Authors — Alexandra Roxo
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The Potion to a Pitch
Independent Film Week kicked off on Sunday at Lincoln Center and co-writer/co-producer of Brooklyn Flee, Devon Kirkpatrick, and I sat in a room full of Emerging Narratives filmmakers nervously awaiting our moment to practice pitch our scripts in front of an esteemed industry panel. We spent two hours the day before sketching out our thoughts over bad guacamole and happy hour Chardonnay, attempting to figure out what makes a good two minute pitch. After a few hours, Devon and I parted ways needing to take a moment to center ourselves before a hectic week. I went home to fall asleep […]
by Alexandra Roxo on Sep 18, 2012 -
How to Meet Your Match at Film Week
If this were a personal ad, it would read: 2 SWF ISO BAP for a LTR. Translation: Two sharp-witted filmmakers in search of bad-ass producer for a long-term relationship. See, my writing partner Devon Kirkpatrick and I wrote a script called Brooklyn Flee, it’s in the Emerging Narratives Program at Film Week, and we are looking for a producer. In our script, the two lead characters meet on Craigslist — not in the “Women seeking Women” section, but the “For Sale” section. (No, neither of them are for sale. Wrong movie.) They are two girls living in Brooklyn in their […]
by Alexandra Roxo on Sep 17, 2012
