Selling Your Screenplay: Screenwriter Alan Katz Talks About Pitching
In this episode of the Selling Your Screenplay Podcast I interview veteran screenwriter and producer Alan Katz about pitching. He’s been pitching both television and feature film ideas for many…
In this episode of the Selling Your Screenplay Podcast I interview veteran screenwriter and producer Alan Katz about pitching. He's been pitching both television and feature film ideas for many years and has some great war stories to share.
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About Alan Katz:
A L Katz has been a feature film and television writer and producer for over 27 years. Over the course of his career, he’s run some of the most iconic shows on American television (Tales From The Crypt, The Outer Limits) and worked with (to name just a few) Bob Zemeckis, Joel Silver, Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Daniel Craig, Steve Coogan, Whoopi Goldberg, Billy Bob Thornton and Ewan McGregor. He’s written and produced feature films, written and produced television pilots and even written for computer game giant Electronic Arts. He is currently in pre-production (as a writer and producer) of The Genex, a feature film about the Armenian genocide.
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Ashley Scott Meyers is a screenwriter and blogger / podcaster. Since beginning his career as a screenwriter in the late 1990’s he’s optioned more than two dozen feature screenplays and sold a half dozen. And he’s done it all without an agent or manager, instead opting to use his pragmatic screenplay marketing guide which he teaches at SellingYourScreenplay.com.