Hester Schell

Published: Mar 23, 2017 by Cinesource Magazine
Authors: Hester Schell
Subjects: Film and Video

Booking exceptional, exciting actors is essential to any film/video project’s success. Solutions to casting back ups and timelines.

Published: Apr 13, 2016 by Script Magazine
Authors: Hester Schell
Subjects: Film and Video

Quick tips for better table readings during script development.

Published: Apr 13, 2016 by Script Magazine
Authors: Hester Schell
Subjects: Film and Video

Interview with InkTip's Michael Kim. Writing better log lines is the key to opening doors.

Published: Mar 10, 2016 by http://www.scriptmag.com
Authors: Hester Schell
Subjects: Film and Video

Director Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown, Twilight, Miss You Already) shares process. This article focuses on casting.

Published: Sep 28, 2011 by The Writers' Store Burbank
Authors: Hester Schell
Subjects: Film and Video, Theater

Script writers take the approach of writing for a particular actor; create a project keeping a specific actor in mind when drafting the story.

Published: Apr 18, 2008 by Movie Maker Magazine
Authors: Hester Schell
Subjects: Film and Video, Environment and Sustainability

"If not us, who? If not now, when?" Movie sets create a lot of waste: Why not recycle? Tips for reducing waste, from water bottles to rechargeable batteries.

By: Hester Schell
Subjects: Applied Arts & Music, Film and Video, Theater, Theatre & Performance Studies

Portland, OR

February 7, 2023

Author Hester Schell is pleased to announce her first optioned screenplay.
INVISIBLE, a feature, co-written with Gabriell DeBear Paye was optioned by a (confidential) producer out of New York City. They found their producer on the script bulletin board Virtual Pitch Fest. Production will likely start later in 2023 or early 2024. This is Hester’s first option. Schell and Paye met at Harvard Square Script Writers (HSSW) in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2009.

Trivia: HSSW is the longest running scriptwriting peer feedback/networking group in the United State.

By: Hester Schell
Subjects: Environment and Sustainability

POLITICAL POEMS TO INSPIRE CLIMATE ACTION

 (Portland, OR)

            On Friday, March 24^th, 7:30pm, Studio Schell & LifeForce Learning LLC present a poetry reading of political works by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Emily Johnston, read by Hester Schell and Ken Ward, to raise funds for the legal defense teams of the tar sands oil “valve turners.” The readings will be held at The Center for Spiritual Living, 6211 NE Martin Luther King Boulevard in Portland, Oregon.

Producer and performer Hester Schell will read pieces by Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Poetry as Insurgent Art (1975) and Dog (1958), among others. “These patriots do not belong in jail. The message in these works still rings true, striking much relevance in today’s political climate,” says Schell.  Ken Ward will read poetry by essayist and poet Emily Johnston of Seattle, also a valve turner. Ward will speak about his court experience and act of civil disobedience to defend our planet by shutting down an oil pipeline carrying tar sands oil shipments out of Alberta, Canada. According to Ward, a former deputy executive with Greenpeace USA, the best way to keep the carbon out of the atmosphere is to prevent the oil from reaching the refineries. In addition to being Deputy Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, Ward was president of the National Environmental Law Center, and co-founder of U.S. PIRG, Environment America and the Fund for Public Interest Research.

Tickets to POLITICAL POEMS TO INSPIRE CLIMATE ACTION are by email reservation, $20 suggested donation, at [email protected]. Donations are accepted at the door, or you can make your donation online anytime at Shutitdown.org.  If you make your donation in advance, please bring your receipt to the event.

Ken Ward is one of five climate activists arrested for shutting down Alberta tar sands oil pipelines at various locations coming into the United States out of Canada on October 11, 2016. With his first trial ending with a “hung jury” in late January in Skagit, Washington, Ward returns to court on May 22, facing felony charges ranging from trespassing and sabotage to breaking and entering. All five valve turners face prison time if convicted. According to Ward, “Our only hope is to step outside polite conversation and put our bodies and ourselves in the way. We must shut it down, starting with the most immediate threats; oil sands fuels and coal.”

Read more about the other valve turners Annette Klapstein, Emily Johnston, Leonard Higgins and Michael Foster here: http://www.shutitdown.today/activist_bios

MORE HERE: http://www.shutitdown.today/trial_support_intro

RELATED:

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/2/2/headlines/jury_fails_to_convict_climate_activist_ken_ward_for_turning_off_valves_of_tar_sands_pipelines

 
http://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2017/02/01/trial-of-climate-change-activist-ends-in-hung-jury/

http://www.miragenews.com/hung-jury-in-criminal-case-against-oregon-climate-change-activist/