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The 2021 Academy Nicholl Fellows have one thing in common: Their scripts are filled with emotion. The five winners of…
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Passing writer-director Rebecca Hall knew for a long time that she wanted to make her own film, and paid close…
John Ridley is brilliant at adaptations: for the 2014 Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave, he turned Solomon Northup’s…
French director Mia Hansen-Løve traveled twice to the Swedish island of Fårö as she made her film Bergman Island: once…
The seed for the horror film Lamb was planted when moviemaker Valdimir Jóhannsson and author-poet-screenwriter Sjón met up at a…
Mitch Lusas is the head of product at Coverfly, and uses his 17 years of experience in writing, tech, and…
You’ve been working on your first script for a year and a half. Maybe you got a lukewarm reception at…
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Casey Affleck, producer and co-star of The World to Come, has some thoughts on screenwriting that he jokes might land…
Casey Affleck, producer and co-star of The World to Come, has some thoughts on screenwriting that he jokes might land…
Mike Mosallam is the writer and director of Breaking Fast, a romantic comedy that follows Mo, a practicing Muslim reeling…
Michael Covino and Kyle Marvin wore many caps on their cycling-centric comedy The Climb. They co-wrote and star in the…
Here are screenwriting tips gleaned from Twilight Zone mastermind Rod Serling, first published as part of “First Draft,” a screenwriting…
Barry Jenkins was so unnerved by The Rental — the directorial debut from Dave Franco, about a seemingly perfect vacation…