From the Phillipine Daily Inquirer: The downturn in the Philippine film industry sends a strong signal to creators, says screenwriter Roy Iglesias: quit aping Hollywood and get back to your roots.

 

From New York Theatre Experience: This invaluable, web-savvy theatrical organization launches its latest collection of off-off, and off-off-off, and off-off-off-off-off Broadway plays, Plays and Playwrights 2005. Here's the first in a series of interviews with the playwrights, in this case Qui Nguyen ("if you bore them, they will friggin’ hate you") and Robert Ross Parker ("I'm interested in the place where fart jokes and philosophy meet and have tea.")

 

From The Baltimore Sun: "It has been called the movie year of social-cultural division, of anger, of chaos, of continued independent film ascendancy. But artistically, 2004 was the year of the writer." (Registration required. Use ours, if you like: Username: escriptgofer Password: escriptgofer)

Monday, January 03, 2005

 

From the Winston-Salem Journal: Playwright Aziz Chouaki is just one of many Muslim authors in Europe who speak the truth as they see it -- whatever the consequences.