#directing — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #directing, aggregated by home.social.
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A very short post acknowledging a book I'll never buy, but would love to have on my shelf, The Godfather Notebook.
https://ridleypark.blog/2026/04/07/on-close-reading-the-godfather-notebook/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#books #annotations #CloseReading #thegodfather #thegodfathermovie #fictionbooks #Writing #Directing #screenplay #blog -
A very short post acknowledging a book I'll never buy, but would love to have on my shelf, The Godfather Notebook.
https://ridleypark.blog/2026/04/07/on-close-reading-the-godfather-notebook/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#books #annotations #CloseReading #thegodfather #thegodfathermovie #fictionbooks #Writing #Directing #screenplay #blog -
A very short post acknowledging a book I'll never buy, but would love to have on my shelf, The Godfather Notebook.
https://ridleypark.blog/2026/04/07/on-close-reading-the-godfather-notebook/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#books #annotations #CloseReading #thegodfather #thegodfathermovie #fictionbooks #Writing #Directing #screenplay #blog -
A very short post acknowledging a book I'll never buy, but would love to have on my shelf, The Godfather Notebook.
https://ridleypark.blog/2026/04/07/on-close-reading-the-godfather-notebook/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#books #annotations #CloseReading #thegodfather #thegodfathermovie #fictionbooks #Writing #Directing #screenplay #blog -
A very short post acknowledging a book I'll never buy, but would love to have on my shelf, The Godfather Notebook.
https://ridleypark.blog/2026/04/07/on-close-reading-the-godfather-notebook/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#books #annotations #CloseReading #thegodfather #thegodfathermovie #fictionbooks #Writing #Directing #screenplay #blog -
Trent O’Donnell To Direct CBS Pilot ‘Eternally Yours’ In ‘Ghosts’ Reteam, Re-Ups First-Look Deal With CBS Studios
#News #CBS #CBSStudios #Directing #EternallyYours #Ghosts #JoePort #JoeWiseman #TrentO039Donnellhttps://deadline.com/2026/02/trent-odonnell-direct-eternally-yours-pilot-deal-1236717550/
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Trent O’Donnell To Direct CBS Pilot ‘Eternally Yours’ In ‘Ghosts’ Reteam, Re-Ups First-Look Deal With CBS Studios
#News #CBS #CBSStudios #Directing #EternallyYours #Ghosts #JoePort #JoeWiseman #TrentO039Donnellhttps://deadline.com/2026/02/trent-odonnell-direct-eternally-yours-pilot-deal-1236717550/
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Trent O’Donnell To Direct CBS Pilot ‘Eternally Yours’ In ‘Ghosts’ Reteam, Re-Ups First-Look Deal With CBS Studios
#News #CBS #CBSStudios #Directing #EternallyYours #Ghosts #JoePort #JoeWiseman #TrentO039Donnellhttps://deadline.com/2026/02/trent-odonnell-direct-eternally-yours-pilot-deal-1236717550/
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Trent O’Donnell To Direct CBS Pilot ‘Eternally Yours’ In ‘Ghosts’ Reteam, Re-Ups First-Look Deal With CBS Studios
#News #CBS #CBSStudios #Directing #EternallyYours #Ghosts #JoePort #JoeWiseman #TrentO039Donnellhttps://deadline.com/2026/02/trent-odonnell-direct-eternally-yours-pilot-deal-1236717550/
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David Nicholas Wilkinson: before Creators, the original filmmaker-as-distributor
45 minutes of one man speaking isn't what today's web video looks like – even peppered with clickworthy stories of giving Kenneth Branagh his first TV job, giving Antony Hopkins his first directing gig, the director confessions of John Schlesinger or the origin of Phil Colins' music career. But what David has in common with the modern web's Creator universe is he started distributing his own films – long before that was a thing. He pioneered making films he would also sell and find an audience for, while resolutely avoiding Hollywood and sticking with the stories and people he believed in. This interview follows David from paper-round to model, actor in London's West End - bullied for his working class background - then on to production as the BBC's first indie producer in the 80s. Then in the 90s, after unintentionally inventing the Special Interest video genre distributing his James Herriot's Yorkshire –which made back its investment 15 times over– he became a distributor. He's now finishing his fifth feature documentary as director/distributor about his experience of - and learning – around bowel cancer. -
