Michael's Substack
Michael R. BarnardThe battle to get screenplays made into movies ... and now, to get stage plays mounted as performances.
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BOYLE HEIGHTS 1939 — A Political Noir Feature Film Screenplay Staged Reading
BOYLE HEIGHTS 1939 is a Political Noir feature film screenplay: gripping, provocative, deeply human, and emotionally resonant. It is a powerful statement for today.
In the factual and honest history of the United States of America before W...
BOYLE HEIGHTS 1939
To be continued …
Mike Johnson shut down the House. Does that kill the Federal Film Tax Credit?
I do not use A.I. for my writing. I use A.I. for research, just as I have used Google, Public Libraries, and my own collection of books.
Suddenly, because of the shutdown of the House last night to prevent the impeachment of Hegseth, it ap...
IL DUCE BENITO MUSSOLINI’S Kid Brought Daddy’s Fascism to Hollywood in 1937
In my research for the fact-based Political Noir feature film screenplay BOYLE HEIGHTS 1939, I came across a lot of information that didn’t make it into the screenplay.
Example:
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The State Propaganda Machine
This is how the authoritarian tyrant crushes Free Speech and Freedom of the Press. He starts by lawsuits and threats that intimidate the media.
This is why it's important to #blockthemerger.
IL DUCE TRUMP had already used lawsuits and t...
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Lived my life upside down: came in hot and flamed out. Still here, though. Decades of film and broadcast experience as writer, director, producer, talent, and crew. Raised in Minneapolis, lived most of my life in L.A. and a few years in NYC.
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