New Skillshare Class: SHORT FILM AND WEBISODE SCREENWRITING FOR BEGINNERS

From the maker of Skillshare’s NO-BUDGET FILMMAKING FOR BEGINNERS and THE INDIE FILM EXHIBITION MASTERCLASS comes this brand new course for novice writers to put their ideas together into a short film or a web series: SHORT FILM AND WEBISODE SCREENWRITING FOR BEGINNERS hosted by award-winning filmmaker, Andre’ Joseph.

This class achieves the following:

– Writing screenplays for short films and web series formats.

– Class is for aspiring novice screenwriters who have that great idea that they want to make themselves or to pitch to producers, investors, networks, and executives.

– For short films, this class is useful in simplifying your story to the most crucial scenes and character development in a tight 3-act structure. For web series, you will be able to understand how to formulate story and character arcs that take place over the course of several episodes while keeping the audience engaged.

– Either Final Draft or CeltX are the most highly recommended materials for completing the Class Project where you get to write your short script or webisode pilot.

Enroll today: https://skl.sh/3sDKrjn

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Latest Festival Acceptances & Nominations for AMERICAN GUNSLINGERS

We had an amazing morning with some big announcements regarding AMERICAN GUNSLINGERS! First, our recently selected trailer at The Wild Bunch Film Festival has just been announced as a nominee for Best Film Trailer!  While we won’t be able to attend in person, those of you in the great state of Arizona can check out our trailer on the big screen Friday, Oct. 2nd in the 8:40pm block at the Willcox Historic Theater in Willcox, AZ. Awards to be announced Sunday, Oct. 4 at 7:15pm. Purchase tickets at the link above.

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Our second big announcement is that the AGS original screenplay by Drew Henriksen has just been selected for competition at this year’s Urban Action Showcase International Action Film FestivalThis is the same festival where our award-winning feature VENDETTA GAMES won Best Urban Action Film three years ago! This year’s event happening Nov. 6-14 will be a virtual experience and you can find out more about it at the link above or on Facebook.

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AMERICAN GUNSLINGERS Screenplay Makes Finalist at The Wild Bunch Film Festival

On the heels of the Las Vegas win, Drew Henriksen’s screenplay for our next film project AMERICAN GUNSLINGERS has made finalist status at this year’s Wild Bunch Film Festival event in Wilcox, AZ! All winners will be announced on Saturday, Oct. 6. Congrats to Drew! Hope to have more news soon!

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AMERICAN GUNSLINGERS Screenplay Wins at Las Vegas International Film & Screenwriting Competition

We had a blast in Vegas this past week and we’re happy to announce that Drew Henriksen’s screenplay for our upcoming project AMERICAN GUNSLINGERS won Best Western Screenplay at the Las Vegas International Film & Screenwriting Competition! I’m proud that they also recognized yours truly and Chris Corulla story contribution. This will be a very exciting project coming your way very soon!

AMERICAN GUNSLINGERS Screenplay makes Finalist Status at Las Vegas International Film & Screenwriting Competition

Our screenplay has reached FINALIST status at the Las Vegas International Film and Screenwriting Competition! Congrats to our screenwriter Drew Henriksen who also has his TV as well as crime scripts as finalist status and he’s even up for WRITER OF THE YEAR! The event will take place July 25 – August 3 at the Palms Casino Resort.

We’re still hard at work on post-production with the trailer project. Some dialogue replacement is being done as we speak and the music will be finalized in another week. We’re really excited to show you all what’s in store!

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AMERICAN GUNSLINGERS Screenplay Makes Semi-Finalist at Cordillera International Film Festival

Drew Henriksen’s screenplay for our upcoming feature-film, AMERICAN GUNSLINGERS, has just made Semi-Finalist status at the Cordillera International Film Festival. Though it won’t go forward in the screenwriting competition, we are very happy to be recognized for the work as always. Stay tuned as we have the animated trailer screening at the Action on Film Festival in Las Vegas this month as well as post-production on the live-action trailer coming soon.

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AMERICAN GUNSLINGERS Screenplay Accepted to Las Vegas International Film & Screenwriting Competition

The Drew Henriksen-penned screenplay for our western epic, AMERICAN GUNSLINGERS, has just been accepted to compete in this summer’s Las Vegas International Film & Screenwriting Competition! The event is also a sister festival to Action on Film as well as the Hollywood Dreams Film Festival where THE SAXOPHONIST will also be playing this summer. Congrats to Drew and our team!

Please continue to donate and support our efforts to produce a live-action trailer for American Gunslingers via GoFundMe.



AMERICAN GUNSLINGERS Animated Teaser from AJ Epyx Productions on Vimeo.

The screening date for THE SAXOPHONIST will be announced in the coming weeks.

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AMERICAN GUNSLINGERS Screenplay Now Semi-Finalist at Utah Film Festival

We just received the word last night that Drew Henriksen’s screenplay for our upcoming western project AMERICAN GUNSLINGERS just reached semi-finalist status for the Utah Film Festival and Awards. This means our submission received a score in the Top 10% of all this years submissions. A full list of Screenwriting Semi-Finalist are http://www.theutahfilmawards.com/screenwriting-semi-finalists/

The festival will be making the final announcement of screening films and category nominations Saturday March 9th via Facebook Live. The award ceremony is April 6th at the Covey Center for the Arts in Provo Utah. A pre-show party begins at 5pm with the pre-show starting at 6pm. The award show will begin promptly at 7pm.

Stay tuned for more news about the ongoing development of American Gunslingers! We need as much support as we can get!

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VENDETTA GAMES Wins 3 WMIFF Awards & AMERICAN GUNSLINGERS Wins for Best Screenplay

I’m happy to announce as of yesterday that Vendetta Games is now the WINNER of 3 WMIFF awards for Best Actor Andre Joseph, Best Supporting Actor Chris Corulla, and Best Supporting Actress Alyssa Schroeter! Also huge congrats to Reginald Barnes for his supporting actor win in the short film MAKE AMERICA BLACK AGAIN and Drew Henriksen who won in the feature category for Best Screenplay for our next project AMERICAN GUNSLINGERS! Congrats to everyone in the cast and crew as well as all nominees. Table #2 ran the table!

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