SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep 429 – Ivan Sen On Building A Story Around A Location
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Ivan Sen, writer/director of ‘Expired’ (2022), a Sci-Fi Romance movie, starring Hugo Weaving and Ryan Kwanten.
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Ivan Sen.
He is the writer/Director of Expired (2022), a Sci-Fi Romance movie. Expired stars Hugo Weaving (The Matrix) and Ryan Kwanten (True Blood).
Sen's Writer/Director credits also includes the Mystery Road (TV Series). Topics also include how Ivan Sen approaches writing by building a story around a location.
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You can also read a transcript of this episode.
Links mentioned in the show:
- Ivan Sen on IMDb
- Expired Trailer
- Expired on IMDb
- The SYS Film Festival - Enter through Film Freeway
- 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.