Inside the Magic: How James Cameron and Disney Are Revolutionizing Animation—Secrets Revealed by Pietro Schito
Welcome to episode 534 of the Selling Your Screenplay podcast. I’m Ashley Scott Meyers, screenwriter and blogger of its sellingyourscreenplay.com. Today I am interviewing Italian animation producer named Pietro Schito. He has done a number of animated projects both as a writer and producer. So today he’s going to talk about his career. And then we talk about the state of animation and how AI is going to impact it in the near future. So, stay tuned for that interview. SYS’s Six Figure Screenplay Contest is open for submissions. Just go to www.sellingyourscreenplay.com/contest. Our regular deadline is May 31st. If your script is ready, definitely submit now to save some money. We’re looking for low budget shorts and features. I’m defining low budget as less than six figures. In other words, less than 1 million U.S. dollars. We’ve got a lot of industry judges reading scripts in the later rounds. We’re giving away thousands of dollars in cash and prizes along with a bunch of other prizes to bring exposure to the top screenplays. We have a short film script category, 30 pages or less. So, if you have a low budget short script by all means submit that as well. I’ve got a number of industry judge producers who are looking specifically for short scripts. So hopefully we can find a home for some of those as well. If you want to submit or learn more about the contest, just go to www.sellingyourscreenplay.com/contest. If you find this episode valuable, please help me out by giving me a review in iTunes or leaving a comment on YouTube or retweeting the podcast on Twitter or liking or sharing it on Facebook. These social media shares really do help spread word about the podcast so they’re very much appreciated. Any websites or links that I mentioned in the podcast can be found on my blog in the show notes. I also publish a transcript with every episode in case you’d rather read the show or look at something later on. You can find all the podcast show notes at www.sellingyourscreenplay.com/podcast and then just look for episode 534. If you want my free guide, how to sell screenplay in five weeks, you can pick that up by going to sellingyourscreenplay.com/guide. It’s completely free. You just put in your email address and I’ll send you a new lesson once per week for five weeks along with a bunch of bonus lessons. I teach the whole process of how to sell your screenplay in that guide. I’ll teach you how to write a professional logline and query letter and how to find agents, managers and producers who are looking for material. Really is everything you need to know to sell your screenplay. Just go to sellingyourscreenplay.com/guide. So, a quick few words about what I’ve been working on. I am now in pre-production on my ultra micro budget feature rom-com. I am slowly starting to put the pieces together. It looks like we’ll be shooting in the last week of October and the first two weeks of November. I’ve got my crew pretty much figured out. I’m going to keep things super small and manageable. My cinematography from The Pinch, Bernie Rao, is coming back and he is bringing one of his filmmaker friends who he has worked before on other films. And they’re going to be my crew. They’ll run the camera, they’ll also do sound. We might have a day or two where we have a slightly larger crew, but that’s basically going to be it, the sound, camera, and then me as a director and line producer.
