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Dreams on Spec is an American documentary film – the first ever to profile the struggles and triumphs of emerging Hollywood screenwriters. It was written and directed by Daniel J. Snyder, who learned first-hand about the screenwriter's travails in the late 1980s when he was a teenager working alongside aspiring writer/directors Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary in the famed Video Archives video store in Manhattan Beach, California.[1] Dreams on Spec, which was released in 2007, follows three aspiring screenwriters as they try to turn their scripts into movies -- and intercuts critical insight from such Hollywood heavyweights as James L. Brooks, Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, Gary Ross, Steven E. de Souza, Ed Solomon, Paul Guay, Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Los Angeles Times, July 18, 2007, "Like the lottery: Someone wins," p. 4".
  2. ^ Creative Screenwriting magazine, January-February 2006, "Daniel Snyder Documents the Dream," p. 16.
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