Uzo Aduba as Virginia in the drama “MISS VIRGINIA,” a Vertical Entertainment release. Photo courtesy of Vertical Entertainment. by Carrie Harris (@carrharr) This week, I had the opportunity to take in an advance screening of Miss Virginia and sit down for a chat with director R.J. Daniel Hanna. Miss Virginia is based on the life... Continue Reading →
Read the official announcement at the Write/LA website. We are proud to announce the 2019 Write/LA semifinalists. These fifteen writers have all created memorable stories and fascinating characters. Narrowing this field down to the Top 8 in two weeks will be quite the challenge! As semifinalists, these writers will receive a free copy of Movie... Continue Reading →
With all the conversations going on around Joker this weekend, it seems like an apt time to revisit the version of the character acted by Heath Ledger and written by Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan, and David S. Goyer in The Dark Knight. N.T. Jordan has done an excellent job pulling together interview clips from the... Continue Reading →
The latest video from Michael Tucker's wonderful YouTube channel, Lessons from the Screenplay, delves into the always tricky topic of exposition. Exposition is information that you need to get across to the audience, but simply telling the audience a bunch of background info rarely goes well. So Michael takes a look at how the Wachowskis... Continue Reading →
by Ashley Scott Meyers On this week's episode, writer/director Timo Vuorensola talks about how he leveraged his 2012 success with the sci-fi epic, Iron Sky, into a sequel, Iron Sky: The Coming Race, which he crowdfunded, appealing mostly to the fans of the first film. And in today's interview, he goes into great depth about... Continue Reading →
Behind the Curtain has posted a new video essay on the writing of Fight Club, and it's pretty friggin amazing. In the video, author Chuck Palahniuk shares his real life inspiration for this story -- which is fascinating -- then screenwriter Jim Uhls and director David Fincher weigh in on how the story adapted to... Continue Reading →
I had the opportunity to speak to Mr. August about Highland as well as his own writing career.
In my experience, these are the screenwriting competitions and film/TV fellowships that are worth entering/applying to.
If you hadn't heard, I (Angela) co-run a screenwriting competition with the wonderful Tim Schildberger of LiveRead/LA. Our joint competition is Write/LA, an international feature and pilot screenplay competition created by writers, for writers. (The Write/LA Early Deadline is tomorrow - June 5! Check it out!) One of the things we do over at Write/LA... Continue Reading →
by Ashley Scott Meyers This week on the SYS Podcast I talk with writer/director Tony Germinario about his crime drama feature, The Price For Silence. We also talk through his writing process and how he was able to get the screenplay produced. You can listen to the audio portion of the podcast by clicking here... Continue Reading →
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