From short films to Rectify on SundanceTV, hear how Scott Teems found success in Hollywood&hellip; on this episode of The Doorpost Podcast Project!
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Bio:
Scott Teems is a Georgia-born writer-director who currently writes, directs, and produces the acclaimed SundanceTV drama Rectify, which has been hailed as &ldquo;astounding&rdquo; (Indiewire), &ldquo;engrossing&rdquo; (The Hollywood Reporter), and &ldquo;unlike anything on TV&rdquo; (The Daily Beast).&nbsp;
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Prior to Rectify, he wrote and directed the award-winning feature film That Evening Sun, starring Hal Holbrook and Mia Wasikowska, which premiered at South by Southwest, where it won the Audience Award and Special Jury Award, then went on to win more than a dozen major awards at festivals across North America. It was a New York Times Critics Pick, was nominated for two Film Independent Spirit Awards, and was the recipient of the Wyatt Award, given annually by the Southeastern Film Critics Association to the film that &ldquo;best represents the essence of the South.&rdquo;
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In addition, Scott recently directed and produced the feature documentary Holbrook/Twain, which chronicles six decades of Hal Holbrook&rsquo;s Tony and Emmy Award-winning one-man show, &ldquo;Mark Twain Tonight!&rdquo; The film, which features Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, and Martin Sheen, among others, premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival, where it received rave reviews from The Huffington Post (&ldquo;an instant classic&rdquo;), The Los Angeles Times (&ldquo;intimate, poignantly honest&rdquo;) and The Hollywood Reporter (&ldquo;one of the best films showcased in the entire festival&rdquo;).&nbsp;
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Scott has several film and television projects in development, including adaptations of Stephen King&rsquo;s classic novella The Breathing Method for Blumhouse, Abraham Verghese&rsquo;s best-selling novel Cutting For Stone for Anonymous Content, and Andre Dubus&rsquo;s celebrated short story &ldquo;A Father&rsquo;s Story.&rdquo;

45: Scott Teems - Writer/Director

Jonathan Wolf is the Executive Vice President of the Independent Film &amp; Television Alliance and Managing Director of the American Film Market.&nbsp;
The IFTA is the global trade association of independent producers and distributors of motion picture and television programming. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the organization represents and provides significant entertainment industry services to 150 member companies from 23 countries.
Since his appointment in 1998, Mr. Wolf has guided the growth and repositioning of the American Film Market (AFM), the world&rsquo;s largest film market that takes place annually in Santa Monica. A pivotal destination for independent filmmakers and business people from all over the world, the AFM is a global marketplace where more than $800 million in motion picture and television production and distribution deals are closed each year. The eight day Market hosts more than 8,000 industry professionals and screens more than 500 feature films.&nbsp;
Participants come from over 70 countries and include acquisition and development executives, agents, attorneys, directors, distributors, financiers, film commissioners, producers, writers, the world&rsquo;s press, and all those who provide services to the motion picture industry.&nbsp;

46: Jonathan Wolf, Executive Vice President of the Independent Film & Television Alliance and Managing Director of the American Film Market

Steven Conrad is the writer of&nbsp;The Pursuit of Happyness,&nbsp;The Weather Man, and&nbsp;The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. His latest work includes&nbsp;Patriot,&nbsp;a pilot for Amazon that he wrote/directed/executive produced, and&nbsp;Belushi&nbsp;(pre-production) which he will be writing/directing.

47: Steve Conrad - Writer/Director

The Doorpost Podcast Project is an entertainment business podcast, hosted by Duane Barnhart, interviewing some of today’s most successful and inspiring Entertainment Entrepreneurs. It was Milton Berle who said, “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” We help our audience learn to build doors of opportunity. Each episode shines a spotlight on our featured guest as they share their journey of successes and failures, hard work and big breaks, lessons learned and the steps taken to turn those lessons into accomplishments. The Doorpost Podcast Project is all about inspiring our listeners to take entrepreneurial ACTION and realize their dreams!


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