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Nathan Ives

Man Overboard wins the Los Angeles Film and Script Festival

October 25, 2011

I’m happy to announce that a film I wrote with Nathan Ives, Man Overboard, has won top honors at the Los Angeles Film and Script Festival. It has been awarded the “Best narrative feature.” It will be screening in Santa Monica, CA on November 5th 2011. If you’re available please come out to see the [...]

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What happened to Dish Dogs?

April 21, 2010

You can find a little background on Dish Dogs here:  How I optioned and sold my first screenplay Dish Dogs Shortly after Nathan Ives and I optioned Dish Dogs we took a couple of passes at the script making changes that the producers requested.  We met with Sean Astin who was interested in directing the [...]

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Finding an idea for a script

September 30, 2009

If you’re like me you’ve got dozens of seemingly “great” screenplay ideas floating around in your head.  But how do you narrow your ideas down and figure out which ones are worth investing the time and energy to turn into a complete screenplay? My writing partner, Nathan Ives, and I are close to finishing a [...]

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Getting through the dip and getting your screenplay written

February 11, 2009

Nathan Ives and I are working on a new script. I’ll spare you the boring details about the plot, structure, and character – yeah, we got all those things. Right now we’re almost done a very rough draft. And I mean really rough draft. We’ve been working on it for several months. In its current [...]

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How I optioned and sold my first screenplay Dish Dogs

February 6, 2009

I’m sure many people reading this blog have looked at my IMDB link, but if you haven’t have a look at it. You’ll notice my first writing credit is a film called Dish Dogs starring Shannon Elizabeth, Sean Astin, Mathew Lillard, and Brian Dennehy. Dish Dogs started out as an idea I had in college [...]

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