How does the Independent film producer differ from an established Hollywood heavyweight?
They are light years apart. The Independent film producer still has the excitement — the vision, the art. They are not plagued by big studio politics. They can hire a new, unknown writer, or buy a script from a non- WGA member. Big studio producers don’t have that luxury. The big studio executives don’t have the freedom that the independent film producer has. You are proof that you don’t have to be part of the Hollywood insider’s club to get a spec script sold, having sold one feature spec, NOWHERE TO HIDE (currently in development with Dorolena Films), optioned four other spec scripts, hired by Blix Entertainment to write the script for their project, JUST ENUFF (the life story of NBA star, Chris Jackson), and you’re currently working with an independent producer on your 34th screenplay. How afraid do you think the old establishment is of the new breed of talent? Oh, I don’t think they fear them at all, but rather they are watching…waiting. In the past few years, the films coming o