Kurt Rockmore

Wrote & Directed my 1st short film titled “SPEAK TO ME” starting the convo on mental health, communication & vulnerability in our communities. B4 we go on a film festival run we’re doing an exclusive screening on long island. Please RT & Share. Tix at speaktomethefilm.com

@UinMiami 🤣

We on yo ass Bohemian Rhapsody sit tight.

🤣🤣 @tobias31

@GavinBooth Congrats. You completed a feature. Everything else is icing on the cake!

My latest feature film has been rejected from every festival it was submitted to so far. A different experience for me but perfectly acceptable.

Respect on his name is rare, when he deserves so much more of it.

tobias emptying the clip in an elimination game he’s got my respect forever

On a daily basis Tobias puts himself under the most difficult shooting protocols in the 🌎 to prepare Consistency, diligence and strategeic calibration with @BBiomechanics

@UziCryptoo No truth to this story

My friend has a new side hustle. Buys expired domain names for $10-$40 on GoDaddy Auctions. Flips them to businesses for $2,000-$8,000 who don’t realize their old domain is gone. Does this from his phone. Made $94k last month. No inventory. No warehouse. No truck. Why aren’t more people doing this?

@chrishillwrites @HwoodScrptReadr This and this only

@HwoodScrptReadr I think Travis is just fine, his movie got made.

Everyone is dunking on this movie and here's why. Sure, "a rom-com version of THE PURGE" sounds like a decent pitch. But "a world where premarital sex is outlawed except for one night every year" suggests some kind of evangelical Christian dystopia a la THE HANDMAID'S TALE – not NYC in the 2020s. It also raises the obvious question: why can't they just get married and fuck? Boom – problem solved. The idea is to put your protagonists in a situation they can't get out of with real consequences if they don't. Maybe the movie turns out to be great. My point is that you need to make your logline bulletproof – and this one is full of holes. Take the 2011 movie IN TIME which imagines a world where time is currency. Everybody has some kind of device on their wrists that measures how long they have to live and I'm bored just explaining it. It requires too much setup. Even then, we don't quite get it. Now compare that to one of Andrew Niccol's earlier films, 1997's GATTACA. Here we have a world where the wealthy can have designer babies who are considered genetically superior to everyone else and consequently they get the best jobs. I get that. It's weirdly plausible – even more so now than when it was written. What these films have in common is an imagined future, but one is a sci-fi classic and the other was instantly forgotten. In GATTACA, we can see how we can end up in a society like that because it's an extrapolation from where we are now. And everything in the film reflects this down to its overall look and vibe. In ONE NIGHT ONLY, the writer had a vague idea and just kinda stopped there. You want to make sure that your concept does not involve too many "steps." We should have a clear sense of how the plot naturally flows from your premise. And it's this feeling of anticipation that makes for a great logline. We're already thinking where the story can go. Most scripts fail at the conceptual level. But it's not always easy to see what's worth writing and what isn't. You can save yourself a lot of time and effort by stress-testing your concept before you fall in love with it. Because if you don't, you're just going to get your heart broken later on.

@HwoodScrptReadr I read this on the blacklist. This was picked up because of its concept.

Everyone sees players on TV in the playoffs They don’t see this

@DiscussingFilm I read this on the blacklist! Thats cool it’s being made.

First trailer for ‘ONE NIGHT ONLY’, starring Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner. The film is a rom-com version of ‘The Purge’ where premarital sex is outlawed except for one night every year. In theaters on August 7.

@ShamsCharania We knew this before he entered college buddy.

Dallas Mavericks' Cooper Flagg has won the 2025-26 NBA Rookie of the Year award.

@iamkorayday Even spike does this

Unless you're Spike Lee, don't go writing your script on vibes a.k.a figuring it out as you go. Plot your plots. Draw your arcs. Weave them together like the artist that you are. Yes, it's art. But it's also engineering.

@stacewrites_ Yeah! I see that space. I didnt read it yet, but that alone shows you learned! Love it for you.

A tale of two first pages. I hesitated posting, but I think it's important to show progress. On the left, the first page of the very first draft of my very first pilot from August 2021. On the right, the first page of the new rewrite.

@strawbphilosphy I agree

@KurtRockmore There's a lot of time at the end of the day if you work a job and don't waste hours each day with door scrolling and you do shit on the weekend

I agree but it does not work like this. People need to pay bills is what they say.

@_microbudgetpod Agree with you again. Just saying, the mindset of a lot of people is from the poverty mindset ‘i need to pay bills’. You face that more than you meet someone who understands bartering in film. 85% of the time someone who barters or even lowers their ‘rate’ is miserable on set.

Pay bills with your job. barter in your free time and make films oj weekends with your community. I’ve been doing it for 10 years.

This is pain. Also proof that mentorship for young men is important. If you’re going through something find someone to confide in, speak your truth. Don’t hold it in. I’ve heard @KDTrey5 say on multiple occasions how fire Mike Beasley is at hooping.

@ItsLaDarrion Are any of these optioned?

Continuing to fight for visibility of my work is always an uphill battle. I get burnt out a little, but we gon keep going. Seriously. If you liked Harry Potter. But always wanted to see a Black main character forefront. A Black boy who is the hero and is flawed and beautiful and with magic. Also set at a magical HBCU where they time travel back to the Haitian Revolution, cast spells and go to homecoming, then please support my books. penguinrandomhouse.com/series/G3W/blo… #BloodattheRoot

@DudespostingWs Not ‘somehow’ good energy begets good energy.