Testimonials
2010-01-19T21:42:29Z
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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
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Actor/performer, writer
2010-01-19T21:42:29Z
2010-01-19T09:02:46Z
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ridwanhassim@live.com
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
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FILM MAKER
2010-01-19T09:08:41Z
2010-01-19T08:00:19Z
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billthebard@gmail.com
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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2010-01-19T09:11:12Z
2010-01-18T08:35:32Z
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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
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Screenwriter
2010-01-18T08:35:32Z
2010-01-07T14:49:34Z
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mangatua@gmail.com
It's a rock and a hard place writing a testimonial for BMSK, too much and I sound like an airhead syncophant, too little and i waste this valuable space. I feel like Lulu from "To Sir with Love".
I came through the Canberra 2009 Tribal Workshop, and it changed my perspective on almost everything I do creatively. Billy's teaching methods and insights were revelatory. All the superlatives about him are true. if you are lucky enough you will choose or stumble upon him yourself. My only advice therefore is: buckle up you're in for a wild and interesting ride!
Kia ora ra e te Stoneking, e mihi atu kia koe. Heoi ano na mereana otene waaka
mereana otene waaka
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Maker
2010-01-18T08:39:46Z
2009-12-21T21:47:59Z
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Please excuse this intrusion into your life, but I wanted to take the time to thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for your web site, "Where's the Drama?". I must tell you that as I read the sections on character and grammar, I was thinking how very liturgical this was, that there was something of the Catholic sense of sacrament in all this, being part of a ?great cloud of witnesses? who have gone on before us and yet we still commune with them ... the saints.
Anyway, that was the thought that leapt to my mind when I studied your very valuable contribution. Again, thank you and I wish you all the best.
Richard Toews
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Writer / Vancouver BC
2009-12-21T21:47:59Z
2009-12-16T00:05:23Z
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adominick@gmail.com
Billy Marshall Stoneking is the screenwriting equivalent of the drill instructor in Full Metal Jacket.
Andrew Dominik
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Writer/Director - CHOPPER, JESSE JAMES
2009-12-17T08:01:54Z
2009-12-13T20:17:21Z
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Billy, you always make sense, especially of things that are beyond the normal scope of our eyes, ears and tongues. For a moment the matador's cape slips and we see this dogville maze!
Steven McIntosh
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Screenwriter
2009-12-13T20:17:21Z
2009-11-29T20:06:31Z
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an experience unlike any other
Andrew Dalziel
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writer/director
2009-11-29T20:06:31Z
2009-11-25T08:50:17Z
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jharkness@netspace.net.au
A few years back, I googled something like "creativity + neuroses" and came up with Billy's paper "Groping for a Vision". I printed it out and took it to India with me. Then the guy came to Melbourne and ran his excellent workshop. But most importantly, HE came to Melbourne. HE is a lovely, generous, insightful mentor/father figure for me. His workshop gave me a new fresh perspective on character and some of the stuff I had previously studied in a Meisner acting class. But this time, mentored by a charismatic groove-philosopher!
James Harkness
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Cultivating Neuroses and Relinquishing Control
2009-11-26T02:47:00Z
