WHERE'S THE DRAMA?

A collection of ideas, postings, articles, films, attitudes, strategies and other miscellaneous bits for innovative, dramatic filmmakers and their audiences.

Quotable quotes about screenwriting and filmmaking by Australian/American writer and producer, Billy Marshall Stoneking. PLUS other sundry items of interest to those with a passion for creative revolution.

The online, interactive biography of Billy Marshall Stoneking.

A survey of films, writings, ideas, images and links

An online selection of Stoneking's poems

Contact info and networking opportunties for Stoneking

Order books by Billy Marshall Stoneking - pay by credit card and have them delivered to your house by a naked, singing postal employee.

Buy Stoneking's books at the cheapest online prices. Will ship anywhere in the world.

Features extensive coverage of Cinerama, CinemaScope, Technirama, Panavision, Vistavision, Superscope, Todd-AO, Technicolor, Cinecolor, Kinemacolor and other motion picture photographic processes, as well as a great deal of historic material on the development of early motion picture sound systems of the variable area and variable density optical soundtracks, plus Vitaphone sound on disc motion picture audio systems.

The best and most authoritative online resource for Australian poets and poetry.

A site that is operated by the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA). The NFSA is the national audiovisual archive, collecting, preserving and sharing the nation???s moving image and recorded sound heritage.

Put yourself on the map and be found. Australian Short Films.com is an independent website dedicated to promoting short film in Australia.

Bright Lights is one of the most widely read, quoted, and respected movie sites on the Web, mixing savvy pop reviews with in-depth analysis of current and classic, edgy and indie, international and experimental cinema - with wit and a political edge.

Photographer/teacher, Amy Renfrey, offers some salients tips for getting the best results from your digital camera. Check it out.

The book and the website - Dinosaur Theory is a corrective to the tyranny of the three-act structure. Chris Tugwell, the book's author and owner of the website shows you how to use the "real shape" that lies hidden in your story.

Doctor Larry Buttrose offers a unique service to business clients worldwide, in editing and proofing, and also writing specialist corporate documents.

Food for your brain. Watch some of the best docos ever made. Submit your own.

The place you know and love for free scripts and screenplays.

Forensics demystified for the fiction writer/screenwriter.

A check list for creative producers.

Based on Michael Shurtleff's "Audition"

A clearing house of information on film archiving and related endeavours

One Month Screenplay offeres non-screenwiters the opportunity to turn their concepts into screenplays in only one month!

Inside the Art, Craft and Business of Writing

Raindance was founded in 1992 by filmmakers, for filmmakers. Raindance is dedicated to fostering and promoting independent film in the UK and around the world. Based in the heart of London, Raindance combines Raindance Film Festival, Training Courses, the prestigious British Independent Film Awards.and Raindance.tv

Thousands of Filmmakers worldwide use ReelClever to manage their projects, promote themselves, their businesses and their films, find work, and increase productivity

Established in 1997 by actor and drama tutor, Jane E. Seymour to provide actors with practical workshops that support ongoing professional development.

One of the best websites for a range of royalty-free music for your films. Wide variety of styles and moods available.

The School of Life is a new enterprise offering good ideas for everyday life. We are based in a small shop in Central London where we offer a variety of programmes and services concerned with how to live wisely and well. We address such questions as why work is often unfulfilling, why relationships can be so challenging, why itâ??s ever harder to stay calm and what one could do to try to change the world for the better.

Learn how to get your script into a readable shape.

A website to inspire the aspiring, edited by Jason McKinnon

The Script Broker provides specialized services geared toward any professional writer. + Evaluating literary materials + Story consulting + Agent brokering + Strategic planning

Thousands of movie scripts -- everything from 1929 to the latest 2010 releases

Writing your story is one thing. Getting your story to the professional--that's the money making--level is another. Story coach, Zara Altair, offers helpful advice from idea through to publication. Here you will find guidelines and tips to make your story submission ready.

Print as many storyboard pages as you need for your next film project.

A rather formidable outline of the major story cycles in world literature. While the dualities composing the beginning and endings of cycles are archetypal symbols (such as night and day, unconsciousness and consciousness, feminine and masculine), the sequences within cycles may also be archetypes. Current research indicates commonalties between sequences in many different cycles from natural cycles such psychological and astrological to cultural cycles such as religion, mythology and literature. There is a growing amount of evidence that there is a specific number of key sequences and this number is common to all sequences.

A thoroughly addictive and obsessive website exploring the storytelling devices and conventions relevant to screen storytelling. Highly recommended.

A critical and practical examination of what it means to write visually.

