The Successful Screenwriter with Geoffrey D Calhoun: Screenwriting Podcast Geoffrey D Calhoun

Script Summit 2023 Best TV Pilot Winner "Aftermath"

Logline: The lives of two estranged brothers collide, when one brother, accused of a brutal murder, seeks to overturn his conviction.

Geoffrey chats with Script Summit 2023 Winner Vera C about her inspiration and process for writing this dramatic thriller. She and Geoffrey discuss how properly researching and developing a TV is essential to finding success. You can find Vera in Instagram @bluebyrdskyfilms

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*This interview was recorded before the WGA strikes began.

Geoffrey chats with Filmmakers Zach Green and Devin O'Rourke about their indie sci-fi buddy comedy and how two first-time filmmakers were able to pull it all together.

Logline: An unusual piece of foil with potential alien origin causes a rift between two former best friends camping in the California desert.

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Script Summit 2023 Best Short Script Winner "A Stop Along The Road"

Logline: Based on a True Story: A young American woman has an unexpected and haunting encounter when she and her fellow sightseers stop at a roadside snack stand next to a small remote village in India.

Geoffrey chats with Script Summit 2023 Winner Kelly Lamphear-Dash. They discuss her inspiration for writing and how having a strong writers' group is essential to finding success. You can find Kelly on X (twitter) @K_S_L_D

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Script Summit 2023 Best Feature "East Jesus"

Logline: A pair of kinfolk Texas cops are lifelong products of Denler, the once-thriving rural boomtown they dutifully protect. When skyrocketing crime and moral decay threaten to wipe their tiny town from the map, the duo resort to desperate, unorthodox measures to save it.

Geoffrey chats with Script Summit 2023 Winner Duane Graves. They discuss his writing career and his Best Feature Script "East Jesus". You can find Duane on X (twitter) @duaneGraves

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Logline - A team of special agents discovers a revolutionary new computer program to bait and trap online predators. After teaming up with the program's troubled developer, they soon find that the AI is rapidly advancing beyond its original purpose.

Screenwriter Katie Presto joins Geoffrey as they discuss this engaging sci-fi drama about the moral dilemma behind A.I. and Katie also discusses her SXSW interview with the writer/director of the film Franklin Rich.

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Geoffrey chats with legendary screenwriting guru and author of The Writer's Journey, Christopher Vogler. They discuss modern audiences' fascination with antiheroes in film and television. They explore why people love to watch a bad guy as the central character and how that can provide a level of catharsis and wish fulfillment. Christopher also discusses the origins of this form of storytelling going all the way back to the Greek and Roman Gods of Justice.

You can find Chris' book The Writers Journey at:
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