SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep. 540 – From Shorts to Features with Filmmaker Miguel Duran

Miguel Duran talks about his writing process and how making short films was part of his path to directing feature length movies.

In this episode of the podcast, Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Miguel Duran.

Our guest, Miguel Duran is the Writer/Director of the road trip Rom-Com Adventure Tom (2025) and the Drama Monsoon (2018). They talk about his writing process and how making short films was part of his path to directing feature length movies.

You can also read a transcript of this episode.

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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.