Screenwriting from Unlikely Places … and Winning Oscar Awards — Screenwriting from Iowa

Originally posted on First Scene Screenplay Festival:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/fHegs8zgDdk?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent The deep rooted theme of this blog is embedded in the title—Screenwriting from Iowa … and Other Unlikely Places. Here are a couple of quotes from two recent Oscar winners about telling stories from unlikely places (at least from a Hollywood, Oscar-winning perspective): “Because I’m based in…

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The Fragility of Life (Stories from the Sporting World) — Screenwriting from Iowa

Originally posted on First Scene Screenplay Festival:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/nS4IUdoGRgw?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent “If you have an opportunity to accomplish something that will make things better for someone coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.” Baseball great and humanitarian Roberto Clemente Every day 150,000 people die. On Sunday, nine people died…

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