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A Massive List of Winter 2021 Grants All Filmmakers Should Know About

3 months ago by Oakley Anderson-Moore

Oakley Anderson-Moore

Jason Hellerman

How to Pitch a TV Show to Any Network or Streamer (Free Checklist)

2 years ago by Jason Hellerman

Jason Hellerman

20 Dynamic Ways to Come up with Amazing Movie Ideas

2 years ago by Jason Hellerman

Jason Hellerman

How to Write Great Character Descriptions (with Examples)

2 years ago by Jason Hellerman

character

screenwriting

Jason Hellerman

Learn to Write a TV Show Bible With Our Show Bible Template

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Jason Hellerman

3 Things You Can Learn From the 2019 Emmy-Nominated Scripts

2 years ago by Jason Hellerman

Jason Hellerman

Masterclass: How to Make a TV Show from Start to Finish

2 years ago by V Renée

television

masterclass

Video Essay

V Renée

What's a One-Pager (and Why Do Producers Want It?)

11 months ago by Jason Hellerman

Jason Hellerman

How ‘[REC]’ Teaches You to Do Found Footage Right

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Alyssa Miller

8 Great Filmmaking Lessons from 'A League of Their Own'

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Jason Hellerman

How Is TCM Tackling Problematic Films? By Showing and Talking About Them

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Jason Hellerman

Meet the 2021 Sundance Institute Screenwriters Intensive Fellows

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2021 Sundance Institute...

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Jo Light

What Is Situational Irony in Film and TV? (Definition and Examples)

3 days ago by Jason Hellerman

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situational irony

storytelling

Jason Hellerman

Listen to Tarantino's Thoughts on a Masterful Sequence in 'Joker'

4 days ago by Jason Hellerman

Jason Hellerman

What Do Producers Want? We Ask One

4 days ago by George Edelman

podcast

the no film school podcast

no film school podcast

podcasts

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Shivani Rawat

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5 Steps to Murder Your First Draft

5 days ago by Jason Hellerman

Jason Hellerman

What Does 'High-Concept Idea' Mean?

6 days ago by Jason Hellerman

Jason Hellerman

How to Balance Multiple Filmmaking Projects All at Once

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Jason Hellerman

How the Framing Narrative of 'Judas and the Black Messiah' Shapes the Movie

1 week ago by Jason Hellerman

Judas and the Black Messiah

Jason Hellerman

All the Things We Learned from the 2021 Writers' Roundtable

2 weeks ago by Jason Hellerman

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writer roundtable

Writing tips

Jason Hellerman

13 Filmmakers Share the Advice You Need to Direct an Indie Feature

2 weeks ago by Oakley Anderson-Moore

Sundance Film Festival

Oakley Anderson-Moore

8 Great Filmmaking Lessons from 'Hustlers'

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Jason Hellerman

Check Out a Free TV Writing Master Class with the 'Succession' Creators

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Jason Hellerman

What Are the 10+ Best Villain Monologues? And How to Write an Evil One!

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Jason Hellerman

50 Years Later, White House Tapes Reveal Richard Nixon Hated 'All in the Family'

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Jason Hellerman

What's Behind the Success of 'Ted Lasso'?

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Jason Hellerman

How Ajitpal Singh Went from Lonely ‘Terrorist’ to 44-Year-Old First-Time Filmmaker

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Ajitpal Singh

Fire in the Mountains

Sundance 2021

Sundance Film Festival

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Oakley Anderson-Moore

8 Great Filmmaking Lessons from 'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'

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Jason Hellerman

This Guy Almost Scored the Film Rights to the Gamestop Madness

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How do I stir up interest in my film?

6 years ago by Avery Maycock

Avery Maycock

Writer, Director

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Seeking critique on first narrative short film

5 years ago by Vi Bui

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Can My Reel Be a Short?

4 years ago by Zachary Lewis

Zachary Lewis

Cinematographer

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2 Practical Exercises You Every Screenwriter Should Do Every Week

5 years ago by Alex Ferrari

Alex Ferrari

Director / Producer

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My review of Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar"

6 years ago by Andrei-Cristian Murgescu

Andrei-Cristian Murgescu

Freelance Motion Graphics Designer / Director

Inside the Spec Script Market with Agent David Boxerbaum

4 years ago by Alex Ferrari

Alex Ferrari

Director / Producer

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Calling Directors - THE SHINY LIVESTREAM

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Controversy & Young Directors | Nudity, Drugs and Bad Life Decisions

2 years ago by Edward Zorab

Gaspar Noe

Lars von Trier

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Edward Zorab

Director

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FB Live Q&A with the makers of Moonlight, La La Land, Arrival, & more

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Screen Forward Conversations

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UCB

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Screen Forward Conversations

John Matson

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Festival DISCOUNT

2 years ago by Aman Sharma

Aman Sharma

Film Producer & Entrepreneur

New Life - Short Film Shot On The Varicam LT

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Ben Meredith

Cinematographer/Filmmaker

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Our 2019 Feature & TV Pilot Contests Are Now Open!

2 years ago by Justine Owens

Justine Owens

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Why i Left Art for Film-making

6 years ago by ivi topp

ivi topp

Director / Writer

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Thesis Film for BFA in Digital Film and Video

6 years ago by Bryan Tosh

Bryan Tosh

Director of Photography

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What films create a world that the audience can expand?

3 years ago by Gui Fradin

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storytelling

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2021 Feature Screenplay & TV Pilot Contest

4 days ago by Justine Owens

Justine Owens

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Don’t Miss the Early Deadline | 2021 Short Film Fund Spring Season

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Justine Owens

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Questions for screenwriters!

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Fiction Podcast Contest | Final Deadline JAN 21ST.

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Oliver Stone: Directing, Screenwriting and Surviving the Vicious Hollywood Game

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Chasing the Light

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Director / Producer

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2020 Short Film Fund Winners | Fall Season

3 months ago by Justine Owens

Justine Owens

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2020 Feature & TV-Pilot Winners!

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Justine Owens

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What Exactly Is High Concept?

3 months ago by Douglas Shaner

Douglas Shaner

Writer, Co-Founder - Hollywood Gatekeepers

2020 Short Film Fund 2 Finalists Announced!

3 months ago by Justine Owens

Justine Owens

Business Manager

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2020 Feature & TV-Pilot Finalists!

3 months ago by Justine Owens

Justine Owens

Business Manager

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How do make an anthology film?

4 months ago by Tony Byrd

Tony Byrd

Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Editor, Composer

Short Film Fund | Final Deadline – OCT 31ST.

4 months ago by Justine Owens

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Justine Owens

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Check out the QUARTER FINALISTS of our 2020 Feature & TV Pilot contests now!

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Justine Owens

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What is the most complex character arc hidden in the otherwise passable film?

5 months ago by Volodymyr Bilyk

Val Kilmer

screenwriting

character arcs

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