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  Adventures of a Film Scholar Web Series Episode #1

  December 8, 2012 / Adventures of a Film Scholar, Adventures of a Film Scholar, Creator Corner, Videos

  Welcome to “Adventures of a Film Scholar” video interview series. AFS is a discourse on independent filmmaking and film education. In each episode, Seth Jaret will have an international Skype chat with writer/director/film scholar, Darren Paul Fisher. Darren is an independent filmmaker (OXV: THe Manual, Popcorn, The Inbetweeners) and senior teaching fellow at Bond University, one of the premiere film programs in the world. Darren is also in post-production on his third feature. Join them as they discuss writing, directing, [...]

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  Adventures of a Film Scholar – Part III

  June 12, 2012 / Adventures of a Film Scholar, Articles, Creator Corner

  OK, so OXV: The Manual. This is a project that I’ll be talking a lot about in future posts. It’s an independent feature that I like to refer to not so much as a “vanity” project as a “sanity” project. (And I’m being deliberately obscure as to what OXV means). Those who know me know that I’ve made no secret of the fact that for various reasons I’ve been unhappy with my first two features. I make no excuses. The mistakes [...]

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  Adventures of a Film Scholar – Part II

  April 13, 2012 / Adventures of a Film Scholar, Articles, Creator Corner

  So what’s it about? This is a question that I pose to my students. A very short, but – in my opinion – the ultimate make-or-break question as to whether a script (or the resulting film) will actually work. I don’t mean make money, I don’t mean be a critical success (both of those outcomes have many other contributing factors), I mean work on the raw, unadulterated, nuts-and-bolts STORYTELLING level. Most of what I do in academia is to flag [...]

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  Adventures of a Film Scholar

  March 9, 2012 / Adventures of a Film Scholar, Articles, Creator Corner

  I’m currently sinking in a sea of paper and ideas. Not for the next screenplay, but for my PhD. Not that I have yet started or been accepted to a PhD program… there is so much to do before we get to that stage. Depending how you look at it, I am a filmmaker who is also an academic or an academic who is also a filmmaker. Part of the reality of existing in two worlds is that you must keep developing [...]

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