The Successful Screenwriter with Geoffrey D Calhoun: Screenwriting Podcast

Geoffrey chats with retired NYPD Detective Vic Ferrari with a candid look at what's going on behind the scenes of life and crime in New York. Vic Ferrari is a retired twenty-year veteran of the New York City police department. A Bronx resident for over 40 years. A survivor of an Irish father and Italian mother, When he's not writing, he's picking up after his neurotic Irish Wolfhound. Vic is the a...

Geoffrey discusses FBI profiling and behavior analysis with former FBI Special Agent John R. “Jack” Schafer. Jack is a psychologist (phd), professor, best-selling author, and intelligence consultant. As a special agent in the FBI, Dr. Schafer spent fifteen years conducting counter-intelligence and counterterrorism investigations, and seven years as a behavioral analyst for the FBI’s National Secur...

Geoffrey chats with Screenwriter Michael Jamin (King of The Hill, Just Shoot Me, Lopez) about the WGA Strike, Netflix Streaming Residuals and the imminent threat of AI to the future of screenwriters. You can find Michael at https://michaeljamin.com/ --> https://www.thesuccessfulscreenwriter.com 🎬  Get Free Script Leads — be the first to know which producers are requesting scripts and accepting...

CIA Officer (Retired) Larry Jones discusses his career as a Polygraph Examiner and his exploits in counterintelligence including surviving an attempted assassination. For the full in-depth and uncut interview about working as an undercover special agent in the FBI join our community and get access to our full character database. --> https://www.thesuccessfulscreenwriter.com 🎬  Get Free Script...

A webtoon is a type of digital comic that originated in South Korea and is read vertically by scrolling down on a computer or smartphone . Accessible anywhere and practically free of charge, each episode takes less than five minutes to read. Geoffrey Chats with artists and creator Krimanga (Middle Ground Crescent) on the unique genres of this popular webcomic and how screenwriters can use this as...

Geoffrey chats with a showrunner (Tony Phelan) and cast (Billie Boulet & Ashley Brooke) of A Small Light which follows the remarkable story of Miep Gies, a Dutch woman who risked her life to shelter Anne Frank's family from the Nazis for more than two years during World War II. A Small Light premieres on Disney +, Hulu, & National Geographic. Geoffrey's book, The Guide For Every Screenwrit...

Geoffrey chats with Chilean Director Marialy Rivas about HBO's Original TV Show Perry Mason. She discusses directing Episode 5 Season 2 and what her favorite/most challenging scene was and how her struggles under the Che Dictatorship helped to form her unique voice as a filmmaker. Geoffrey's book, The Guide For Every Screenwriter is available at: https://www.thesuccessfulscreenwriter.com/books Joi...

Geoffrey chats with Niceole Levy a screenwriter who has been staffed on such shows as: S.W.A.T., Cloak and Dagger, The Recruit, Allegiance & Fate: The Winx Saga. Niceole discusses her book The Writers'Room Survival Guide and gives a real behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in a writers' room. You can find The Writers' Room Survival Guide at https://a.co/d/8o7MgvR Geoffrey's book, The Guide...

FBI Special Agent (Retired) Michael R. McGowan served more than 31 years of dedicated FBI service before retiring in 2017, almost all of which was working undercover against some of the most dangerous, sophisticated, and notorious criminal organizations and individuals. He is the author of Ghost: My thirty years as an FBI undercover agent. You can find Ghost: My thirty years as an FBI undercover a...

The Successful Screenwriters Katie Presto is at SXSW and has an exclusive interview with the writer/director Dutch Southern of the SXSW Official Selection, Only The Good Survive . A horror thriller that explores what happens when a heist goes wrong. Starring Sydney Flanigan, Lachlan Watson, and film legend Jon Gries! Logline - After a heist goes wrong and results in the deaths of all three of her...

The Successful Screenwriter is at SXSW with an exclusive interview with the writer/director Tony Tost of Americana an ensemble suspense thriller starring pop icon Halsey, Sydney Sweeney, Paul Walter Hauser, and Zahn McClarnon! Logline - When a rare Lakota Ghost Shirt falls onto the black market in a small town in South Dakota, the lives of local outsiders and outcasts violently intertwine. The Gui...

The Successful Screenwriter is at SXSW! Guest host Katie Presto has an exclusive interview with the writer/director of the incredibly thought-provoking sci-fi drama "The Artifice Girl" starring Lance Henriksen and Tatum Mathews! Logline - When an internet vigilante develops a revolutionary new computer program to combat online predators, its rapid advancement leads to serious questions of autonomy...

