Babz Buzz

Each month Literary Agent, Babz Bitela of Silver Bitela Agency talks soup to nuts about screenwriting. Don’t forget to LIKE BabzBuzz on Facebook

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In this installment Babz talks about…

• Simply Radio
• Editing
• Creative Screenwriting
• Character Sketches
• Jack Nicholson
• Cinderella
• Ryan Lee – Beyond the Mountain
• Martin Lancaster – Open Your Mind
• Greg Baldwin – The Scorsese Club
• 101 Things I Learned in Film School
• Black Swan
• Lady Luck
• Market Ready

Talk about this Babz Buzz podcast on the Discussion Board

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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto and released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 license^*

Music provided by Incompetech

You can subscribe to Babz Buzz as well as SimplyScripts Radio and the occasional iScript on iTunes

^*In English, this podcast can be share with others as long as you mention the site and link back, but you can’t change it in any way or use it commercially.

SimplyScripts Radio – The End of Days Edition. Interview with Documentary Filmmaker Peter Nicholson

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The panel talks to Peter Nicholson.

Show Notes

• Mike Figgis
• Stormy Monday
• Denis Mitchell
• Pompeii: The Last Day – Watch
• Nuremberg: Goering’s Last Stand
• The Last Flight to Kuwait – Watch
• Freelancing
• Susan George
• Dirty Mary Crazy Larry

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SimplyScripts Radio is produced by Michael Cornetto and Jon Barton released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 license.

This episode the panel consisted of host Michael Cornetto and Jon Barton

Music provided by Incompetech.com.

Interested in joining the panel? Send an email to radiosimply (at) gmail.com

Please, we’d love to have feedback on the show.

iTunes users can subscribe to the SimplyScripts feed and have the show automatically downloaded to your iPod. – Don

Thanks to Jon for the heads up on a couple of scripts from the BBC Writer’s Room which has a small script library. You can check these and other scripts out on the Movie Scripts page.

Tamara Drewe – October 20, 2009 revised shooting script by Moria Buffini (based on the book by Posy Simmonds) – hosted by: BBC Writer’s Room – in pdf format

Once the ugly duckling in the Dorset village of Ewedown, Tamara Drewe returns to sell her late mother’s house, now a glamorous journalist with a life-changing nose job. She awakens feelings in sexy old flame…
Information courtesy of imdb.com

Shifty – Undated, unspecified draft script by Eran Creevy – hosted by: BBC Writer’s Room – in pdf format

Shifty, a young crack cocaine dealer in London, sees his life quickly spiral out of control when his best friend returns home. Stalked by a customer desperate to score at all costs, and with his family about to turn their back on him for good, Shifty must out-run and out-smart a rival drug dealer, intent on setting him up for a big fall. As his long time friend Chris, confronts the dark past he left behind him, Shifty is forced to face up to the violent future he’s hurtling towards.
Information courtesy of imdb.com

SimplyScripts Radio – The One Week Challenge Edition.

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The panel Michael Cornetto, Pia, Jeff Bush, Sandra Watson and Mike Shelton discuss One Week Challenges past and present – what they remember, what they like and what they would change.

Explicit Content: Bad Language and Vague Sexual Innuendo

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SimplyScripts Radio is produced by Michael Cornetto and Jon Barton released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 license.

Music provided by Incompetech.com.

Interested in joining the panel? Send an email to radiosimply (at) gmail.com

Please, we’d love to have feedback on the show.

iTunes users can subscribe to the SimplyScripts feed and have the show automatically downloaded to your iPod. – Don

Babz Buzz

Each month Literary Agent, Babz Bitela of Silver Bitela Agency talks soup to nuts about screenwriting. Don’t forget to LIKE BabzBuzz on Facebook

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In this installment Babz talks about…

• Crow Recipes
• Narrative Tug vs White space
• Black Swan October 5, 2009 shooting draft script written by Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, and John J. McLaughlin (hosted by RainDance
• Fast Read
• Open Your Mind – February Featured Unproduced Script of the Month
• FastScreenplay.com
• The Missing Ingredient
• The Hook
• Creative Trajectory
• Page Count
• Uncredited Work
• Sphere of Influence
• What do agents do?
• BabzHeist – Babz challenges you to write a Heist script and submit it to Simply Scripts.
  The lower the budget the better. The challenge is open ended. The titles of all entries must be prefixed with the word BabzHeist.

• Onthevergitis: (un-thuh-verg-eye-tus) Noun – the condition which can occur when writers live and die by the sale of a particular script. This condition has been known to create at least anxiety, and in some cases extreme inertia, paranoia, envy, jealousy and inactivity. Suggested treatments: socializing, networking, attending events and classes, helping others, writing more, conducting or participating in table reads, acting classes, directing class audits and most importantly living a balanced life, to name a few.

Talk about this Babz Buzz podcast on the Discussion Board

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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto and released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 license^*

Music provided by Incompetech

You can subscribe to Babz Buzz as well as SimplyScripts Radio and the occasional iScript on iTunes

^*In English, this podcast can be share with others as long as you mention the site and link back, but you can’t change it in any way or use it commercially.

First Place: Martin Lancaster

Second Place: Pete Barry

Third Place: Paul De Vrijer

Honorable Mention: Jem Rowe ~ Joe Belzberg ~ Margaret Ricke ~ Michael Berg ~ Michael Cornetto ~ Rob Gross

Top 30: Aralis Bloise ~ Bill Clar ~ Brian Wind ~ Caroline Coxon ~ Claire Fishman ~ David Laffey ~ Elissa Santo ~ Geoff Willis ~ Herman Chow ~ Joel Davis ~ Josh LaMar ~ Martin Jensen ~ Matthew Belanger ~ Matthew King ~ Paul Moxham ~Philip Whitcroft ~ Robert Hestand ~ Shawn Cottrill ~ Tim Westland ~ Zach Jansen

These 30 semi-finalists submitted the top loglines and will be moving on to our second round in April when they will submit their first ten pages. Then in August, the top ten writers will submit their feature length screenplays.

Each month, Movie Poet runs a free online five page screenplay contest. On the first of each month a new contest is announced. During that month, you can enter your script. During the next month, you can read, vote, and comment on all the entries. Finally, during the third month, the results are announced.

Head on over to Movie Poet and give it a go. – Don

MoviePoet.com is proud to announce the Semi-Finalists for our annual Feature Length Contest.

The Scorsese Club by Gregory J. Baldwin

An outcast team of 7th grade filmmakers battle through bullies, wedgies, and book reports for a shot at winning the ultimate prize at an annual youth film festival. (Family Comedy)

Read the Script 105 pages in pdf format

Status: Available

Writer Bio: Greg Baldwin is a recent graduate of San Diego State University where he studied marketing and history. In his post-graduate days he has worked for an agency representing David Hasselhoff, contributed to several independent films, and trained rescued and sheltered dogs. Today he is continuing his education while searching for a fulltime career.

Greg grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and many of the experiences in The Scorsese Club were based on his days as a childhood filmmaker with his friends. His other work on the boards includes Addiction, a comedy about America’s obsession with an early social networking website, The Lost Ghost, a Gothic horror short, and Winner Takes All, a Monopoly-themed comedy short. Also in the works is the apocalyptic adventure All Highways Lead Downtown, a project two years in the making that Greg hopes to have finished this spring.

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