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‘Barbarians’ writer-director Charles Dorfman on his writing odyssey
After workshopping his story idea for eight years of stops, starts, and rewrites, Charles Dorfman swapped out his producer hat to take on the role of writer-director for his feature film debut Barbarians. Synthesizing his story, theatre experience, a...
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Though she grew up consuming the genre, at a certain point in her life screenwriter Lauryn Kahn became unable to watch horror. She was still intrigued by the genre, but would instead watch trailers and read plot synopses of films, opting to interact ...
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Emily Bennett and Justin Brooks on channeling their pandemic-induced anxieties with ‘Alone with You’
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Writers Justin Corsbie and Craig Ugoretz discuss expanding a song into a cinematic universe in ‘Hard Luck Love Song’
A carefully crafted homage to modern Americana music and the childhood years he spent in Austin singer/songwriter bars, writer-director Justin Corsbie’s debut feature film Hard Luck Love Song took an unusual piece of source material — a four-minute s...