Monthly Archives November 2008

Pitch Meeting

Last week I scoffed three bananas, chugged an orange juice and headed off to pitch a script idea to two Australian producers and, get this, their four-time Academy Award winning Hollywood-executive business partner. After several venue changes, a few hours of waiting and about 84 preparatory pees, I find myself seated in a chichi restaurant at [...] Read More…

Adelaide Shorts Festival

Watching my film, Diagnosis, play in Adelaide on the weekend makes me think that I could quite happily live off other people’s laughter. It was the first time I’d watched the film with an audience, so I was curious to see at what point they realised they were allowed to laugh (it starts out with a [...] Read More…

It Begins… with Erotic Falconry.

OK, so I’ve got a feature script pitch meeting tomorrow. I’m excited yet expecting absolutely nothing to come of it. I’ve been working on the story outline full-time for the last few weeks. It has been regularly making me laugh out loud, which is a good sign… I hope. One of the characters has some trouble [...] Read More…