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How to Explain Your Film to Others | guest Heather Hale - Ep40

35m · Get Real: Indie Filmmakers · 17 Nov 05:23

Heather Hale is a film and television writer, director, and producer with over 60 hours of credits that have won Emmys. She wrote the Lifetime Original Movie 'Courage to Love,' (2000) and co-wrote, directed, and produced 'Absolute Killers' (2011). Her latest book for filmmakers and screenwriters is "Story Selling."

GET REAL INDIE FILM[CAST] is hosted by filmmaker and author Jeffrey Michael Bays (www.borgus.com), and filmmaker Forris Day, Jr.

Show Notes:

  • Heather's website: https://heatherhale.com/
  • Distribber closing updates: 1.) Variety: https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/independent-distribution-companies-distribber-close-down-1203354408/ 2.) LA Times: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2019-10-25/indie-filmmakers-streaming-distribber-trouble
  • Audio books narrated by Forris Day: https://www.audible.com/search?searchNarrator=Forris+Day+Jr.

Tweet us @borgusfilm or email [email protected]

Hosts: Jeffrey Michael Bays & Forris Day, Jr.

Hitch20 Theme music by Radoslav Zdravkovic

Suspense With a Camera: https://www.amazon.com/Suspense-Camera-Filmmakers-Hitchcocks-Techniques/dp/1615932739

Follow us on Twitter @borgusfilm

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