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Michael Buonocore

@michaelbuonocore.bsky.social
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Screenwriter, repped by my cat Matilda.

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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I feel like third place winners don't get the headlines they deserve. *coughs conspicuously* that's me I won third place The past three years of @nycmidnight.bsky.social have been so fun - I love the creative push, the supportive community, and the thoughtful judging. Join me next year!
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
welp, my submission to @nycmidnight.bsky.social is... submitted. Big thanks to my pals @patrickwrites.bsky.social @nickwaswriting.com and @theartofcharts.bsky.social for the reads and support ❤️ Felt good to get back in the saddle - now I go dormant again until (fingers crossed) round 2 in April!
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Day two back in the #screenwriting saddle, I mostly remember how slug lines work. Character development, less so.
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
All right, y'all, I'm back on bluesky and back in Highland Pro after several months off from #screenwriting. My third year of @nycmidnight.bsky.social screenplay competition lured me back. Genre: fairy tale, subject: staycation, character: gossipmonger. Surely, I shall perish.
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a man with a beard says that he 's not gonna make it
ALT: a man with a beard says that he 's not gonna make it
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Beach weekend! We stayed at a hotel with a great view of... a herd of #elk that swung into town. Most of them just chilled while a few of their pals made a #wine run. #scripstky
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
impossible to complete any new sscripts when my Editor-in-Chief is so distracted #scriptsky #cats
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JULIA CAMPANELLI @juliacampanelli.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Casting in New Mexico🌵🔆 for THE DEER, a short thriller film. SAG & non-SAG actors. Please share! Scan QR code for details/instructions Email all materials to: anna@annakoukouli.com Thank you! #casting #actorsky #newmexico #santafe #albuquerque #filmsky #scriptsky @annakoukouliborn
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
After three rounds of competition with over 1500 writers, I placed in the top ten of the NYC Midnight Screenwriting Challenge! 🥳 What a rush, and what a lovely community of screenwriters who supported each other. 💕 Grateful. @nycmidnight.bsky.social #NYCMidnightSWC #scriptsky
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
your moment of zen: we added a screen door to the back patio, which means Matilda, Queen of the Indoors got to go "outside" for the first time #cats #catio #scriptsky
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
What, this pic? It's just me hanging out with my beautiful friend @lisamariesimmons.bsky.social before she performs in @charu.bsky.social's amazing concert in Carnegie Hall on Friday. Check out Charu Suri's music and Lisa's band Notespeak on Spotify and all the places! 💕
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Me & my cousins Reenie and Beth. They randomly spotted me in #Manhattan, which is funny because they live in Jersey and I live in #Portland and we didn't know we'd all be in the city. Extra funny? We've never met before in real life. New York, you truly are magical.
Two women in an SUV wave excitedly for a selfie taken by a guy in the streets of Manhattan - the three of them are cousins who have never met in real life and randomly spotted each other in the streets of Manhattan
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
My logline for my script -Guardrails- was featured @official-inktip.bsky.social Producer Newsletter. So exciting! So you producer types- know what to do to get a look at this award wining script. (That’s right. I said it!) #scriptsky
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Hanging out in NYC with my nephews Toothless and Hiccup has inspired me to try writing a kid's movie 😂💕 #scriptsky #WritingCommunity
An uncle sits in a diner with his nephews, one of whom is missing his two front teeth
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Translation: quit screwing around in New York, come home and do your one job. Feed me.
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
guess I'll just appreciate this while I can #scriptsky
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Am I a nerdy screenwriter? Yes. Do I know how to properly shoot a basketball? No. Does it impress my nephews that I'm a reliably good shot anyway? Let's just say they coined the term "throw a crazy three!" to cue me to make a three-pointer with my ridiculous form #scriptsky
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I no longer write romcoms that erase sexual fluidity. I write bi-fi #scriptsky #screenwriting #writingcommunity
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
AHHH! On to the finals for the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Screenwriting Challenge! I took first place in my grouping 🥳 Now, I wait for my prompts for the last round - five pages in 24 hours starting 9pm Friday! Wish me luck! ❤️ #scriptsky #NYCMidnightSWC
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
you know how sometimes you feel adrift as a writer and then you get notes on a script back and think, "ha! I don't suck!" and then you post a screenshot of the notes on bluesky because maybe you'll get some more validation, not that you're asking for it or anything. No real point here #scriptsky
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
solar creative energy recharge #scriptsky #cats #writingcommunity
A big grey cat lies on a wood floor in a beam of sun
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Rest in queer power, sir. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... #booksky #scriptsky
theguardian.com
Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85
The American essayist, playwright and author of books including A Boy’s Own Story and The Married Man has died
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Haven't been very active in competitions in the past year, so this is a fun little boost. Thank you, @fadeinawards.bsky.social and congrats to the other funny people on this list! Fingers crossed for the next announcement! #scriptsky #writingcommunity
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Nine years on the planet and today's the day she realizes she wants to be inside a paper sack. May we all continue to discover new things about ourselves!
