"...Film, like life, is made of moments; moments
in time, held aloft for our perusal, imprinted on our soul,
and then
brought back to us from time to time as a memory - by an event, a
vision, a sound, an emotion...”
– Glen Norton
My Film Work
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Groupie
- A Screenplay By Michael David Boyd
South
of
Berkeley
- A Screenplay By Michael David Boyd & John Blaise
The
Radio
Star - A Screenplay By Michael David Boyd
Ihave been a fan of cinema since I was
very young. In the years
before cable television came to our house, I stayed up late to catch
overnight movies after the local news. Later, it was cable movie
programs like USA’s Night Flight and Up All Night. Then, as video
rental stores became more ubiquitous and affordable, VHS tapes became
the medium through which my love of film was explored. I found myself
THINKING cinematically, envisioning my daily life situations and my
future ambitions like plot points in a film. But it wasn’t until years
later, in college, that I really began to see filmmaking as something
that I might pursue as a career.
It all started when the AMC Mercado megaplex opened in San Jose,
California with 20 big screens and a lax enforcement policy on
theater-hopping. Along with my friend and occasional writing partner
John Norwood, I began practically LIVING at the theater. For a while, I
saw sometimes as many as fifteen movies a week. We once took in six in
one day.
During this time, I saw most of the major studio films that were
released. When you spend so much time in close quarters with anything-a
person, a place, or an art form-you begin to scrutinize it on a deeper
level. I started to view films not just as something that entertained
me-I had a growing feeling that I had something to contribute to the
art, that I could create great stories, and bring to others the same
enjoyment movies brought to me.
It was a long process of several years during which this feeling
crystallized into concrete action. But once it did, it seemed as if a
floodgate had been opened. At present, I have five complete
feature-length screenplays, three in progress, and around twenty or so
synopses that want only for the time to be written. Now comes the hard
part: trying to make inroads into a very tough and competitive industry.
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