GUESTS:

Filmmaker Peter Hanson, Tale from the Script

Lynette Kessler, Dance Camera West

Filmmaker Peter Hanson discusses his documentary film (and companion book) “Tales from the Script” which interviews a cross-section of screenwriters at various stages in their careers to talk about their craft – from Academy Award winners, like Ron Shelton, William Goldman, Bruce Joel Rubin, Paul Schraeder to fledgling writers of various genres.  With intriguing topics like “Anybody Can Do That”, “Food Stamps & Good Wishes,” to “Nobody Wants Your Stuff,” and “Freefall the Catastrophe of Success” anecdotal and cautionary tales are told with humor, insight, and rueful experience.

In the second half, Artistic Director Lynette Kesler of Dance Camera West disucsses the Dance Media Film Festival happening at Redcat.  The Opening night, Screendance: A New Visual Language” presents a unique cinematic experience focusing on the intersection of cinematography and choreography.  From experimental shorts to documentaries, surreal visual abstractions, as well as narratives, offerings present a broad range of cinematic styles, exhibition formats and subject matters traversing global perspectives.  For further info visit: www.dancecamerawest.com.

Copies of this show can be ordered from the Pacifica Radio Archives at www.pacificaradioarchives.org.