10 Screenwriting Tips from Jane Campion on how she wrote and directed The Power of the Dog and Piano

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Jane Campion is a New Zealand director, screenwriter, and producer. She became the first woman to be nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Director. She is also the first female filmmaker to receive the Palme d'Or for The Piano (1993) which also won her the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. At the 78th Venice International Film Festival, she won the Silver Lion award for directing The Power of the Dog (2021).
1. You will always encounter a proportion of both love and fear for a project you want to take on. What you need to do is overcome the fear just enough so that the inspiration and love for it is slightly stronger than the fear.
2. At the start of the film, plant a seed in the audience’s mind and steer their attention towards something that will trigger a memory for them later on.
3. Dig deep to try and discover if the story or characters apply to your own life experience in some way and use what you learned from those experiences.
4. While you’re making the film give it all the love, attention and intelligence it needs, but once It’s out in the world, let it be.
5. Tell your friends to be brutal with their feedback. You have to pull your muscles to hear that bad feedback. Because feedback is brutal. But feedback is also help and it’s the only way to learn. .
6. Have someone do psyche work with you. Let them help you facilitate a discussion between yourself and your character.
7. Shun the world you don't like and create your own.
8. Write, in disguise, about yourself and people around you by changing the details.
9. Make your audience think back to how they missed something in your film that’s been in front of their noses the whole time.
10. If your mind goes blank on set, just remember all you need to do is put the camera up, put some people in front of it, and trust that you’ve done enough preparation that you know what you’re doing.
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