Hilliard Guess' Screenwriters Rant Room

EP #54 DENNIS HENSLEY - WRITER/PRODUCER/AUTHOR This episode was recorded live from The Hatchery Press in Hollywood.  Today we go IN with my old friend, writer-dir-prod-author Dennis Hensley!   HIGHLIGHTS: Dennis’ new e-book “Mariners Club Mixtape,” growing up Morman, dancing on a cruise ship, his obsession with Madonna, writing for Movieline Magazine and Detour, standing up for yourself, “The Big Gay Sketch Show,” the WGA Writers Access Project, “The Fashion Police” Strike, The Mismatch Game, Showrunning “Breakdown” on Bounce TV and much more!    Our motto, "Keep it street, keep it opinionated and keep it what? 2,015”     DIRECT LINK: http://bit.ly/DENNIS-54   Subscribe, Comment, Rate & 5 STAR Review on iTunes or Stitcher!   http://bit.ly/HG-SRR-EP1   Twi --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/screenwriters-rant-room/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/screenwriters-rant-room/support

Hilliard, Lisa and Kevin go IN on this one y’all.  Talkin’ sh** and asking writers to think about film/tv and diversity outside the box!   HIGHLIGHTS: Lisa’s Clapback to Adam Sandler about “Native People,” The Bechdel Test, Blacks don’t sell overseas, the world as it really is, The Showrunners movie on Netflix, solutions for Hollywood and so much more!   Our motto, "Keep it street, keep it opinionated and keep it what? 2,015”   DIRECT LINK: http://bit.ly/SRR-53   Subscribe, Comment, Rate & 5 STAR Review on iTunes or Stitcher!   http://bit.ly/HG-SRR-EP1   Twitter: @ScreenwritersRR @HilliardGuess @LisaBolekaja #ScreenwritersRantRoom  #NotYourHollyw --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/screenwriters-rant-room/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/screenwriters-rant-room/support

Today we recorded in Hollywood at the hot, new writers spot, THE HATCHERY PRESS in Larchmont Village!  Lynelle White, writer/dir and season 2 staff writer on SyFy’s hit show “Z NATION,” comes by to chop game in an episode packed with good sh**!   HIGHLIGHTS: A Diamond in the Rough, growing up a Sci-fi geek, joining the Airforce Academy, becoming a pilot and flying Lear Jets, the St. Louis indie film scene, getting staffed on Lifetime’s ARMY WIVES, maneuvering the writers room, landing a staff position on Season 2 of SyFy Channel’s “Z NATION,” future projects, quieting your mind and so much more!   Our motto, "Keep it street, keep it opinionated and keep it what? 2,015”   DIRECT LINK: http://bit.ly/LWHITE52   Subscribe, Comment, Rate & 5 STAR Review on iTunes or Stitcher!   http://bit.ly/HG-SRR-EP1   Twitter: @ScreenwritersRR @HilliardGuess @LisaBolekaja

On this episode we have a blast with big sis, writer/co-ep on the new season of Sleepy Hollow... Shernold Edwards!  This one's filled with game for all of your TV/Film writers, so buckle up...cuz it's nothing but game y'all! HIGHLIGHTS: Developing "A Day Late and a Dollar Short," being an executive at CTV Network in Canada, Hot Docs, TIFF, Canadian Film Center screenwriting program, working on DOOMSTOWN and DEGRASSI: TNG, Showrunning THE KINK IN MY HAIR, Diversity Police in the room, the LA grind, Co-producing HAVEN and so much more! Our motto, "Keep it street, keep it opinionated and keep it what? 2,015”   DIRECT LINK: http://bit.ly/S-EDWARDS   Subscribe, Comment, Rate & 5 STAR Review on iTunes or Stitcher!   http://bit.ly/HG-SRR-EP1   Twitter: @ScreenwritersRR @HilliardGuess @LisaBolekaja #ScreenwritersRantRoom --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/screenwriters-rant-room/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/screenwriters-rant-room/support

In this hilarious episode, Hilliard and Lisa go IN with the infamous, Geoff Thorne.  We cover it all y’all.  So tune in for some serious game on Genre and Sci-fi!   HIGHLIGHTS: Lisa’s gush to Geoff, strong opinions on twitter, pop-up gurus, what kind of writer are you, a ride-or-die chick, from comics to Star Trek, most writers suck, the writers “hook-up,” booking the first gig, writing for animation and so much more!   Our motto, "Keep it street, keep it opinionated and keep it what? 2,015”   DIRECT LINK: http://bit.ly/THORNE-50   Subscribe, Comment, Rate & 5 STAR Review Us on iTunes or Stitcher!   http://bit.ly/HG-SRR-EP1   Twitter: @ScreenwritersRR @HilliardGuess @LisaBolekaja

