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7 Screenwriting Exercises That Actually Make You a Better Storyteller

1 week ago by Jason Hellerman

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Why Do AI-Created Fake Film Trailers Scare Us So Much?

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The 'Contact' Movie Explained: What Does the Ending Mean?

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How To Create an Animated Short in Unreal Engine

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This Film Was Written and Directed by AI—Here’s the How and What You Can Learn

6 months ago by James DeRuvo

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Explore 100+ Public Domain Fairy Tales for Crafting Your Screenplay

2 months ago by Jason Hellerman

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Check Out Our Creative Screenwriting Exercises, Character, and Dialogue Prompts

2 years ago by Jason Hellerman

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'Interstellar' Explained: Movie Plot, Timeline, Ending, Themes, and Meaning

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How This Indie Filmmaker’s Horror Short ‘Hunger’ Grabbed the Attention of Marvel Studios

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Should Your Movie Come With a Trigger Warning?

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How to Intercut Scenes In Your Script

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Learn How To Analyze Movies With This Cheat Sheet

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How to Format Your Screenplay Title Page

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Read and Download 'The Last of Us' Episode 3 Script

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100 Inventive Screenwriting Prompts To Inspire You During the Writers' Strike

3 weeks ago by Jason Hellerman

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How the Unconventional Editing Process of 'In Flames' Got it Slated at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight

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How To Write a Single-Location Film From a Tribeca Filmmaker

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You Can Use Sudowrite to Write Your Next Screenplay Using AI

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How Did COVID-19 Help Wes Anderson Create ‘Asteroid City’?

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8 Great Sources of FREE Public Domain Footage for Your Documentary!

8 years ago by Oakley Anderson-Moore

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50+ Camera Angles, Shots, and Movements: A Complete Guide

4 years ago by Jason Hellerman

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These 12 Character Archetypes Are Key Ingredients in All Great Stories

4 years ago by Jason Hellerman

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What a Film and TV Executive Must Do if They Don’t Want To Be Replaced by AI

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First-Time Horror Writer/Director Brings Indie Creature Feature to Life–Here's How

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Why We’ll Be Babysitting AI To Avoid a Cliché Hellhole

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Why You Need to Create a Proof of Concept for Your Feature Film

2 days ago by Guest Author

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In Hollywood, Anything is Possible!

3 days ago by Guest Author

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Why Taika Waititi's Comments on 'Casablanca' Matter

3 days ago by Jason Hellerman

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All the Ways a Filmmaker Can Break Into Hollywood

6 days ago by Jason Hellerman

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An Accidental First Feature—Walé Oyéjidé’s on His Stunning ‘Bravo, Burkina!’

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Call for entries open for Figari Film Fest 2017!

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Eights of the script... How?

6 years ago by Thomas Bunink

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Where can I buy an experienced & well versed screen writer?

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Feedback on a high school film project?

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Chance to have your script read in front of Fox's "Empire" Writer/Producer Malcolm Spellman!

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How to Sell Your Idea to Television with Agent Matthew Doyle

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