SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep. 494 – Independent Filmmaker Deborah Twiss on Her New Film ‘Sapiosexual’
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with actress and filmmaker Deborah Twiss, who went from well-known acting credits such as ‘Kick-Ass’ to being the Actor/Writer/Director of the sexy thriller ‘Sapiosexual.’
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with actress and filmmaker Deborah Twiss.
Our guest went from well-known acting credits such as Kick-Ass (2010) to being the Actor/Writer/Director of the sexy thriller Sapiosexual. Deborah Twiss talks about that movie and how her time working briefly as a stripper helped inform her career and other movies including A Gun For Jennifer (1997).
Deborah Twiss also talks about how a project she was involved with had ties to the tragic shooting incident with Alec Baldwin on the set of Rust.
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Links mentioned in the show:
- Deborah Twiss on IMDb
- Deborah Twiss on Facebook
- Deborah Twiss on Instagram
- Deborah Twiss website
- Sapiosexual Trailer
- Sapiosexual on IMDb
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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.