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Write On with ‘Dexter: New Blood’ Showrunner Clyde Phillips
Dexter is back! Showtime’s beloved serial killer returns in a new limited series, and original showrunner Clyde Phillips wants to right some of the wrongs of the controversial season finale. "It's no secret that the final season was a great disappoin...
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Rising Through the Ranks: Filmmaker Vivian Kerr on transitioning from actor to writer-director
The day we spoke, Vivian Kerr had three pitch meetings lined up after our interview for her pilot script Five Points thanks to the Women’s Weekend Film Challenge Accelerator Program.
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Kevin Can F**k Himself' creator Valerie Armstrong: A lesson in showing up for yourself
Valerie Armstrong is the creator of and showrunner for Kevin Can F**k Himself, AMC’s newly released dark comedy about a sitcom housewife who wakes up and realizes what she wants in life: to kill her husband.
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How Bassam Tariq upholds honesty and authenticity in ‘Mogul Mowgli’
Zed (Riz Ahmed) slips into the bathroom and sits on the toilet while his thumbs frantically run over his phone screen. His mindset is in his career as a rapper. He can see his dreams slowly coming true, one performance at a time...
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‘Boiling Point:’ How Philip Barantini turned 12 years of restaurant experience into a feature film
Come take a look behind the scenes of one of the hottest restaurants in London on one of the busiest days of the year. Boiling Point takes the perspective of the staff and puts their personal and professional problems on display. If that’s not entici...
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History of TV: 'One Tree Hill' doesn't want to be anything other than what it is
And that is teenage drama at its best. I was halfway through university when One Tree Hill premiered on The WB back in 2003. A romantic teen drama? Not too far off from where I was in life and I, too, hailed from a small town where you either fell in...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: AFI Fest shorts embrace apocalyptic feel
AFI Fest (back in person) wrapped up last Sunday with Halle Berry’s directorial debut Bruised. The movie tackles a disgraced MMA fighter returning to the ring and Berry was quoted as saying the flick is the biggest challenge of her career. The fest a...
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Robert Weide has come 'Unstuck in Time': The filmmaker discusses his new Kurt Vonnegut documentary
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time is a documentary that was decades in the making: thirty-nine years, to be exact. Or as filmmaker Robert Weide (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth) would put it: “Two-thirds of my life.”
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Infinity Fest 2021: From Concept to Distribution: How Immersive Content Is Changing the Entertainment Industry
With the rapid acceleration of technology, what does the future of entertainment look like? In a way, content creators have asked themselves this same question for a century, from the introduction of sound and color in film to the advent of computer-...
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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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