Underground Exposure

Writer’s Block

Check out this blog from the Kid In The Front Row. The best article I’ve ever read about Writer’s Block – Interacting With Writers Block Don’t stop there. Check out all his Blog posts — One of the best Blogs I’ve come across pertaining to Independent Filmmaking.

Creative Writing 101

Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 basics of Creative Writing 101 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. 3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. 4. Every sentence [...]

Tips from Billy Wilder

Tips from one of the greatest from “Conversations with Wilder” by Cameron Crow. 1. The audience is fickle. 2. Grab ‘em by the throat and never let ‘em go. 3. Develop a clean line of action for your leading character. 4. Know where you’re going. 5. The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you [...]

Not for the squeamish

One of my favorite writers of today is Chuck Palahniuk best known for Fight Club. His ability to create such vivid imagery with written word is rivaled by few. For those of you with strong stomachs here is his short story GUTS. Hold your breath.

SUBMISSIONS OPEN

Underground Exposure Film Festival and Screenplay is excited to announce our call for submissions for our 2010 Film Festival and Screenplay Competition. Filmmakers and Screenwriters can submit their project directly to Underground Exposure on the Submissions page or through Withoutabox. Good Luck to all Entrants!

Hollywood’s 4 Biggest Lies

Indepentent Filmakers: Interesting article by Elliot Grove about the Film Industry – Hollywood’s 4 Biggest Lies

IMDB

Film Festival winners for Underground Exposure 2010, along with getting their Film screened at the festival, will qualify for a page on IMDB.

Big name Judges

Recently I was looking through the benefits that some of the big name festivals were touting. One of the things that kept coming up was big name judges, like say the president of distribution for the Weinstein Company. With a festival that size, that gets thousands and thousands of submissions, how many films [...]

Withoutabox

Underground Exposure is now on Withoutabox. Withoutabox users can submit their projects through Withoutabox starting October 15th.

Festival Irritations

Having been on the submitter side of Film Festivals, one of the most irritating facets for me was not knowing if anyone actually viewed my Film or read my Script. With no communication after the payment confirmation I often wondered if my submission had simply been tossed aside due to some minor mistake I [...]