{"id":321,"date":"2019-03-19T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/?p=321"},"modified":"2019-03-19T13:04:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T13:04:06","slug":"nicholl-and-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/03\/19\/nicholl-and-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholl and Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve submitted my screenplay for “The Dominatrix Wore Red<\/a>” to the Nicholl Fellowship<\/a> and the Austin Film Festival Screenplay<\/a> competition.\u00a0 There are plenty of others, but these were the only two that seemed to provide the best bang for the buck.\u00a0 While I’d love to win, my goal is to get somewhere in the finals, as that’ll mean I made it into the top tier (500 or so) of the 7,000+ submissions.\u00a0 So I’ve heard, simply being formatted properly will get you into the top 1K.\u00a0 Probably not true, but gives me reason to be optimistic as I wait.\u00a0 And wait.\u00a0 And wait.<\/p>\n

There’s supposed to be a way out of the Catch-22 situation of not being able to attract a name actor (which is generally required for any sort of distribution, hence prospects of turning a profit) without a budget and not being able to get investors for your budget without any sort of attached name actor.\u00a0 The idea is to find a B-list actor (one step down from the A-list<\/a>) who is a recognizable face (TV or film), yet has few to no movie lead roles and no more than one or two lead TV roles.\u00a0 The idea is they (or, rather, their manager) are open to opportunities where they can be film leads, so are willing to attach themselves to a project that lacks a budget.\u00a0 Often as an executive producer, which can also help them if their career aspirations extend behind the camera.\u00a0 Then, with that name actor, investors are supposedly a lot less reluctant to get involved (getting the first can still be a nightmare, though – it seems no one wants to be number one).\u00a0 On an impulse, after binge watching a TV series, I sent an email to the manager of a featured actress I thought would do very well for the role of Elise and fit the B-list criteria.\u00a0 Shockingly (not), I haven’t heard back (it’s only been about 10 days, so perhaps there’s still hope, though I’ve largely given up).\u00a0 But it seems to be a numbers game: contact a bunch until I find one who’ll at least read the script.<\/p>\n

The Dominatrix story has turned into a trilogy (BlueDom<\/a> has been followed by DarkDom<\/a>), which is something I hope will increase interest in the project.\u00a0 Of course, I still have to get the first in the series going before I can even fantasize about more (well, I guess I can fantasize any time ;-), but I feel good about the trilogy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve submitted my screenplay for “The Dominatrix Wore Red” to the Nicholl Fellowship and the Austin Film Festival Screenplay competition.\u00a0 There are plenty of others, but these were the only two that seemed to provide the best bang for the buck.\u00a0 While I’d love to win, my goal is to get somewhere in the finals, … Continue reading “Nicholl and Austin”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-dominatrix-wore-red"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}