actor/writer/filmmaker: Alex Stone in Major Payne, Grace & Grit, Lymelife, Louis, @SundanceOrg Labs alumnus, stream my new film BitterSweet click link in bio👇
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We made BitterSweet with no budget, no studio, no AI. Just years of long nights, raw emotions, and a tiny crew determined to tell a human story. It’s finally streaming July 11. Watch the trailer & help us make noise in the algorithm. Pre-order link in bio/reply. Every one counts.
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“If you build it, they will come.”
Do not use this quote or even think of this quote when making a new movie. Especially in independent film. It does not apply.
Building it is the dream. Getting them (the audience) to come to a theater or stream a movie is the business - and that is a completely different animal and often harder than making the actual movie.
Try this one instead:
“If you build it and have an audience, they will come.”
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Most cheap readers are entry-level.
They’re likely unskilled and reading your screenplay at a pace designed to beat minimum wage.
So do not overreact to random notes.
Know what story you’re telling. That’s your criterion. Take what helps. Forget the rest. Don't let it linger.
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George Lucas says the worst thing about being a writer is you can’t blame anybody, and that Star Wars came out about 25% of what he wanted
“from that day on it just got compromised”
“worst thing about being a writer is you can’t blame anybody”
“you’re the screw up”
“like 25% of what I wanted”
the biggest film of its era, and its creator saw a quarter of it
the vision is always bigger than the version
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People confuse visibility with success. Yes, some successful are visible. But there are thousands of successful people who you’ve never heard of. In short, stop crying over being visible. Baby a win, is a win regardless if your name sticks out in crowd.
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I’ve had the rare opportunity to see my writing credit in big lettering in movie theaters and it’s always thrilling.
Today the screening of our Christmas film at the American Film Market was surreal and amazing for lots of reasons but seeing a producer credit on that giant AMC screen was incredible.
So proud of the movie we made last summer and of @cathylynnyonek the talented director and one of my coproducers. Other Producer @DerekMakesFilms was home in Seattle sick but there in spirit at #AFM2026 where we talked distribution
@stevenmartini had the best laugh in the whole theater! Hire him for all comedic screenings
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Michael Arndt: "It’s really how your hero achieves her goal (and / or defeats the antagonist) that is crucial. And the way around the ‘so what?’ factor is to make the hero’s triumph (or her failure) be as meaningful as possible." #screenwriting
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AFM update!
Today we screen our Christmas movie STARRY-EYED CHRISTMAS at Century City AMC #12
(Not #9 as we thought)
1:30 for #AFM2026 badge holders!
#12
#12
@stevenmartini !! Pay heed!
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This is a clip of an actor and a director having a productive conversation about the character that ends with them on the same page and the actor wanting to jump right into the scene now that he gets it, but a lot of people are projecting very odd stuff onto it
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Corenswet wasn't being dismissive.
Anybody who works in film will tell you that's a universal "I understand you - lets shoot this immediately before it leaves me."
youtu.be/7F_uJQpvvOE?si=bg5X…
I wrote “Hymn” about being inspired by the indescribable. I guess that’s why I had to sing it. ☀️
Out today from The Spaceship Martini.
open.spotify.com/album/21n5H…
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Editing feature films, you refine, refine, refine as long as the schedule and budget allow. The editing ends when the time or money runs out.
Nothing better than finishing draft 3, knowing how much better it is than draft 2, and feeling even better that I never sent out draft 1.
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Consumption of an art form doesn’t make you an expert of it. Studying it does. Practicing it does. Executing it does. Watching a lot of movies doesn’t make you a filmmaker. Listening to a lot of music doesn’t make you an artist/record exec. I’m not a chef cuz I eat a lot of food
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Now on Tubi also
