BPS 170: Mastering Screenwriting in Hollywood with Mick Hurbis-Cherrier

Today on the show we have author, filmmaker and
screenwriter Mick Hurbis-Cherrier.

Mick  is an independent filmmaker and screenwriter. His works
have been broadcast and shown around the country and have garnered
prizes at many festivals including the Black Maria Film & Video
Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Athens Film & Video Festival
and the Cin(e) Poems National Film Festival.

His work has also been featured at the Robert Flaherty Seminar, the
American Film Institute’s National Video Showcase and at the Museum
of Modern Art in New York City. His screenplays have also won
prizes including the Arthur Miller Award for dramatic writing, the
Lawrence Kasdan award for screenwriting and he was twice an award
winner in the University Film & Video Association national
screenwriting competition.

Among his film projects are: River of Things, an alternative
film in four parts based on four poems by Pablo Neruda andFearFall,
a short narrative satire about paranoia and the squeezing of the
American middle class, which he wrote, directed and produced.

His recent commissioned feature screenwriting projects
include Give Me Five, which he co-wrote (with Ron Bass) for La
Petite Reine Productions, Mesopotamia 2020 for
Picturesque films and Empire of Dirt for director Steve Ramser. He
also penned Better That Way, the official English language
stage adaptation of the film Une Liaison
Pornographique (U.S. release title An Affair of
Love).

He is currently completing a gangster genre screenplay set in New
Orleans entitled Force of Nature, also for Picturesque
films.

In 2011 Hurbis-Cherrier published the 2nd edition of his
comprehensive narrative film production textbook Voice &
Vision: A Creative Approach to Narrative Film and DV
Production 2nd ed. with Focal Press (originally published
in 2007). In 2013 he published Directing: Film Techniques and
Aesthetics 5th ed. (Focal Press) co-authored with Michael
Rabiger.

Both of these books are among the core film production textbooks in
film programs throughout this country and internationally.
Hurbis-Cherrier is currently working on the book, Practical
Film Analysis and Inspired Filmmaking for the British Film
Institute (BFI Publishing, Palgrave/MacMillan) which is scheduled
for publication in early 2015.

Enjoy my conversation with Mick Hurbis-Cherrier.

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