SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Gavin Rothery Writer/Director of “Archive” (2020)

Filmmaker Gavin Rothery discusses creating Visual Effects for “Moon,” as well as writing and directing his Sci-Fi feature “Archive” (2020), which stars Theo James, Rhona Mitra and Stacy Martin.

This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Gavin Rothery. His latest credit is the Sci-Fi feature Archive (2020), which he wrote and directed. Archive stars Theo James, Rhona Mitra and Stacy Martin.

Topics include how Gavin Rothery works two jobs and how he started by doing Visual Effects for Moon (2009) thanks to his friendship with filmmaker Duncan Jones.

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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.