Who: Jana L. Williams
What: Writer, Photographer
Source: wordsmythe

I recently had the privilege of interviewing writer and photographer Jana Williams.  Jana is a published novelist and playwright who has been writing screenplays for the better part of the decade. Her background includes stills photography, high-speed motion picture photography for the U.S. navy and more recently work as a post coordinator for feature films and Visual Effects.   Jana alongside her 7-year-old daughter currently live in Vancouver where she teaches screenwriting at Emily Carr University and in addition to also teaching throughout North America with her own series of independent seminars on the craft of writing. Jana most recently launched her ONLINE Screenwriting Tutorial.

Below are Jana’s answers to the questions that I thought would be most helpful to screenwriters, both aspiring and professional.  You can contact Jana here.

Were you already interested in writing movies when you were younger?
I watched a lot of movies as a kid. I grew up in an era when you could come home from school every day and see classic feature films on TV ’cause broadcasters were desperate for filler.  I also read a ton of books.  It wasn’t until I visited my aunt in Tucson for a vacation one summer and discovered she was a writer (as well as teacher) and had her very own office at home with a typewriter and tons of books on the shelves…. that I really started dreaming about becoming a writer.
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