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HBO Films Roundtable Written and Directed by …
A Live Discussion
Sun Mar 25: 1:00pm at the Walter Reade Theater
Admission: $10 general public; $6 MoMA & Film Society members.

Someone has slipped a terrific script into your mailbox or tossed it over your garden wall. That’s a lucky break if you happen to be Joel Schumacher. If your name is John or Jane Doe, you are the recipient of a lottery ticket you can’t cash in on. How do you get this film project moving if you lack the necessary contacts and funds to make it happen?

Even before the inception of the independent film movement, fledgling writers and would-be directors have taken a more realistic approach, developing their own scripts and daring to direct them themselves. From among the many talented filmmakers in this year’s edition of ND/NF, more than a half dozen directed from their own scripts. An even greater number co-wrote their screenplays.

This year’s HBO Films Roundtable will discuss the pitfalls as well as the benefits of working from your own material. How does a filmmaker find a story to film, and is that a struggle? Or do their own stories compel them to become directors? Confirmed to participate in the discussion are Paul Auster (The Inner Life of Martin), Julia Loktev (Day Night Day Night), Kim Massee ( Cowboy Angels) and ND/NF alumni Eric Mendelsohn (Judy Berlin, 1999), Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden (Half Nelson, 2006).




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