"I make it a regular practice to reach for my pen & notebook immediately upon waking. The words that spill out establish a bridge between two otherwise disparate states."
~Peter Wortsman
Via Kenneth Atchity (Dreamworks Magazine)
Through the expanding influence of the Internet and the corporatization of both publishing and entertainment, the process of getting your book to the big screen has gotten more complicated, more eccentric, and more exciting.
This little book aims to help you figure out how to get your story told on big screens or small.
Jeff Rivera is a writer | producer. He began his career as an author, co-author and ghostwriter of nearly 100 books. He has appeared on national television, radio and print in such outlets as Forbes.com, The Boston Globe, Publishers Weekly, Right On! Magazine, Rotarian Magazine, TMZ, WABC, WNBC, WCBS, SITV, American Latino and NPR. He has written for Entertainment Weekly, Mediabistro, GalleyCat, Publishing Perspectives, Digital Book World, Examiner, American Chronicle, School Library Journal and the Huffington Post and has been invited to speak worldwide about his rise from American poverty and living in his car to fast-becoming one of the most sought after writer | producers in the nation. Rivera has been on panel discussions for The Library Journal, Authors Guild, the Harlem Book Fair and many others. Rivera has produced social media campaigns, Skype/Google Hangout tours and web content for many high profile people including Mark Cuban, Mark Victor Hansen, Jeff Kinney, Elmore Leonard, Mitch Albom, Stan Lee, Seth Godin, Nicholas Sparks, James Van Praagh, and cast members from from Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. Rivera now develops film, television and web content.
A shooter takes deadly aim, and throws a city into panic!
Birdbath
The film adaptation of Leonard Melfi´s 1965 play
A young, unsuccessful poet meets a young girl while they are both working at an all night cafeteria in Manhattan. It is obvious that she does not want to return home to the Bronx where she lives with her mother, so he convinces her to come to his place. He gets drunk and entices her to drink a little. He tries to seduce her in the mildest manner possible. She resists in the most devastating way imaginable, turning the evening into a nightmare for both of them. It is a boy meets girl love story unlike any other.
Da Parish
In 2005, St. Bernard Parish, a community on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Through the personal stories of four long-time residents, we witness their loss, healing and rebuilding, their resilience, and what it is that connects people to the place they call home.
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