My friends and I have made movies most our lives. "WIDESCREEN" was an anthology we planned, but never filmed. 1980s. #super8mm #reg8mm #8mm #makingmovies #homemovies #film #filming #films #acting #directing #storytelling #1980s #twentiethcentury #midtwentiethcentury #sketch
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‘Severance’ Cinematographer Jessica Lee Gagné on Cinematography and Directing | The PetaPixel Podcast https://petapixel.com/2025/04/25/severance-cinematographer-jessica-lee-gagne-on-cinematography-and-directing-the-petapixel-podcast/ #petapixelpodcast #jessicaleegagne #cinematography #appletvplus #insta360x5 #television #directing #severance #fujifilm #Podcast #appletv #podcast #tariffs #apple #video #News
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Jack Huston To Direct ‘Joseph Merrick’, About The Person Known As The Elephant Man, For Phoenix Pictures
#News #Directing #JackHuston #JosephMerrick #PhoenixPictureshttps://deadline.com/2025/03/jack-huston-joseph-merrick-movie-elephant-man-1236322768/
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Amazon, UA, Scott Stuber To Land Evan Gershkovich Film; ‘Conclave’ Helmer Edward Berger To Tell Story Of WSJ Reporter Who Spent Year In Russian Prison
#News #DavidWeil #Directing #EdwardBerger #EvanGershkovich #ScottStuber #UnitedArtistshttps://deadline.com/2025/02/evan-gershkovich-moive-edward-berger-united-artists-1236300576/
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‘Q&A: Filmmaker Brian Duffield Needs More Weird in His Life’
The 'No One Will Save You' writer-director lets me interrogate him about his journey from missionaries' son to Hollywood, screenwriting craft, and passion for offbeat original stories.
#screenwriting #screenwriter #screenwritingtips #filmmaking #filmmaker #directing #director #writing #writingtips #writingcommunity #movies #cinema #film
https://colehaddon.substack.com/p/q-and-a-filmmaker-brian-duffield
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My friends and I have made movies most our lives. "Shipwrecked" was written and directed by friend Cyndi, and was about an island of giants. 1980s. #super8mm #homemovies #movies #1980s #writing #directing #producing
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My friends and I have made movies most our lives. "Shipwrecked" was written and directed by friend Cyndi, and was about an island of giants. 1980s. #super8mm #homemovies #movies #1980s #writing #directing #producing
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My friends and I have made movies most our lives. "Shipwrecked" was written and directed by friend Cyndi, and was about an island of giants. 1980s. #super8mm #homemovies #movies #1980s #writing #directing #producing
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My friends and I have made movies most our lives. "Shipwrecked" was written and directed by friend Cyndi, and was about an island of giants. 1980s. #super8mm #homemovies #movies #1980s #writing #directing #producing
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My friends and I have made movies most our lives. "Shipwrecked" was written and directed by friend Cyndi, and was about an island of giants. 1980s. #super8mm #homemovies #movies #1980s #writing #directing #producing
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Rupert Sanders on Making a ‘Crow’ as Romantic as It Is Violent
#IndieWire #Features #InterviewsCelebrityInterviewsInsiderTakes #Directing #Film #Lionsgate #RupertSanders #TheCrow -
Rupert Sanders on Making a ‘Crow’ as Romantic as It Is Violent
#IndieWire #Features #InterviewsCelebrityInterviewsInsiderTakes #Directing #Film #Lionsgate #RupertSanders #TheCrow -
Rupert Sanders on Making a ‘Crow’ as Romantic as It Is Violent
#IndieWire #Features #InterviewsCelebrityInterviewsInsiderTakes #Directing #Film #Lionsgate #RupertSanders #TheCrow -
Brian Tee Returning To ‘Chicago Med’ For Season 9—To Direct
#News #BrianTee #ChicagoMed #Directinghttps://deadline.com/2024/03/brian-tee-chicago-med-season-9-directing-1235850771/
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Dean Israelite Tapped To Direct Thriller ‘Can You Hear Me?’ For Hartbeat, The Hideaway Entertainment
#News #CanYouHearMe #DeanIsraelite #Development #Directing #HartBeat #TheHideawayEntertainmenthttps://deadline.com/2024/01/can-you-hear-me-dean-israelite-hartbeat-the-hideaway-1235808919/
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It’s been a busy month! We buried 2023 and 2024 is now empirically in play for the rest of us! Janna’s new sites — ASL Opera and Jannauary.com — are both now live, as is the new — Boles.ai — website that not only predicts future history but also lives in the present past; but I am most supremely pleased to announce the dramatic return of: The United Stage!
