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    The Business

    A Sundance Crash Course

    Kim Masters catches up with Independent producer Cassian Elwes and aspiring screenwriter Matthew Hickman between screenings at the Sundance Film Festival. Hickman was recently awarded the first Independent Screenwriting Fellowship, which Elwes sponsored with the Black List .

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    By Kim Masters • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Kim Masters catches up with Independent producer Cassian Elwes and aspiring screenwriter Matthew Hickman between screenings at the Sundance Film Festival. Hickman was recently awarded the first Independent Screenwriting Fellowship, which Elwes sponsored with the Black List. At Sundance, Elwes gave Hickman -- who works at a UPS store in Santa Monica -- a crash course in the indie film business.

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      Kim Masters

      partner/writer at Puck News, host of KCRW's “The Business.”

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    Joseph Gordon Levitt on TV; A Sundance Crash Course
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    2. 7:37Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    3. 19:47A Sundance Crash CourseYou’re reading this
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