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What Finding Nemo Can Teach Us About Screenwriting (and Change)

Haley Bartels is a Los Angeles-based screenwriter and a 2021 Academy Nicholl Fellow. Her first feature, an independent indie horror…

1 year ago
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15 Submission-Worthy Screenwriting Competitions of 2022, Presented by FilmFreeway

“With every competition, you’re rolling the dice,” says Haley Bartels, whose can’t-put-it-down screenplay Pumping Black, about blood doping in the…

2 years ago
  • The Rundown

Baldwin Claims Exoneration; Ansari Film Halted; How to Win a Nicholl Fellowship

Alec Baldwin's lawyer says he's been exonerated in the Rust shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins; Aziz Ansari's directorial film…

2 years ago
  • The Rundown

RIP Dean Stockwell; Foo Fighters Movie; How to Format Texts in a Screenplay

Blue Velvet and Quantum Leap actor Dean Stockwell has died; Dave Grohl's Foo Fighters are making a movie set in a haunted…

2 years ago
  • 2021 Screenwriting Competitions

15 Submission-Worthy Screenwriting Competitions of 2021, Presented by Coverfly

In Hollywood, there is an old saying that you’re only as good as your last movie — but what if…

3 years ago
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15 Submission-Worthy Screenwriting Competitions of 2020, Presented by FilmFreeway

Evan Daugherty has adapted Snow White, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tomb Raider, and He-Man for the big screen, but he…

4 years ago