Freelance journalist available for work. Film editor-at-large @Dazed. Screenwriter: @TheAcademy Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist 2021 & 2024. Sold a film once!
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.............I reached the semi-finals of this year's @TheAcademy Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship. I was a semi-finalist in 2021 as well. I have lots of scripts if anyone's googling & finding my Twitter account.
Movie Academy Names Five Winners Of 2024 Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowships deadline.com/2024/09/nicholl…
...........if your favourite Hollywood actor was made of wood & always had wood, you still would, wouldn't you? I spoke to Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, & the directors of "Wicker" about romantasy, pup masks, & how to make a basket look hot:
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.......I spoke to Los Javis (Javier Ambrossi & Javier Calvo), Guitarricadelafuente, & Miguel Bernardeau about how "La bola negra" is a contemporary movie about the past. Also convinced Los Javis to make a 3-hour cut of "La mesías" that can play in cinemas:
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.........I spoke to Ashley Walters about directing "Animol", his own experience with prison two decades ago, the backlash to playing a gay man in "The Bill", getting sober, & what it's like having me ask so many questions about his personal life:
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.............I spoke to Léa Seydoux & Marie Kreutzer about "Gentle Monster", why the end credits thank "the haters in 2023", & how Léa overcame the "very strong melancholy" of her teenage years:
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........"Possible Love" is my fave film I've seen in a long time. I spoke to Lee Chang-dong & Jeon Do-yeon about the human victims of corporate greed, why a character also has Lee's surname, the role of the Moon, & the secret nods to "Three Colours: Blue":
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.............I spoke to Hannah Einbinder about politics, "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma", how she's so much more relaxed than I am, & how everyone's been getting her enneagram number wrong (she's a 3!):
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.......I spoke to Olivia Wilde & Edward Norton about "The Invite", how the best line was improvised, getting life advice from podcasts, treating the shoot like art therapy, hiring Yorgos Lanthimos's go-to editor, & if it's true their enneagram number is 6:
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................I spoke to Jay McCarrol & Matt Johnson (until he lost his internet connection, bcos he did the interview while walking around an airport) about the cult appeal of "Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie":
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............I spoke to Carla Simón about "Romería", stepping into magical realism, being inspired by her mother's old letters, & how her children will themselves be able to watch/read her interviews when they're older............ like this one............
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.................I spoke to Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke about "A Useful Ghost", getting the tone right for a political arthouse comedy about a haunted hoover, & the queerness of human/ghost romances:
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...........I spoke to Christian Petzold about the films that influenced "Miroirs No. 3", why bicycles are inherently cinematic, & how annoying it is when an actor criticises your script (especially when their complaint is correct):
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...........I spoke to Julia Loktev about "My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow", shooting a 5.5-hour doc entirely on an iPhone, if you look at the phone or the person when you're filming them, & what awaits in Part II:
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..............I spoke to David Lowery about "Mother Mary", asking Charli XCX to rewrite her lyrics, the power of Microsoft Word, Iris Van Herpen, & how an early draft was set on an island in the Atlantic Ocean without any dialogue:
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..........I spoke to François Ozon about "The Stranger", adapting Camus for 2026, & if it's true that Robert Smith of The Cure writes his emails entirely in capital letters:
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...........I spoke to Mascha Schilinski about "Sound of Falling", her background as a magician in a travelling circus, & if it was necessary for me to have watched the film four times:
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..........I asked Rose Byrne if it's OK to hate children (including your own), what it's like to spend so much time in hotels, & if "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You" could be set in Hackney:
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...........I spoke to Park Chan-wook about "No Other Choice", how being a serial killer is good for your self esteem, & rewriting S. Craig Zahler's "The Brigand of Rattleborge" into "The Brigands of Rattlecreek":
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..............I asked Ben Whishaw about what he did yesterday:
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........my interview w/ Kleber Mendonça Filho & Wagner Moura on "The Secret Agent" had to end a bit early because they received a phone call from the President of Brazil:
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