Hawaii Screen Writers

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Comment by Carlton Young on February 4, 2010 at 8:31pm

Aloha everyone, im a writer that is just starting off, but i think i may have a script that may be something that may put hawaii back in the prime time media...im looking for someone that can take a look at my script and to see if i can also find a producer that may want to fund it.... thanks

Comment by Roni Brown on January 12, 2010 at 4:13am

Looking for a local writing group/circle on Oahu, anybody part of one?

Comment by Eric West on January 11, 2010 at 11:40pm

"What dreams may come."

I had another dream last night that scared the crap out of me to the point where you fight between dream and reality to escape the horror and conflict.
But it was an amazing ending for a "Vampire Battle" scene for a feature film. You could not write it awake.

Most of my dreams are on the Block Buster side of Science Fiction, Horror, and Action Adventure. They could be developed into Low Budget, but they are mostly large productions.

Some of the big ones that still haunt me are "The Beast" and "Avenge in Death" which are the ones that I died in dream only to awaken in life. Which is pretty F-ing heavy.

If you need a writer or consultant otherwise... let me know, I'm here.

Eric West
"Life is stranger than fiction. Dreams are even more F-cked up."

Comment by Jennifer Fahrni on January 8, 2010 at 10:24am

We are looking for Hawaiian actors and hula performers for the upcoming stage production "Ka'iulani - The Island Rose". Successful performers in this production will be the first considered for the film production of the same name, when produced. Contact me or Carolyn Wright at Maui Academy of Performing Arts.

Comment by Louie Boria on December 17, 2009 at 11:13pm

A fun & informative Evening with Oscar Director Alexander Payne, and Los Angeles Casting Director John Jackson and the Feature Film “The Descendants”...!

It was a great Talk & Q & A Session! They really want to use Local Talent Actors...and that is Great News!

Thanks go to Wayne Ward, Actor/Acting Coach and his Students...which was by “Invitation Only” @ Wayne’s new Kahala Korner Studio!

The concepts “Less is More”...“Be Real”...“Be Yourself for 80% of the character”... and “Please!...No Acting!” really hit home with all in attendance!

Comment by Louie Boria on December 16, 2009 at 9:19pm

Lahaina’s Front Street (above) is one of the three locations for Clint Eastwood’s film Hereafter in which the sometime-Maui resident is directing…Filming is Jan. 12, 13, and 14. Front Street will be closed for a day long shoot – dawn to dusk – a first for a film in Maui County. The two other locations are on the westside including a hotel and sets being built on private land in Kapalua…




Cast and crew reportedly will stay at the Westin Kaanapali Ocean Resort Villas…All filming will be during the day and there is no water filming for the Maui Hereafter filming…




In the Hawaii portion of the film, the island is an unnamed Pacific atoll. The Maui storyline involves the devastating aftermaths of a tsunami and the toll it has on the population, but especially the French journalist character played by Belgian actress Cecile De France…







Hereafter is a supernatural thriller about three people who are touched by death in very different ways. The lead characters are a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London schoolboy….




Hereafter is also produced by Eastwood, Kathleen Kennedy, and Robert Lorenz, and executive produced by screenwriter Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall and Tim Moore. It’s a Warner Brothers film with a December 2010 release…







Some 70-80 extras are being hired for the three-day shoot in which the month-long pre production already has started…Costume fitting dates are Jan. 7, 8, 9…An advertisement run today in Craig’s List asks that any interested in being an extra contact http://www.hawaiiactors.com/group/mauiactors or

http://www.hawaiiactors.com/group/currentlycasting …




Several locals are being hired for crew including costume designer, wardrobe, and stylist Cathie Valdovina who is the film’s background supervisor…




Eastwood owns a home in the Makena Beach area. The Academy Award-winning director is expected to spend the holidays on Maui with his family…

Comment by Don "Donte" Redlock on December 12, 2009 at 2:09pm

I'm a shooter, available for various productions.

Here's a sample of my work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmvjmWLrJkY

Comment by Eric West on December 11, 2009 at 9:16pm

Rule number one... "You write what you know". And I have a ton first hand stories to tell from my life and adaptations of them. You could say my life is a "Dark Comedy".

If there are any DPs and producers interested... I'm willing to play as writer/director. The reason I'm not in the filmmakers section is because I do not have equipment and I hate editing. But I've been there, done that for years.

