SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Lisa Van Dam-Bates on Making a Body Horror Movie
Writer/Director/Actor Lisa Van Dam-Bates talks with Ashley Scott Meyers about the Body Horror movie Marla (AKA Marla Mae). This female filmmaker discusses how Reproductive Rights influenced her feature debut.
Writer/Director/Actor Lisa Van Dam-Bates talks with us about the Body Horror movie Marla (AKA Marla Mae). This female filmmaker talks about how Reproductive Rights influenced her feature debut.
Lisa also mentions how doing the Special Effects for Marla Mae showed that she has a passion for Make-up Effects.
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You can also read a transcript of this episode.
Links mentioned in the show:
- Lisa Van Dam-Bates on IMDb
- Lisa Van Dam-Bates on Instagram
- Marla (AKA Marla Mae) Trailer
- Marla (AKA Marla Mae) on IMDb
- The SYS script analysis service
- Our free guide, "How to Sell Your Screenplay in 5 Weeks!"
Learn more about writing horror in our on-demand webinar, Writing Great Horror Films & TV Shows
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.
