Novelist Vivian Schilling Speaks at National Archives’ “Discovering The Civil War” Film & Lecture Series
Novelist Vivian Schilling Speaks at National Archives’ “Discovering The Civil War” Film & Lecture Series
Reader’s Question: What is your impression of the film industry? Is your decision to focus on novels related at all to your experiences doing films? Vivian Schilling: I think film is the most powerful tool of persuasion we have today.…
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Jiří Barta Retrospective short – a narrated photo gallery including behind-the-scenes material from “Na pude.”
Fantastica Daily www.mervius.com Vivian Schilling Interviewed by Eva M. Wojcik-Obert Which do you enjoy more—writing or acting? Why? From the time I was a child, writing and performing plays for my mother, I’ve struggled to decide which path to…
FictionAddiction.Net – Vivian Schilling Interview You have successfully made the jump from screenwriting to writing novels. How did you come to the decision to make that leap? I was heavily into pre-production on a film which I was producing, writing…
Sacred Prey was born out of my frustration as a screenwriter caught in the collaborative process of Hollywood. I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of seeing life through someone else’s perspective. This is what led me to acting; acting led me to writing. As an actress I’ve played everything from a gun-slinging Calamity Jane to a German nightclub singer ensnared within the chaos of Hitler’s rein. I love the vast spectrum of personalities and situations that life has to offer, but found early on in my acting career that Hollywood’s palette of female characters was not only limited but highly suspect. In the land of film, the population of men outweighs women ten to one while in real life the count is somewhat more equitable. Needless to say, the pickin’s are slim, so I began screenwriting to create roles for myself. And while I became a screenwriter to satiate my love for acting, I became a novelist to satiate my infatuation with storytelling.