PAGE Awards Judges Reveal How They Evaluate Your Script: Part Four

About this episode

The episode continues the discussion on how PAGE Awards Judges evaluate screenplays with insights from Karen Craig and Scott Barkan.

REWIND. We continue our conversation about how PAGE Awards Judges evaluate your screenplay with Karen Craig and Scott Barkan. Next week, to wrap up this four-part series, we’ll be talking to Kristin Overn, the Founder and Executive Director of the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards. Karen Craig is a professional screenwriter and script doctor whose credits include AMERICAN PSYCHO II, starring Mila Kunis and William Shatner, and FORBIDDEN SECRETS, starring Kristy Swanson. Karen has served...

People in this episode

Host: Sandy Adomaitis

Guests: Karen Craig, Scott Barkan

Topics covered

• screenplay evaluation
• PAGE Awards
• screenwriting
• film industry
• script doctoring

Keywords

• PAGE Awards
• screenplay
• evaluation
• screenwriter
• script doctor

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: AMERICAN PSYCHO II, FORBIDDEN SECRETS

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