Alexander Stuart

Google’s Own Executives Haven’t Warmed Up To Google+  (article from The Inquistr ). Google's cofounder Larry Page has only used G+ seven times!

Screen capture from Apple.com today. I actually wept a tear at the passing today of Steve Jobs , founder of Apple and - not to be forgotten - the equally magical Pixar Studios. It was partly a Gaelic good wish for his passing from a friend on Twitter that brought tears to my eyes, but also the fact that Apple - and in particular Jonathan "Jony" Ive , designer of the iPhone, iPad, iMac and iPod - were inordinately kind to Hudson on his seventh birthday this year, thanks also to the kindness of our wonderful friend, Stephen Fry , who arranged the introduction. Only yesterday, Hudson, Paradise and I were watching the opening of the original Toy Story (the first computer-animated feature, which revolutionized animation as much as anything Walt Disney ever did) and were reminded of Steve Jobs' credit as executive producer. His faith in Pixar and in the potential of computer animation - which has reached astonishing heights with works of beauty and wonder such as WA

The wondrous dragon is tamed. Today was a significant day in the calendar at the Sierra Waldorf School in Jamestown - a truly outstanding progressive Waldorf/Steiner school dedicated to cultivating the individuality, spirituality and interconnectedness of each child. It was Michaelmas, a day that has meaning in many cultures, and in Waldorf symbolizes the balance of light and darkness (it is very close to the Autumn Equinox, when day and night are of almost equal length), the conquering of fears and a new beginning, as represented by taming (and less frequently, slaying) a dragon. The celebration took the form of an all-school performance on the lawn by Sierra Waldorf's old Rawhide School building (which itself dates back to 1875 and was originally a school house for pioneers), with a joyful collection of gnomes and meteors and St Michael, the dragon-tamer. The dragon itself was a wonderful creation with many legs and many happy children inside. Although Michaelmas was or

Here is the embedded YouTube video of my 45 minute talk about screenwriting for the Hollywood studios and independents, at Film Fest Twain Harte. It includes my account of working with Angelina Jolie and Jodie Foster, and of working with Tim Roth to adapt my novel, The War Zone , into the  highly acclaimed film.

Alexander Chow-Stuart at Film Fest Twain Harte 2011. I will update this post later with embedded video - but for the moment click on the photograph or this YouTube link to see the 40-minute talk I gave about screenwriting for Hollywood and independents, recorded at Film Fest Twain Harte on Saturday, September 10, 2011. In addition to discussing the growing differences between writing for the Hollywood majors and indy cinema, I also talk about making the film of my novel, The War Zone , and working with Angelina Jolie, Jodie Foster, Tim Roth, Kiefer Sutherland and Danny Boyle.