This journals my process leading up to shooting my award-winning short film, "Talk Me To Death," at the 2006 Duke City Shootout competition. “Talk Me To Death” is about a funeral where everybody’s busy talking on the phone, texting or watching WWF on an iPod. Meanwhile, the reverend and the widow of the deceased are still hammering out the terms of the service, as it’s going on.
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This journals my process leading up to shooting my award-winning short film, "Talk Me To Death," at the 2006 Duke City Shootout competition. “Talk Me To Death” is about a funeral where everybody’s busy talking on the phone, texting or watching WWF on an iPod. Meanwhile, the reverend and the widow of the deceased are still hammering out the terms of the service, as it’s going on.
Pamela K. Johnson has written and edited for TV, newspapers and magazines for more than 20 years. That time includes a long stint at Essence magazine in New York City, and a shorter one at the Tribune in Albuquerque (1989-1993). She co-edited the anthology Tenderheaded: A Comb Bending Collection of Hair Stories (Pocket Books), which inspired the stage play, “The Tenderheaded Diaries,” performed in Philadelphia and New York. She also co-authored the novel Santa & Pete (Simon & Schuster), which became a TV movie, starring James Earl Jones and Hume Cronyn. Johnson holds a master of fine arts in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College, and a bachelor’s in communication from Stanford University. She’s currently enrolled in Think Tank, a 22-month screenwriting program at Writers Boot Camp in Santa Monica, California.
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