Should Screenwriters Send Out PDFs Of Their Screenplays? by Shawn Christensen, CoWriter/Director of THE VANISHING OF SIDNEY HALL

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Film Courage: How did you know the story [THE VANISHING OF SIDNEY HALL] was special or maybe you didn’t?

Shawn Christensen: I didn’t. We felt it was special because…I don’t know because when you write a screenplay I think you think it’s special. Whether or not it is special is kind of up to the…you know…Gods of the Future. But we thought it was special…I guess because we enjoyed writing with each other and we enjoyed the story we had built and we had some good plot twists and we liked the non-linear structure and we had written…Jason [Dolan] had written four, five or six screenplays at that point and I had written two. And so when you get to your third script (your third feature script), trust me you’ve learned a lot. And I think us teaming up and his weaknesses and strengths and my weaknesses and strengths really worked well together. He’s very good at things that I’m not and vice versa and so we liked it and we gave it to ten of our friends...(Read more here via Filmcourage.com).