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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You can also read a transcript of this episode.
Links mentioned in the show:
- Sheikh Shahnawaz on IMDb
- Sheikh Shahnawaz on Instagram
- Bluff Trailer
- Bluff on IMDb
- Bluff on Facebook
- Bluff on Instagram
- Bluff website
- SYS's From Concept to Completion Screenwriting Course
- Our free guide, "How to Sell Your Screenplay in 5 Weeks!"
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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.