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Nosotros Youth Program

September 20, 2018

What is the future of filmmaking? If the Nosotros Youth Program has any say in it, it will look more like inclusion.

18 Years of the Ghetto Film School

September 19, 2018

The legacy of the Ghetto Film School (GFS) is one that echoes: Inner-city youth graduate, become leaders and feed the rise of the next generation of artists like themselves.

Sundance Screenwriters Lab: Eva Vives, Writer-Director of 'All About Nina'

September 18, 2018

“It was an extraordinary year. The year of Sundance, I call it.”

All the Write Moves: 'Operation Finale'

September 17, 2018

Presenting the real-life story of how bold Mossad agents snuck into 1960 Argentina and captured fugitive Third Reich officer Adolf Eichmann, Operation Finale is a serviceable thriller with stylistic echoes of 2012’s Argo. Like that picture, Operation...

Write On: Women in Comics

September 11, 2018

Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith (‘Misfit City’ for BOOM! Studios), Shannon Watters (Senior Editor at BOOM! Studios and Co-writer of ‘Lumberjanes’) and Christina Weir (‘Bad Medicine’) discuss their respective writing careers, how they started writing graphic nov...

All the Write Moves: 'Crazy Rich Asians'

September 10, 2018

Adapted by screenwriters Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim from Kevin Kwan’s best-selling novel of the same name, endearing romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians sets a familiar princess storyline in a world that’s probably unfamiliar to most viewers: The re...

5 Things Writers Can Learn From 'Better Call Saul'

September 5, 2018

Unless you’ve been living under a rock these past few years, you’re probably aware that Better Call Saul is a spin-off series from the wildly successful AMC TV series Breaking Bad.

Netflix Picks Up Dennis Heaton's Monster Series 'The Order'

August 31, 2018

Netflix has an ongoing love affair with monsters -- especially the ones that dwell within us.

The Writer's Life: There's No One Way to Live It

August 29, 2018

In his biography-memoir hybrid, Room to Dream, filmmaker, artist and Final Draft user David Lynch talks about how, as a young man, he always wanted to live the “art life.”