Hello everyone~ I'm once again reintroducing myself for any who aren't already familiar with me (and anyone who is). I'm Banafsheh, also known as Bana. Specialising in strange and wonderful stories for strange and wonderful people, as well as the resident weeb on this platform lol. I moderate the Animation and Transmedia lounges.
My genres of choice are drama and psychological/surrealism, though I really dabble in everything pretty much (only thing I haven't done yet is western). I also draw, paint, and write novels.
Nice to [re]meet you~
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hi Banafsheh Esmailzadeh ! great to 'see' you - what are you working on currently? cheers
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Hi Sebastian Tudores, nice to see you too~ right now I'm actually working on two projects, my social satires Metal Garden and Niveous Reverie, and both of them are pwning me lol (albeit for different reasons). How about you?
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Hey, Banafsheh Esmailzadeh! Really been enjoying getting to know you in the Writers' Room - and so glad I got to read one of your scripts as part of the Euro/UK Coverage Report! Dude, I love how far your creativity spreads - painting and drawing, too?! How cool is that! I got into fluid painting a few years ago, but I love it because I can focus on the process and let go of the outcome. Traditional painting feels to contricting to me now.
As for me, last year I launched my Off Duty, Thanks! brand (www.offdutythanks.shop - I just made new apparel for Mother's Day!) and this year I'm focusing on publishing my #StoryMath YouTube channel and book. It's not ready yet, but here is the channel if you'd like to start following ahead of our launch: https://www.youtube.com/@storymath.online
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that's super Banafsheh Esmailzadeh - love both loglines, but Niveous Reverie already has me at... well, logline lol
I'm still finishing a book-to-feature adaptation but have slowed a bit to include work on an an older pilot and for development work on a short film.
Hi Karen "Kay" Ross, thanks so much, it's great getting know you in the Writers' Room as well, and I'm grateful to be included in the Euro Coverage Report group (especially since I tend to be quite busy lol)! Thanks yeah, I've been an artist for far longer than I've been a writer though I've been really bad at doing art lately so I'm gonna try to fix that. Been toying with the idea of doing my own concept art, maybe posters as well. I only do traditional art personally lol (for painting I mainly do acrylics though I do want to learn watercolour/gouache, and for drawing I'm more pencil but I'm getting the hang of dip pens and I LOVE screentones), same with reading physical books. Gotta do some things the old way since I'm behind a screen often enough as it is xD
Congrats on the launch! I'll definitely give you a follow and see about getting some merch! :D
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Thanks so much Sebastian Tudores~ yeah I think Niveous Reverie's logline came easier than most of the ones I've written, which is surprising for me xD I realised at some point that I can't not lift from my own life a little bit so it's also going to be my most personal work to date. As a result it wants to be more dramatic than pure romance but the satirical aspects are appropriately subdued compared to Metal Garden where I've ramped up the comedy and chaos (hence making the satire more blatant/sharper). Both times though my novelist habits creep up so I'm trying to move faster with the screenplays lol
I feel that, I've been slowing down quite a bit to plan Niveous Reverie out as well as thinking up other story ideas, maybe also Lunar Window's final edits. Hoping to get back to Finding Elpis 5 soon, and maybe also Marisol and Mezzaluna's rewrites. A whole heaping plate, I got lol
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Banafsheh Esmailzadeh holy...! you sure do have a heaping plate lol
You know, I'm no novelist, but I'm not sure screenplays are meant to necessarily take less time. Not everything that you're crafting may make it into dialogue or description with a screenplay, but (and correct me if I am wrong) you still end up crafting the same amount of things.
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Indeed I do Sebastian Tudores lol, and you're right, it's tricky to decide how much goes in and how much goes out, even moreso with film being a visual medium so I have to go against my own grain lol. But for sure, so far I'm not able to implement all the parts I want (I'm even wondering if an absolute banger line that I want to use is possible for Niveous Reverie). It's definitely a challenge since I like writing in a meandering style and that doesn't always work for a screenplay ^^;