For this interview, I'm delighted to speak with screenwriter and producer Mo Moshaty.  Her knowledge expands from the depths of her imagination when creating worlds to write, to producing films.  She speaks some on her thoughts on current events and asks, "Why now?"

For our next interview we are happy to introduce our friend Tim Westland.  In this interview, Tim gives some great tips and advice for screenwriters that he has gathered the past several years from writing, helping moderate MoviePoet.com and participating in The Wrac Group on Twitter. We also dive deeper into discussion on his screenplays The Stitcher, OBeast and PAAN which made it into different rounds of some top film festivals. 

Our next interview is taking our "Talent to Watch" across the pond where we interview David Yorke and Elena Saurel. While David is a writer-director and Elena is an actress turned screenwriter-director.  Their first collaboration came when David directed Elena in his horror short Due. The duo had such a great working relationship that they expanded that working relationship even further as they co-writers of their new horror short Eject. We dive deeper into their backgrounds, screenwriting and their filmmaking process.

This week, we are excited to spotlight our first male talent to watch.  From our interactions on social media and during our interview, we have come to know Guy Crawford as an extremely wise and friendly person.  His eagerness to help other screenwriters and filmmakers succeed is apparent in all of his Twitter post. I'd even be willing to bet, if you needed something, Guy would be the first person to give you the shirt off of his back. 

For these reasons, I'm excited to share some of his own story as a screenwriter. We discuss his hometown of New Orleans and why it's a great setting for horror. He sent us photos he took of historical places around New Orleans while doing more research for his stories.

He shares the advice he has received from Hollywood professionals and goes in-depth on the history of his very own projects.

We are on our third interview for "talent to watch" and are astonished by the amount of rising talent that we are finding. So far, all of our interviews have been strong women screenwriters and filmmakers. We're ecstatic and honored to have the opportunity to highlight the amazing talented women that we have.

This week, we jump into a great conversation with screenwriter and producer Tracee Beebe. She goes in-depth about how she got started, her obsession with some little shark movie called Jaws and offers valuable filmmaking tips and advice.

With a promising start to her career, we are excited to interview writer Eva Gonzalez Szigriszt.  After reading her material, she was signed quickly by a manager and the opportunities started to arise.  Now she is working on projects for Facebook and Crypt TV, working with Hollywood producers and her screenplay Turn was recognized by the Tracking Board Hit List for 2019. 

HorrOrigins is focused on recognizing indie talent on the verge of breaking out. We will be searching for new screenwriters and filmmakers to spotlight.  For this interview we have the honor of interviewing Lisa Jay.  Lisa is a screenwriter who has found success at Stowe Story Labs, The Bitchlist, WIF Blacklist Labs (finalist) and the Austin Film Festival, just to name a few. 
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Xavier Burgin’s documentary Horror Noire is a must-see not only for horror fans but film fans in general. The Shudder exclusive is based on Robin R. Means Coleman’s book of the same name. It covers over 100 years of film history, starting with Birth of a Nation and the negative stereotypes it perpetuated about black Americans. From there, it analyzes the tropes that exist within horror, while also highlighting innovative black filmmakers like Blacula director William Crain and Ganja & Hess director Bill Gunn. All of this leads to the massive success of Jordan Peele’s Get Out. Featuring interviews with Tony Todd (Candyman), Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead), and Rachel True (The Craft), among many others, Horror Noire truly is a comprehensive doc about black horror cinema. Burgin talked to us about the success of his film and how it’s changed the conversation about black cinema, while acknowledging that the negative tropes the doc highlights still persist in Hollywood. He also chatted about some of his favorite horror flicks and his plans post-Horror Noire.