SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep 357 With Filmmaker David Freyne
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with Irish-born filmmaker David Freyne. They talk about his new LGBQ Comedy Dating Amber (2020) and how he produced work through the Ireland film grant.
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with Irish-born filmmaker David Freyne.
They talk about his new LGBQ comedy Dating Amber (2020) and how he produced work through the Ireland film grant.
David Freyne is also the Writer/Director of the horror movie The Cured (2017), which stars Ellen Page and Sam Keeley. He talks about making the jump from horror to comedy and the difficulties associated with doing that.
In the intro, our host Ashley mentioned a new Selling Your Screenplay YouTube Channel where excerpts from the podcast will be posted every week.
You can listen to the audio portion of the podcast by clicking here or through iTunes by clicking here.
You can also read a transcript of this episode.
Links mentioned in the show:
- David Freyne on IMDb
- David Freyne on Twitter
- Dating Amber Trailer
- Dating Amber on IMDb
- Here is the link for SYS shorts, subscribe and enjoy.
- The SYS script analysis service
- 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.