At The Mercury Cinema on Saturday 20th April, 3PM-5PM I’m running a two-hour session on Saturday, 20th April on working with and healing our relationship with our inner critic. I work with a lot of actors and creatives. One of the biggest challenges people work with in their creative lives is a harsh inner voice […]
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Monkey Man, Dev Patel’s Directorial Debut, Makes a Stellar Debut at SXSW
Monkey Man is Dev Patel’s step into the director’s chair. It’s a no-holds-barred action movie that I’ve seen referred to online as ‘John Wick in Mumbai’. Monkey Man held it’s world prem screening at SXSW this week. It gained a standing ovation, and at the time I write this has a brilliant 90% Rotten Tomatoes […]
Midpoints: what they are, why your screenplay needs one, and classic movie midpoints that change everything
I’m tutoring Screenwriting again with a new cohort from John Yorke Story, UK’s leading screen story and narrative experts. We’re heading to our study of midpoints. It’s always my favourite part of the course and so I’m thinking a lot about what midpoints do, how they do it so well, and how my writing is […]
Your Creative Work Is An Infinite Game
Last week I recorded a self-tape for a role in a film – and I hated every moment leading up to it. Until I started playing a different game, and everything changed. It was the difference between playing for a ‘finite’ outcome that can only be given to you by others versus playing the game […]