Hilliard and Lisa go deep on this one y’all.  This episode celebrates over a year on the air givin’ you Rant Room Heads hella game and tons of grab your belly laughter!   HIGHLIGHTS: Embracing your blackness, being an extrovert, the one year anniversary, get paid or pay somebody, fuck the Vampires, using your imagination, recap of The Walking Dead and the “Don’t Sleep on ‘Em” segment (scenes by a kick ass writer), “Contraband” by Lisa Bolekaja and “Mystic Valley High” by Frank Zanca!   SUBMIT to 100 Screenplays Competition! Listeners of #ScreenwritersRantRoom get a $10 discount. The contest deadline ends May 1, 2015!  http://bit.ly/RANTROOM-100   Our motto, "Keep it street, keep it opinionated and keep it what? 2,015”   DIRECT LINK:http://bit.ly/SRR49   Subscribe, Comment, Rate & 5 STAR Review Us on iTunes or Stitcher

This episode’s full of industry wisdom from Hilliard's old friend, veteran Voice Over actor/activist/author Ben Patrick Johnson!   HIGHLIGHTS: Co-host at Extra, inside Voice Overs, human rights advocacy, branding shows with a voice, narrating movie trailers, the less copy the harder the job and so much more!   SUBMIT to 100 Screenplays Competition! Listeners of #ScreenwritersRantRoom get a $10 discount. The contest deadline ends May 1, 2015!  http://bit.ly/RANTROOM-100   Our motto, "Keep it street, keep it opinionated and keep it what? 2,015”   DIRECT LINK: http://bit.ly/Bpatrick   Subscribe, Comment, Rate & 5 STAR Review Us on iTunes or Stitcher!

 Today Hilliard goes IN with old friend, David Dean Botrell, covering his amazing acting/writing career and behind producing the popular Sci-fest!   HIGHLIGHTS: Playing Lincoln Myers on Boston Legal, writing his first “epic” script, the “flavor of the month,” taking your talent with you, selling “Kingdom Come,” becoming the “white” African American writer in Hollywood, adaptations, development hell, writing “other” things, One Man Shows, producing Sci-Fest and the End Song, "The One" by Daniel Joseph Baker!   SUBMIT to 100 Screenplays Competition! Listeners of #ScreenwritersRantRoom get a $10 discount. The contest deadline ends May 1, 2015!  http://bit.ly/RANTROOM-100   Our motto, "Keep it street, keep it opinionated and keep it what? 2,015”   DIRECT LINK:  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/screenwriters-rant-room/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/screenwriters-rant-room/support

In this episode, we IN with Baby Writers/Filmmakers, Jameson Cherilus and Ashley Willis about the making of their new web series “The B Team!”   HIGHLIGHTS: 100 Screenplays Competition with Rick Reynold’s, escaping to LA, embracing sexuality, the Assistant Track at CAA, being genuine, working the Writers Guild West meetings, creating opportunities, urgency, faith and spirituality, inside “The B Team,” Lisa’s Clap back to Sleepy Hollow and the End Song, “Well,” by Daniel Joseph Baker!   Our motto, "Keep it street, keep it opinionated and keep it what? 2,015”   DIRECT LINK: http://bit.ly/B__Team   Subscribe, Comment, Rate & 5 STAR Review Us on iTunes or Stitcher!   http://bit.ly/HG-SRR-EP1   SUBMIT to 100 Screenplays Competition!

Paul Guyot, Co-Executive Producer on THE LIBRARIANS, goes IN with Hilliard & Lisa on this bad ass episode!   HIGHLIGHTS: From Stand-in to Staff Writer, staffing on JJ Abrams FELICITY, writers room politics, 13 and Outs, being rewritten, in the writers room with LEVERAGE & THE LIBRARIANS, Paul’s writing pet-peeves, Eric B. & Rakim’s “Paid in Full,” writing with knuckles for Stephen J. Cannell, nobody talks about Voice, The Page 69 Test and Lisa’s Clapback to The Librarians!   Our motto, "Keep it street, keep it opinionated and keep it what? 2,015”   Twitter: @ScreenwritersRR @HilliardGuess @LisaBolekaja #ScreenwritersRantRoom --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/screenwriters-rant-room/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/screenwriters-rant-room/support

