Screenwriting : Short films by Jerry Guarino

Jerry, first let me congratulate you on your success as a writer. Over 70 short stories published around the world, a novel and a good handful of screenplays. That’s fantastic. You’re successful so I have no reason to doubt your short stories, translated to film, should also be successful but I’m not sure I understand your request to find professionals to review your work. It sounds like you’re looking for someone to convert your short stories into scripts. Is this correct? If so, why not do that yourself since you already write screenplays. Or are you looking for someone to turn your short scripts into film?

Jerry you obviously have the writing chops. Why not have a hack at some yourself. Get a story and see if you can tell it without dialogue. This would be a good indicator if a story is visual enough to be a film. Things like thoughts are great in short stories but don't translate easily to film. I think you will enjoy and may even learn from the process.

Pierre. Thanks for your kind words. Yes I should have been more specific. I am looking for producers, directors or other screenwriters that may be interested in working on short films based on my stories.

Thanks Craig. I have converted a few of my stories to scripts and will do more once my feature rewrite is done.

No problems Jerry. Apart from simply networking your butt off, which is how I get my shorts produced, I can also point you toward inktip.com where you can list your scripts for prospective producers and directors looking fir something to film. Inktip will charge to list features but shorts are free to list.

Thanks Pierre. As soon as I finish my feature :)

Pierre do you know what Inktip charges?

Sorry Jody, I don't. I haven't listed any features with them but others in my writing groups have.

But Inktip won't accept a listing without a copyright registration number. They insist on it.

Sorry for the multiple posts but I can't edit through this app. You really should subscribe to their newsletter, they will post requests, that is something like: Studio ABC is looking for a comedy with specific feel and page length, please contact Fred Nurk, etc. People can get quite excited by those posts.

Thanks I just went to their site and I guess I did the "free" registration a couple years ago, lol. I forgot all about it! Looks like they accept wga registration too, which is what I use. Maybe I'll give it a shot, more $ down the drain, haha

Well hopefully you'll be laughing for real after selling a script.

Oh that would be awesome, never know!

Thanks CJ for the encouraging news :)