In attendance, among the MANY people jamming the Fantasia Theater at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, CA was me, Frank Rogala, and the panelists: Steve Boeddeker, Jason Bentley, Gary Rizzo, James Haygood, Gwendolyn Whittle. Somehow I was lucky enough to be on the email invitation list for this presentation. I admit I was pretty blown…
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The Social Network
by Frank Rogala • • 0 Comments
Now that CGI seems to be a part of every movie, even ones without robots or time warps in space - you just don't see it coming until it is too late. I am speaking in particular of the fake CGI breath in cold weather. Really bad, distracting. Just be way more subtle til you…
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PitchQ pitching your screenplay via video on the internet – my experience!
by Frank Rogala • • 0 Comments
I attended the 2008 Screenwriters expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center. If you aren't acquainted with this event, it brings together world-class speakers, seminars, software and an opportunity to pitch your screenplay directly to agents, managers and producers as well as studios. I happened across a booth for Pitchq. They put screenwriter's pitchs online…
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Can Youtube.com Save Screenplay Doomed By Loss of Rights and Writer’s Strike?
by Frank Rogala • • 0 Comments
For Immediate Release January 13, 2008 Integrated Entertainment Management, 2166 W. Broadway, #268, Anaheim, CA 92804 Contact: Frank Richards (888) 372-6523 Can Youtube.com Save Screenplay Doomed By Loss of Rights and Writer's Strike? Screenwriter, Frank Rogala, has made a last ditch YouTube.com* "video pitch" to save his movie. After six years of research,…
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Emergency Pitch for Screenplay
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A screenwriter faced with the writer's strike and the expiration of his option agreement on a six year writing project makes an Emergency Pitch to have a film made of his screenplay about a young woman's adventure working in group homes for the developmentally disabled and struggles with mental retardation specialists. Frank Rogala explains this…
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Not a Star Wars Geek but….
by Frank Rogala • • 0 Comments
I am not a Star Wars geek, however, I know and love a few. Recently I was keeping an eye on the "Vader Project" exhibited last week as a part of Celebration IV in Los Angeles, was sponsored in part by one such geek/friend/person (Dov Kelemer). Dov's fledgling company specializing in distributing what I can…