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Jen Grisanti Consultancy

Story and script consultancy by Jen Grisanti.....

Jennifer Zhang & Save the Cat's Cracking the Beat Sheet

In the Cracking Your Beat Sheet workshop, you'll start with an idea for a novel or film and leave with the 15 key beats that will become the backbone of your story. ....

Jermaine Johnson - Lit Manager & Producer, 3 Arts Entertainment

Jermaine Johnson is a literary manager and producer at the Beverly Hills-based 3 Arts Entertainment.   A fellow scorpio, he is and has always been unapologetically himself. I would know since we met during the early days of our LA journey. Originally from New Jersey, he moved to Los Angeles for the weather, but stayed for the film industr....

Jersey Flix, LLC

Jersey Flix is a Northern New Jersey-based independent film company dedicated to producing and promoting innovative short and feature length films. Specializing in comedy, our team members have been entertaining audiences in the Tri-State area through stand-up routines and film festivals since 1998. With a showcase including awards from Los Angel....

Jodie Foster with Julie Taymor

Academy Award® winning actress and director, Jodie Foster, was interviewed by Tony Award® winning director, Julie Taymor at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. They discussed their wildly different directing styles, why they’re both sick of the woman director conversation, and the audition that started Jodie Foster’s career.....

John August

I’m mostly known as a screenwriter. My credits include Go, Big Fish, Charlie’s Angels, Titan A.E., Charlie and Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride and Frankenweenie.....

John Badham Company

In addition to directing, John Badham is also an accomplished producer. Not only producing as well as directing many of his own films, he has served as an executive producer for Stephen....

John Truby and 10 Top Story Techniques

A good pitch can get you through the door, but what makes the sale is a script with a great story. It turns out that very specific story techniques are found in the Blockbuster scripts Hollywood is desperate to buy. John Truby, considered "the best script doctor in the movie industry," tells you exactly what these story techniques are, an....

John Truby On The Oscar-Nominated Scripts

The ISA is pleased to present John Truby exclusively as he tackles this 2012\'s Oscar-nominated scripts - the winners, the losers, why some scripts are nominated, why others aren\'t and more. Mr. Truby hopes to get you to look under the surface, to see the structural decisions these Oscar-nominated writers made in creating their scripts.....

John Witcher Books

John Witcher is a writer, a poet, a producer, and a musician.  John received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 2011.  In 2008, John served as a grant panelist in the Indiana Arts Commission.  John is also a member of the Alpha Sigma Lambda National Honor Society.  In 2012, John became a member of ASCAP.  J....

Jon Cassar - Top Producer/Director on 24, Fringe, Criminal Minds

Have you seen the shows, 24, Revolution, Fringe, Person of Interest, or Criminal Minds? Most of you probably have, or you’re well aware of how popular they were and are (though we're still sad Revolution was cancelled). Jon Cassar was the exec producer and director of multiple episodes on all of those shows! He’s a two-time ....

Joshua Tree International Film Festival

Now in its second year, the JTIFF was founded by Artistic Director Eric Quander, and began in September 2014. Formalized as a monthly screening series at the Beatnik Lounge in Downtown Joshua Tree, excitement around the feasibility of an actual weekend film festival was suggested, and the idea quickly garnered the support and interest of both the l....