MK McFadden

I miss my writing group.  I gotta be more social in the new year.

READ:

• Unless You Do It You Never Bloody Know from Mentorless
• Why we need smarter sci-fi movies now more than ever from Little White Lies
• Director Deborah S. Esquenazi’s New Production Company Tells Stories Of Queer Women Of Color from Forbes
• 3 Reasons Why Pitching is Necessary in Hollywood from Screencraft
• I’m Tired of Looking At All These Bad Wigs on Black Actors from Buzzfeed
• Five Reasons Film Festivals and Script Competitions Benefit Screenwriters from Submittable
• How to balance full-time work with creative projects from The Creative Independent
• On using your time wisely  from The Creative Independent
• On being honest about what you have the time to do from The Creative Independent
• Steve McQueen Won’t Look Away from Vulture
• 6 Filmmaking Tips From Barry Jenkins from Film School Rejects
• A Teller’s Market: How To Tell Your Own Story and Lay Bare Your Personal Brand from Moviemaker Magazine
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Blaxploitation Is Going Highbrow With an Anti-Trump Twist from The Hollywood Reporter 
• Rewriting Trauma: The Business of Storytelling in the Age of the Algorithm from LitHub
• Are Too Many People Calling Themselves Storytellers? from Filmmaker Magazine
• “What Moonlight Gave Us Was the Confidence to Execute Our Ideas Without Fear”: Writer/Director Barry Jenkins on If Beale Street Could Talk from Filmmaker Magazine

SAW:

• The Relentlessly Stylized Energy of Edgar Wright from Fandor
• Black People are Dangerous (2018 Short)
• The Holiday Calendar
• Extinction