Sommer Rusinski

Writer and local menace. Currently working in costume shops around New York. For press and inquiries, reach me at my couch.

Below the Line: Makeup Artist Nicki Ledermann

Below the Line: Makeup Artist Nicki Ledermann

You can be the best makeup artist in the world, but if you don't get along with people and can't read the trailer, the room, the atmosphere, the actor … If you don't have that, then you will never make it in the film business.

# Read # Interviews
12 min read

Below the Line: Script Supervisor Stacy Rowe

Below the Line: Script Supervisor Stacy Rowe

"You’ll find that so many people are willing to help you if you work hard and tell people what you want. We all had to start somewhere. You just need the confidence to speak up and make it happen."

# Read # Interviews # The Business of Art
13 min read

Below the Line: Location Assistant Melanie Roddy

Below the Line: Location Assistant Melanie Roddy

If anybody ever reads about our business, I hope people take away that quality of life is the most important. You make enough to live and you get with good people. That's the important shit.

# Read # Interviews # The Business of Art
21 min read

Below the Line: On-Set Photographer Alison Cohen Rosa

Below the Line: On-Set Photographer Alison Cohen Rosa

"I would pinch myself sometimes on set, going, 'I'm so fucking lucky to be in this room.' Like, I get goosebumps. I am so lucky."

# Read # Interviews # The Business of Art
19 min read

Writing in Shapes and Colors

Writing in Shapes and Colors

My first step was learning how the professionals broke the rules. If they can do it, I can do it, right?

# Read # Style & Substance
8 min read

Dollars and Sense

Dollars and Sense

Shut up and do as you’re told because there’s a line of folks back there hungry to stab you and take your place.

# Read # The Business of Art
9 min read

In Defense of TikTok from an Old Who's Never Had One

In Defense of TikTok from an Old Who's Never Had One

When I asked why novels and not screenplays, I was met with, “We’re only looking for existing IPs that have a built-in fan base. We don’t want to take the risk on an original idea.”

# Read # The Business of Art
5 min read

Ted Dickerson's Last Life

Ted Dickerson's Last Life

Today is Ted Dickerson’s 84th birthday. Or his 4,534,119,982,103rd birthday if you count his other lives, which he, of course, does. Either way, he’s determined to make it his last.

# Read # Fiction
15 min read

Magic vs. Reality

Magic vs. Reality

Settle down and focus on the task at hand, which is, as it always should be: Writing the best story you can. Everything to come is not your problem. Not yet, anyway, and not unless you’re lucky.

# Read # The Creative Mind
5 min read

Homework 4evr

Homework 4evr

Here’s your homework: get to thinking. And seeing. And separating you from yourself so the two can finally meet.

# Read # The Creative Mind
5 min read

Don't Be a Dick

Don't Be a Dick

The only thing your heroes all have in common is that they work really fucking hard. And it’s only through doing this work, quietly and in the background, that you can ever hope to have a respected career.

# Read # Breaking In
5 min read
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