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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: ‘Beckett’ runs in political thriller
Beckett and April are American tourists enjoying a romantic vacation in Greece when a tragic car accident turns this relatively tame trip into a Hitchcockian nightmare. Alone, Beckett must navigate the unfamiliar territory as he tries to make it to t...
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Write On with Big Break Winner Stacie Gancayco-Adlao
Stacie Gancayco-Adlao was a Grand Prize Winner in the 2020 Big Break Screenwriting Contest for her feature film script Clementine. Big Break Contest Director Kala Guess talks to Stacie about what it was like winning the contest, how Stacie's network ...
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Viral' Screenwriter and Big Break finalist Joe McClean on breaking in and the long game
Screenwriting is one of countless tasks that fall under the "it’s a marathon, not a sprint," analogy. (We all learn the meaning of that analogy through the parable of the tortoise and the hare; the best telling being the Bugs Bunny version, obviously...
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History of TV: The deeply, depressively funny world of 'BoJack Horseman'
Netflix’s original animated series BoJack Horseman is a little more dramedy than sitcom, while cleverly incorporating the show-within-a-show that the titular character, Mr. Horseman, once starred in during his heyday. Yes, I pun occasionally. As does...
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Siân Heder's 'CODA': Writing and directing a film with deaf actors from a hearing person's perspective
CODA (also the acronym for Child of Deaf Adults) written and directed by Siân Heder follows Ruby (Emilia Jones), the only hearing person in her deaf family. A beautiful coming-of-age film with all the familiar genre beats, CODA takes the viewer on a ...
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Christopher J. O’Bryant on trading script reads and Twitter handles
Debt collector by day, screenwriter and professional writers champion by night, Christopher J. O’Bryant is a 2019 Academy Nicholl Fellowship quarterfinalist and 2020 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards finalist. But just add those prestigious cre...
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Uncovering 'Under the Volcano' with documentary filmmakers Cody Greenwood and Gracie Otto
Under the Volcano tells the story of legendary AIR Studios on Montserrat. Built by famed Beatles producer Sir George Martin, this state-of-the-art recording studio was located on a secluded and beautiful Caribbean island with a dormant but looming vo...
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Write On with ‘Beckett’ Writer Kevin A. Rice and Director Ferdinando Cito Filomarino
Following a tragic car accident in Greece, Beckett, an American tourist, finds himself at the center of a dangerous political conspiracy and on the run for his life in this Netflix thriller.
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Director Andreas Koefoed hunts for the story behind 'The Lost Leonardo'
Was the painting bought at a shady New Orleans auction house for a little over a thousand dollars really a Leonardo da Vinci? Known as the Salvator Mundi, this 2005 auction house purchase became the most expensive painting ever sold when, in 2018, it...
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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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