SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep. 443 – Making It Big In Shorts With Kim Adelman

This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with teacher, Producer and Author Kim Adelman. Kim is the producer of the feature ‘Just Friends’ (1996) which stars Anita Barone and Anthony Palermo. This led to a career teaching filmmaking at UCLA, producing many short films for FXM, now known as FX Movie Channel.

This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with teacher, Producer and Author Kim Adelman.

Our guest, Kim Adelman is the producer of the feature Just Friends (1996) which stars Anita Barone and Anthony Palermo. This led to a career teaching filmmaking at UCLA, producing many short films for FXM, now known as FX Movie Channel.

Kim Adelman is the author of the book "Making It Big In Shorts" and goes into detail about making short films and what studio executives are looking for in a short film and how that could lead to a 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.