Write to Shoot

Preface

Screenwriters are big dreamers. We love writing down those dreams so they can be made “real.” Wanting to see what’s in our heads made universally visible is what drives us. It’s a tall order but one we’ve signed up for. And we usually wait with the hope that someone will share our dream and actually commit to producing it.

Sometimes that’s a long wait. Often we’re rebuffed and rejected. Sick of that? Well, there’s another way around this waiting game, and that’s to make the film ourselves. Those of us ready to take this giant step of actually materializing our dreams by shooting them are faced with an even more daunting dilemma. We need to become practical, and in dreamland, practicality is a four-letter word that often tears us apart. ...