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The Fast Five: New Media Landscapes Offer New Storytelling Venues
The Fast Five: New Media Landscapes Offer New Storytelling Venues
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Taking Screenwriting Contests and Fellowships in Stride
When you enter a screenwriting contest, you’ll have high hopes of being discovered and lauded for your work, with visions of development meetings and possibilities of “breaking in” or finally getting noticed as a screenwriter and becoming one of thos...
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The Bricks of Breaking in: Tips on Breaking in From Emmy-Nominated Writers
Photo credit: Michaell Lynn Jones Just like there are so many directions you can take a story, there are also many different paths to take when breaking in as a writer. The one common theme, whatever road you go, is that developing a career as a tele...
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Rising Through the Ranks: Rachel Taff
"At the end of the day, there is no straight path."
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All The Write Moves: The Terror: Infamy
Juxtaposing one of the darkest chapters in American history with traditional Japanese mythology, AMC’s limited series The Terror: Infamy offers a fresh take on small screen horror. Evocative, mysterious and unnerving, the show features customary elem...
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The Weekend Movie Takeaway: TIFF Leads the Way For Film Receptions
The weekend’s box office take was very encouraging for the state of cinematic storytelling, especially stories aimed at grown-ups—a demographic it's sometimes easy to imagine the major studios forget even exist.
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The Fast Five: 'Joker' Tracking for Another Mega October Opening Weekend
While the streaming wars may continue to heat up, some of the most interesting news this week was over on the film side of the industry, with one new release tracking to a potentially record breaking opening and one industry changing app calling it a...
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Hope Across Time, Space and Violence: Jacob Estes on 'Don't Let Go'
Don’t Let Go, a new thriller from the producers of Get Out, centers around a series of phone calls a man receives from his niece following her death. In a context that bends space and time, the film explores our ability to change the future. Though l...
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Vida' Writers Weigh In On What It’s Like To Be Part Of the Groundbreaking Show
In Hollywood, among writers’ rooms that have looked the same for generations, is a first-of-its-kind room full of purpose and identity. The Starz drama Vida about two Mexican-American siblings from East Los Angeles is in production on its third seaso...
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What’s new in Final Draft 13?
WRITING GOALS &
PRODUCTIVITY STATS
Set goals and get valuable insights to take your work to the next level
TYPEWRITER
A new typewriter-like view option improves your focus
EMOJI
Craft more realistic onscreen text exchanges and make your notes more emotive
And so much more, thoughtfully designed to help unleash your creativity.
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