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Quality Time With
Hilliard Guess, An Interview
HOLLYWOOD—Actor, writer, director and filmmaker Hilliard Guess
recently told me about an exciting new project he has created. It is
a horror script titled, “30 Miles From Nowhere,” and recently became
the Grand Prize winner at Screenplay Festival under the
Thriller/Horror category. I caught up with the award-winning actor
and writer this week.
Q-What is your award-winning screenplay about?
A-“30 Miles From Nowhere” is a horror/action script about a
ferocious beast who hunts a group of stranded strangers in the
middle of nowhere.
Read more…
PRESS RELEASES:
Sonya Steele's new web series
"Celeste Bright" has completed shooting. Episodes
are
available for viewing at the series website:
http://celestebright.com/
Zelie and Lynn
Slack's feature film, The Sweetest Heir, is now listed on IMDb.
We invite you to view the trailer and give it a star rating at
their IMDb page.
For more
information about their film, please visit The Sweetest Heir's
official website at
www.thesweetestheir.com
Hilliard Guess - part of the
OBS On Tour Team, the Educational Committee, and a Cosby Fellow -
premiered his first short film Troublesome as
Writer/Director. Below is a link to a review of film.
For more information about this
production, click on the picture below:
Congratulations to OBS member
Bridgett Michele Lawrence, Writer Assistant on
"LOVE THAT GIRL!"
Kudos to the creators of the web
series featured at January's "Night at the Movies". If
you couldn't make it to the event, you can still visit their
websites to see what you missed:
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4th
Annual Mid-Atlantic Black Film Festival
takes place October 7 - 9, 2010
2010 is turning out to be quite a prolific
year for
Hilliard Guess
and his Hilldog Productions. His short film
"TROUBLESOME" was accepted into the 2010 LOS
ANGELES LATINO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL at the MANN'S
CHINESE 6 THEATERS – (August 19-25th).
Make plans to attend the screening for this acclaimed
film.
“TROUBLESOME”
has also been accepted into the 2010 NYC DOWNTOWN SHORTS
FILM FESTIVAL and the 2010
SAN FRANCISCO BLACK FILM FESTIVAL!
More festival announcements are soon to come.
Furthermore, his new short suspense script
"NINE BELOW ZERO" won RUNNER UP - BEST
DRAMATIC SHORT at the 2010
ACTION ON FILM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL.
"NINE BELOW ZERO”
is also currently in the QUARTERFINALS and working its way
up in the 2010 PAGE INTERNATIONAL
SCREENWRITING AWARDS.
In the midst of all this activity he
is also producing a spec TV pilot entitled "MOUTHPIECE"
- an edgy, single camera show in the vein of Entourage.
Congratulations to
Hilliard
on all these accomplishments!
From
Justin
Price:
"Daddy's Home" is a drama/thriller in the same vein as "The Hitcher" and "When
a Stranger Calls" with a fresh faced cast and cutting edge
approach to the genre(s). Here are the specs for your brief
review:
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Runtime: 90 minutes
Format: R3d, blu ray disc
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Synopsis:
Angelica is a fresh-on-the-job elementary school teacher who
follows her long time boyfriend Bryon to a new town. On the
first day of school she notices one of her students (Willow)
seems troubled and different from all the other kids. After
a period of unbroken silence from Willow and violent
behavior from her older brother Steven, Angelica learns that
there is a problem far beyond her power to fix. When the
children's dark family secret becomes known, Angelica does
what she can to protect them, even if her own livelihood is
at stake. As the situation unravels, so does her sanity in
this story of deception, mystery and terror. The question
is... What do you do when Daddy comes home?
IMDb Page:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1617630/
YouTube Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fyQ6WyKghI
Myspace Link:
http://www.myspace.com/daddyshomethemovie
Twitter Link:
http://www.twitter.com/daddyshomemovie
Facebook Link:
http://www.facebook.com/daddyshomethemovie
Michael Ajakwe’s
web series site will host the first web film fest in Los
Angeles:
I'm a new festival that only prays to web series and I'd like
you to visit my house of worship in March so you can watch
some really cool shows
I found online and meet the peeps who
make and star in them.
www.lawebfest.com
THE LOS ANGELES WEB SERIES FESTIVAL (LAWEBFEST)
Friday March 26 * Saturday March 27 * Sunday March 28 Stage 52
Theater, 5299 W. Washington Bl., Los Angeles (between Hauser &
Fairfax).
Sponsored by
www.AjakweTV.com,
Stage 52 Theater, and
www.CreatingTheWeb.com.
Visit
www.lawebfest.com
for information and updates.
I really hope you come out to see me. That way we can meet and
you can find out why I am so excited about this
first-of-its-kind thingamajig.
See you March 26-28th,
Los Angeles Web Series Festival 2010
www.lawebfest.com
PS: I had no idea being a pioneer in something could be so
much fun:)
LAWEBFEST 2010
www.lawebfest.com
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 Volume 14 \ Number 1, Jan/Feb 2008
Script Extra Edition: The Organization of Black Screenwriters
Reporting by
Robert Piluso
You've heard it a million times: Writing is a lonely profession.
But there really is strength in numbers, and support in a
creative community. If your goals for 2008 include joining or
forming your own writers group, the Organization of Black
Screenwriters is an excellent model. With newly-elected
President Jennifer Williams at the helm, 2008 is sure to hold
great things for the Los Angeles-based OBS.
As to its beginnings, Williams says, “The OBS was founded 20
years ago to help foster good writing and to help up-and-coming
writers make it into the business.” Today, the OBS network spans
from the WGA to agents, producers, and other industry insiders.
The benefits of belonging to OBS abound. First, Williams
explains, “We have OBS-sanctioned writers groups that we form
which get the writer in the habit of writing good material.
Groups of six to 15 members meet on a weekly or monthly basis,
coming together and reviewing each other’s work. They do a
table-read of 10 to 15 pages [of each script] and then each
member gives the writer feedback. The OBS not only gives the
writers information on format and general grammar in some cases,
but also if the story is really working, if it’s something the
writer should continue with, without changing the writer’s
original focus.”
Furthermore, the OBS stages dramatic readings. Williams
enthuses, “We choose at least 3 or 4 scripts. We bring actors
in, hold auditions, cast the work, and do dramatic readings of
the first 30 pages.” On OBS’s agenda for 2008, along with
regular monthly meetings, Williams reveals, “We’re moving in the
direction of production. We want to produce our own work. We’re
trying to gear our writers up, get them attached to writers
groups, and really polish their work to perfection to take it to
the next level. We have people with filmmaking skills, who know
what to do behind the camera, and we’re going to try and pull
all that together to see if we can create our own films:
webisodes and maybe DVD.”
To aspiring screenwriters Williams advises, “Write until you
can’t write again, and then write some more. That’s the only way
you’re going to get better. It has to be your passion and you
have to be willing to do what it takes to achieve your goals.
Although the OBS can [offer] support, it’s still your individual
effort and your own self-motivation that’s going to move you to
the next level -- you have to be willing to sit and write when
nobody else is there.”
For more information, or to join OBS,
Visit:
www.obswriter.com
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