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1000 BLOODY RED PIECES OF SARAH REDUX
Scott Macaulay
After I posted Ted Hope's conspiratorial movie pitch, 1000 Red Pieces of Sarah, below, Hope received this email alerting him to a competing project from someone who prefers to be referred to as "an anonymous source": "Hate to blow your bubble, but (off the record) Michel Gondry is directing the almost exact same movie as a co-production between Palm, Res Magazine, and Tokion Magazine, who has a [continue]

1000 BLOODY RED PIECES OF SARAH: A FILMMAKER BLOG MASH-UP
Scott Macaulay
Producer Ted Hope, who travels to Sundance this week with two films -- Friends with Money and The Hawk is Dying -- emailed to say that he's been reading this blog and noticing certain subcurrents linking the various posts, observing that people, things and ideas are shape-shifting between fiction and fact within our cultural landscape. He's come up with a movie pitch encapsulating his thoughts [continue]

THE AUTO SHOW
Scott Macaulay
If you haven't already read it, Paul Cullum's piece on screenwriter Eric Red in the L.A. Weekly is a fascinating read, an oddball piece of psychological detective work that looks at the aftermath of a deadly 2000 incident in which Red, screenwriter of the cult classic The Hitcher, plowed his car into a crowded West L.A. bar and then tried to commit suicide on the spot. Cullum tracks the civil [continue]

TOUCH ME IN THE MORNING
Scott Macaulay
For fans of Jan Wozencroft, the artist whose evocative and mysterious landscape photos adorn CD covers by the likes of Christian Fennesz and others on the Touch label, the folks at the U.K. music company are offering free 20 downloadable Wozencroft pics, formatted for use as screensavers on a variety of differently-sized computer screens. It's the label's 20th anniversary and a bunch of other [continue]

THE SCIENCE OF IT ALL
Scott Macaulay
There are a lot of screenplay contests and development programs out there, but the Sloan/Tribeca Screenplay Program is one of the more interesting. In addition to a sizable development grant, the program provides mentorship to screenwriters and writer/producers grappling with science and technology themes in their work. An advisory panel of writers and scientists offer a year's worth of feedback

Saturday, January 14, 2006
THE SCIENCE OF IT ALL

There are a lot of screenplay contests and development programs out there, but the Sloan/Tribeca Screenplay Program is one of the more interesting. In addition to a sizable development grant, the program provides mentorship to screenwriters and writer/producers grappling with science and technology themes in their work. An advisory panel of writers and scientists offer a year's worth of feedback and input to, says the press release, "scripts that have a scientific or technological theme and story line or have a leading character who is a scientist, engineer, or mathematician.... Screenwriters currently participating in the program are Shawn Lawrence Otto (with the story of astronomer Edwin Hubble, Hubble) and Penny Penniston (with the romantic comedy Love is Brilliant). During the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival, each project was showcased at a panel and script reading featuring leading scientists, screenwriters, and actors. Advisors for these writers include screenwriter/director Henry Bean, screenwriter/director Nora Ephron, and award winning physicist Brian Greene."

If you have a project that might fit Sloan/Tribeca's mandate, you'd better hurry up. The deadline for submissions this year is February 3. Click here for official guidelines and required submission materials.