Happy Holidays and Merry New Year from Fred & Dan
Welcome to another edition of our blog Why Aren’t You Famous Yet? To everyone who have been reading along - thank you so much!! This one's for you <3
Hello to our lovely readers of Why Aren’t You Famous Yet? This is our end of the year wrap up newsletter and we wanted to give a big THANK YOU to everyone that has been reading along for the past three months. We are constantly trying to stretch ourselves creatively and this blog was a way for us to do that and help to hold us accountable on our writing.
We loved introducing you to our new script The Fox and the Moon and the two main characters Fox and Ix Chel. We have been making really great strides on our script since the last time we checked in and are even getting together for a mini writers retreat this weekend before the holidays! We also enjoyed sharing the behind the scenes look of our script Mean Streak and the POC we shot for it in 2019.
Fred & Dan will be returning in January! Keep your eyes peeled for said POC as well as more Friday newsletters.
In the meantime we wanted to share some of our favorite things from 2022:
Fred (Gio) starred in the short film “The Dinner Game” written by Rose Mc Aleese and directed by Lauren Boone.
Dan (Janette) produced and directed four episodes of comedy mockumentary webseries “Jennifer and Chicken.”
Our script “Mean Streak” placed as a semifinalist in the ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship and The Stowe Story Labs Fellowship (and is currently in consideration for two other contests).
We had a crazy experience going on a writer's retreat to Joshua Tree. Maybe we’ll do a whole blog about what happened but basically: February in the middle of absolute nowhere desert + a camper with no heat or lights + food poisoning with an outhouse as a bathroom in the freezing cold desert = not a good time, butt an adventure all the same. Experiences like those lead to great material for scripts
We started this blog!!!! As well as another feature film, we each individually started two TV pilots!
Finally, if you’re looking for something to watch during your winter break we have some recs!!!
The Banshees of Inisherin (Dan: Martin McDonagh is my fav writer/director currently working and this might be his best work!!)
Season 2 of White Lotus
Knives out 2: Glass Onion (neither of us have seen this yet but we could not be more stoked for this sequel!)
Wednesday (Netflix series on Wednesday Addams)
House of Dragon, Rings of Power, Carnival Row (Dan: She was a fantasy girl this year!! I love these three series and can’t wait for season 2 of Carnival Row in February!)
We hope everyone has a joyful and restful holiday season and we’ll see you all back here in the New Year!
From the Joshua Tree trip! Aesthetically pleasing but functionally questionable.