ABSTRACT
Lawrence Michael Levine is a screenwriter, a director, a producer and an actor who frequently collaborates with his wife, screenwriter, director, producer, actress and editor Sophia Takal. Noam Kroll is a filmmaker whose 2020 film Psychosynthesis was made on a modest budget. On his podcast Show, Don’t Tell, he regularly offers filmmaking advice based on his own experiences. He takes a philosophical approach to having limitations. Anyone can learn the basics of structure and formatting. That does not necessarily mean that their screenplays will be good. In the early 1990s, the author was a few years out of film school, reading everything the author could get his hands on about making low-budget independent films. The problem that many filmmakers attempting this kind of shoot is that scenes are often longer and “talkier” than average and, unfortunately, more static and stagy.