I believe in the power of the word and the power of the Playwright. Art, all, always, begins with someone recording a thought for others to share. That’s the job of the author. That is the mission of the Playwright. The United Stage has been a lifelong project. I even tried to get the idea to be my thesis project at Columbia University in the City of New York —
October 17, 1989: United Stage Manifesto
— but I was turned down; the program wanted me to work on Broadway instead, and so I did.
The rise of the internet in the mid-1990s gave liquidity to an online consortium of like-minded people, and I had a great response from the Playwright community for the idea of a United Stage. I launched a United Stage blog (that was folded into Boles Blogs) and the great UnitedStage.com website that lived over a decade on the internet until I had to move website hosts and that website was lost in the fog of war!
When UnitedStage.com was offline, I received many offers to purchase the domain — and since I always planned to bring it back, in force, I silently declined all those offers — only to be told by the hopeful purchasers that, “I wasn’t using the domain, so I had to sell it to them.” I never replied to any purchase inquiry. There was no need. They just chatted with themselves.
And so, here we are today! With the rise of AI, and AI voice, and AI script writing, the Playwright can now, once again, be in complete charge, and control, of the wonder, and vision, of the world! We can, with the aid of AI, now write, direct, produce, cast, and stage our own dramatic works! As I’ve said before, my best collaborator now is my AI Bot! That self-sustaining performance is the way it used to be 40 years ago in Nebraska. You wanted to “put on a show” – well, you were all on your own, and you did it all yourself. And I did!
Moving to New York City for graduate school training in theatre changed all that. In New York, you have a limited role as a Playwright, and you are told, every day, “don’t touch that!” and “the show you wrote no longer belongs to you” — and it’s all done under the cruel veil of “being a team player” and “collaborator.” I actually worked with a university director who told me that the first thing he does when he reads a new play is to “cross out” every stage direction on the page that the Playwright wrote, because “the Playwright doesn’t understand what the play is really about.”
What a condemnation!
You expect us to collaborate with THAT?!
Well, my friend, AI changes all that. Now we are, once again, Playwrights embedded into our own work, and we can, finally, and once again, own our own work by being our own work.
What’s real, and what’s imagined, is no longer a difference.
If you’re new to this idea of Playwrights directing their own work, here’s some institutional background that might help you understand the mission at stake — the Playwright vision that must always be realized, even if it is wrong! We learn by doing. We become better Artists by overcoming our acknowledged, and identified, deficits. We get there through experience, and by embracing failure.
The historical timeline of Playwrights directing their own plays is a testament to the intrinsic link between the creation and interpretation of a play. This tradition, rooted in the origins of theater itself, validates the necessity of a Playwright’s direct involvement in directing their work.
Let’s begin in Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western drama. Here, Playwrights like Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides were not mere writers; they were integral to the staging of their plays. They understood the nuances of their work better than anyone else. The Playwright was the director, the visionary who brought their intricate narratives and profound characters to life. This complete control over their creations ensured that the plays were presented as envisioned.