Hilliard and Lisa tell it like it is in this episode, this time covering terrible film marketing and ways to write compelling Bio Pics! HIGHLIGHTS: Bad marketing on THE KINGSMAN, bad contracts, kinky, bondage sex in 50 SHADES OF GREY, bad casting so EXODUS tanks, AMERICAN SNIPER criticisms, Writing Bio Pics - habits, research, storytelling and taking license: ANGELA DAVIS, GRISELDA BLANCO, SYLVESTER and SLY STONE!    Our motto, "Keep it street, keep it opinionated and keep it what? 2,015”   DIRECT LINK: http://bit.ly/MARKETING34   Subscribe, Comment, Rate & 5 STAR Review Us on iTunes or Stitcher!   http://bit.ly/HG-SRR-EP1   Twitter: @ScreenwritersRR @HilliardGuess @LisaBolekaja #ScreenwritersRantRoom   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/screenwriters-rant-room/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/screenwriters-rant-room/support

Hilliard recorded this hilarious episode, live from the Sony Plaza industry screening of a film he co-produced... Featuring interviews with members the of the Cast & Crew of the new comedy, “MOUTHPIECE!”   HIGHLIGHTS: A one-on-one with some of stars of the film: Sean Poolman, Tatiana DeKhtyar, J Michael Briggs, Josh Pertler, Jackson McQueen and writer/dir David Merritt II.  This one’s full of game and the focus is all on the progression of Mouthpiece: from Web Series, to TV Pilot, to Feature Film!   Our motto, "Keep it street, keep it opinionated and keep it what? 2,015”   DIRECT LINK: http://bit.ly/M-PIECE   Subscribe, Comment, Rate & 5 STAR Review Us on iTunes or Stitcher!   http://bit.ly/HG-SRR-EP1   Twitter: @ScreenwritersRR @HilliardGuess @LisaBolekaja

In this episode, Hilliard and Lisa talk hella sh*t about Post Oscars from their outspoken and hilarious POVs!   Highlights: Boycotting the Oscars, SELMA the good n’ bad, why NIGHTCRAWLER got the shaft, BIRDMAN and we're so happy Mexican’s ruled this year, NAACP Image Awards problems, Intersections, the “Basic” filmmaker, critiquing moments, John Legend & Common’s “GLORY” song and much more!   In the “Baby Writers Seat”: actor/writer - Garry Guerrier.   Our motto, "Keep it street, keep it opinionated and keep it what? 1,015”   DIRECT LINK:    Subscribe, Comment, Rate & 5 STAR Review Us on iTunes or Stitcher!   http://bit.ly/HG-SRR-EP1   Twitter: @ScreenwritersRR @HilliardGuess @LisaBolekaja  

Hilliard and Lisa go IN on this bonus episode (previously rec), about the new era of diverse casting and a whole lotta funny sh**!   HIGHLIGHTS: Code-switching, SLEEPY HOLLOW, black female characters on the rise, a salute to Showrunner Jeff Melvoin, Zombies and THE WALKING DEAD, Viola Davis and HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER, SELMA, Lisa’s Clapback to the producers of 40 THIEVES and so much more!   Our motto, "Keep it street, keep it opinionated and keep it what? 1,015”   DIRECT LINK: http://bit.ly/SRR-41   Subscribe, Comment, Rate & 5 STAR Review Us on iTunes or Stitcher!   http://bit.ly/HG-SRR-EP1   Twitter: @ScreenwritersRR @HilliardGuess @LisaBolekaja #ScreenwritersRantRoom --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/screenwriters-rant-room/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/screenwriters-rant-room/support

  On this new episode, Hilliard does a one-on-one interview from The Hollywood LOT Studios!  This time with close friend, Todd Grodnick DGA/PGA executive producer with Merrill Entertainment!   HIGHLIGHTS: USC Film School, you "cannot" write a perfect script, developing/managing writers, the role of the Assistant Director, putting yourself in the audience, page one rewrites, writing outside the box, types of projects Todd’s considering and so much more!   Our motto, "Keep it street, keep it opinionated and keep it what? 100”   DIRECT LINK: http://bit.ly/TGROD   Subscribe, Comment, Rate & 5 STAR Review Us on iTunes or Stitcher!   http://bit.ly/HG-SRR-EP1   Twitter: @ScreenwritersRR @HilliardGuess @LisaBolekaja

This week Hilliard goes IN with good friend, multi-award winning writer/producer, Margaret Nagle.  Tune in and soak up some game y'all!   HIGHLIGHTS: The Queen of the WGA Awards, the white chick in an all black school, casting the best actors, fueling the work, learning the set, interpreting notes, developing HBO’s “WARM SPRINGS,” inside “THE GOOD LIE,” Code Switching, color blind characters, gays and women should unite, RED “BAND SOCIETY,” consuming media, “BOARDWALK EMPIRE” and end song this week by Kings & Hassani Kwess (Who Needs a Radio) “I Can Rap on Anything!”   With Sci-fi/Horror writer and author, Lisa Bolekaja.   Our motto, "Keep it street, keep it opinionated and keep it what? 1,015”   DIRECT LINK: http://bit.ly/MNAGLE1   Subscribe, Comment, Rate & 5 STAR Review Us on iTunes or Stitcher!   http://bit.ly/HG-SRR-EP1   Twitter:

