SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Filmmaker Scott Teems on Launching a Career
Ashley Scott Meyers talks with Filmmaker Scott Teems about his new film “The Quarry” (2020), a Crime/Thriller feature starring Michael Shannon, and how a chance encounter in L.A. helped launch his career.
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Scott Teems. Topics include how a chance encounter in Los Angeles helped launch his career, and The Quarry (2020), a Crime/Thriller feature, starring Michael Shannon.
Scott Teems credits also include being a writer/director of Rectify - TV series.
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You can also read a transcript of this episode.
Links mentioned in the show:
- Scott Teems on IMDb
- The Quarry Trailer
- The Quarry on IMDb
- The SYS script analysis service
- Our free guide, "How to Sell Your Screenplay in 5 Weeks!"
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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.