[powerpress] This is Part III of my coverage of the Louisiana Film Prize 2016. It features some of the more thought-provoking interviews or ones that really connected with me for one reason or another. It also includes an interview with the winner … [Read more]
LA Film Prize 2016 All Access Coverage Part II
[powerpress] This is Part II of my coverage of the Louisiana Film Prize 2016. This episode is focused on craftsmanship. We hear from some effects artists, a director of photography, a costumer, a production sound mixer, and more filmmakers. Plus … [Read more]
LA Film Prize 2016 All Access Coverage Part I
[powerpress] The Louisiana Film Prize, now in its fifth year, is a short-film festival in Shreveport, Louisiana that awards $50,000 to the festival's top film as determined by audience votes and a panelist of judges. Taken as a whole the films … [Read more]
Producer Jenna Edwards on Budgeting, Landing Celebrities, and Surviving Trauma
[powerpress] The first feature film Jenna Edwards produced was April Showers, a film that explores a Columbine-like school shooting from the perspective of the survivors. The film lacked the resources of a big Hollywood production, but Jenna and … [Read more]
Script Consultant Pilar Alessandra from On the Page on Structure, Star Wars, and Game of Thrones
[powerpress] The 2nd edition of The Coffee Break Screenwriter just came out recently. Pilar Alessandra is the author and a script consultant who began her career as a script reader for Amblin Entertainment. She went on to provide story analysis … [Read more]
LA Film Prize 2016 Preview with Chris Lyon
[powerpress] The Louisiana Film Prize, a short-film festival that awards $50,000 to one short selected by the audience and judges, happens this year in Shreveport on Sept. 29 - Oct. 1. The festival coincides with the Louisiana Music Prize, which … [Read more]