The Successful Screenwriter is at SXSW with an exclusive interview with the show creator of Metal Man a dramatic comedy nominated for the SXSW Grand Jury Award! Logline - Metal Man Follows Henry, a handyman who looks like a death metal band member, as he is called to fix a bathtub for a young couple. He gets involved in their drama/life, but in spite of his scary exterior, he helps them with his k...

The Successful Screenwriter is at SXSW with an exclusive interview with the director of the charming sci-fi romantic comedy "If You Were The Last" starring Anthony Mackie and Zoe Chao! Logline - Adrift in their broken-down space shuttle with little hope of rescue, two astronauts argue over whether they're better off spending their remaining days as friends or something more. The Guide For Every Sc...

Guest Host Katie Presto chats with Christopher O'Bryant winner of The Successful Screenwriter Contest about his winning script Things Kept Hidden. Chris dives into his process of writing, what inspires him, and what he has learned from reading over 800 screenplays. The Guide For Every Screenwriter is available at: https://www.thesuccessfulscreenwriter.com/books Join our community and become a memb...

Geoffrey chat with Ian Lewinter about Film.io a decentralized autonomous organization (dao) which is an entity with no central leadership, replacing the exclusive film industry hierarchy, with inclusive decision-making by the fans and creator community. You can find film.io at https://film.io/ Geoffrey's book, The Guide For Every Screenwriter is available at: https://www.thesuccessfulscreenwriter....

Character Database: Biomedical Engineer Amanda Randles is a computer scientist who is the Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Duke University. Randles has been an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and computer science at the university and works at the Duke Cancer Institute. Her research includes biomedical simulation and high-performance co...

Geoffrey sits down and chats with Conquering Hollywood, The Screenwriter's Blueprint For Career Success written by Gary W. Goldstein. The Producer of Pretty Woman, Under Siege, and The Mothman Prophecies. Gary provides some invaluable insight on how we began as a lawyer with no contacts and came to Hollywood to success happen in the film industry. You can find Conquering Hollywood at amazon.com/Co...

Logline - James and Em Foster are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation in the fictional island of La Tolqa, when a fatal accident exposes the resort's perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence and surreal horrors. Geoffrey is joined by screenwriter Katie Presto as they break down and analyze all of the subtextual visuals and hidden layers behind this hedonistic horror. So wa...

Geoffrey and Kristy Leigh Lussier start off their new "Vs." segment with Smile vs. It Follows! Both were huge hits in the horror genre with unique and disturbing creatures. Geoffrey and Kristy discuss how both films approach the same genre and concept from a completely different perspective and break down the techniques used to make them work. The Guide For Every Screenwriter is available at: http...

Logline: A desperate writer signs up for a fully A.I.-operated retreat to cure her writer's block, but when an unforeseen software glitch occurs, she gets trapped inside her unit with an unstable android and no communication with the outside world. The screenwriter Stephen Herman's script was optioned on InkTip by a producer in London, even though he is from New York! Geoffrey speaks with Chris Co...

Geoffrey chats with Joey & Stephanie from Art School Dropouts as they discuss how to create unique and engaging content for Youtube. you can find them here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXuiZtLNnppnkmNNOSpVbRw The Guide For Every Screenwriter is available at: https://www.thesuccessfulscreenwriter.com/books Join our community and become a member for free --> https://www.thesuccessfulscre...

Character Database: Neuroscientist Leah Elson is a clinical development scientist with a 13-year career in medical research which has included the fields of orthopedics, novel biotechnology, oncology, and neuroscience. Leah has 87 peer-reviewed, collaborative publications, including manuscripts, book chapters, and supplements. She studied pre-medical sciences at Harvard University and has earned g...

Geoffrey chats with writer/producer Jason Lew (Insecure, Ballers) about his new podcast series, Birds of Empire. Jason discusses creating a cinematic fantasy within audio. He also talks about world-building a society that takes place thousands of years after the fall of civilization. You can find Birds of Empire at https://qcodemedia.com/birds-of-empire Geoffrey's book, The Guide For Every Screenw...

Geoffrey chats with Matthew Kalil about his book, The Three Wells of Screenwriting. They discuss ways to avoid writing cliche and how to access your inner creative genius. You can find The Three Wells of Screenwriting at https://a.co/d/iykNcHK Geoffrey's book, The Guide For Every Screenwriter is available at: https://www.thesuccessfulscreenwriter.com/books Join our community and become a member fo...