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Blue Moon (2026)

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DZ-125: Oscars One-shot - BLUE MOON

What craft tools make a low-budget, contained, period drama riveting?

AI✦Figures out how a 90-minute bar conversation stays riveting: French scenes, pop culture riffing, and a protagonist’s death we know is coming in seven months.✦

⏱ 1h 18m

26 FEB 2026

Structure · Character · Words

Listen if you want to understand how narrative POV, screenplay format, and dialogue craft can elevate a contained biopic into an Oscar-nominated film

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BLUE MOON is a talky, period-drama that film about an obscure songer-writer in the 1940s. Yet, it attracted world-class talent AND Academy Award nominations, including for it’s script. Join Chas & Mel as they explore how narrative POV, interweaving relationships, hooky dialogue, and even the screenplay format itself make the script for BLUE MOON so great… →

Films: Blue Moon (2026)

Structure: Narrative POV , Setups & Payoffs , Real Time , Openings , Character Questions

Character: Character Motivation , Relationships , Writing for Actors , Subtext , Character Agency

Words: Dialogue , Formatting , Scene Headings

"This film breaks nearly every format, structure, convention around screenwriting. And yet, attracted the attention of Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and got made and has attracted accolades for it, despite being made on a very small budget and shot in 15 days."

— chas | DZ-125: Oscars One-shot - BLUE MOON

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