Matilda the cat peers out from inside a paper grocery bag.
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Ash Lazer @ashlazer.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Lights. Camera. RADNESS— For your consideration, an elite lineup of sports-centered scripts—from BIOPICS to horror—in a rad new showcase called THE BALLERS LIST. World premieres, Emmy winners & hot new writers. Like & share to boost human voices. #scriptsky #ballerslist2025 Marquee preview & 🔗👇🏻
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Family cuddle is the only way to make it through The Last of Us. Matilda can't even look. #scriptsky #tvsky #filmsky
A cat comforts her two dads by cuddling in their arms while they watch scary tv
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
NO GHOSTS TONIGHT is THE pick! Read it if you get a chance! #scriptsky
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Leah from South Dakota @leahfromsd.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Me sharing the opening 15 pages of my new feature with my screenwriting group. #Scriptsky
Meme from the Great American Bake Off, poor chap in panel 1: Started Making It, panel 2: Had a breakdown, panel 3: Bon appetite.
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
@carlykatz.bsky.social @eric-writes.bsky.social @patrickwrites.bsky.social I've got my first draft done for the #screenwritingchallenge and available to swap if anyone needs a read!
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
good luck #screenwritingchallenge pals. I'm working on drama / a balancing act / a t-shirt vendor. Pretty sure I'll be waking up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night over this 😰 #scriptsky
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
#WhateverWednesday Since I'm going on and on about my NYC Midnight advancement, how about a page from that script? Don't F*** With Sea Level Gays - A ragtag pack of queer icons topple the oligarchy and humiliate everyone's most loathed billionaire in the process!
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Feedback from my NYC Challenge: "an obvious skill for the use of what John Waters might call "camp". The script was brimming with genuinely hilarious moments, a relentless whirlwind of action-comedy sequences that also happens to be chock-full of satirical LGBTQIA+ esoterica" VICTORY 😂 #scriptsky
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
What's one line from a movie that changed your life? Shelby, girl... assert yourself!
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a woman is crying and holding her head while another woman holds her hand to her ear .
ALT: a woman is crying and holding her head while another woman holds her hand to her ear .
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Yo!!!! I made it to the second round of the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Screenwriting Challenge! Congrats to my pals in #NYCMidnightSWC for having the courage to take the plunge! Cheers to round two 🥳
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Great episode of Script Notes this week, in which Craig Mazin expresses his disdain for the changes to the Nicholl competition and releases the phrase "directorial wankery" into the wild. Will be co-opting. #scriptsky #filmsky open.spotify.com/episode/4Rcm...
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683 - Our Take on Long Takes
Scriptnotes Premium · Episode
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Today in #screenwriting envy: Hacks, S4 Ep 2, Deborah to Ava: Why aren't you wearing mascara? This isn't the fucking library. Thank god they're back! #scriptsky
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Avoiding White Lotus spoilers is my full time job right now
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Cheers to Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social for a great article in the @theatlantic.com and for my biggest laugh of the morning #scriptsky
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
During my cafe #screenwriting session this morning, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears was playing. Some nearby four-year-old said, "This is from Minions" = the quickest way to get a Gen X-er to flip his table over #scriptsky
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Severance, Season 2, John Turturro: "I wouldn't trust a word out of that motor bag's mouth. Not even televisually." Today's moment of screenwriting envy. #scriptsky
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
morning #scriptsky
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Severance, season one. Patricia Arquette: "If you want a hug, go to hell and find your mother." The moments that give you screenwriter envy. #scriptsky
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
wrote five pages today. felt like fifty. may die.
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
In today's #scriptsky edition of "Screenwriting Is Hard": screenwriting is hard!
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
For #FunPageFriday - a phone conversation featuring a song I found in an old journal that my five-year old made up. Little kids might be hard to cast, but damn they're great for dialogue. #scripstky
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
It's a quickie and Dayna's a gem. Fill 'er out, #scriptsky! (please 🙃)
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I'm currently at the stage of screenwriting where I am writing scenes in order to find out what happens next. #scriptsky
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
When the cat sitter sends you a pic to let you know the cat's fine and the cat's clearly letting you know you better get your ass home pronto (even though she adores her cat sitter ❤️) #caturday
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
How is it already #FunPageFriday again? Seems like a perfect time to meet Gwyneth Louise! #Scriptsky
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Obviously gotta get in on #WackyWednesday. This is from my dramedy set in 1994, ONLY OLYMPIA DUKAKIS HAD THE BALLS TO STAND UP FOR ME - we're at the wake for Bobby and Sarah's dad after he died during surgery for a brain tumor. What's wackier than that?
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Michael Buonocore @michaelbuonocore.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Five things you'll find in my #WIP 1) English muffin pizzas 2) kamikaze cocktails 3) Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Cybil Shepherd, Olympia Dukakis 4) brain tumors, AIDS, dementia, alcoholism, homophobia 5) a murderous toddler named Gwyneth Louise
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