Dreams on Spec (2007)
- Directed by
- Daniel J. Snyder
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 5.7 of 10 from 10 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This documentary follows several amateur screenwriters as they chase their dream of breaking into Hollywood. It shows their daily struggles, rejections, and small victories in the competitive film industry.
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What happens
Dreams on Spec is a 2007 American documentary film that profiles the struggles and triumphs of emerging Hollywood screenwriters. It was written and directed by Daniel J. Snyder, who learned first-hand about the screenwriter's travails in the late 1980s when he was a teenager working alongside aspiring writer/directors Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary in the famed Video Archives video store in Manhattan Beach, California. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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