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Write On with Kevin O'Brien

February 5, 2019

Writer-director Kevin O'Brien discusses his transition from Creative Director to filmmaker, raising money through crowdfunding, and submitting his debut feature 'At the End of the Day' to film festivals. Information about the film can be found HERE.

The Sunlit Night Screenwriter on the Challenges of Book-to-Screen Adaptation

February 2, 2019

Rebecca Dinerstein, author of The Sunlit Night, never expected her novel to get published. She never envisioned the book would be made into a movie, and she certainly never thought she would be the one to write the adapted screenplay. “Every phase of...

All the Write Moves: Green Book

January 28, 2019

In critical circles, certain words have toxic connotations. “Conventional.” “Old-fashioned.” “Sentimental.” There are good reasons why these words have gained dubious reputations; the history of cinema is full of condescending movies that subject aud...

Screenwriter Michael Werwie On the Decade It Took To Get His Ted Bundy Biopic Made

January 22, 2019

Michael Werwie never intended to write a script about Ted Bundy. As he recalls, he was busy writing another screenplay when he decided to procrastinate by picking up a book about the famed American serial killer. Werwie couldn’t put it down. He began...

Austin Film Festival Wrap Up 2018: The Panelists

December 13, 2018

We’ve heard writers and filmmakers rave about attending Austin Film Festival and its jam-packed screenwriter conference in What I Did at AFF 2018. One of the core attractions is that AFF features some of the biggest writer superheroes in the business...

What I Did at Austin Film Festival 2018

December 6, 2018

Specificity is what makes story universal.

What I Did At Austin Film Festival 2017

October 10, 2018

I could pontificate about the panels, the superstars, the midnight discussions; new friends I made, old friends I missed. The utter lack of sleep, compounded by the overabundance of liquor.

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...

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.