Mahalo,
Eric West

Comment by Louie Boria on December 2, 2009 at 8:21pm

2010 PRODUCTION OUTLOOK IS GOOD!



















Clint Eastwood












Warner Bros.’ Hereafter with Clint Eastwood as director will film on Maui in mid January with four weeks of preproduction expected to begin Monday. The production scouted Maui twice, first in September and then again last week…







Part of the original concept for the Maui filming has changed a bit. Rather than the 2004 deadly tsunami hitting an Asian country as in did in Thailand and Indonesia, the location is now “a small island town” in an unspecified country…







The filming will require “a lot of set building” which will be done in warehouses and not on vacant land, sources said…As of now all the filming will be on Maui’s westside…The production office is expected to be set up next week in a westside hotel where most cast and crew also will stay…Eastwood owns a home in the Makena area south of Wailea…







The production plans to hire as many Hawaii crew as possible beginning with some 26 IATSE members on Maui supplementing the rest from Oahu, sources said. Crew will number about 100…







In an earlier script, sources said Front Street in Lahaina would have been closed for filming but that may have changed…Some streets will be closed for filming but exactly where has not been released. The production has not yet applied for permits either with hte county or the state, sources said…







There has been extraordinary secrecy about Hereafter though some details about the plot and characters have leaked: George (Matt Damon) is a ‘handsome, shy, soft-spoken’ factory worker who can talk to the dead but prefers not to…







Meanwhile, across the world, two different plotlines play out that are touched by tragedy:
















- Beautiful French journalist Marie (Cécile De France, above) recovers from a near-death experience in the 2004 tsunami, then becomes increasingly gripped with questions about what she saw before she was revived…




















- At the same time in London, a drug-addicted English single mother (Lyndsey Marshal, above), loses one of her twin 10-year-old sons in a car accident…(Marshal is best known for playing Nicole Kidman’s servant in The Hours, and Cleopatra on HBO’s Rome)…







Only Cécile De France is making the trip to Hawaii and not Damon or Marshall…







The three parallel stories eventually intersect: three lonely people, cut off from the ones they love, searching for answers about what lies beyond life…






Variety has described Hereafter as a supernatural thriller along the lines of The Sixth Sense. The film already has shot in Paris and London. It will wrap in Los Angeles following the Maui shoot…Production remains ongoing in London. Expect the film sometime in late-2010…







Peter Morgan, who got an Oscar nomination for Frost/Nixon, wrote the script. Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, Morgan and Tim Moore are executive producing. Spielberg previously worked as producer on Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwa Jima…







This is the third major film to shoot in Maui County under its commissioner Benita Brazier, including last year’s Tempest starring Helen Mirren, the sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean; and now, Hereafter…

Comment by Teddy Wells on November 23, 2009 at 11:35am

A SCRIPT SUPERVISING CLASS IS COMING TO HAWAII!

Keep February open since a Script Supervisor class is slated be held each weekend that month. Taught by Brenda Lopez-Zeitz, the class will cover the necessary skills and fundamentals of Script Supervising for the television and film industries. Sessions will take place for 3 to 4 hours every Saturday and Sunday in February. Enrollment is limited to the first 10 students who inquire and reserve a space. Cost for the class is $725. There’s a 50 percent deposit required by Jan 1 to hold a space…

Here are some curriculum highlights: How to breakdown a script; Creating a continuity breakdown; Learn 180-degree rule and when one can “cross the line”; Screen direction and matching to the master shot; Shot sizes; Lining the script, creating facing pages, editor logs, and progress reports; and what happens at wrap…Also discussed will be the realities of a career as a Script Supervisor, which include how and where to look for jobs, union vs. non-union work, and what it’s like to work with directors, actors, and production personnel…

Lopez-Zeitz has more than 11 years of professional experience as a Script Supervisor. She began her career in Los Angeles working in Spanish television. After relocating to Hawaii, she worked as the Script Supervisor on Baywatch Hawaii. This transitioned her into other Script Supervising work that has taken her across the United States and to foreign countries. Her second Unit Script Supervisor credits include Pearl Harbor, The Last Castle, and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Those productions led to First Unit Script Supervising work on Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Norbit, Freedom Writers, Blue Crush, and Get Him to the Greek (2010)…

For more information and to reserve a space, contact Brenda Lopez-Zeitz at: brenlopez@mac.com…

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