SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep. 478 – Making A James Bond Documentary with Matthew Bauer

This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Matthew Bauer about his new Documentary ‘The Other Fellow’ (2022). Other topics include how the structure of a documentary is different from a fictional movie.

This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Matthew Bauer.

Australian Writer/Director Matthew Bauer talks about his new Documentary The Other Fellow (2022).

This doc is about men in real life who are named James Bond and how that had lasting effects on their lives. It leads them to ask, what's in a name? Our host Ashley Scott Meyers talks about how his name has interesting consequences as well.

Other topics include how the structure of a documentary is different from a fictional movie.

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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.