Screenwriting

Hello, Creative Army!  Miss me?  It was a remarkable and rewarding week plus at Cannes this year.  Our Stage 32 events with the Marche were packed to the gills and filled with inspiring, motivational and actionable information.  And it was standing room only at our party at the American Pavilion.  A full recap coming soon right here on the Stage 32 Blog.  In the meantime, if you'd like to see some photos and videos from Cannes 2019, click here. Now it's time to jump into another long overdue e...

Unless you've been in one, the language that gets thrown around a writer's room is quite different from our everyday vocabulary. Every industry has a language, and TV writing is no different. When I was in the newsroom, for example, terms like package and vosot and stand up were commonplace. But if I were to walk out the door and say to someone, "Hey, I'll be right with you. I have to drop my package, record a quick vosot, and meet my photographer to shoot a stand up," they would look at me cr...

As a writer, getting your content out there in the media can be a long shot in the dark on a sunny day with 3-D glasses on. Your sense of direction can be lost on which path to take that actually pays off. But that could all be changing very soon due to an uprising that has led to quirky hashtags on Twitter. If you could log onto social media then add a hashtag and pitch your writing to Studio Executives – Would you? This is what happened when the drawbridge to the Writers’ Guild of America (W...

In my previous entry, I was one week into witnessing the feature film BREAK EVEN being shot based on the script I’d written on assignment. I’m now back in Blightly over a month later and have only just about recovered. The first week was tough, incredibly tough, and I had no idea things would only get more intense, more exciting, and more exhausting in the weeks to follow. We came back riding the waves like the subject of an action movie rather than the creators of it, the huge motor yacht hav...

Hi, Everyone! Welcome back to the Dear Bradley Vlog. Every month I'm going to be answering your most burning filmmaking questions. If you have one, please submit your questions in the comments below or via Instagram @Bradley_Gallo. Be very specific and I will personally answer your question the best I can. Some answers will come in long form and others in a lightening round (multiple questions with 15 second answers). Some of you will have the same question and so we will combine those. So ask...

When I was 10 years old, I stayed home sick from school (totally faked it) and watched 'Army of Darkness' on the USA Network. Little Nick's mind was blown. Since then, I've wanted to make movies. Specifically, wacky sci-fi/horror comedies. If you know me, you know I'm a writer, and I spend a good amount of my time focusing on my writing. I have scripts out to production companies for the first time in my life, and the waiting can start to feel like a very long time. So I started out 2019 with...

What do showrunners look for when staffing a writer's room? The ability to write, yes.The ability to play well with others, of course.But there's more. Much more, especially with the situation with ATA-WGA creating a level of anxiety with writer's both old and new. It's not just about story arcs and solid portfolios.Click the link below to learn what four showrunners are looking for when it comes to getting butts in seats.   Read More Here: What 4 Showrunners Look for When Staffing a...

So you made a movie. You even have an offer from a sales agent to sell it worldwide. You are excited. Your film is selling in Cannes! It’s selling at the American Film Market! It’s screening at Berlinale! You're having viewing parties with friends and family, showing off the brochure or the listing of your movie in the Trades. You dream about the new movie you will make or the house you'll buy with the profits from the first one, and you're sure there will be so many dollars coming your way from...

If you read Part: 1 How to Create a Docu-Series that Intrigues (The Making of 'Make it Work'), then you learned that Kern and I believe that every movie is like a child and the parents, with the producer and director sharing the joys and struggles of creating something from nothing.This was the case for the docuseries, MAKE IT WORK. It is a child we're extremely proud of, and was born from a genuine ambition to put the spotlight on young people in America who are using STEM to transcend otherw...

Every movie is like a child and the parents, typically, and are the producer and director sharing the joys and struggles of creating something from nothing and presenting it to the world as a reflection on the best of the parents intentions. MAKE IT WORK is a child that we are extremely proud of, as it was born from a genuine ambition to focus the spotlight on young people in America who are using STEM to transcend otherwise limiting boundaries in their lives to create products that benefit thei...