Summary: Want to shoot a showcase film? Web series? Crowd fund a project? This week Gray talks to <a href="http://nofilmschool.com/">Koo</a> -- a Webby Award winner, DIY filmmaker, and the creator of <a href="http://nofilmschool.com/">NoFilmSchool.com</a> and its excellent free <a href="http://nofilmschool.com/dslr/">DSLR Cinematography Guide</a>. <br> <br> Koo co-wrote, directed, shot, and edited the "urban western" web series <a href="http://thewestside.tv/">The West Side</a>, which won the Webby Award for Best Drama Series. Filmmaker Magazine heralded the series as "ingenious low-budget independent filmmaking that just happens to be viewable only on the web," and named him one of their 25 New Faces of Film. <br> <br> Koo has shot for Focus Features, The Workbook Project, and Ralph Lauren; he has written for Filmmaker Magazine and Weblogs, Inc.; and he has served as Senior Designer for Rhapsody and MTV. His films have been official selections at several film festivals nationwide, and he was the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. <br> <br> His website <a href="http://nofilmschool.com/">NoFilmSchool.com</a> focuses on DIY filmmaking and independent creativity, and won Total Film's Best Creative Blog award. He is in pre-pre-production on his first feature film, <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryanbkoo/man-child-feature-film/">Man-Child</a>, which is being funded through a crowd funding <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryanbkoo/man-child-feature-film/">Kickstarter campaign</a>. <br> <br> Follow Koo on Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/ryanbkoo">@ryanbkoo</a> <br> <br> Visit Koo's web site: <a href="http://nofilmschool.com/">NoFilmSchool.com</a> <br> <br> Didn't get your questions asked? Make sure you <a href="http://twitter.com/GrayJones">follow Gray on Twitter</a> so you can get the scoop on who is being interviewed and how to get your questions in. Also check out our <a href="http://www.tvwriterpodcast.com/?page_id=530">TV Writer Twitter Database</a> to find Twitter addresses for several hundred TV writers. Find previous episodes and other resources at <a href="http://www.tvwriterpodcast.com/">www.tvwriterpodcast.com</a>. <br> <br> Hosted by Gray Jones, the TV Writer Podcast is devoted to interviews with working TV writers. It is brought to you by Script magazine and <a href="http://www.scriptmag.com/">Scriptmag.com</a>, the leading source for scriptwriting information in print and on the web; and by <a href="http://finaldraft.com/">Final Draft</a> scriptwriting software, the entertainment industry standard for scriptwriting worldwide. <br> <br> Subscribe: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=387132396">iTunes (Video)</a> • <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/script-magazine/id318971821">iTunes (Audio)</a> • <a href="http://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail?pid=48451">PodBean (Audio)</a> <br> <br> Koo PR photo by Mario Torres.
