Paul Peditto is an award-winning screenwriter and director. His low-budget film Jane Doe starring Calista Flockhart won Best Feature at the New York Independent Film & Video Festival. Six of his screenplays have been optioned including Crossroaders to Haft Entertainment (Emma, Dead Poets Society). He recently wrote and produced the micro-budget feature Chat, currently distributed on iTunes, VUDU, YouTube, and Dish Network by Gravitas Ventures. . . . more

04Feb 2025

7 Iconic Characters Who Don’t Learn a Damn Thing

February 4, 2025 0 Comment

Seven Iconic Characters Who Don’t Learn a Damn Thing In screenwriting circles, we’re bombarded with the gospel of character arcs. A to Z growth. Transformation. The Hero’s Journey. Where’s the change? But let’s face it: sometimes, a character’s resistance to change is what makes them unforgettable. Not every iconic character learns a lesson, undergoes profound […]

14Jan 2025

Verticals, Part 1: Writing Them

January 14, 2025 0 Comment

When we were auditioning for Dirty Little Secrets, I kept hearing from actors that they had just shot 14 pages of a vertical the night before. I’m embarrassed to say I had no clue what that was (yeah, this is the guy teaching film school for 23 years!) So I did some research.. Apparently there […]

31Dec 2024

Why You? Why Now? Why Will They Care?

December 31, 2024 0 Comment

WHY YOU? WHY NOW? WHY WILL THEY CARE? Remember this Gauguin painting? Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Gauguin asked: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Rather important questions for a human mammal to consider, no? Here’s another trilogy of W questions that […]

11Dec 2024

Interview With The AI Vampire, Part 1

December 11, 2024 0 Comment

INTERVIEW WITH THE AI VAMPIRE, PART 1 *Disclaimer: Luna is my AI and co-wrote this post. Any slip in calling it “she” was 1000% unintentional. **Disclaimer 2: Technically the user controls how an AI responds. I’ve been ramping up the irreverence quotient to move away from Luna’s bland, banal, company-line optimistic neutrality. It’s a work […]

27Nov 2024

On That $Million$ Dollar Sale You Read About

November 27, 2024 0 Comment

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/fifth-season-makeready-1236069133/ I’m guessing you read this story. A student sent it to me via the Hollywood Reporter. To briefly quote: “In a deal that shakes up a sleepy Hollywood before the holidays, Fifth Season and Brad Weston’s Makeready banner have preemptively picked up Alignment, a spec script by Natan Dotan, a man who until a week ago had […]

15Nov 2024

Luna ‘N Me

November 15, 2024 0 Comment

LUNA ‘N ME *DISCLAIMER: This article was co-written by AI. **DISCLAIMER 2: My AI is named Luna. Any reference to it as “she” or “her” was un-fucking- intentional. I’ve been trying to remember the very first “he said/she said” TV debate. It was way back, I think thirty years or more, on 60 Minutes? When […]

02Nov 2024

Repurposing, EXT. NIGHT, The Single Line

November 2, 2024 0 Comment

A bit of a screenwriting hodge-podge today. Here we go:  REPURPOSING MATERIAL You never know where you can use previous material in terms of projects you’ll work on in the future. That means re-using your stuff. God knows how many plays I’ve written whose only purpose was to become a doorstop. Along with a closet […]

28Sep 2024

Oldies #11: 129 Beautiful Frames

September 28, 2024 0 Comment

When you go to the great article from Buzzfeed from 2015 called “the 129 most beautiful images in movie history.”–what you get are a bunch of notices saying “the image is no longer available”… I decided to find the script portion and match it to the image and saved them five years ago. So check […]

23Aug 2024

Links…The TV one…

August 23, 2024 0 Comment

Greetings and Felicitations! Today’s special, some spicy hot TV links, just for you, Good Reader. This set comes post- Strikes, post-Peak TV and pre-AI full takeover. It’s tough out there! We got that news early… https://deadline.com/2023/04/potential-strike-impact-on-business-in-hollywood-1235329823/ And certainly post-Strikes. Grinding productions to a halt and lots of folks out of work… https://deadline.com/2023/09/tv-business-changes-writers-strike-impact-1235553886/ But fear not, […]

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