David F. Mendes

I am a #writer, so I write stuff. #Screenplays for #film and #tv, mostly. Three #series with the "created by" credit to my account, a few films with the "written by" one. I also wrote one produced (and two yet to be produced) #theater #play, a bunch of #shortstories, a #novel that is quite likely to see the light of day in 2023 and another one I should be working on right not, instead of doing this. I also teach #screenwriting and #creativewriting. Hell, how boring this bio is. Sorry

2023-08-19

@greg amazing idea. And you agonize for a while before that, why not launch a teasing campaign? Daily sponsored memes from your hospital bed: the bid day is coming!

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Funerals are expensive. I'm considering selling ad space on my coffin to help offset the cost for my family. Hopefully, when I go, it'll be open-casket. That way the mortician can set me up with a sign that says "Don't cry for me, I'm in Heaven now - they have Pepsi here!" Worth a lot of money I imagine

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2023-06-23

My favorite thing about the Fediverse is that I get to be a fan of normal people.

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2023-06-23

I endorse feeding the Titanic the obscenely wealthy.

2023-06-23

@scottblaszak
If I did that, after all these years my murder count would make Ted Bundy look harmless

2023-06-23

I'm really #scared by the possibility that one day there will be no enough amount of #caffeine to start me up for the day. I'm really scared that maybe that day has come, that the day of not enough #coffee might be today

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2023-06-16

Whenever someone tells you that the climate crisis is a personal responsibility issue, show them this:

theguardian.com/sustainable-bu

The climate crisis is a billionaires crisis, a trillion-dollar corporations crisis, a capitalism crisis, a systemic inequality crisis.

#climateChange #climateCrisis #climateCatastrophe #climate #corporatocracy #capitalism

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2023-06-16

The writers aren't endangering productions; the studios are by not paying the writers. Pay the writers.

2023-04-15

@davidbragg
Those festival people are strange people

2023-04-15

@davidbragg
Film festivals' people using VPNs?

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Interesante el poder de la prensa. Han conseguido convencer a personas que a duras penas alcanzan a pagar la hipoteca de su única vivienda de que los rentistas, con más de 5 viviendas en alquiler, son pequeños propietarios.

¿Hemos sustituido la conciencia de clase por el "sueño" de clase? 🤔 "Defiendo la clase a la que quiero pertenecer, no a la que pertenezco".

2023-04-11

@scottblaszak I know screenwriter ten or even 20 times her age that don't know that, people who somehow never leave the "and then" phase

2023-04-10

@12pt9 @film never thought of Kubrick when watching The Silence (which I really like and watched more than once). That is an interesting observation

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2023-04-07

#Adaptação: do #Livro ao #Roteiro é o nome do meu #curso que começa dia 14 próximo, online. Informações e inscrições aqui: sympla.com.br/evento-online/ad

A proposta do curso é analisar alguns casos concretos de adaptações e experimentar uma espécie de "simulação" do processo de adaptar. Trabalharei obras de Elena Ferrante, Sérgio Sant'Anna, Roberto Bolaño e Milan Kundera, entre outros.

Quem quiser ver um spoiler de como será o curso, veja: youtu.be/ySAshDnApYY

#cinema #literatura #adaptation

2023-04-07

@airechu sempre. sempre rever Alphaville

2023-03-15

@TonjaMReynolds
I would like to know about that too

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2023-03-15

Any writers here use software for drawing maps and floorplans for their novels? What do you recommend?

#AmWriting
#HistoricalFiction

2023-03-06

@andrewkfb Yes, the traveler is a good starter too, but I bet the Freewrite, which is way more stylish, gets more attention :-)

By all means, find a nice outdoors spot and enjoy the free air

2023-03-06

Watching episode two of #Thelastofus . I can't get rid of the impression that I am watching The walking dead, only the cast has zero charisma. The main guy reminds me of Burt Reynolds, and not in a good way. I wouldn't mind watching a fungal #thewalkingdead , but I don't think I will be able to keep following those characters much longer. I was expecting a lot, Mazin made Chernobyl, which is a marterpiece...#series

2023-03-03

@andrewkfb Yes, the traveler is quite nice and the writing session was good. If only we had more than a few months of that weather in a year here in Cologne... But the traveler works fine at cafés too :)

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