS Network presentation conducted in collaboration with fellow authors Lonnie Millsap and Josh Allan Dykstra shed light [...]
Tweet It’s always tough to guess how a series is going to play out based only on its pilot. Pilots are there to introduce characters and create the world of the series, but they don’t always represent what will happen as the series goes on. Take Awake from NBC last season—I was blown away by [...]
Tweet The one thing you can consistently say about the Emmys is that they are never consistent. Thanks to a rule change, the wildly popular Downton Abbey was moved from the miniseries/TV movie category to the main drama category. This has caused the drama category to completely change, and left some worthy shows such as Justified, The [...]
Tweet As one network TV season winds down and the schedules for next year’s are announced, the prevailing thought in my mind is: “Where do we go from here?” Each year, it seems harder and harder for networks to find something that sticks. Knowing that Desperate Housewives would end this season, ABC tried putting out [...]
Tweet Blizzards, films, altitude sickness, networking and parties… not necessarily in that order. Welcome to the world of Sundance. A first-time attendee of the famous Sundance Film Festival can easily get swept away with the frenzy and carried off into what feels like an alternate universe. Last month, I was that Sundance virgin. Once I [...]
Tweet Back in the old days, there were two TV seasons: fall and summer. But, over the past decade or so, winter has become the most important for network executives as TV has moved into year-round mode. Fox always launches its Number 1 show, American Idol, in the winter. Series, such as Lost and Grey’s [...]
Tweet It’s tricky for the documentary filmmaker to put him or herself onto screen, making the documentarian a focus of the film. Michael Moore has done it successfully. Dave Gardner tries it now, taking on the role of not just documentary filmmaker but “Growthbuster” in his crusade against too much growth. GrowthBusters plays on the [...]
Tweet Write On! Review: Melody Lopez & The Austin Cats take on The Austin Film Festival The 18th Annual Austin Film Festival and Conference (AFF) ran October 20 – 27, 2011. Screenwriters and filmmakers from all over the globe moseyed into the Texas capital to attend this writer-centered event. This star-studded learning experience bristles with [...]
Tweet Three Musketeers has a stellar cast—with some of my favorite actors, including Matthew Macfadyen (Pride and Prejudice, MI-5, Any Human Heart), Ray Stevenson (Titus Pullo in Rome), Milla Jovovich (The Fifth Element, the Resident Evil franchise), and Orlando Bloom (Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings). I’d been looking forward to its release [...]
Tweet I wonder if at some point during the Emmys, the guys who make Modern Family got a little uncomfortable with all the Emmy love. “Please, guys, really, it’s too much. Let someone else win one!” No, I don’t think so. Because the way they make their show, they surely must know they were going to get [...]
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