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About Samuel
Samuel C. Spitale is the author of How to Win the War on Truth: An Illustrated Guide to How Mistruths Are Sold, Why They Stick, and How to Reclaim Reality (Quirk Books 2022). He’s an L.A.-based writer and storyteller who’s written for Huffington Post, Geek magazine, Star Wars Insider, and and is also the author of Star Wars: Collecting a Galaxy (Insight Editions 2019). He’s a media studies expert who has trained journalism students at the State Department's International Digital Education and Arts Program and has appeared on C-SPAN’s BookTV and KRON4’s LIVE! In the Bay news magazine, on talk radio shows hosted by Tavis Smiley and Jim Engster, and on the podcasts It’s All Journalism, Watching America, and The Learner’s Corner. He’s appeared on the Moth stage, winning a Story Slam, and has hosted panels at San Diego, New York, and L.A. Comic-Cons. He's a member of American Mensa and the Hollywood Radio and Television Society. Previously, he worked for Lucasfilm Ltd. as Senior Manager of Global Product Development.
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GASP Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller ⋄ Horror When a grieving family relocates to a haunted farmhouse, a teenage skeptic finds herself haunted by the ghosts of her past, but can she discover the science behind the supernatural before the house claims its next victim?
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Breaking News Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy A disgraced former journalist must turn a partisan cable network into a legitimate news outlet, and in the process rewrite his own spotty legacy. It's NETWORK meets ANCHORMAN in a meta satire about the power of propaganda, the importance of journalism, and our inability to distinguish between the two.
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Rest in Peace Budget: $0 - $100K | Animation After a long Halloween night, a Ghoul's rest is disturbed when Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy, and Werewolf wear out their welcome in this animated children's short.
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