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Big Break Top 3 Finalist Joe Taylor: How Performing Standup Comedy Helps My Writing

June 28, 2016

About ten years ago I wrote my first screenplay with my roommates. It wasn’t great, but I was hooked and wanted to get better. I took classes, read books and did everything I could think of to learn the craft of screenwriting. I also started writing ...

Big Break Finalist Joseph Greenberg Tells His Tale From Draft to Sale: PART II

June 7, 2016

In Part I of this interview series, New Jersey screenwriter Joseph Greenberg spoke to Final Draft about craft and writing his spec script, Man Alive, which sold to 20th Century Fox for an impressive six figures. Today, in this second installment of h...

Big Break Finalist Joseph Greenberg Tells His Tale From Draft to Sale Part I

June 4, 2016

NFL media specialist Joseph Greenberg has always been an aspiring screenwriter on the side. But given how Twentieth Century Fox just dropped six-figures on his spec script Man Alive, things are changing for the 39 year-old New Jersey native.

Circle of Confusion Manager Daniela Garcia-Brcek

May 30, 2016

Final Draft spoke with Circle of Confusion manager Daniela Garcia-Brcek.

"Making it" Means Making Magic

April 21, 2016

I don't know why you got into the business of writing, of grasping at words to explain the images in your brain, and editing within an inch of your life. For most, it's a kind of call, a transcendent purpose. Otherwise, who would chose to subject the...

Pursuing Your Passion and Paying the Rent

April 16, 2016

It’s a well-known struggle: finding a way to pursue your dreams while still managing to pay the rent. Writer Andrew Lee, winner of the Big Break Half-Hour Comedy category for his Brooklyn Nine-Nine spec, knows this tension too. Though he always wante...

Big Break TV Winner Eric Buchman's Tips on Contest Entry

April 1, 2016

Meet Eric Buchman. By day, he’s the Script Coordinator for the hit NBC show Blindspot. By night, Buchman writes his own spec scripts, and dreams of one day hiring his own Script Coordinator to run a show he has created. Now that Buchman is the TV Gra...

Big Break Comedy Writer Adi Blotman Lays It Out

March 31, 2016

Adi Blotman, whose script, Realty Check, won the Final Draft Big Break Comedy/Romantic Comedy category, gets real about writing flawed characters and combining genres.

Big Break Finalist Christina Eliopolous, writer "King of Florida"

December 28, 2015

Christina Eliopolous is no stranger to the industry. After graduating from NYU, she’s worked as a copywriter, and written and directed a number of films, including some of her own, and some for a number of nonprofit organizations. “I actually learned...