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Write On with Jenni Gold, Creator of ‘CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion’
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...
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Write On with Raamla Mohamed
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...
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Write On: Women in Comics
Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith (‘Misfit City’ for BOOM! Studios), Shannon Watters (Senior Editor at BOOM! Studios and Co-writer of ‘Lumberjanes’) and Christina Weir (‘Bad Medicine’) discuss their respective writing careers, how they started writing graphic nov...
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Write On with 'Support the Girls' Writer-Director Andrew Bujalski
Writer-director Andrew Bujalski discusses learning guerrilla filmmaking at Harvard, making his first film Funny, Ha Ha and the tricky tone of his latest film Support the Girls which takes place in a sexist sports bar.
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Write On with 'Skate Kitchen' Writer-Director Crystal Moselle
Writer-director Crystal Moselle recently chatted with us about her new film Skate Kitchen, how she develops characters before story, and her advice for new writers.
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Write On with 'Brothers' Series Creators Emmett Jack Lundberg and Sheyam Ghieth
Emmett Jack Lundberg (writer/director) and Sheyam Ghieth (producer) share how they each got their start in the film industry, the benefits of employing Seed & Spark for fundraising and streaming their content, and their advice for getting your ow...
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Write On with Two-Time Austin Film Fest Screenwriting Competition Winner Troy Anthony Miller
Being the only writer to hold the coveted distinction of being a two-time Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition winner, Troy Anthony Miller attributes his affinity for screenwriting to the life-long lessons he picked up through traveling abr...
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Write On with Virtual Reality Storyteller Evette Vargas
Recently named by The New York Times as an "Artist to Watch," Evette Vargas is an award-winning, cross-platform storyteller who is at the vanguard of the digital and virtual reality landscape.
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Write On with Theo Taplitz
“It seems to me that there are so many ways to tell a story that it doesn’t necessarily need to be just through writing. It can be through acting; I’m writing my own music right now; there’s a lot of different facets of storytelling which interest me...
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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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