1. The Lie Assignment · One Grand Film Skool

1. The Lie Assignment

One lottery thing I attempted was a screenplay competition that shall remain nameless. I entered it and payed extra for the feedback. The feedback was just the guy or gal’s rant on how much they despised my concept. Which is fine but please give me some feedback on structure. Or character. Or pacing. Something that could have helped me on a polish. I would have liked it if the person liked the concept but I didn’t really care about that. But I really would have liked a constructive useful critique

What did it cost me. About a hundred and fifty bucks. And a lot of frustration for the shitty feedback.

Biggest takeaway from this lesson is that even if you do finish a feature or two they better be as good as but probably better than Britt’s films and you still have to win Sundance if you want to break in. I was part of a group of writers and we all collaborated on a film and we were accepted to a festival and we were bamboozled by a producers rep and sales agent who got our film on Amazon. We never saw a penny from what ever money that was made. The movie is still available on the platform.

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