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How the 'Shaun of the Dead' Script Directs Your Eye

4 years ago by Jo Light

Jo Light

Watch a Professional Screenwriter Try to Crack A Scene in 7 Minutes

4 years ago by Jason Hellerman

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Emily Carmichael

Jason Hellerman

10 TV Writing Fellowships To Launch Your Television Career

4 years ago by Morgan Dameron

Morgan Dameron

Here's How to Shoot and Edit Different Kinds of Dialogue Scenes

4 years ago by Jo Light

Jo Light

'True Detective' Production Designer Ryan Warren Smith on the Power of Nostalgia

4 years ago by Max Winter

Max Winter

Pioneering 'Boyz n the Hood' Director John Singleton Has Died

4 years ago by Jo Light

Jo Light

Learn How 'GoT' Put the Most Epic Battle Ever Onto Screens

4 years ago by Jason Hellerman

Jason Hellerman

'High Life': How Claire Denis and Robert Pattison Fought for Their 'Solaris,' '2001'-Inspired Sci-Fi

4 years ago by Emily Buder

Emily Buder

Guillermo Del Toro on Writing, Directing and the Essence of Being

4 years ago by Dylan Kai Dempsey

Dylan Kai Dempsey

What We Can Learn from John Carpenter's Failed 'Ghosts of Mars'

4 years ago by Jo Light

Jo Light

Our Favorite Lessons on Screenwriting from 'Breaking Bad'

4 years ago by Jason Hellerman

Screenwriting Lessons

Jason Hellerman

Seth Rogen Explains the Difference Between Story and Plot

4 years ago by Jason Hellerman

Jason Hellerman

How a Specific 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' Scene Encapsulates Marvel's Heart

4 years ago by Jason Hellerman

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Jason Hellerman

Why Silent Films Still Matter to Us (Watch Our Favorites)

4 years ago by Jason Hellerman

Jason Hellerman

Is an Audio Drama a Viable Narrative Medium? Ask William Gibson's 'Alien 3'

4 years ago by Jo Light

Jo Light

Inciting Incidents: Create Dynamic Conflict in Your Screenplays and TV Pilots

4 years ago by Jason Hellerman

Jason Hellerman

Go Behind the Scenes of 'Game of Thrones' S8E2

4 years ago by Jason Hellerman

Jason Hellerman

10 Tony Gilroy Quotes to Encourage Your Screenwriting

4 years ago by Jason Hellerman

Jason Hellerman

The Director of 'Hereditary' Wants to Read Your Horror Script

4 years ago by V Renée

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Horror Screenplay Contest

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V Renée

Fail Your Way Forward: How Average Joes Make It in Hollywood

4 years ago by Jason Hellerman

Jason Hellerman

Script Rewrite Strategies and Tools (Even a Page One or Polish)

4 years ago by Jason Hellerman

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Jason Hellerman

Be a Maester: 10 Writing Lessons from 'Game of Thrones'

4 years ago by Jason Hellerman

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Screenwriting Lessons

David Benioff

DB Wiess

George RR Martin

Jason Hellerman

Try the Screenwriting Workout Used by the Writers of 'A Quiet Place'

4 years ago by Jason Hellerman

Jason Hellerman

The "3-Minute Rule" and The Neuroscience Behind Screenwriting

4 years ago by Jo Light

Jo Light

Writers Will Now Sue Their Agents for Breach of Duty

4 years ago by Jason Hellerman

Jason Hellerman

How to Write a Logline for your Screenplay (Free Template)

4 years ago by Jason Hellerman

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Jason Hellerman

10 Lessons 'The Office' Can Teach Us about Screenwriting

4 years ago by V Renée

V Renée

How to Describe Your Character's Emotions (Free Download)

4 years ago by Jason Hellerman

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Jason Hellerman

Patton Oswalt Offers Optimism for Unknown Creators

4 years ago by Jason Hellerman

Jason Hellerman

Good Eats: What Food Choice Says About Movie Characters

4 years ago by Jason Hellerman

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Food

Jason Hellerman

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How to start?

