"I remember being out in Los Angeles taking meetings, growing a little bit frustrated. It's just not going to happen, at least not right away. But try getting a project greenlit with that caveat. "I just never imagined surrendering that amazing creative aspect of the process to someone else. "What stood in the way from a deal being made with these producers was my insistence on directing the film as well," says Bloomenthal. He not only received feedback, he garnered meetings, including one with an executive at Lionsgate in Los Angeles. Learn from your less-than-stellar attempts because there's value in completing a script."īloomenthal finished the script in early 2006 and began networking with production companies. "My message to any screenwriter is to keep going. But eventually you will come up with something viable.' So that's what I did."īloomenthal's fifth script was "Sordid Things." "Finally there was something about this particular screenplay that I knew was superior to the others and I felt it had commercial potential," he says.
I guarantee you that the first screenplay will suck. "His advice to me was, 'Just sit down and start writing. "I told him I was thinking about writing my first screenplay and I asked him if he had any advice for a non-educated screenwriter," Bloomenthal recalls. "No matter what you're writing, you have to be efficient and interesting in your presentation, whether it's a news story or a fictional narrative."Īfter a question-and-answer session following a Manhattan screening of "The Ice Storm," Bloomenthal approached the film's screenwriter, James Schamus. "I knew I could write as a reporter," he says.
Though Bloomenthal didn't have any film school training, he did have one thing in his favor. Going to the movies was a family ritual, and still is." Film has always been an obsessive hobby of mine. "Pretty soon I relegated that career to a freelance situation so I could have time to nurture my creative impulse and write screenplays. "Eventually, I decided I couldn't wait to escape rural Massachusetts and took a job in Manhattan for a financial publication as an investment writer. After graduating, he worked as a freelance writer for local papers, including the Sudbury Town Crier. "I majored in biology at Syracuse, which I did absolutely nothing with," Bloomenthal says.
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How the 38-year-old Bloomenthal, a 1989 graduate of Lincoln-Sudbury High School and 1993 graduate of Syracuse University, became a filmmaker could make a movie itself. Let's just say, the unrated film is not for the Hannah Montana demographic. Sordid people then begin doing sordid things, and, well, everything becomes rather sordid. Without revealing too many details, Kingston plays a lawyer who wants to have a baby.
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The result of Bloomenthal's persistence, accompanied by a healthy supply of talent, is a film noir thriller starring English actress Alex Kingston she played Dr. Or he would have given up after several producers refused to back a first-time director with no film school experience. Without his persistent nature, Bloomenthal would have sold his script rather than fulfill his dream of directing it. That persistence has paid off with interest for Andrew Bloomenthal, whose debut film, "Sordid Things," receives its world premiere Saturday at the Boston International Film Festival. "He does not know the concept of failure." "That persistence turned out to be one of his greatest attributes," says Sharon Bloomenthal. This was a classic case of mother knows best. "And he would say a thousand times, 'I'm not persistent."' "Even when he was a little boy, we used to say, 'Andrew, you are so persistent,"' recalls his mother, Sharon. When Andrew Bloomenthal was growing up in Sudbury, he developed a penchant for persistence.
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