Storytelling And Advertising: Skype

In the future I am going to write more about storytelling as such, and also about cross media storytelling. This will include branded content and branded entertainment. This is the first example: Sarah is born with an incomplete left arm. Sarah’s mum starts looking for children with a similar problem on the interne, and she finds Paige. The girls start …

Book Review: On Directing Film

While discussing our favorite scriptwriting literature on Facebook with some friends, I remembered that I wrote a long review about David Mamet’s book “On Directing Film” back in February 2013 for the newsletter of the Association Of Film- And TV Script Consultants (VeDra). This is the article:   The moments that shifted my perspectives on screenplays as a script consultant …

Viennale ’13: The Act Of Killing

THE ACT OF KILLING by Josh Oppenheimer is a159 minutes long examination of perpetrators boasting about their killings. And it is one of the most powerful documentaries that I have seen in a long time. The movie is about the men who killed more than 100.000 “communists” during the Sumatra massacres in 1965 (I have put communists in quotes because …

Viennale ’13: Gold

Only few of my friends liked Thomas Arslan’s last movie IM SCHATTEN (IN THE SHADOW). I did, and somehow I did not mind the long scenes where almost nothing happens. So I was looking forward to seeing GOLD, because I was eager to know how a genre movie would deal with slowness and gaps in the narration. On the surface …

Viennale ’13: Like Father, Like Son

Do you know that feeling when everything is happening at once? I mean, during the Viennale Film Festival. This year I had the presentation of Runtastic Story Running, and now I caught a nasty cold. But somehow I managed to watch three movies, so here is the first review. I was really looking forward to LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (SOCHITE CHICHI …

Runtastic Story Running

The mystery of my latest project was revealed on Thursday at Pioneers Festival. It is called Runtastic Story Running. Story Running is a new feature of the Runtastic App. It tells you stories with a special Soundtrack while you are running. My job as a story consultant was planning the whole story development process, advising the writers during the development …

Welcome back

As you can see, I have revamped and updated my website. You can find new services (like the HIGH NOON talk – perfect for writers in the early stages of the story development process), and I will try to keep the blog updated. I am currently working on an exciting cross media project, which will be revealed on Thursday, so …

Long time no see

Sorry for the long silence. But I finally have some great news, because I am currently in the process of revamping all my services. Here is a teaser: Until now most of my services were for producers. With HIGH NOON – The Talk I will finally have a service that aims directly at you, the writers and filmmakers. HIGH NOON …

Back from Venice

While I am back in Vienna, I am still thinking about the great time I had at the International Film Festival in Venice, where THE FIFTH SEASON did not win any Lions, but two other prices. Meanwhile you can watch a few impressions from the red carpet. The prices are Arca CinemaGiovani Award for Best Film (Young Jury Award) and …

THE FIFTH SEASON at Venice

The world premiere of THE FIFTH SEASON (Script/Directors: Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth) will be held on September 6 2012 at 10 p.m. in Salla Grande at Lido/Venice in the main competition of the International Film Festival of Venice. I am going to be there from September 5 to 9. If you want to meet me for a coffee, call me …