Screenwriting
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How to Sell Your First Script Without Really Trying: Telling Chappaquiddick‘s True Story Got My First Movie Made
Chappaquiddick tells the story of a tragedy—the life of a promising young woman that was lost too soon when the car she... -
Recipe For Disaster: Five Ways to Alchemize a Book Into a Workable Script From the Co-Writers of The Disaster Artist
We grew up loving movies. We also love reading books. In fact, many times while reading said books, we wondered what the movie version... -
First Draft: 10 Screenplay Structures To Flesh Out Your Formless Story
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Screenplay structure has nothing to do with... -
First Draft: 11 Anti-Heroes, and Ways to Develop Them In Your Screenplay
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. How do writers craft protagonists that are... -
First Draft: Read the 2018 Oscar Nominees for Best Original and Adapted Screenplay
Are you aching to read and learn from the 2018 Oscar-nominated scripts? Look no further because we have them all here, along...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...2