On today’s show, I give you the rundown on step 1 of making your first short film, writing your screenplay, as well as the process I used to write my screenplay for Insanity in 5 Acts. As if that weren’t enough fun, I got to speak to actor Dominique Meyer about the joy of hitting me in the face with multiple pies, the allyship of male actors playing sexist characters in feminist films, and making authentic art versus content churning.

Places to read short film screenplays:
Shore Scripts Short Screenplay Collection https://www.shorescripts.com/short-screenplay-collection/

Simply Scripts https://www.simplyscripts.com/genre/short-scripts.html#google_vignette

BBC Script Library https://www.bbc.co.uk/writers/scripts/films

Places to watch short films:

Short of the Week https://www.shortoftheweek.com/

Klipist https://klipist.com/

Omeleto (on Youtube) https://www.youtube.com/@Omeleto

Screenwriting software:

Arc Studio Pro https://www.arcstudiopro.com/

Highland Pro https://quoteunquoteapps.com/highland-pro/

Final Draft https://www.finaldraft.com/

Writing resources:

Story by Robert McKee https://mckeestory.com/books/story/

The Craft of Scene Writing: Beat by Beat to a Better Script by Jim Mercurio https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-craft-of-scene-writing-beat-by-beat-to-a-better-script-jim-mercurio/fb2bea4c33f7c149?ean=9781610353304&next=t&

The Scriptnotes Podcast with John August and Craig Mazin https://johnaugust.com/podcast

The Screenwriting Life Podcast with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna https://www.thescreenwritinglife.co/

The No Film School Podcast & Blog https://nofilmschool.com/

The StudioBinder Scriptwriting Blog

https://www.studiobinder.com/category/scriptwriting/

My spitballing doc for scriptwriting:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/160okIqierIFz78M7dN-03J2Dm9gx9GrlDUlg2_21Qow/edit?usp=sharing

Check out the Dallas Screenwriters Association if you’re in DFW https://www.facebook.com/dallasscreenwriters/

Find Dominique Meyer on Instagram @the_blu_library …no guarantees he’ll add you.

Find me on Instagram @theroguerogers

or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559951550977

Or email me at pod@bigcovenenergyfilms.com

Complete banger of a theme song created and performed by me, Betty P. Rogers.

Make art. Save lives.

Cheers!

Betty