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Pitching Films: tips from Mark Gordon & Marshall Herskovitz - YouTube Pitching Films: tips from Mark Gordon & Marshall Herskovitz Times may change, but the pitch remains the critical component of Hollywood salesmanship, your first—and sometimes only—opportunity to let your idea sink or swim. To that end, we provide our own shark-infested waters, a rare opportunity to refine your pitching skills with the help of some of the best in the business. Produced By offers this session focused on feature film. Although our panelists will not be buying actual pitches; the focus is solely on developing this essential producing skill and learning its finer points via real-time case studies. If you are interested in offering a pitch for critique, then click here to sign up… or learn from the sidelines and watch the feeding frenzy. Session Sponsor The Hollywood Reporter Speakers Stephanie Allain Dear White People, Hustle & Flow; Principal, Homegrown Pictures, Inc. ...

This film was never released for the general public. It was hidden in Chaplin's private vaults for forty years until he included some parts of it in his compilation 'The Chaplin Revue' in 1959. How to Make Movies by Charlie Chaplin - 1918 

How Dialogue Is Like Toilet Paper by William C. Martell Some interesting questions and answers about writing dialogue for your screenplay. I find it helpful to know the characters as much as possible so that the dialogue flows. A lot of work is done in character development and backstory so that I can achieve this process...but sometimes that doesn't work. Sometimes the process is much more fluid and it comes from the exchange between the characters and scene...and sometimes you don't need it because of subtext...in which case dialogue is pointless and useless. But then again, I love the way Quentin Tarantino uses mundane situations to heighten character exposition.