SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep. 488 – From Assistant Editor to Filmmaker with Bomani J. Story
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Bomani J. Story about how working as an Assistant Editor led to his big break as a filmmaker, and how his movie ‘The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster’ was a modern twist inspired by Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein.’
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Bomani J. Story.
They talk about how working as an Assistant Editor led to his big break as a filmmaker. Bomani Story is the writer/director of The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster (2023).
He talks about that movie and how it was a modern twist inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The cast of this Horror/Drama includes Laya Deleon Hayes and Chad L. Coleman.
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:
- Bomani J. Story on IMDb
- Bomani J. Story on Instagram
- The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster Trailer
- The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster on IMDb
- The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster website
- SYS Select - Includes the SYS Select Screenplay Database, our monthly newsletter to producers, and paid screenwriting leads.
- Our free guide, "How to Sell Your Screenplay in 5 Weeks!"
- SYS's Six-Figure Screenplay Contest
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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.
