SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: 435 – How Pagan Lore Inspired the Movie ‘Shepherd’ (2021)

This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with UK Filmmaker Russell Owen about how Pagan lore, the setting in Scotland, and other rituals inspired ‘Shepherd’ (2021), a Mystery/Horror movie written and directed by Russell Owen.

This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with UK Filmmaker Russell Owen.

They talk about how Pagan lore, the setting in Scotland and other rituals inspired Shepherd (2021), a Mystery/Horror movie written and directed by Russell Owen.

Other credits Owen has as Writer/Director include Inmate Zero (2020).

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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.