Interview: Filmmaker Nicola Pittam on “3 Films That Have Impacted Your Adult Life”

Join screenwriter Stuart Wright as he dives into movies that changed your life with filmmaker Nicola Pittam, in this engaging episode of 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life. Explore Dangerous Liaisons impact, Once Were Warriors analysis, and The Memento influence on her personal growth and cinema’s transformative power. Nicola Pittam also discusses why you should be turning your unsold screenplays into novels and the benefits of protecting and exploiting your own intellectual property (IP).

1. Dangerous Liaisons – Nicola Pittam says Dangerous Liaisons is one of her favourite films ever and cannot believe none of the actors won an Oscar. And how the script is one of the cleverest and how it’s one of those scripts she wishes she had written it. After watching it several times she began to see how nuanced Michelle Pfieffer’s character of Madame de Tourvel really is.
2. Once Were Warriors – Nicola Pittam shares how Once Were Warriors is a film that stuck with her for weeks after watching it. How she would sit and think about it, talk about it with friends. It was one of the first films she hunted out the novel to get to know the film even more.
3. Point Break – Nicola Pittam talks about how Point Break’s director Kathryn Bigelow became a huge influence on her as a result of this film and how it is the perfect action movie.