On this week’s episode of 3rd and Fairfax, the official podcast of the Writers Guild of America, the guest is author and actress Justine Bateman who talks about making her screenwriting and directing feature debut with her new film Violet, which opened this past Friday. The movie explores the difference between a person’s private thoughts and public face.
On a personal note, I’m very pleased to know about his for an odd reason. Back in 2007, when I was writing two or three articles a week for my column on the Huffington Post, I devoted one of them to the Writers Guild strike. In the midst of all that, the Writers Guild magazine Written By was publishes articles as well from other voices on the strike, and a few of them were written by Justine Bateman. (I’m near-certain they were in Written By, but can’t swear to it under oath.) And they were excellent – smart, serious and insightful. I believe that I wrote to the editor of the magazine, who I knew pretty well, and asked him to pass along how impressed I was by her writing. She ended up writing back, and our brief exchange was terrific – she’d been reading my own articles, and was looking forward so much to one day getting into the Writers Guild, and so she was pleased to have some validation from a Guild member. While I understand her reaction, the reality was that her writing was really smart and terrific, period. She said she was going back to college at UCLA to get some further education to expand her work opportunities. That was the extent of our communication, but she ended up graduating with a degree in computer science and digital management. She kept writing, though, completing a couple of books and also making short films. That she’s gotten to this point both writing and directing a feature film – and getting into the Writers Guild – is just wonderful to know, and I hope it only builds from there.
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