Man, today was a day to remember. I got to do things today that I’ve never done before. Unfortunately, I can’t really talk about them because I literally swore myself to secrecy. Signed an NDA and all that. That’s “non-disclosure agreement” for those of us not living in crazy hollywood.
I can say this, however: I am a semi-finalist for the Sundance TV Writing Lab. Surprise! And a surprise it was…they’d emailed people who were moving forward all the way back on April 19th. I knew that actually, because Liz went and had dinner with a guy who’d just been notified that day that he’d be moving forward to the next round. So, I was a little disappointed when I hadn’t seen an email in my inbox telling me that I’d also been picked to advance…
…until I received an email from Sundance today telling me I needed to upload my script before tomorrow night, or I would be disqualified. Well, thank baby G for that, right?! I thought they’d sent it to me by accident, but when I logged into their site, sure enough, there was a record of an email they’d sent me back on the 19th saying congrats, I was moving on.
So that was a pleasant surprise. Someone online said they take essentially the top 10% of the scripts they receive. Which is a nice bit of validation. I still, honestly, think my chances of getting into this workshop are pretty slim. The list of picks from the previous two years are all people with many more credits than myself…I know that’s kind of negative thinking, but honestly, that’s the reality I see. I didn’t let it stop me from putting everything I had into my script, and maybe that’s enough…but it’s also okay if it’s not. I’ll submit again when I have the right new script. In the meantime, I’m going to write Icarus as a novel. And I’m really REALLY excited about that.
There is a bird outside my window that is going HAM right now. So talkative. The pups flank me on either side. Coops just got finished licking his paw.
But, man…I wish I could talk about what I got to go do today, what I got to watch…but I can’t. Not yet. I’ll talk about it when I can 😉
Night, y’all! Pages tomorrow and for the next four days to get me caught up. I can do it!
Ps- since the movie is long out by now, on this day last year I got to see Star Trek: Beyond at Justin Lin’s offices and give feedback…feedback that they actually listened to (although not necessarily from US that day, but still!) because some of the notes we had we saw had been taken in the final cut of the movie. It was so exciting. Indie filmmakers out there: all those things you do with your own film, editing it, showing it to people, figuring out what’s working and what isn’t…that is what the big boys do, too. It’s all the same. So keep at it!