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Film Courage: When you get into the zone of writing what is that zone?
Adam Davis, Screenwriter/Filmmaker: It’s a focus. Time stands still. Anything is possible, which I think is a weird thing that I key in because when you say that I can see what it looks like, the edges of my vision sort of focus and I key in and things just come out, the characters are talking to me, they’re surprising me.
That is the best thing that comes out in writing. When you’ve done all the pre-work, you’ve done the outlines, you figured out who your characters are and you’re sitting there and writing it and then the character wants to do something and then you just kind of go with it and see where that takes it.
It’s improvisational as well. As much as I’m sitting there with my 20-25 page word doc outline using it for reference as I’m in Final Draft, when I’m going through characters will do this or that and it’s just inspiration that’s hitting you. It’s really great.
Film Courage: Did you write the screenplay for Curse of the Sin Eater in less than three months?
Adam: Yeah, my writing partner and I did. What we tend to do is spend a lot of time on the outline, that’s where the majority of our time is spent because that’s when you know it’s really just a word doc that we’re passing back and forth, that the world is our oyster. You’re not locked into a screenplay or a script yet. It’s pretty good. That’s the way that I would like to work and continue to work. We did that for maybe a month and a half, maybe two months and then the draft itself I think it was about a month, maybe a month and a half or so.
When it gets to the script stage what I love to do is just…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
About:
Armed with a diverse creative palette and a passion for character-centric storytelling, Writer/Director Adam Davis has created numerous short and feature film projects. Credit highlights include the feature Broken Ceiling (nominated for Best Feature at the 2016 Pasadena International Film Festival and available on streaming platforms) and No Touching—starring Zoë Bell (The Hateful Eight), Heidi Moneymaker (Captain America: Civil War), Jake Busey (From Dusk till Dawn: The Series) and Doug Jones (The Shape of Water). No Touching won the Silver Audience Award at the 2016 Fantasia Film Festival and has amassed over 1 million views on YouTube. Adam was also a finalist in the 2022 Screencraft Horror Competition.
Adam’s most recent projects are Curse of the Sin Eater, a horror feature film he co-wrote and co-produced which was released this year and Orum, a horror short film he wrote, produced and directed starring horror icons Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects), Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator) and Kristina Klebe (Halloween) which was nominated for Best Horror Short and Best Supporting Actor at the Nightmares Film Festival 2024.
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