SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep 436 – Making 12 Short Films In A Year

This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with UK based filmmaker Sheikh Shahnawaz, Writer/Director of the Crime Thriller ‘Bluff’ (2022). Sheikh Shahnawaz talks about making 12 short films in a year and why they spent more money marketing the feature ‘Bluff’ than was spent to produce the movie.

This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with UK based filmmaker Sheikh Shahnawaz.

He is the Writer/Director of the Crime Thriller Bluff (2022). Sheikh Shahnawaz talks about making 12 short films in a year and why they spent more money marketing the feature Bluff than was spent to produce the movie.

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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.