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Get ready for Extremefilmmaker's 11th Annual 48 Hour Film Festival!

The screening is coming up September 2008 at the Hollywood Arclight Cinemas.

Submissions will be due by August 31st, 2008.

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REVIEWED AND RECOMMENDED

Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman

This is the definitive book about working in Hollywood. Long-time screenwriter William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Princess Bride) writes as both an outsider and an insider, covering his many years in Hollywood. This book is the origin of the frequently quoted only “law” of Hollywood: “Nobody knows anything.”

My copy was printed in 1984 and I still pick it up and leaf through it, and I always get pulled into the book. Originally I would read stories and think “So that’s what it’s really like.” Now I turn to a page and think “Oh yeah, I’ve been there - it is like that.” Goldman is one of the best writers both in Hollywood and about Hollywood. I also recommend his sequel – Which Lie Did I Tell? More Adventures in the Screen Trade.

Killer Instict by Jane Hamsher

An excellent tell-all book on the making of Natural Born Killers. The author goes from a film school grad to a producer dealing with major writers, directors and actors in a matter of months – mostly by having optioned a script by a then unknown wannabe screenwriter named Quentin Tarantino. The book is so honest that I fear the author was kissing Hollywood good-bye. (And indeed she was. Jane Hamsher has left Hollywood and become a political blogger on www. firedoglake.com.)

Zen and the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury

On Writing by Stephen King

Two books on writing, by two guys who know a little bit about writing successfully. All movies begin with the written word - the script - but these books are about more than the mechanics of good screenwriting. These books touch on the inspirations, the instinct and the need for good writing. Interestingly, they both seem to emphasize the instinctive, creative approach, on finding an inner voice rather than copying some accepted method or format to storytelling. Indeed, these books encourage breaking the rules, that stories serve the idea behind them, rather than trying to force your ideas into somebody else’s standard. A great confidence builder, and an inspiration source for all.

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