Before we get to our list of the 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2024, can we share…
The Austin Film Festival has announced the 2023 audience, jury, and screenplay award winners. Highlights include Sunlight written by Ailbhe…
Welcome, Violeta!, written by Fernando Fraiha & Inés Bortagaray, won the Narrative Feature Jury Award at the Austin Film Festival,…
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“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…
Moviemaker Kevin T. Morales, whose ‘90s high school comedy Generation Wrecks is coming soon, tweeted something recently that we strongly…
Rejection. If you want to be a screenwriter, you better get used to it. But the best way to avoid…
In his must-read tome Adventures in the Screen Trade, the late, great author William Goldman states: “Writing is finally about…
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Film festivals require a strategy. It's accepted as gospel among independents that a feature film is the result of dogged…
Tony Gilroy is one of the busiest and most successful screenwriters and directors working today. His first produced screenplay was…
Screenwriters are the first to step forward when called upon to deliver their often thankless, solitary labor, and they still tend…
Stamping the MovieMaker seal of approval on each destination in our annual guide to the 50 Film Festivals Worth the…
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Many new screenwriters think about getting an agent as soon as—or even before—they've finished their first scripts. For most people,…
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Last year, we debuted the 25 Screenwriters to Watch list in partnership with Austin Film Festival, selecting 25 up-and-comers with,…
Maybe the idea of “watching a screenwriter” sounds a little like watching a kettle boil: Sit at desk. Clutch pen…
Are film festivals getting better? That is, are they providing you—independent moviemakers—more of the things you want and need? I…
The four-day Writer's Conference at the Austin Film Festival, held every October since 1993, is for many the social, networking,…
Throughout history, most writers have worked alone, whether scratching away with quills in garrets or tapping on laptops at Starbucks.…
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2016: now plotted out on this interactive map! So you've read about…