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The Script Is Not Enough
by Jamison LoCascio
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Genre: Non-Fiction ( How-To)
Synopsis
The Script is not Enough takes a unique look at the making of four different independent feature films. The author takes you through every stage in development from writing, to financing, and to distribution and marketing. Find out how you can learn from the hard experiences and challenges that face the filmmaker along the way.
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Enjoy this peek inside:
LICENCE TO SELL (MOVIES):
I won’t tell you the names, places, and legal entities, but I’ll tell you the truth…this was simply one dark moment in a full schedule of (intentionally?) disheartening Film Lab events on my schedule for the day. I was realizing how dark this hole was, and I needed to climb out of it, but first I had more to mine here. I was already in the hole, so I had to keep looking around. It was giving me a sort of courage too, as I realized I also had nothing much to lose in a place where there was little or nothing to gain, it was a place that was only designed to remind you that “no one cares.” It was the beginning of a positive feeling in me though, the feeling of needing to chart my own course and not rely on others to give the secret map to success. It did not exist anyway.
I had bought a pass to a prestigious event, a sort of convention for both new and established filmmakers alike (I will not name it as I do not know that they are directly to blame for this negative atmosphere, though many of their guests are). Major studios, distributors, actors, filmmakers. Interviews, panel discussions, audience questions, stages filled with people giving both bad and good advice alike, sometimes at the same time. This was all happening around me. It was very impressive looking, but once you saw behind the curtain the magic was lost. You name a distribution company (out of Hollywood), they had something happening here but what that something was, was not really much value to the individual filmmaker who could attend. Tickets were also expensive.
Now, in a very funny turn of events, we wound up with the very distribution company that had laughed in my face. What a coincidence. If only quality producing was the barometer for success and doors opening. It truly is not. So, I went home that day without a “deal” but instead, gained a much better understanding of the wall that existed. It needed to be gotten around, to distribute. There was always another, hopefully less insane, way.
In many chapters I have listed each film we have made thus far, and explained how each process went per the film given. For this chapter I will instead tell how it happened in sequence and the reader will hopefully piece together their own take away, their own “lesson” if applicable to them.
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About Author Jamison LoCascio:
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Jamison LoCascio is an award-winning feature film director. In 2012, Jamison LoCascio began to write the screenplay for his first union short, “Midnight Catch,” which garnished much acclaim at the New Jersey International Film Festival and Manhattan Film Festival. LoCascio decided to form his production company, Halcyon Valor Productions Incorporated. Graduated from Montclair State University with honors winning the “Excellence in Filmmaking” award for his numerous successful productions which premiered in film festivals around the world. LoCasio’s short films have since been honored by the Screen Actors Guild and screened at such festivals as the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, Montclair Film Festival, and NewFilmmakers New York. LoCascio’s shorts “Track 3,” “A Stranger’s Confession,” and “Powerless” were all official selections of the Festival de Cannes Short Film Corner. His films have been anthologized in the prestigious Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan, distributed worldwide on DVD, picked up for online distribution by Film Bay. DIRECTV & AT&T distributed 6 of LoCascio’s short films on their new International short film platform. LoCascio’s first feature film, “The Depths,” starring Michael Rispoli and Patch Darragh won Best Feature Film at the 2017 Manhattan Film Festival and had a strong critical reception. The film also won Best Feature Film and Best Director at the 2017 Los Angeles Film Awards and received domestic distribution with Sony Pictures and The Orchard releasing on all major platforms including Amazon, Itunes, DVD and more. LoCascio’s second feature film “Sunset” starring acclaimed actor Austin Pendleton received rave reviews and won multiple awards including Best Dramatic Feature Film at the 2018 Manhattan Film Festival, Best Ensemble at the 2018 Los Angeles Film Awards, Best Leading Actor (David Johnson) International Independent Film Awards. “Sunset” also received domestic distribution with Sony Pictures and The Orchard. LoCascio and Adam Ambrosio have recently launched their latest initiative by filmmakers for filmmakers called Film Valor, a youtube channel with over 3,000 worldwide followers and over 250,000 views, a behind the scenes look at their filmmaking process. “Know Fear,” his latest feature film, received critical acclaim and stars Amy Carlson. The film had a limited theatrical release. His next feature film “How Dark They Prey,” a unique horror anthology, has been released on major streaming platforms including Amazon Prime, Tubi, Plex, Udu, Mometu and many more with critics hailing the film as “Horror at its best”. His latest feature film release “7×7” is a collection of many of LoCascio’s award-winning short films brought together for one viewing experience on major platforms including Tubi and Amazon Prime.
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Literally a behind the scenes look. Interesting.
The book sounds very interesting!
Thank you for hosting!
Sounds like a good book.
Sounds like a very interesting read.
Who is your favorite vintage movie director?
Alfred Hitchcock, I also love Akira Kurosawa and Charlie Chaplin, amongst many many others.
Sounds like a good read.
Awesome!
this sounds really interesting, thanks
What things are different in writing for a film versus a book ? Is the process more collaborative with film?
Film is about the collaboration of many people and ideas. It must be a team that works on a film, big or small. Books are more freedom to do the storytelling yourself, without working through so many processes. It is a level of freedom I enjoy also.
This sounds very interesting. Thanks for the giveaway!
Coming from a film background, which I have since left, this sounds very intriguing.
sounds really exicitng, thanks
Hope it does awesome!
sounds great
Have an enjoyable Saturday.
I enjoyed reading this well done excerpt!
Thank you for sharing it.
have a great Sunday
What to you are the most important elements of good writing?
Clear and interesting plot, characters that you both understand and care about (like or hate them), unique or worthwhile premise.
Enjoy your Sunday!
This sounds like an interesting book and I also like the cover.
hope you have a great week of writing
I think I would have a hard time putting this book down after starting to read it.
thanks for sharing this sounds like a good book to read
Do you ever write in more than one genre?
Yes I really learned in the fashion of old studio directors in the sense that a good friend encouraged me to make films in all genres like studio directors used to have to do. This, for me, was absolutely essential to my growth. I have made films in many genres including comedy, drama, thriller and sub genres neo-noir thriller, horror paranormal, horror slasher, war film, sci-fi, dance movie, super-hero, animation, documentary, crime, etc.
What part of the book did you have the hardest time writing?
I think the part where I needed to address my upbringing was the hardest part, because it was not something I wanted to make part of the text (I hate life stories in these types of books) yet I was rightly told it is essential. I placed this all only in the foreward to get it out of the way.
is it hard to choose a title
For books and films – yes always. There isa business concern here too which makes it even more challenging.
If you could tell your younger writing self anything, what would it be?
The whole book is essentially the answer to this question.
do you ever get writers block?
I don’t believe in this ever, never have never will. It’s making something possible less possible and that’s not the way to do anything. I believe in plot and character problems that just need solutions, sometimes they come fast and sometimes they come with a moment of inspiration from watching, reading, living. Sometimes you can just talk to a friend and this moves the work forward. Writer’s must write to find their story not think to find it.
I’m excited to read this book.
thanks again for the great giveaway
When did you discover you have the gift of writing?
When I was forced to do it to get a chance to direct something – then I just never stopped doing it! Grown very much over the years so glad I was forced to then.
Very unique cover! What an intensely interesting life the author has had!
Thank you, I had always dreamed of being involved in movie-making and I am proud to say that I have been at all!!! Thank you! Everyone has an interesting story, if you listen hard enough.
Looking forward to checking it out!!