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Baltis.
Posted: August 24th, 2012, 3:55pm Report to Moderator
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Shriekfest 2012!!

Got the call earlier today -- I was pretty stoked about this one because they let me in on very, very, very short notice.  As in, missed the deadline by 7 days... So I'm good to be where I am right now.

My days are looking well, let's just hope my health continues along with it.  

Here's to going all the way with it!  I love the script, the hook, the idea and the tone of it... It's one of my favorite scripts.
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alffy
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Congrats, Balt.

Seems like you're on a roll.  Fingers crossed for health too.


Check out my scripts...if you want to, no pressure.

You can find my scripts here
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danbotha
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Jeez Balt, you're really doing well for yourself.

Congrats and all the best


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Mr.Ripley
Posted: August 24th, 2012, 4:33pm Report to Moderator
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Congrats!

You're lucky since I have to wait. Submitted a feature.


Just Murdered by Sean Elwood (Zombie Sean) and Gabriel Moronta (Mr. Ripley) - (Dark Comedy, Horror) All is fair in love and war. A hopeless romantic gay man resorts to bloodshed to win the coveted position of Bridesmaid. 99 pages.
https://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b-comedy/m-1624410571/
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Ryan1
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Balt, is Mourning a short or a feature?  Congrats, by the way.
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It is a great name for a story. Clever.
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Baltis.
Posted: August 24th, 2012, 11:41pm Report to Moderator
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Thanks to everyone in advance...


Quoted from alffy
Congrats, Balt.

Seems like you're on a roll. Fingers crossed for health too.



A lot of this, truth be told, has been a slow build up... I've spent the last 4 years working very close with two consultants and really just trying to focus on 10 of my very best projects.

Frostbite is a product of much of the past 4 years work -- But I've got a few more scripts lined up that should do very well very soon, too.  My thing, and I try and always preach it, never show what you have... Tease it.  Build it... But pull back until it is absolutely ready to be seen and shown in full.



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Jeez Balt, you're really doing well for yourself.

Congrats and all the best


Screenwriting was never my focus -- I've studied it, went to schools, seminars and all of that during my 20's, but it was never something I wanted to do.  I never had the ambition to pursue it until about 4 years ago... Up until then I was a personal trainer and a guitarist in a band.  4 years later I'm speaking with people who can actually get things done and moving up in the public eye thanks to Page and now Shriekfest... A lot of people say steer clear of contest, but I've had more buzz in my e-mail and on phone the last 2 months than ever before.




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Congrats!�

You're lucky since I have to wait. Submitted a feature.


That makes me feel bad... I hafta believe mine went through because of it being a short and not a feature length script.  I hope so anyways.  



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Balt, is Mourning a short or a feature? �Congrats, by the way.


It's a short, 40 page script... I've worked on it for sometime now -- Mainly during my off times of Frostbite and No Such thing.  I usually focus on one feature and then juggle two shorts on the side to keep me from getting burnt out or bored.  I felt, since I couldn't get a feature length script together for the contest, this one was going to do well... It was down to this or another script I was working on at the time called "Ornaments".  I felt "Mourning At Midnight" would've probably been a better fit for the competition, though.  And usually what I do is write all of my initial features as shorts and then, if I see enough flaws in them, or feel they ran too short or felt rushed  that is when I start expanding them outwards.


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It is a great name for a story. Clever.


I actually used the name "Mourning At Midnight" for a zombie flick I wrote about seven years ago -- I re-named it and used the name, instead, for this script as it was a better fit I felt.  The zombie script was a 5 story anthology piece where a varied group all told their stories and their version of where they were at midnight and how they got to where they were... I was gonna re-write it, but I canned it for the time being.

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SteveUK
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Congratulations, Balt! Writing-wise, things seem to be going great for you lately. I hope your health picks up soon.
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Wow, what's that saying, you wait and wait and then all the buses come at once...is that it? Nevermind, congrats Baltis.
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Baltis.
Posted: August 30th, 2012, 5:02pm Report to Moderator
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Denise called and let me know my script just made finals!  I'm excited about my odds here.  Spent a good amount of time making it a stand out peice... Frostbite, you're next "crosses fingers".
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Good one Balt - here's to you going the full hog - good luck!
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Balt, you're rocking it out, brother...kind of like a hot guitar lick that just resonates through the brain.

Keep it going...fingers and toes are crossed, man.  Make it real!
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Congrats man.

It's a shame we can't read frostbite


Just Murdered by Sean Elwood (Zombie Sean) and Gabriel Moronta (Mr. Ripley) - (Dark Comedy, Horror) All is fair in love and war. A hopeless romantic gay man resorts to bloodshed to win the coveted position of Bridesmaid. 99 pages.
https://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b-comedy/m-1624410571/
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Baltis.
Posted: August 30th, 2012, 8:42pm Report to Moderator
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Thanks for the support -- Probably as far as I can go with it, but it's bound to make someone interested at a production level I hope.  It's certainly doable on very little budget and the tone of the script would play off really well on screen given the right director.  

It's almost like taking a little Twilight Zone, throwing it into a blender with some of David Lynch's work and mixing it up with a bit of Identity.  < but not too much.  Just a little bit.

Has a super call back at the end of it that it actual ends on.  Two of them, actually.




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Congrats man.

It's a shame we can't read frostbite


If all goes well you'll be seeing it in 2015.  We'll see...    Good things are being said and I'm talking to the right people now -- FINALLY... This is a script that needs to be seen, that I can tell you and I say that because it's been told to me by pretty important folks.  We'll leave it at that for now.  A win at Page, or even a finalist spot, will boost it up there even further, though.  I'm really pulling for that script to do well because I put a helluva lot of time, money and work into it.  It's not the apex of my work "Coffin Canyon" is -- But it's neck and neck.
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Gday Balt,

Scraped in by the hair on your chinny chin chin. That's good to hear.

Hope the ticker is going Ok as last I recall you where going to have a break from all of us.

PM'd you a week or two back and left it as i thought you may have been sidetracked.

Alex


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