6 years ago by Joey Rice

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Max Landis: How This Screenwriter is Disrupting Hollywood

6 years ago by Alex Ferrari

Alex Ferrari

Director / Producer

392

Is the opening of True Detective the best ten minutes of TV ever?

6 years ago by Ted Wilkes

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Shore Scripts Announce 2016 Semi Finalists

6 years ago by Justine Owens

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Justine Owens

Director of Contests

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Any recommendations for story outlining tools?

6 years ago by Susan Wright

Susan Wright

Producer

Quentin Tarantino’s Unreleased Feature Film: My Best Friend’s Birthday

6 years ago by Alex Ferrari

Quentin Tarantino

My Best Friend’s Birthday

filmmaking

Alex Ferrari

Director / Producer

392

Short Film

6 years ago by Yuvraj Soi

documentry

Yuvraj Soi

Filmmaker

148

May I get your opinions on this Cinema Camera Deal?

6 years ago by Jackson Flowers

Jackson Flowers

Director of Photography/ Director/ Actor

253

How do you assign monetary value to a screenplay?

6 years ago by Josh Egel

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Josh Egel 157

Shore Scripts Announce 2016 Quarter Finalists

6 years ago by Justine Owens

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Justine Owens

Director of Contests

802

Screenplays ,How to get it across

6 years ago by Melvin Alex

Melvin Alex

Writer

Why are First Ten Pages of BREAKING BAD'S Screenplay so Important?

6 years ago by Ted Wilkes

Ted Wilkes 59

Screenplays: FREE Download 2017 Oscar Contenders + Over 60 More Film Scripts

6 years ago by Alex Ferrari

Alex Ferrari

Director / Producer

392

Will a BlackMagic Cinema Camera get the job done?

6 years ago by Jackson Flowers

Jackson Flowers

Director of Photography/ Director/ Actor

253

Narrowing down on a Cinema Camera, NFS can you help steer me in a right direction?

6 years ago by Jackson Flowers

Jackson Flowers

Director of Photography/ Director/ Actor

253

Started my carreer in filmmaking, what now?

6 years ago by Alejandro Badillo

Alejandro Badillo

Music Producer, Actor, Screenwriter

135

Best websites to get screenwriting jobs?

6 years ago by D. Robards

D. Robards 181

Required team of highly enthusiastic indie filmmakers from around the world for an upcoming project.

6 years ago by Vinit Kadu

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Vinit Kadu

Editor, Colorist , VFx , Motion Graphics and Graphics

I've got a script. What now...?

6 years ago by Nick Friend

Nick Friend

Cinematographer and YouTuber

104

John Milius: The Craziest Writer/Director in Hollywood?

6 years ago by Alex Ferrari

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Alex Ferrari

Director / Producer

392

How do you check a screenwriter's credentials if his experience has been ghostwriting?

6 years ago by C Zimmermann

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A huge list of questions from a budding film maker (numbered and categorized)

6 years ago by Arjun.P

Arjun.P

Founder of The Parikkara Foundation and Photographer

232

Ideas for production company name?

6 years ago by borkes

production company name

borkes

Director / Writer

140

5 Ways to Use Momentum to Make Your Second Indie Film

6 years ago by Alex Ferrari

screenwriting software

Alex Ferrari

Director / Producer

392

Monthly Film Fund HORROR SPECIAL

6 years ago by Monthly Film Fund

Short Film Funding

Monthly Film Fund

Short Film Funding Organisation

How to Get Yourself or Your Film Listed on IMDB

6 years ago by Alex Ferrari

Alex Ferrari

Director / Producer

392

How to Write a Screenplay That Really Sells

6 years ago by Alex Ferrari

how to become a screenwriter

Alex Ferrari

Director / Producer

392

The Monthly Film Fund

6 years ago by Monthly Film Fund

Funding For Short Films

Monthly Film Fund

Short Film Funding Organisation

MacGuffin: What are they?

6 years ago by Nazia Nusrat Adnin

Nazia Nusrat Adnin

Director /Writer

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A film movement that shook the world: Japanese New Wave

6 years ago by Nazia Nusrat Adnin

Nazia Nusrat Adnin

Director /Writer

316