SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep. 480 – How To Produce Your Own Script with Michael Escalante
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Michael Escalante about how he made his first feature, ‘The Burial’ (2023), and why he decided to produce his own script, a limited location Horror movie made on a budget.
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with Filmmaker Michael Escalante.
They talk about how to make his first feature, The Burial (2023), Michael Escalante decided to produce his own script. The Burial is a limited-location Horror movie made on a budget.
Other motivational topics include how he made the leap to write and direct his first feature without a ton of experience.
You can listen to the audio portion of the podcast by clicking here or through iTunes by clicking here.
You can also read a transcript of this episode. Links mentioned in the show:
- Michael Escalante on IMDb
- Michael Escalante on Twitter
- The Burial Trailer
- The Burial on IMDb
- Ashley Scott Meyers on The Blockchain Recorded Podcast
- 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.
