SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: 428 – From Doc to Narrative Filmmaker of Movie Starring Chris Pine

This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with film Director Tarik Saleh. He went from directing documentaries and the Lykke Li “I Follow Rivers” music video, to ‘The Contractor’ (2022), an Action/Thriller starring Chris Pine and Gillian Jacobs.

This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with film Director Tarik Saleh.

He went from directing documentaries and the Lykke Li "I Follow Rivers" music video, to The Contractor (2022), an Action/Thriller starring Chris Pine and Gillian Jacobs.

Tarik talks about that transition from Doc to narrative features and how he's created opportunities in his career.

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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.