Writing Series

Writers + Directors, Part 2: Working With a Director ~Jill Remensnyder

Your persistence paid off! Congratulations on connecting with a director who’s eager to take your script and share their vision with the world. That’s right, their vision. After all, they are the director, right? You just wrote the words and handed it over- what say do you have in any of this? While I wish you all smooth sailing, sometimes things don’t go as planned. It’s important to understand the director’s expectations of the writer as a project gets the green light and goes into production.

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In the News

Portrait of Lotte ~ Amazing Timelapse Video

Written by: Jill Remensnyder 

If a picture speaks a thousand words Frans Hofmeester’s video should leave you speechless. In just under three minutes his timelapse captures his daughter, Lotte, going from a baby to a twelve year-old young lady. The video went viral last week, putting both Frans and his children in the worldwide spotlight.

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Featured Photographer

Natacha Merritt: Millennial Woman

Written By: Shirley Baugher

Natacha Merritt might be surprised at being designated a millennial woman, but she definitely is. She came of age with the Internet’s bare-all, confessional culture. She boldly went where few women had ever gone—on a journey of self-exploration for the new millennium—and gave us no holds barred images depicting her life through sensual encounters. She’s smart, she’s daring, and goes her own way in the world.

Natacha’s story follows the stories of two other women who broke the photographic ground of self-portraiture in the last millennium: Cindy Sherman and Claude Cahun. Like Natacha, Cindy Sherman was a star of her own photos. In the 80s she photographed herself in many guises: a Hitchcock heroine, a Monroe-like glamour girl, an abuse victim, a clown, a corpse, a mutilated hermaphrodite sex doll, a clown, and occasionally, as herself.

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What's New

Zacuto Wins Telly Awards

Guess who’s making room in the trophy case for three more awards? I’ll give you a hint- we are! Zacuto Films is proud to take home three Telly Awards from this year’s 33rd Annual Telly Awards. We received the news late April and are excited to finally share the details with you.

Before announcing what we won (in the spirit of all great award shows) let’s talk a little more about what a Telly represents. The Telly Awards were founded in 1978 to honor excellence in local, regional and cable TV commercials, non-broadcast video and TV program categories were soon added. Today, the Telly’s are highly sought after by industry leaders; from large international firms to local production companies and ad agencies. The mission of the awards is to strengthen the visual arts community by inspiring, promoting, and supporting creativity.

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Featured Columnist

How to Get Inspired ~Alex Vo

Inspiration can come in so many different ways for me and I’ve noticed lately that my curiosity usually opens myself up to be inspired. I love storytelling and the direction of where my stories are heading is usually driven by who the characters are. My characters are usually inspired by the people I see and/or already know, so during the day as I’m driving around… I people watch. Once in a while during these “drive by people watching sessions,” someone I see will really stand out and I will let my judgmental ways of thinking run with it. I’m not trying to be a judgmental pr**k but this practice works to form these fictional stories and eventually I’ll get an idea for a possible script. If it’s good, I usually write it down in my iphone notes. If not, I continue being a judgmental pr**k…

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