These are the thinkers and communicators to whom I am indebted.
SOME BOOKS OF INFLUENCE
The Art of Storytelling
(Considering Light, Editing, Methods for telling stories, etc).
Story: Robert McKee
Story: Harold Scheub
Directing the Documentary: Michael Rabiger
Documentary Storytelling for Video and Filmmakers: Sheila Curran Bernard
The Art of Storytelling: Nancy Mellon
All I did Was Ask: Terry Gross
What a Producer Does: Buck Houghton
When the Shooting Stops, the Cutting Begins: Ralph Rosenblum an Robert Karen
Scrennwriting is Storytelling: Kate Wright
Masters of Light: Dennis Schaefer and Larry Salvato
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Films: Walter Murch
Characters and Viewpoints: Scott Card
On Directing Film: David Mamet
Anything Can Be a Story (Getting Ideas):
Dictionary of Imaginary Places: Manguel an Guadalupi
World Tales: Idries Shaw
The Power of Myth/Mythology and Personal Transformation/Mythic Worlds, Modern Worlds: Joseph Campbell
Reading Non-fiction (e.g. The Creative City: Charles Laundry or Pink Ribbons Inc.: the politics of philanthropy focus on evolution of
ideas and what forces worked for and against these developments along the way, high drama!)
SOME FILMS OF INFLUENCE
Butterfly
Dreams of Dust
Tale of Tales
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Sunrise
Great Expectations
The Bicycle Thief
Fargo
Rounders
Gladiator
Shawshank Redemption
Persepolis
Water
Days of Heaven
The Spirit of the Beehive