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Infinity Fest 2021: From Concept to Distribution: How Immersive Content Is Changing the Entertainment Industry

With the rapid acceleration of technology, what does the future of entertainment look like? In a way, content creators have asked themselves this same question for a century, from the introduction of sound and color in film to the advent of computer-...

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New on Twitter: What the heck is a Screen Pit?

ScreenPit might sound like the kind of place where movie watchers lie around in a sunken giant foam pit and watch a show all bunched in together in the dark — and as awesome as that sounds — ScreenPit is something else entirely.

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Final Draft and Script Pipeline Present: Battle of the Loglines

In Final Draft's first interactive event, speakers Grace Moss (VP Equity & Inclusion, WarnerMedia), Ali Schouten (Showrunner, iCarly), and Jordan Rubio (Director of Development, 3Pas) break down the importance of your script's logline, share tips...

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Final Draft Presents the 16th Annual Final Draft Awards

LOS ANGELES, March 2, 2021 -- Final Draft, a Cast & Crew Company, now in its 30th year as the industry standard for screenwriting software, held the 16th Annual Final Draft Awards this evening to honor outstanding and elevated achievement in stor...

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A Conversation with Hispanic / Latinx Screenwriters

Lee Jessup moderates this panel that includes screenwriters Moisés Zamora (co-showrunner, 'Selena: The Series'), Lucy Luna (writer, 'All Rise'), Pamela García Rooney (writer, 'Selena: The Series'), Claudia Forestieri (executive story editor & co-...

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15th Annual Final Draft® Awards

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2nd - Final Draft, a Cast & Crew Company, now in its 29th year as the industry standard for screenwriting software, today announced the honorees for the 15th Annual Final Draft Awards. Academy Award® winning screenwriter Quentin...

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Three Screenwriting Lessons from Mike Judge and Etan Cohen

The Groundbreakers Screening Series, presented by the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW), shows films that made cultural impacts with themes that were progressive for their time.

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Final Draft, Jen Grisanti, and Scriptwriters Network Partner for a Fun-Filled Friday Night Social!

On Friday, September 1, 2017, Final Draft is co-sponsoring a special Friday Night Social event with the Scriptwriters Network Foundation Inc. and Jen Grisanti Consultancy. The Palomar Hotel’s Double Take Restaurant and Lounge will be the gracious hos...

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The Final Draft/New York Film Academy Fellowship

What happens after you win a screenwriting contest? For far too many writers, not a whole lot. Winners and finalists of the Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest have a very good track record for success, but the company wanted to do more to em...

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