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Film Courage: Why screenwriting?
Christian Elder, Screenwriter: That’s a great question to start with. I think it’s just basically two things. One is, when I was young the thing that came before I wanted to tell stories which I think is very integral to wanting to write screenplays is a love for movies and a love for cinema. I think I just became like a movie addict first without any sort of concern whatsoever for the idea of writing a screenplay, just getting a rush from movies and watching movies and talking about movies and wanting to introduce my friends to movies. I think that was the amuse-bouche…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Christian Elder is a screenwriter, playwright and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. He has been a finalist for Tribeca All Access, a semi-finalist for the International Thomas Wolfe Playwriting Award, a quarterfinalist for the ScreenCraft Play contest and a quarterfinalist for the Academy Awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. His work written for the stage has been recently developed at the Billie Holiday Theatre through the Frank Silvera Writers’ Workshop and Urban Stages, both in New York. He has written and directed two short films and is the creator and executive producer of the new crime fiction anthology podcast Hell, California. Elder’s Hell, California, is a hardboiled crime fiction podcast anthology series (co-produced by Jeremy Foley). It takes place in a mysterious, mythical California border town called Hell. Each episode is an original standalone noir story, often about greed, lust and murder. In March 2020, Elder, Foley and a team of six writers formed an online TV writers’ room during the pandemic, resulting in this series.
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