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Hit screenwriter of Are We There Yet? talks about her transition from Connecticut to Hollywood, making it as a screenwriter, and how to build a lasting career in an uncertain industry.

Simmons College graduate Amber Sharp brings her short, Triple Minority, to the Boston Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and her TV pilot, Don’t Go, to the small screen. Both projects forward Sharp’s unique take on sexuality, identity, family, and much more.

What do you do with your garbage?  Boston College professor Ernesto Livon-Grosman explores how recycling in his native Buenos Aires has brought economic vitality to the lives of displaced workers in his documentary film, Cartoneros.

Director Robert Todd explains how he stumbled upon filmmaking and developed his unique style of visual expression with Interplay, screening at the MFA with the Black Maria Traveling Film Festival this month.

Boston Phoenix film critic Gerald Peary talks about his first foray into film, For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism, screening as a work-in-progress this month.

Actor, writer, and musician Michael McGlone brings his latest novel And All the Roses Dying to Somerville, MA this November.

Like most film students, Claudia Myers wrote a script. Unlike most film students, Myers’ script Kettle of Fish was made into a feature which she was hired to direct it. The film was released in New York last month and will be shown at the Northampton Film Festival on November 11th.

Caitlin McCarthy teaches English by day and writes scripts by night. Of the three feature-length scripts she has written, one is in development and one is a finalist in the screenwriting competition of the Boston International Film Festival this month. McCarthy tells us about her writing habits, the virtues of self promotion and the power of positive thinking.

Local filmmaker Lulu Wang speaks to NewEnglandFilm.com about her latest film, Can-Can, that will be shooting in the Cape this summer.