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Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect, 2nd Edition
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Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect, 2nd Edition

by Claudia H. Johnson
September 2012
Beginner
312 pages
6h 47m
English
Focal Press
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12

My Josephine

By Barry Jenkins

Introduction

It took Barry Jenkins fifteen months to finish the screenplay and film of My Josephine. He wrote the first draft in mid-September, 2001, for his B.F.A. Screenwriting II class, and later—much later—directed the film for his Film-making III project.

It was a very raw film in that first draft. Everything I was feeling about 9/11 was vented right there on the surface of the script. The two characters were broad frames for my sympathy for Arab-Americans in post-9/11 America, and in clinging so much to that aspect of the script I went overboard and presented clichés as commentary on American Society. I was trying to do too much. The frame of the story was always one night in the life of these two characters. ...

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ISBN: 9780240806419