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I am taking the day off from blogging to honor the students, faculty and family who lost loved ones at Virginia Tech University. Peace. PeterH,

Students often talk about not knowing what to write about. There are several stock answers- write about what you know, create a character first, then have your story spin out of that. In one of the best screenwriting classes I

It wouldn’t be all that hard to convert this blog into a small TV show. A DV camera, Final Cut Pro, Quick Time and I would be in business. And if enough of you click on those ads at the

It wouldn’t be all that hard to convert this blog into a small TV show. A DV camera, Final Cut Pro, Quick Time and I would be in business. And if enough of you click on those ads at the

I get asked all the time what is my favorite film and I never have an answer. One day it’s The Graduate, another day Blow Up, and the next maybe Animal Crackers. It is always differnt, but I can tell

All of the news around Don Imus and the remarks he made has me thinking about race in film. Race, which I feel is the single most important issue in American politics, defines America, so it should be no surprise

I am a big fan of the public radio show This American Life. Each week the program chooses a theme and shares a series of stories on that theme. Usually, I listen while driving and often find myself at my

Things are changing. Good, Fast, Cheap-pick two is becoming Good, Fast, Cheap- pick three, or worse Cheap and Fast- no good. It hasn’t changed in the week since my earlier pick two post, but it has been slowly coming for

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said there are no second acts in American lives. I disagree. I would say just the opposite, that American lives are almost fully made up of second acts. I don’t know if it is the times

Is film dead? That is the question. I had lunch the other day with a former student. And when he is not being a tennis official, he works often in the Chicago film business. He told me that in the