Anita Marie Melerski: Screenwriter and script consultant in Burbank, California.

Hello there, My name is Anita. I am a screenwriter. I have been in the business for 14 years. I have a couple films that have won awards in film festivals. I was a child actor. I chose to transition from the front of the camera to behind it because my passion for storytelling outgrew my desire to portray story. Feels great to be in this site. I had no idea it existed until today. Its very exciting. I'm always on the look out for new ways to feed my social media addiction...HA! ;)

Question to my fellow screenwriters: How do you compose yourself and forge on when you have an original idea (or so you think) and work on a screenplay for years only to see a movie come out that is more or less, your screenplay? I'm just fishing for some motivation because one of my best screenplays that I've been trying to sell for awhile now is about vampire supermodels and I'm basically being a huge baby, crying as I read about and watch the preview for 'The Neon Demon' which is about supermodels that literally rip each other to shreds. It might not be as obviously about vampires as my screenplay but the way it's being described sounds pretty much exactly like my logline and synopsis. And even the way it looks is how I imagined my screenplay- high fashion/glamour mixed with bloody horror. I'm so disappointed... I don't know if I should even still bother trying to sell this screenplay but it's my baby. Has this happened to anyone else? and with what movie(s)?

I haven't been on here in a bit, hope all is well with everyone. Question: What's the rules on headshots. Do you find that film is different from theater with headshots? What's wanted, color instead of b/w, border or borderless, name on the front or not?

Hello! I'm a 17-year-old filmmaker from anthem Arizona, I have had an idea for a script for a very long time which involves a young child talking to his dad, who is an astronaut. Their lines are simple such as "where are you going daddy" and "can I come with". What age is a good age range that is young enough to be in grade school, but doesn't look too old? Thank you!

One of the most painful things to deal with as a screenwriter is to be given notes on a comedy sketch that make the script more hokey than actually funny. Yikes..

Rewriting is actual writing. Almost anyone can produce a first draft. The work is in the rewrite.

Hi Anita. I'm RB, Founder and CEO of Stage 32. As a screenwriter, producer, actor and filmmaker, I know first-hand the challenges all creatives face finding work, landing representation, launching projects, securing funding and simply making the connections that will make a difference in their careers. That's why I created Stage 32. Since our launch in September of 2011, the community has grown to 1,000,000+ members representing every country on the planet making Stage 32 the social network uniquely populated with the most creative people on Earth.

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Hello Anita -

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My name is Tennyson E. Stead, and I'm an award-winning writer and director who has written 19 screenplays in total - including the award-winning Unified Pictures thriller XII and Paris, now in development at Picture Perfect. In addition to 20 years of production experience on stage and screen I carry a decade of experience as an independent film development and finance executive, and my finance projects include the Weinstein Company's animated family film Igor. My primary labors today revolve around writing, directing, and developing cinema and online content with a repertory film company called 8 Sided Films with people and for an audience in whom I am deeply and personally invested. Anyone curious about my business practices, my finance methods, or my production values can check out my development and production blog, entitled "The DevelopMental Breakdown": http://www.8sidedforum.com/group/the-developmental-breakdown I'm also, as a point of interest, a disabled person living with severe traumatic brain injury as the result of a preventable production accident. Some of my ensemble members and colleagues are currently making a documentary about how I've kept career, my company, and my audience growing in the wake of my accident, and I'm always happy to educate and advocate regarding either TBI and neurological disorders or on-set safety! Here's a little more info from my blog about my accident, for anyone who's interested: http://bit.ly/1JE4Ok7 Thanks for having me on Stage 32, folks! -Tennyson E. Stead