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Professional Script Reader Kelly Boruff discusses the do's and don't of Screenwriting

December 3, 2015

The 10th Annual Final Draft Awards

December 3, 2015

Final Draft Insider View with Filmmaker Andrew Jenks

November 30, 2015

Andrew Jenks, award-winning twenty-something American filmmaker, explains how to find the story in documentaries, and how the story often leads you to discover material you were never expecting. From the realities of nursing homes to a young man figh...

Phyllis Nagy's 18-Year Journey to Making Her New Film "Carol"

November 18, 2015

Despite having a successful career as a playwright, Phyllis Nagy is best known for her 2005 film Mrs. Harris, starring Annette Benning and Ben Kingsley. She’s now adapted Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel The Price of Salt into the new film Carol, dire...

Selling the Big Pitch with Ice Cube

October 19, 2015

Humbug writers Todd R Jones and Earl Richey Jones discuss pitching, persistence and the people who ask: “So what have you worked on that we can see?”

Emma Donoghue on Adapting Her Novel "Room" Into a Feature Film

October 13, 2015

If you haven’t read the international best-selling novel, Room, by Emma Donoghue, it tells the story of Jack, a five-year-old boy who lives in captivity with his mother in an underground shed until they manage to escape. In the film, Jack and Ma are ...

Hiding Plot Points

September 15, 2015

Billy Wilder was nominated for the Best Screenplay Oscar® eight times and won the award three times. He was a top screenwriter in his native home of Germany until he fled to the United States after the Nazi’s came to power ... and ended up sleeping o...

Our Big Break Was Exactly That...

September 13, 2015

Let me start by saying that I was late writing this blog. Not because it isn’t important to me, because it very much is, and I have so many great things to say about my experience with the Big Break Screenwriting Contest. Instead, I was late because,...

How I Broke In: Randall Wallace

September 11, 2015

Today we have the great pleasure of talking with Randall Wallace, a man who needs no introduction (but we’re going to anyway, because it’s our job). Randall is a director, producer, screenwriter, songwriter and novelist. His films include (but are no...