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Locked In' with writer-director Carlos Gutierrez
Mena Suvari stars as Maggie, a single mom of a teenage daughter who has taken one wrong turn after another, leading her to live hand-to-mouth in a rundown motel, working at a self-storage facility. Living in fear and desperate for money, Maggie makes...
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Write On with 'Feral State' Writer-Director Jon Carlo
Feral State is the story of a misfit gang of runaways and orphans who are taken in by a dark and charismatic father figure and together wreak havoc throughout swamps and trailer parks in central Florida. Writer-Director Jon Carlo talks to Write On ab...
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Childhood-friends-turned-filmmakers David Charbonier and Justin Powell on their film 'The Djinn'
This week I had the pleasure of interviewing the writing-directing team of the upcoming supernatural horror, The Djinn. Set in present-day, The Djinn follows a non-verbal boy trapped in his apartment with a sinister demon after making an innocent wis...
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Thinking up 'The Unthinkable'
The Unthinkable can be described as an existential disaster film. It tells the story of a troubled pianist in Sweden who must return to his childhood village as the country is under attack by a nebulous foreign threat. These attacks extend to the vil...
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John Berardo on his student film becoming the feature horror 'Initiation'
John Berardo grew up in Oklahoma knowing he wanted to get into filmmaking. So he packed his bags for California and got a Theatre Directing BA from UCLA, before heading to USC for a Cinema Production MFA.
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Kelly Oxford discusses writing and directing her first film, 'Pink Skies Ahead'
Sometimes having a project go from text to film is a matter of having the right script at the right time.
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The Water Man' creates unique mythology with heart
Director David Oyelowo and screenwriter Emma Needell bring '80s-feeling nostalgia and childhood mythology to screen in the crowd-pleasing and family friendly, The Water Man. The film is a feel-good movie with enough twists and turns to keep kids and ...
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Exploring strange new worlds with writer-actor Dustin Milligan
When you chat with a genuinely nice human who happens to be very obviously passionate about writing — your own chosen profession— and listens to Star Trek: The Next Generation on a regular basis (and if you’re not sure why that’s the best show ever, ...
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The Outside Story' is more than another break-up movie
At first glance, The Outside Story feels like a break-up movie. Charles (played by empathetic Brian Tyree Henry) works as an editor, cutting together in memoriam videos for people who aren’t dead yet. He is feeling sad not just because of the job, bu...
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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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