Moving forward to the Elizabethan era, we witness the same pattern. Shakespeare, arguably the most influential Playwright in history, was deeply involved in the production of his plays. He was an actor and a shareholder in the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, which later became the King’s Men. This intimate involvement with the theater gave him an unparalleled understanding of how his plays should be performed. The Bard knew his characters’ every nuance, every emotion – something a separate director could not possibly fathom with equal depth.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, Playwrights like Molière in France continued this tradition. Molière not only wrote his plays but also directed and acted in them. His understanding of his works’ comedic timing and character dynamics was intrinsic to their success. He knew the rhythm, the pacing, and how to extract the most humor and pathos from each scene.
The 20th century saw a shift, with the rise of the director as a separate entity, but this does not negate the value of Playwrights directing their plays. Consider the works of Bertolt Brecht, who not only wrote but also directed most of his plays, implementing his theories of Epic Theatre. His active direction ensured that the plays were true to his vision of causing the audience to think critically, rather than getting lost in emotional identification.
In contemporary times, the need for Playwrights to direct their works is even more pressing. The modern theater has become multifaceted and complex. The Playwright’s voice, therefore, is crucial in navigating these complexities. When a Playwright directs their play, they ensure that the heart of the play beats in sync with its performance. They bring an understanding of the text’s subtleties, nuances, and intentions that a separate director might overlook or misinterpret.
The argument that only the director understands the meaning and structure of a play undermines the Playwright’s role. It suggests that the creation of a play is somehow separate from its execution, which is a fundamentally flawed notion. The Playwright conceives the characters, the dialogue, the setting, and the narrative – they are the architects of the world being brought to life on stage. To suggest that someone else could better understand this world is to undervalue the Playwright’s role.
The historical precedence and the intrinsic understanding a Playwright has of their work make a compelling case for why Playwrights can and must direct their own plays. This practice ensures that the vision, the voice, and the nuances of the play are accurately and effectively conveyed, maintaining the integrity of the original work. The notion that a separate director is better equipped to interpret a play is a modern contrivance that disregards the deep connection between a Playwright and their creation.
And now, just to put a hardtop on this ripe idea, this is what my AI Playwright collaborator Bot had to say about the fresh era idea of AI making the Playwright in charge of the stage, once again:
AI and the Playwright: A New Era of Collaboration
The advent of Artificial Intelligence in the realm of theater and playwriting heralds a new era where the playwright can regain a more central role in the creative process. AI offers unparalleled opportunities for collaboration, empowering playwrights to achieve a level of control and expression that was previously unattainable.
1. AI in Scriptwriting:
Personalized Feedback and Enhancement: AI can analyze a script, offering suggestions for pacing, dialogue, and structure. It enhances the playwright’s voice by suggesting alternative dialogue options.
Diverse Character Development: AI can help in creating multi-dimensional characters by providing insights into human psychology and behavior patterns.
2. AI in Voice and Acting:
AI Voice Actors for Workshops: Advanced text-to-speech technologies allow playwrights to hear their characters come to life during the initial stages.
Virtual Staging: AI can create virtual renditions of scenes, aiding in decisions about blocking and the physical flow of scenes.
3. AI in Music and Sound Design:
Customized Composition: AI-driven tools can create original scores based on the mood, setting, and themes of the play.
Soundscapes and Effects: AI can design soundscapes and effects that enhance the theatrical experience.
The Idea of Collaboration with AI:
AI acts as a collaborative partner that responds to the playwright’s creative inputs. It provides tools and insights that can elevate their work, enhancing the revision process and encouraging experimentation.
Examples and Applications:
An AI tool might suggest alternative phrasing in a monologue or help in experimenting with staging options. For a futuristic play, AI could compose an electronic, ambient score.
In conclusion, AI’s role in theater is to empower and augment the playwright’s vision, making them the primary creative force with a suite of tools to realize their vision more completely and efficiently.