New writers are invited to make 1st impressions on key decision makers via this website. Writers securely post the beginning of your story, industry insiders anonymously read and decide if they want more. It makes good sense and no other site or service offers this level of exposure, this simple of a process

A weekly INDEPENDENT information guide for creative arts events, workshops, and opportunities across Australia.

A new concept in the marketing of a radically different kind of screen storytelling. ENTER THE DRAMA - SHARE THE VISION - CREATE COMMUNITY!

Looking to make a film but need a little help with the paperwork? We

Keeping up with everything that is happening in the film world in Australia and internationally. Jobs, workshops, cast & crew call-outs, film trailers and more. Post your own announcements.

Some of the language used by industry about screenplays and screen stories

For Australian content creators

- In Hollywood, information is power, and it's all on the GRID

Being an indie filmmaker can be tough sometimes. The tools required to tell your story can be a little bit pricey and sometimes out of reach. Here

Leave your comments, suggestions, observations, opinions about this site, ideas about screenwriting, filmmaking or the like, or simply use this board to advertise your films, or to obtain cast and crew. Whatever you like.

Producer query requests, screenplays wnated, screenwriters wanted, competitions, etc NOTE: PROCEED WITH CAUTION

Sydney-based acting school - the heart of dramatic art. Dean Carey, director.

The Rantological Thought Palace of Richard Wolstencroft

Excerpts from some of Stoneking's published work with information on his books, plays, films and work as a mentor/teacher

Observations on film art...

Selected poems and other writing by Courtney Brown

I N D E T E R M I N A C Y

Consummate filmmaker, painter, sculptor, poet and performance artist, Christina Conrad's online home. Her films include the groundbreaking and high eccentric black satire, JELLY'S PLACENTA , THE GROG BOYS and the feature documentary, INDECENT XPOSURE

Christina Conrad chats with poet/artist Gene Tanta In an exclusive Mad Hatters

Saj Ambat's various obsessions.

A wonderful cinematographer. Documentary, television and commercial productions as well as the odd short film.

Josephine Emery spent her earliest years on a coconut plantation on the north coast of the tropical island of New Guinea. Then her parents resettled on an isolated farm on the southeast coast of South Australia. It was here that she first knew, without a doubt, that she was a girl and realised that everyone else thought she was a boy.

Screenwriter and screenwriting with ideas

Found objects and the wonderfully inspired world of Lenny Kislin's sculptural poetry. Recommended!

A writer and teacher, Suzanne has taught creative writing, screenwriting, film history, and Media & Communication courses at universities in Buenos Aires, New York, California and most recently, in Portland, Oregon. Currently she is completing a novel and developing a tango musical.

The passionately imaginative writer, script editor, and filmmaker, Kylie, writes from the heart, finding extraordinary stories in ordinary tales. Her motto "write to breathe" and frequently ink-stained fingers reflect this.

A "find" for me - Elise's music career began in rural southern Ontario, where she performed often for church and school events as a solo act, and collaborating with her father and brothers. During her college years at Canadian University College in small town central Alberta, her passion for performing and songwriting developed further. In more recent years, she and her red guitar have frequented the stage at weddings, fundraisers, coffee houses, banquets, and church events, and she has been awarded several campus Amateur Hour titles for best performance and best original song. Check her out.

An old friend of mine from Woorstock, NY, Djelloul is the recipient of a number of well-deserved awards for writing, newspaper design and photography. His career has spanned all the major transitions in modern journalism???from typewriters and teletypes to computers, from hot lead typography to photo-offset and then to the Internet. He writes frequently about Internet journalism and produces this blog about literary and cultural affairs. He mentors journalism students around the world for the Student Operated Press.

This is an experimental website, purportedly presented by a young 13-year-old girl (who has been 13 - or nearly 13 - since I first stumbled across the site in 1999). Still interesting.

Documentary director/writer, film editor / collaborator

Maya Newell's documentary film about "gaybys" - the children of gay and lesbian couples - now has its own home away from home on a website. Join today and keep up with the evolution of this exciting documentary film.

Devorah Cutler-Rubenstein founded Noble House Entertainment in 1992 to find material that is both entertaining and enlightening about the human experience. To that end, Noble House Entertainment both develops projects for indie and major markets and coaches new generations of storytellers in their craft.

The official website of Iranian/Australian director and writer, Amin Palangi.

Arguably the smallest poetry publisher in the world. Over the years, its editor and owner, Chris Mansell, has earned a reputation for producing some of the most exciting and accessible chapbooks featuringma wide cross-section of contemporary Australian poetry .

Musings and mutterings from a struggling screenwriter

An on-line journal reviewing new Australian writing and culture ??? with an emphasis on poetry, prose/fiction and small press publications. While Rochford Street Review is a bi-monthly publication, reviews will be uploaded to the site as they are received. We will also attempt to cover as many publications (both traditional and on-line) as we can.

