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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: ‘Clickbait’ is Netflix’s bingeable thriller
Clickbait has a huge hook: When a man is kidnapped in an East Bay town his kidnapping video goes viral. His captors make him hold up signs stating he abuses women and if the video reaches 5 million views, he will be killed. Adrien Grenier plays Nick ...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: ‘Amaraica’ shows truth of undocumented life
Amaraica is the combination of two words: Amara and America. It’s no coincidence then that the film titled Amaraica puts the pregnancy and birth of a little girl named Amara at the core of the narrative. Amaraica focuses on a single story within the ...
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Write On with ‘Y: The Last Man’ Showrunner Eliza Clark
Eliza talks to Write On about how she approached adapting a 20-year-old comic book series for FX: “I really wanted to update the way we talk about gender and the diversity of gender in this landscape… it's a more nuanced look at the diversity of the ...
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Dating & New York' is a sweet take on modern love
Jonah Feingold’s debut feature is a sweet, millennial take on the classic romantic comedy. While it doesn’t break new ground, it’s well executed, has a standout cast, and clearly Feingold has much potential in the genre. The premise feels very of the...
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Filmmaker David Gutnik on his award-winning debut film 'Materna'
"At the risk of sounding like a Hallmark card or some platitude, the breakthrough for me as a writer was being as personal as I possibly could be," says filmmaker David Gutnik. "Working from that place, not censoring, and being as truthful and honest...
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History of TV: The far from elementary 'Sherlock'
Some characters grab a hold of the collective psyche to be reincarnated over and over again. First created in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes originally appeared in four novels, 56 short stories, and overall, a ...
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‘The Alpinist’ documents a climber’s passion for ascending impossible terrain
Who is this elusive Marc-André Leclerc?
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: 'The Chair' embraces difficult conversations and that's what makes it great
The Chair is the most binge-worthy show in recent memory. I sat down and watched it all in one sitting, in large part thanks to Sandra Oh’s Ji-Yoon Kim, the first woman of color to become chair of the English department at a fictional, but clearly st...
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Worth’ examines the economic cost of a human life in the wake of tragedy
What is the economic cost of a human life? Worth, the latest film by director Sara Colangelo, is the true story of a Washington D.C. attorney who must answer that question when he's tasked with creating the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.
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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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