This is my commentary and takeaways from my conversation with Gordy Hoffman, the Sundance-winning writer of Love Liza (starred his brother, Philip Seymour Hoffman), and founder of BlueCat Screenwriting Competition. Check the feed for the interview. 

 

In this commentary I discuss

• What I appreciate about Gordy 
• My thoughts on feedback and dealing with the issues that come up when giving and receiving it
• The importance of having uncomfortable conversations
• Some reflections on addiction, in context to the character in Love Liza and other observations

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If you'd like to hear another thoughtful conservation about screenwriting and story development, you might appreciate this interview with Golden Globe-winning producer Lindsay Doran, who helped develop icon films This Is Spinal Tap, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Ghost.

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Sponsor for this Episode Screenwriters Down South – We're a screenwriting group in Baton Rouge. Some of our writers have written scripts that have been made into films with movie stars, written award-winning shorts, and worked at production companies or on film sets around the world.   Screenwriters Down South on

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Related Things

• BlueCat Screenplay Competition

  • Facebook, Twitter, YouTube
• BlueCat success stories
• Gordy Hoffman on Instagram
• Screenplays for Love Liza and Dog Bowl

• Watch Love Liza and Dog Bowl on Amazon

• Ashley Scott Meyers interviews Gordy about Dog Bowlon sellingyourscreenplay.com
• Gordy interviews BlueCat winner (includes a reference to Morrissey!)
• The Independent's obituary for Philip Seymour Hoffman
• Scriptnotes episode with guest Aline Brosh McKennaabout the progress made in Hollywood after the Weinstein revelations.

• Shortcut for the podcast: nicksav.show

Music for the show provided by Rob Costlow.

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Books Mentioned

• Jugheadcomic book series
• Nightby Elie Wiesel

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Shows & Movies Mentioned

• 27 Dresses
• Alien
• Almost Famous
• Animal House
• Annihilation
• Bicycle Thieves
• Boogie Nights
• Capote
• Citizen Kane
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
• Crazy Rich Asians
• Devil Wears Prada
• Get Out
• Godzilla
• Godfather
• Get Out
• Independence Day
• Jaws
• King Kong
• La Dulce Vita
• Love Liza
• The Master
• The Meg - reversals
• Mission: Impossible III 
• Nutcracker and the Four Realms
• Owning Mahowny
• The Searchers
• The Seventh Seal
• Titanic
• Unforgiven
• We Bought a Zoo
• When Harry Met Sally

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