Malcolm Johnstone: Director, screenwriter and producer in Victoria, Canada.

Debbie Croysdale
NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR by George Orwell

Picked book cos missed the lecture on it at university. Meaty prose opposed to minimum expletives of shorter sentences in recent modern fiction. Follows inner workings of protagonist’s mind in a bonkas sadistic dystopian society & smacks of sinister warnings for the future. Author highlights things...

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Debbie Croysdale

@Simon Thanks for info on Animal Farm. @Malcolm Thanks for info on Down and Out in Paris and London. I've got those two titles on my must read list!

Sarah Jane Mc Carthy

Great review, Debbie, I really enjoyed it. Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm were life-perspective changing books for me. Those, along with Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451...

Michael Dzurak

A great book. I read it when bed-ridden with a flu and I think it made my flu last longer.

Neither Animal Farm nor Brave New World are much more hopeful, but Fahrenheit 451 ends with a tinge of hope.

Malcolm Johnstone

So, I have exciting news. I am now in the post production stage of a new short film! I wrote it around the start of this year, having rattled it around the noggin for a little while. Directed it last month and hope to start submitting it to festivals next month.

It's called Where Credit Is Due. It i...

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Malcolm Johnstone
Adventures In The Screen Trade - William Goldman

This one is a classic for a reason. This book is the first (of at least 3?) books by the author and screenwriter William Goldman. He won both Best Original Screenplay (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and Best Adapted Screenplay (All The President's Men) Oscars as well as both the original book a...

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Lindbergh E Hollingsworth

Excellent book, it is! I read it in the late 80's and then again in the 90's.

Richard "RB" Botto

Hi Malcolm. 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.

This is a network for you, built by you. Lik...

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Amanda Toney

Hello Malcolm -

Welcome to the community! I'm Amanda Toney, the Managing Director at Stage 32. Since 2013 I've been proud to oversee Stage 32's Next Level Education, which provides you the most up-to-date tools necessary to become a better creative.

Over the years Stage 32 has worked with over 500 industry executives and professionals to teach online webinars, classes and intensive labs exclusively for you - our Stage 32 community. We bring you instructors who have worked directly on some of your favorite films, TV shows or theater productions to teach you in-the-trenches information that you...

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