SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep. 481 – The Fine Art of Filmmaking with Welby Ings

Our guest, Welby Ings is a Writer/Director who takes a very unique approach to develop and pitch his screenplays. He starts by making gallery worthy drawings to plan the visuals of the story before he writes it.

This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with artist and filmmaker Welby Ings.

Our guest, Welby Ings is a Writer/Director who takes a very unique approach to develop and pitch his screenplays.

He starts by making gallery worthy drawings to plan the visuals of the story before he writes it.

Welby Ings talks about this process and how it was used to create, write and direct the boxing drama Punch (2022) starring Tim Roth.

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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.