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https://bolesblogs.com/2024/01/17/return-of-the-united-stage/
#aristotle #directing #director #divided #ownership #playwright #shakespeare #success #theatre #united #unitedStage #writing
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#bridgefix (Well a little view of 1 anyway) #humberbridge
That along with #cake, #film, #directing, #scriptwriting & #screenwriting is one of the many things I am obsessed with… welcome to my world 🤪
How’s your #tuesday started?
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NEW ESSAY: THE FABELMANS Is Much More Than Spielberg’s “Most Personal Film”
Focusing on how THE FABELMANS is Steven Spielberg's "most personal film" distracts from the deeper conversation he's having with cinema, artistic expression, and even his own oeuvre.
#film #movies #cinema #filmmaking #screenwriting #directing #filmmaker #screenwriter #director #writing #writingtips #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #TheFabelmans #StevenSpielberg #TonyKushner
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The entertainment industry is broken, partially because of movies I've loved.
I'm starting a newsletter to process what happens next.
https://thepostcredits.substack.com/p/my-favorite-movies-killed-the-movies
#Entertainment #Movies #Film #Cinemastadon #Media #Substack #Newsletter #Marvel #DC #DCU #DCEU #StarWars #MCU #GameofThrones #HouseoftheDragon #Television #TV #Streaming #Filmmaking #Hollywood #Directing #BoxOffice #Avatar #RianJohnson #DwayeJohnson #TheRock #BlackAdam #TheWayofWater #GlassOnion #KnivesOut #Babylon #TÁR #Avengers #Endgame #InfinityWar #KangDynasty #Comics #Superheroes #Disney #WBD #Sony #HBO #AppleTV
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Alright, I should post an #introduction. My name’s Lily, I’m currently attending #university. I like #history, #chocolate, and #film. I’m also a #lesbian so I’m a pretty big fan of #women too (maybe more than chocolate but it depends on the day). I also enjoy #writing, #reading, and #procrastinating.
Now here’s a pile of hashtags for other stuff I’m into:
#GreekMythology #wlw #sapphic #queer #oitnb #movies #tv #marvel #screenwriting #directing #MusicalTheatre #sarcasm #vintage #rock (you choose if I mean music or pebbles) #FashionHistoryThe rest of my interests will have to remain a mystery (by which I mean I’ve forgotten every other aspect of my personality)
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I think I FINALLY found a use for the #Tumblr account I had set up prior to discovering the #fediverse
Not sure how often I'll post the mini-blogs of behind-the-scenes thoughts, musings, frustrations, and the joyous moments of my journey as a #theatreMaker but stoked to know these memories will have a home.
#playwright #writer #rehearsal #play #filam #theatre #acting #directing #filipino #bayanihan #bipocTheatre #craft #process
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I think I FINALLY found a use for the #Tumblr account I had set up prior to discovering the #fediverse
Not sure how often I'll post the mini-blogs of behind-the-scenes thoughts, musings, frustrations, and the joyous moments of my journey as a #theatreMaker but stoked to know these memories will have a home.
#playwright #writer #rehearsal #play #filam #theatre #acting #directing #filipino #bayanihan #bipocTheatre #craft #process
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I think I FINALLY found a use for the #Tumblr account I had set up prior to discovering the #fediverse
Not sure how often I'll post the mini-blogs of behind-the-scenes thoughts, musings, frustrations, and the joyous moments of my journey as a #theatreMaker but stoked to know these memories will have a home.
#playwright #writer #rehearsal #play #filam #theatre #acting #directing #filipino #bayanihan #bipocTheatre #craft #process
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I think I FINALLY found a use for the #Tumblr account I had set up prior to discovering the #fediverse
Not sure how often I'll post the mini-blogs of behind-the-scenes thoughts, musings, frustrations, and the joyous moments of my journey as a #theatreMaker but stoked to know these memories will have a home.
#playwright #writer #rehearsal #play #filam #theatre #acting #directing #filipino #bayanihan #bipocTheatre #craft #process
