“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…
Before we discuss how to develop story beats in a screenplay, let's start with a cold realization: On the surface, directing…
Ashley Miller got his start as a screenwriter on the TV series Andromeda and as a co-writer on Agent Cody…
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. What if you could learn…
Math is generally reliable, but in the world of moviemaking, not so much. “Five takes” usually means 15 to 20.…
Q: A producer recently approached me with a finished pilot script and asked me to write the rest of the…
Asghar Farhadi’s newest film The Salesman recently won prizes at Cannes for both Farhadi’s screenplay and for Shahab Hosseini’s lead performance. The…
In partnership with the blog ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. New articles, first…
In partnership with the blog ScreenCraft, we’re publishing “First Draft,” a series on everything to do with screenwriting. I’ll be…
In partnership with the blog ScreenCraft, we’re publishing “First Draft,” a fortnightly series on everything to do with screenwriting. New…
Steven Peros is an award-winning writer and filmmaker with credits in Film, Television, and Theatre. Ten years of research into a mysterious…
The weekend before Thanksgiving our sister organization, The MovieMaker Institute, traveled to New York City to put on what we billed as…