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How screenwriter Noga Landau took her contained sci-fi, "Tau" from film school to Netflix

August 15, 2018

Have you heard the film school fairy tale of a woman who wrote a script for a screenwriting class; attracted top agents overnight, secured Gary Oldman as the voice of her robot, and distributed the film worldwide as a Netflix original?

All the Write Moves: Sorry to Bother You

August 13, 2018

In many ways continuing and deepening the cultural conversation sparked by last year’s Get Out, the current social satire Sorry to Bother You offers another brazen sci-fi/horror spin on contemporary American race relations, laced — as was Get Out — w...

An L.A. Minute Director on Cinema’s Love/Hate Relationship with the City of Angels

August 8, 2018

As one of the most storied and dynamic cities in America, Los Angeles is often the backdrop for cinematic fodder. From the comical L.A. Story to the (ahem, almost) 2017 Oscar® best picture winner La La Land, cinema has long drawn upon the multidimens...

Final Draft Insider View With Comedian-Screenwriter Jim Jefferies

August 8, 2018

Comedian-screenwriter-actor Jim Jefferies bares all about his writing process, getting a series on the air, and killing off characters - even disabled ones.

All the Write Moves: Yellowstone

July 30, 2018

Exploring the myriad problems facing a contemporary Montana rancher and his adult children, the Paramount Network series Yellowstone doesn’t lack for dramatic content.

Write On with Two-Time Austin Film Fest Screenwriting Competition Winner Troy Anthony Miller

July 26, 2018

Being the only writer to hold the coveted distinction of being a two-time Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition winner, Troy Anthony Miller attributes his affinity for screenwriting to the life-long lessons he picked up through traveling abr...

Sundance Screenwriters Intensive Alumni: A-Ian Holt and Tani Ikeda

July 26, 2018

This spring, writing team A-Ian Holt and Tani Ikeda were among 12 screenwriters chosen as fellows for the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Intensive.

How “Hot Summer Nights” Screenwriter Elijah Bynum Got To Direct His First Feature Film

July 25, 2018

To an outsider, the road to transforming Hot Summer Nights the script into Hot Summer Nights the film might look like the Hollywood dream.

All the Write Moves: Glow

July 24, 2018

Throughout its lively first season, the Netflix half-hour dramedy GLOW blended serious themes with silly spectacle by transforming a real life oddity from the 1980s — the sports-entertainment franchise “Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling” (GLOW for short) ...