B.D. Reid's Lounge Discussions

Oh ok, @Deborah Richards. Does that include the mannequins?

Maurice Vaughan Yes, i made the mannequins in blender then painted them in substance painter :)

Maurice Vaughan the plants were real though, although I did use digitals plants as a gobo for the light.

Hi. I am Miguel del Campo. I submitted a feature screenplay titled "La Parca". This is a drama/horror/thriller/romance feature screenplay that draws inspiration from films of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema as well as from Robert Eggers' films (The Witch, The Lighthouse).

The tone is Cronos (Dir. Guillermo del Toro) meets The Lighthouse and I like to think that this is a love letter to my culture as well as a twist on the monster horror subgenre. Not only this, it also touches themes such as depression, death, love, loneliness and transcendence. Themes that I believe everyone can relate to, but from my point of view as a Mexican filmmaker.

Logline:

When a struggling documentarian fails to finish his film about the process of death in Mexican culture, he returns to Los Angeles to gain more funding only to discover he’s been cursed to become the new Grim Reaper.

Synopsis:

Michael is a struggling American documentarian making a film about the death process in Mexico. Once he is back in LA, and after witnessing how a hooded figure takes a man to a remote lake in the middle of the woods, mysterious things happen around him that make him question about his own mortality while he tries to save his dying project and attend the wedding between his brother and the love of his life.

I've been selected in a few festivals and competitions including:

Awards and Nominations

Best Screenplay - Thriller Feature Film at HorrOrigins Film Fest 2023

Nominated - Best Script Feature at Love and Hope International Film Festival 2023

Honorable Mention

Feature Screenplay Competition at Big Apple Film Festival 2023

The Finish Line Script Competition 2023

Selections

Feature Script at Scriptmatix Genre Screenplay Contest 2023

Finalist

Feature Screenplay at Page Turner Awards 2023

Scriptmatix Fellowship 2023

Semi-Finalist

Unproduced Feature Film Screenplay at Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival 2023

Feature Screenplay at FilmQuest 2023

Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition 2023

Portland Screenplay Awards 2023

Miami Screenplay Awards 2023

Quarterfinalist

Creative Screenwriting Feature Competition 2023

ScreenCraft Drama Competition 2023

Inroads Fellowship Season 6

ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship 2023

ScreenCraft Feature Competition 2023

Vail Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2023

Hi, everyone! A little late here, but wanted to share. I submitted my feature POPPET, a contemporary horror written for any theatre kid who never got a callback.

When reluctant stage manager Sarah makes a prop poppet for her high school’s production of “The Crucible,” she accidentally unleashes a centuries-old horror upon the cast, prompting a modern-day witch hunt. Think THE CRAFT meets the Gen Z humor of BODIES BODIES BODIES.

Good luck!

My favourite screenplays to read are Aliens, Twelve Monkeys, Spaceballs, House of 1000 Corpses, I'm reading the fisher king at the moment, it's brilliant but I hated the chick flick he also wrote horse whisperer? or maybe bridges of madison county? I'd love to get my hands on some Korine, Hartley, Assayas, Cronenberg, Park Chan-wook, Jeunet, Carruth, Chiodo, Ed Albee and Schnabel scripts. And Oleanna - though I'm not a fan of the fact that Mamet holds to three act structure. He's a brilliant writer, filmmaker though. Redbelt was awesome!

Yes, Stephanie you have to have balance. I think the key is to make your own choices and don't forget that nobody knows anything as Goldman said.

Craig D Griffiths I do that too! I find it especially good at breaking writer's block.

Stephanie - 1) when he came to nz I was deeply involved in healing from past trauma and recovering from a history of weed. I developed social phobia and ptsd (also depression, chronic anxiety, insomnia, recovering from psychosis) and it took a few years for me to get to a better place. I am still working on going to the movies/theatre and social meetups. Much of my creative projects have been hard to push because I've been devoting what feels like a full-time job to getting better at adulting and life-ing. 2) when I was at university (my second - of 3, successful uni) I majored in screenwriting (creative writing degree) and one of the most valuable things I took away from my time was free writing every morning in a classroom, there were about six of us. and we would take turns bringing in an object. Free writing was twenty to thirty minutes of no-edit writing - first thing in the morning, never let the pen come off the page inspired by the object. fiction was mandatory, medium was whatever you like. optional to share after, but most of us did, because it was so exciting. This was key to helping me transition from a writer of long hauls when inspired, to an every day writer - which is what you almost have to be to turn pro. and I totally agree with the reading thing, sometimes you get out of practise with reading as life is want to do to you, so I've started again at 5pgs/day. to build back up to a regular reader. Stephen King, Card, Greg Egan, F. Paul Wilson, Terry Pratchett, Justina Robson (a very kind human), Douglas Coupland, Harry Harrison, Dale A. Dye, Skinner, Glen Duncan, Lorenzo Carcaterra, Patrick McGrath, Nabokov, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sergei Lukyanenko, Sudhir Venkatesh, Chris Rodley, A. L. Barabasi, Eric S. Raymond (gun nut), Roald Dahl, Andy Weir, Alan Duff, Tracy Fullerton, Brian Sibley, Alan Glynn, Spike Milligan, R. L. Stine, Doug Adams and Stephen Laws are my favourites. Though I'm also fond of Craig Marriner and Stoker's Dracula.

"...and one of the most valuable things I took away from my time was free writing every morning in a classroom, there were about six of us. and we would take turns bringing in an object. Free writing was twenty to thirty minutes of no-edit writing..." Polydina Flynt, if you're still looking to do that, there's a free Writing Accountability Room on Clubhouse (https://www.clubhouse.com/room/m7y4vqgX?utm_medium=ch_room_tec&utm_campa...). There are writing accountability events (Writers' Cafes) in the Stage 32 Writers' Room also, but there's a $39.00 monthly fee for the Room (https://www.stage32.com/writers-room).

I know which film you mean. The Amazon movie, "Jack in The Box." Unfortunately, this one is not my creation.

Mine is a short film.

Welcome and Congrats! Brandon!

Sounds scary, B.D. Reid. What's your plan for the script?

Right now, I am in the midst of distilling the feedback that I've gotten to make the script stronger.

Cool, B.D. Reid. You can also post your script, logline, and synopsis in the Logline Section of your page for feedback. Producers, companies, etc. check the loglines on here. Might lead to something for your project.