Saturday
Nov122016

Inspiring visit with Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright, Ayad Akhtar (Disgraced)

Last Tuesday, Zayd Dohrn and I co-moderated an inspiring conversation with Pulitzer-prize winning playwright/screenwriter/actor Ayad Akhtar (Disgraced) with our MFA writing students.  

 

Saturday
Nov122016

My film will be screening as part of the Chicago International Reel Shorts Film Festival.

The Coming of Age, the film I was commissioned to write and co-produced accepted to The Chicago International Reel Shorts Film Festival. Screening Dec 3, at 1 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the link below:

http://www.projectchicago.com/saturday-dec-3

And here's more info about the film including a synopsis and trailer:

http://www.forktheman.com/the-coming-of-age


Tuesday
Oct112016

Raymond Chandler on Screenwriting

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.

 

-Raymond Chandler

Tuesday
Sep062016

new webpage for Cassandra

Check out our new webpage for our film Cassandra (featuring the amazing and scary artwork of Angela Azmitia).  Free-standing website, kickstarter, etc. to follow.

http://davidetolchinsky.com/cassandra/

 

Tuesday
Aug092016

The Coming of Age at the Global Mixx Film Shorts Festival

The Coming of Age, the film I was commissioned to write and which I co-produced, was accepted to Global Mixx Film Shorts Festival, Chicago, IL.  (Two festival acceptances in one week. Fun.)