SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep 419 – Get Your Movie Made With A Contest
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmakers MJ Palo and Andrew Arguello. Their movie credits include Directing the Crime Comedy ‘Carp-e Diem’ and ‘Baby Money’ (2021) which MJ Palo is one of the writers of.
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmakers MJ Palo and Andrew Arguello.
Their movie credits include Directing the Crime Comedy Carp-e Diem and Baby Money (2021) which MJ Palo is one of the writers of.
Topics also include how they are judges for the Reno Tahoe Screenplay Contest and how writers are getting work produced through that contest.
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You can also read a transcript of this episode.
Links mentioned in the show:
- MJ Palo on IMDb
- MJ Palo on Facebook
- MJ Palo website
- Andrew Arguello on IMDb
- Baby Money Trailer
- Baby Money on IMDb
- Here is info on The Reno Tahoe Screenplay Contest.
- SYS Select - Includes the SYS Select Screenplay Database, our monthly newsletter to producers, and paid screenwriting leads.
- 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.