The blog of actor and audition coach, Jane E. Seymour

Independent Film maker, Writer, Director and Creative Process Mentor.

Enthusiastic about film from an early age and bitten seriously by the movie bug while crew doctor on the classic movie THE BLUE LAGOON , starring Brooke Shields, Dr Martin Simpson Head of Production at Ompyx Communications, has since written and directed many short films, a couple of features, and co-produced a series of documentaries on modern Australian aboriginal personalities for French television, THE NEW FACES OF ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA .

His official website - check out latest news, merchandise, music and more

Blues / Jazz / Jungle / Calypso : Mediumistic singer/songwriter

Rochelle has worked in post production for film and television for over twenty-four years. Her recent credits as Film Editor include the telemovie MABO, the box office hit musical feature film Bran Nue Dae, the critically acclaimed documentary series First Australians and the UN Peace Media award winner, Lani???s Story. Rochelle has worked both in the US and the UK in her roles as First Assistant Editor and VFX Editor. And has worked on films such as Phillip Noyce???s Catch A Fire, Baz Luhrmann???s Moulin Rouge and Romeo + Juliet. Rochelle was nominated for an AACTA award in 2012 for Editing The Tall Man, a feature length documentary based on Chloe Hooper???s multi-award winning novel about the 2004 Palm Island death in custody.

Where's the Drama? very proudly and enthusiastically presents the poems of Courtney Brown, one of the bright and as-yet unheralded young voices of contemporary American poetry.

Director / Screenwriter / Editor

The long-awaited collection of Richard Zola s phenomenal poems. Highly recommended.

The official website for ArtSpear Entertainment. ArtSpear Entertainment is an independent production company located in Brisbane, Australia. It was formed in early 2010 by Rita Artmann and Joe Bauer. Since then, the company has produced the schlock-comedy/horror feature film ???The Killage???, a variety of short films and a six-episode comedy TV series called ???The Void???, which has just gone into post-production.

Voice of Treason Films is an independent, Queensland-based film and television production company specialising in single camera drama projects.

The online, one-stop site for all things related to screen and screen wtorytelling in Adelaide, Australia

Public domain footage for the creative filmmaker/

An examination of classic dramatic form.

Post your auditions, workshops, production invitations and other notices on Australian Actors Network

The Australian Society of Authors is the professional association for Australia's literary creators.

Genuine, original items from the King of Hokum blues.

Choose from a variety of items, including jackets, jerseys, t-shirts, mugs and cups, bags and diaries and other types of unusual and original accessories. Great for gifts and presents for cast & crew. Custom orders may be placed using your own logo/graphic and/or film/tv project title. Order today!

An extension of the popular DRAMASHOP, which is entered through this website at SHOP (see menu above). At the annex, you will find a greater variety of items and more logos for clothing, gifts and accessories, including t-shirts, bags and posters, etc.

This sit features the floor plans of homes from famous TV shows. Visualizations and floor plans usually aid a project in its infancy and are indispensable when attempting to conceptualize interior spaces, but Aliste has endowed them with an altogether different function, he has attached to them a sentimentality??? a nostalgia. They exist in his mind and on his page as something other than functional??? they are inspirational and evocative. It is a privilege to be able to retrospectively view such frequented abodes in a format usually reserved for future design. In this way, they serve as a link to the past??? a memory.

My childhood home from the ages of 4 to 6, inclusive

An annual online multimedia magazine publishing writings that address psychosocial issues, the pollution of minds, hearts, bodies and nature.

A podcast series concerned with contemporary poetry, sponsored by The Poetry Foundation, Kelly's Writers' House and PennSound

Two birds, fast-bound companions, find the same tree for their perch, the one eats sweet berry; the other just looks on, not eating."

An amazing collection of old linen postcard images and photos of roadside diners, restaurants, and other "highway hangouts" from America's 1940s and 1950s. Many or most of these are now long gone, having fallen victim to the big modern Interstate Highway system.

An essay by Pi O (in another nomenclature)

Truthout works to broaden and diversify the political discussion by introducing independent voices and focusing on under-covered issues and unconventional thinking. Harnessing the expanding power of the Internet, we work to spread reliable information, critical thought and progressive ideas.

Poetry, Photography, Music, Art, Reviews

If you are among the growing number of people who have discovered the recordings of Washington Phillips and would like to know more about his mysterious instrument, this is the place to be.

If you can't find it here it's not worth knowing about

Short films from all genres that celebrate, commeorate, or dramatise the wonderful world of dogs