WHERE'S THE DRAMA?
The stuff of which dreams are made
Testimonials
Over the years, screenwriters, directors, producers, editors, documentarians, playwrights, production designers, poets, copywriters, actors, film-school students, and many others have taken the journey with Billy Marshall Stoneking into that most confronting and confounding region of the human heart - the world of character-driven, mediumistic dramatic film storytelling. WHERE'S THE DRAMA? invites past and present participants of Stoneking's seminars, workshops and script services to make a brief comment about their experiences, so that those that have not had the experience may become better informed as to the value and benefits of working with Stoneking and his unique approach to screen storytelling. If you found your time with Stoneking useful, inspiring or catalystic, please help us by providing your testimonial concerning the value and efficacy of whatever workshops or seminars you have attended. Thank you ________________________ CLICK on LINK at bottom of this page to add your testimonial, comment.5 EXT TESTIMONIALS DAY
Billy lives story.
Antoinette Charalambous
writer
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Refreshing to hear an organic form of storytelling instead of the rigid, almost architectural formula that gets taught at most film schools. It really helped me as a writer pull my head out of my ass, and re-ignited my passion for storytelling.
Highest regards
JM
Jon-Michael Mooney
filmmaker
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Over 4 intensive days, Billy shared his intimate understanding of drama, character and screenwriting. He has an incredible clarity and uncanny ability to take an ordinary scene, turn it on its head and make it something truly exciting. Before the STONEKING seminar I was seriously beginning to wonder where my creativity was hiding, now I know that it was just waiting to be reframed.
Not only has Billy taught me more than I had anticipated, he did it in a way that nurtured, probed, challenged and drew out the best in everyone present.
I'll definitely be using Stoneking as an ongoing part of my script development process.
Thanks xx
Juanita Davis
An Inquisitive Mind
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I went to Draft Busters a workshop for writers last weekend. I was in a room of talented writers. While they read out their manuscripts I thought to myself "where's the drama?". I don't think they realised what a big part of the storytelling they were missing. I wasn't as experienced as the writers in the room but I felt I knew what I needed to know to write successfully.
Bernadette Dobler
Writer
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Facebook works in mysterious ways. I followed through to your discussion page and found much that was extremely interesting (particularly the discussion on 'The Wall'.)
I am not a filmmaker, but a writer and your discussions hit on the part of me that writes out of wonder, into the wonder of the process and comes out of it (with wonder).
Your posting the material on characters was thoroughly convincing, succinct and now, the basis upon which I shall henceforth imagine them.
Thank You
Maryanne Khan
writer
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"How was the 4 Day Workshop?"
Day One "Ouch!"
Day Two "It hurts when I do that!"
Day Three "So, that's how it works"
Day Four "I think my toe is wet?Now for the rest of me!"
Take the plunge...Drama is a problem that needs attention!
Charles Costanza
Television Producer/Director
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I came to the class thinking I could never be a writer. I left knowing I already had been one for some time.
Lana Schwarcz
Actor/performer, writer
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If God was a Scriptwriter he would call himself BILLY MARSHALL STONEKING.
After the excellent TRIBAL and PITCH workshops, I consulted Billy as a SCRIPT EDITOR as i had heard many horror stories about how he abhors everything he reads. So out of curiosity i decided for fun to conjure up an old script written 3 days before my marriage to see how Billy deals with it. As expected he seemingly loathed it and was unimpressed until he asked me a question that has stunned me "I suspect this is not what you want to write about, what is it you really want to say" Then I began relating how this story is like something that happened to me in my childhood. Billy's eyes lightened up as he then went on to tell me like a mentor, sage a MEDIUM between me and God of how to solve the greatest dillema in my life because of a story i am afraid to tell that needs to be told and why my breakthrough has eluded me...
Billy has changed and transformed how i see the world. Make a date with God!
Ridwan Hassim
FILM MAKER
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Billy is a radical nonconformist who rants and preaches about things that scare the shit out of established story tellers... Billy made me write, now I have no choice; its what I do.
Timothy Wilde
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I've been telling anybody who could potentially handle Stoneking's "Drama of Screenwriting" workshop to do it... confronting.... it changed my approach to writing... seeing how drama evolves via conflict...irrespective of the theory of "how- much-evil-do-you-have-to-do-before-you-start- doing-good-work approach...great series of days.
Tom Broadhurst
Screenwriter
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