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Director Lenny Abrahamson on 'Little Stranger'

October 11, 2018

From the outside, The Little Stranger is a British gothic film born of themes of death, memory and the supernatural. From the inside, it’s an exercise in team work.

Write On with Writer/Director/Producer Aya Tanimura

October 10, 2018

Aya Tanimura shares how she got her start as a storyteller, her first break directing music videos for Katy Perry, and how writing for the music business differs from writing for films.

Tech Crunch: Final Draft Screenwriting Goes to 11

October 9, 2018

by John Biggs | Tech Crunch Of all the fascinating apps to be found out in the wild I’m especially enamored of Final Draft . It’s an app dedicated to writing and developing screenplays and it has stood the test of time, going through 11 iterations to...

Write On with Jenni Gold, Creator of ‘CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion’

October 2, 2018

We recently chatted with writer/producer/director Jenni Gold about her love of storytelling, when she first realized people with disabilities were not fairly represented and how she hopes her latest film CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion will inspir...

Sublime Primetime 2018: Writing Advice from Emmy-Nominated Writers

September 28, 2018

Photo credit: Michael Lynn Jones Several of this year’s Emmy®-nominated writers gathered on September 12 for Sublime Primetime; an annual panel hosted by the Writers Guild of America, West, the Writers Guild Foundation and Variety. Moderator Lisa Joy...

Writer-Director Timothee Hochet on Selling Horror Series 'Calls' to Apple

September 26, 2018

For French filmmaker Timothée Hochet, what people do not see — and the versions of hell we store in our heads — is more scary than anything we will ever watch on television.

Write On with Raamla Mohamed

September 25, 2018

Raamla Mohamed shares details about her early career as a USC film student, becoming a Disney/ABC TV Writing program fellow, and how that opened the doors for her at Shondaland. Raamla recently secured an overall deal with ABC and is working on a new...

Nosotros Youth Program

September 20, 2018

What is the future of filmmaking? If the Nosotros Youth Program has any say in it, it will look more like inclusion.

18 Years of the Ghetto Film School

September 19, 2018

The legacy of the Ghetto Film School (GFS) is one that echoes: Inner-city youth graduate, become leaders and feed the rise of the next generation of artists like themselves.