CANADIAN CANADA $7 SPRING 2019 VOL.21, NO.2 SCREENWRITER FILM | TELEVISION | RADIO | DIGITAL MEDIA Mark Little Makes Move to Live Action Pitching Your Way Into the Big League Bad Blood leads to good times for Michael Konyves PM40011669 tsc-2019-cs-ad-final.pdf 1 2019-03-04 2:08 PM C M Y CM MY CY CMY K CANADIAN SCREENWRITER The journal of the Writers Guild of Canada Vol. 21 No. 2 Spring 2019 ISSN 1481-6253 Publication Mail Agreement Number 400-11669 Publisher Maureen Parker Editor Tom Villemaire Contents
[email protected] Cover Director of Communications Lana Castleman Bad Blood 6 Editorial Advisory Board Canada’s contribution to felonious violence has been Michael Amo ignored for years. That was a crime. Michael Konyves Michael MacLennan and Simon Barry changed that. Susin Nielsen Simon Racioppa By Matthew Hays Rachel Langer President Dennis Heaton (Pacific) Features Councillors Michael Amo (Atlantic) Demons and Laughs 12 Mark Ellis (Central) Mark Little has swapped his animated demons for Marsha Greene (Central) live-action laughs in his latest project. Alex Levine (Central) Anne-Marie Perrotta (Quebec) By Kendra Wong Andrew Wreggitt (Western) Studio Ours Design Pitch Perfection 16 Cover Photo: Emma McIntyre Printing Renaissance Printing Inc. Getting the proper tone in your pitch is one of the screenwriting craft’s most challenging skills. We get tips Canadian Screenwriter is from some of the industry’s most successful scenarists. published three times a year by the Writers Guild of Canada (WGC). By Diane Wild 366 Adelaide Street West, Suite 401 Toronto, Ontario M5V 1R9 TEL: (416) 979-7907 W-Files FAX: (416) 979-9273 WEBSITE: www.wgc.ca Marsha Green — By Cameron Archer 21 Subscriptions: WGC members receive a Kathleen Phillips — By Mark Dillon 23 subscription as part of their membership.