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Final Draft Insider View with Dan Goor

December 30, 2015

Comedy television writer Dan Goor joins us for this informative and entertaining episode. Dan has written for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Office, and Parks and Recreation all before he became the cocreator of t...

Insurgent' Screenwriter Brian Duffield talks writing for the hit franchise

December 30, 2015

A native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Brian Duffield burst onto the screenwriting scene with his rom com spec 'Your Bridesmaid Is A Bitch', a Black List script that launched his career. Brian talks moving to Los Angeles after college, struggling to m...

"Chi-Raq"’s Co-Writer Kevin Willmott on Reimagining the Ancient Greek Play Lysistrata

December 4, 2015

Chi-Raq, written by Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee, may be one of the most powerful films of the decade. Though a story about a group of women going on a sex strike until their gang-banger men stop killing each other feels fresh and topical, this satir...

Final Draft Insider View with Filmmaker Andrew Jenks

November 30, 2015

Andrew Jenks, award-winning twenty-something American filmmaker, explains how to find the story in documentaries, and how the story often leads you to discover material you were never expecting. From the realities of nursing homes to a young man figh...

Phyllis Nagy's 18-Year Journey to Making Her New Film "Carol"

November 18, 2015

Despite having a successful career as a playwright, Phyllis Nagy is best known for her 2005 film Mrs. Harris, starring Annette Benning and Ben Kingsley. She’s now adapted Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel The Price of Salt into the new film Carol, dire...

Emma Donoghue on Adapting Her Novel "Room" Into a Feature Film

October 13, 2015

If you haven’t read the international best-selling novel, Room, by Emma Donoghue, it tells the story of Jack, a five-year-old boy who lives in captivity with his mother in an underground shed until they manage to escape. In the film, Jack and Ma are ...

Hiding Plot Points

September 15, 2015

Billy Wilder was nominated for the Best Screenplay Oscar® eight times and won the award three times. He was a top screenwriter in his native home of Germany until he fled to the United States after the Nazi’s came to power ... and ended up sleeping o...

How I Broke In: Randall Wallace

September 11, 2015

Today we have the great pleasure of talking with Randall Wallace, a man who needs no introduction (but we’re going to anyway, because it’s our job). Randall is a director, producer, screenwriter, songwriter and novelist. His films include (but are no...

Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig’s New Collaboration, "Mistress America"

August 12, 2015

Mistress America is a delightfully fun film that celebrates friendship between two women – something rarely seen on the big screen these days. We sat down with writers Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig to hear more about their second screenplay collabor...