What’s Your Story ? South Africa Everyone has a story.
PROJECT SUMMARY SYNOPSIS: Everyone has a concept for a movie & Everyone thinks is easy to shoot, direct, produce, write, edit and sell a movie. Everyone has an opinion on about a film and it’s audience, but few know the dynamics of translating the story onto screen and the challenges of the modern screenwriter. BACKSTORY: In 2015, I embarked on a journey of independent filmmaking and produced quite a few projects, and I attended the Los Angeles Story Expo in September 2015, with the hope to sell my screenplays to producers in California, but I was totally destroyed when I realised that the Hollywood Industry was not what I imagined it would be when I was still a film student and it drove me to a point of absolute poverty in pursuit to produce my screenplays, and I decided to produce this documentary with the quest to discover and expose the art of screenwriting and the challenges the writer faces in a world where the Investor is alienated from the Film Producer. The two parties lack insight, understanding and long lasting trust with only the screenwriter to suffer; The struggling artist at the beginning of Story & Content Development.
A Rhino’s best Friend Creative Direction THEMES: The Challenges of the modern screenwriter trying to make a living, while writing the story, in an ever adapting Media Sector with a lack of Financing and no room for story development. SETTING: South Africa
CHARACTERS/CAST: South African Producers, Film Investors, Media Agencies, Screenwriters, Funding Bodies, Directors, Actors, Broadcasters, Production Companies; Lead Presenters: Warrick Grier & Rowen Smith CINEMATOGRAPHY: Verite, Hand-Held, Video-Journalist, Video Diary-Style ART DEPARTMENTEDIT/DESIGN: Art-house, Creatively Free, Textured & Modernist Illustrative SOUND/MUSIC: Independently Composed Sound Design & Music Score PRODUCER: Brigid Olen Writer. Director: Warrick Grier Writer. Director: Rowen Smith CO-PRODUCTION:
South African Film Producer with more than 30 years Film & TV Experience Writer & Actor; Dredd, The Bone Snatcher, Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom Creative Director: The Shores Season II, Photographer & Writer DO Productions & Cignalhill
DO Productions (Pty) Ltd ww.doproductions.com Cell: +27(0) 82 372 2502 E: brigid@doproductions.com Skype: Brigidolen
Cignalhill (Pty) Ltd www.cignalhill.com Cell: +27(0) 82 372 2502 E: rowen.work@gmail.com Skype: Rowen Smith@Cignalhill