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Sins of the father run deep in Cannes critical darling 'A Chiara'
Fifteen-year-old Chiara watches with envy as her father Claudio dances with her older sister. Grecia is celebrating her eighteenth birthday in their family home, nestled right in the middle of the pristine village of Calabria. The guests enjoy wine a...
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All My Puny Sorrows' writer-director-producer discusses mental health
All My Puny Sorrows, a heart-wrenching drama written, produced, and directed by Michael McGowan, based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Miriam Toews, examines both the lightness and darkness that comes with depression.
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Conversations with Friends' writer-director distills the novel for TV
When it comes to adapting a novel to the screen, Conversations with Friends director and writer Lenny Abrahamson says, “I have to be fascinated by the characters. You can have an amazing and exciting story that’s a real pleasure to read but unless I ...
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Why use screenwriting software?
For nearly a century the image of a writer hunched over a typewriter has been an indelible one. From William Holden using a traditional typewriter in Sunset Boulevard to Nicolas Cage typing away on his electric one in Adaptation, this visual has beco...
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The Craft of: Voice
Voice is such an elusive and ephemeral thing, yet it can identify a writer as definitively as a fingerprint. When I hear the (literal) voice of someone familiar, even in a crowded room or in the first seconds of dialogue on screen, I often know who i...
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Three-Act Structure: The foundation of screenwriting
Most screenplays utilize the classic Hollywood three-act structure. At its core, the three acts represent a beginning, a middle, and an end. Some people attribute the origins of this structure to the Greek philosopher Aristotle. In his earliest survi...
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Write On with 'Night Sky's' Daniel C. Connolly and Holden Miller
Photos courtesy of Strategy PR Starring Academy Award® winners J.K. Simmons and Sissy Spacek, Amazon Prime's Night Sky follows married couple Franklin (Simmons) and Irene York (Spacek), who discover a portal in their backyard that leads to a deserted...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’
Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios Unlike any other movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has mind-bending, reality-testing plots and twists, but it also takes on a different, more horror-like style. That’s...
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History of TV: True Blood
Photo courtesy of Hulu There’s something about vampires. From Blade: The Series to Buffy, The Vampire Diaries to What We Do In the Shadows, and even more over the decades, vampire shows are a television staple. And then there is the Golden Globe® and...
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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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