SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep.445 – Niche Filmmaking For the Mermaid Community With Christine Chen
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Christine Chen about ‘Erzulie’ (2022), a Fantasy/Adventure movie Christine Chen is the Co-Writer/Director/Producer of.
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Christine Chen.
They talk about Erzulie (2022), a Fantasy/Adventure movie Christine Chen is the Co-Writer/Director/Producer of. She tells us all about Niche Filmmaking since Erzulie was made knowing the Mermaid Community could be an audience for this. Christine Chen gives details about the importance of marketing toward these select groups and how they did that for Erzulie.
She also talks about how other mermaid movies like Splash (1983) and The Little Mermaid (1989) played into this fan following. Other topics include how she co-wrote the script with writer Camille Gladney.
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You can also read a transcript of this episode.
Links mentioned in the show:
- Christine Chen on IMDb
- Christine Chen on Twitter
- Christine Chen on Facebook
- Christine Chen on Instagram
- Erzulie Trailer
- Erzulie on IMDb
- Erzulie on Twitter
- Erzulie on Instagram
- Erzulie 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.