It’s another hilarious episode y’all!   Hilliard goes IN with old friend, Wilson Cruz (@WCruz73) on his amazing acting career, working with writers and journey into activism!   HIGHLIGHTS: A Queen always comes out, surviving Hollywood in your 40s, family life, becoming a child actor, the road to “MY SO CALLED LIFE,” the actors job, scene stealing, working for GLADD, inside “RED BAND SOCIETY,” activism for the LGBT, Transgender Characters, playing ‘Angel’ in Broadway’s “RENT,” collaborating with writers and a ton more game!     With award-winning Sci-fi/Horror writer and author, Lisa Bolekaja.   In the “Baby Writers Seat” actor/writer - Garry Guerrier.   Our motto, "Keep it street, keep it opinionated and keep it what? 1,015”   DIRECT LINK: http://bit.ly/WILCRUZ   Subscribe, Comment, Rate & 5 STAR Review Us on iTunes or Stitcher!  

This episode’s full of game y’all.  With good friends, Spiro Skentzos, former Story Editor on GRIMM and Angela Allen, former Staff Writer on the hit SLEEPY HOLLOW!   HIGHLIGHTS: Staffing Season is always here, strong writing samples, general meetings, drawing on your truth, The Cosby Fellowship, The Fox Writers Intensive, Writers on the Verge, NHMC, persistence, Agents & Managers, a “Hot” room, writers rooms on GRIMM & SLEEPY HOLLOW, Paper Teaming, WGA contracts, wages & staffing fees, reinventing yourself and so much more!      With co-host, award-winning Sci-fi/Horror writer and author, Lisa Bolekaja. Our motto, "Keep it street, keep it opinionated and keep it what? 1,015”   DIRECT LINK: http://bit.ly/TVSTAFFING   Subscribe, Comment, Rate & 5 STAR Review Us oniTunes or Stitcher!   http://bit.ly/HG-SRR-EP1   Twitter: @ScreenwritersRR @HilliardGuess @LisaBolekaja  

In this hilarious episode, we go IN with my big bro, writer/director/producer DEL WESTON of the very popular, Action On Film Film International Festival! HIGHLIGHTS: Inside the new book “TOP 50 INDIE WRITERS IN THE WORLD,” Action On Film Festival, don’t discount people of color, “I hate Sundance,” never back down, from Martial Arts to Action Films, fuck the word “NO,” creating opportunities, recognizing greatness, “Victims” movie, Del Weston on Film, the “real” Oscar De La Hoya, a Joe Pesci lesson and so much more! In the “Baby Writers Seat” today: actor/writer Garry Guerrier.  Our motto, "Keep it street, keep it opinionated and keep it what? 1,015” DIRECT LINK: http://bit.ly/DELWEST Subscribe, Comment, Rate & 5 STAR Review Us on iTunes or Stitcher! http://bit.ly/HG-SRR-EP1 Twitter: @ScreenwritersRR @HilliardGuess #ScreenwritersRantRoom --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/screenwriters-rant-room/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/screenwriters-rant-room/support

In this “Part Deuce” extended episode, Hilliard goes in with big bro, veteran character actor, John Wesley.  This one’s all about his acting career and the new book, TAKE A LOOK AT YOURSELF! HIGHLIGHTS: Booking the hit show “Knight Rider,” the “right” talent agent,  beware of the Type-cast, working with Duane Martin, landing The Jefferson’s, how to deal with writer/producers, “In the Heat of the Night” war stories, “The Atlanta Child Murders,” learning the business, why hire a publicist, don’t mess with Viola Davis, British actors are taking over and co-writing the book “Take a Loot at Yourself” with Icon, Robert Guillaume! With co-host, award-winning Sci-fi/Horror writer and author, Lisa Bolekaja. Our motto, "Keep it street, keep it opinionated and keep it what? 1,015” DIRECT LINK: http://bit.ly/JOHN-35 Subscribe, Comment, Rate & 5 STAR Review Us on iTunes or Stitcher! http://bit.ly/HG-SRR-EP1 Twitter: @ScreenwritersRR @HilliardGuess @LisaBolekaja #ScreenwritersRantRoom --- Send in a voice message: ht