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11 Writing Quotes You Should Take Notice Of (Part 2)

This entry is part 2 of 2 in a series on Writing Quotes.6) A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order. ~ Jean-Luc GodardNon-linear storytelling is a difficult technique to pull off and it varies greatly. From Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol which starts at an event and the rolls f...
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Which Screenplay Should You Write Next? (Part 2)

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series What To Write:Based On Something Else3 Body Problem was based on an award-winning book series by Chinese sci-fi writer Cixin Liu. It took the science fiction market by storm and had a lot of people scrambling for the TV rights.Netflix won the most recent rights battle and released a succes...
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Reckless Creatives Podcast - Season 4 | Episode 7 - Sci-Fi Screenwrite...

  • Pipeline Artists
  • .November 19, 2024
Sadie and Jeanne sit down with Screenwriter and Career Coach Jenna Avery for some writer therapy, including tips for productivity, pitching, and giving yourself grace. Sadie and Jeanne sit down with Screenwriter and Career Coach Jenna Avery for some writer therapy, including tips for productivity, pitching, and giving yourself g...
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12 Hilariously Provocative 1950s Movie Posters

  • Tim Molloy
  • .November 10, 2024
These Roger Corman 1950s movie posters are a testament to his storytelling and marketing genius.But FirstRoger Corman, above right, in Silence of the Lambs, in which he played FBI Director Hayden Burke. The film was directed by Jonathan Demme, one of many young directors Corman helped launch. Orion. - Credit: C/OWe love Roger Co...
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ISA TOP 25 SCREENWRITERS TO WATCH Interview With Adam Karlson

Each year, The International Screenwriters’ Association compiles a list of the 25 screenwriters to watch. This year, Film Inquiry is here to guide you through the incredible list of gifted individuals! Our next writer is Adam Karlson. Film Inquiry spoke with Adam about his writing process, the details of his script Choke, tips f...
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‘Yana-Wara’ Director on Violence, Nature and Spirits Both Good and Evil

  • Missy Schwartz
  • .November 20, 2024
In November 2021, just one week into filming “Yana-Wara” in the Peruvian Andes, tragedy struck. The film’s director, Óscar Catacora, died due to health complications. But his uncle Tito Catacora, who was a producer on the film and had collaborated with his nephew on two previous movies — including “Wiñaypacha,” Peru’s Oscar entr...
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ISA Staff Picks: November 2024

These screenplays and their writers were selected by ISA staff members as standouts in their genres and formats for the month of November 2024. They are being submitted to agents, managers, producers and production companies actively looking for writers to rep or projects to produce.  ETERNAL PURSUIT by Benjamin Font (Feature)Lo...
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Writing Morally Gray Characters, Part 1

When you speak of gray in life, you’re normally talking about a mainly colorless tapestry. But morally gray characters, those considered not good nor bad, neither heroes not villains, are some of the more complex characters you can write. Even more interesting, is a psychological phenomenon that allows our audiences to embrace a...
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10 Recent Horror Movies That Weren’t Afraid To Push Their Boundaries

  • Staff Writer
  • . October 24, 2024
Horror films have been a staple of our screens since the inception of film, especially during Halloween month. It seems of late that these films have become more bold and daring in mashing up and contorting the traditional genre of scares to create a new entertainment experience.1) Alien: Romulus (2024)The Alien franchise is bui...
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ISA Celebrated Writers Fall 2024

  • November 05, 2024
With are thrilled to announce our inaugural list of ISA Celebrated Writers!These writers' projects have been evaluated by multiple ISA readers, advancing through several rounds in the Writing Gig consideration process. Their loglines stood out from the crowd, catching the eyes of our team. After being heavily considered for our ...
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What Is Contextual Writing? (Part 2)

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Context:Information DumpsMany times the issues I see in my students’ work are a result of lack of experience obviously. They don’t trust their writing or their audience, or have the skills needed to push out content when it’s needed to be heard by an audience. Consequently, they have info ...
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What Is Contextual Writing? (Part 1)

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Context:Context is a small word with massive implications. Almost nothing we write, script, novel, or article, is without context. Life itself is all about context – necessary information for it to be meaningful.If I say the score of a game was 5 – 2 and a ‘blowout,’ I’d have to provide co...
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9 Components Of The Perfect Logline (Part 2)

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Logline:4) Triggering EventIn the logline, a triggering event describes the change in circumstances that creates the conflict to be resolved in the climax. Some call it the inciting incident or inciting event, others call it a catalyst. Whether a specific event, or the final straw in a seq...
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9 Components Of The Perfect Logline (Part 1)

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Logline:Many aspiring writers battle with loglines. Quite a few working writers struggle, too. Afterall, it’s a different skill from writing a script. The good news is crafting a logline becomes much easier when the writer knows what to include and, more importantly, what to leave on the c...
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Finding the Happy Medium in the Mockumentary Workplace Comedy with ‘St. Denis Medical’ Co-Creator and Showrunn...

  • Sadie Dean
  • . November 13, 2024
Eric Ledgin talks about his love for the workplace comedy mockumentary format, emphasizing the importance of making it feel real and authentic, developing complex and flawed characters, putting together his dream team writers’ room, and shares his guiding writing principles. A mockumentary about an underfunded, understaffed Oreg...
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UNDERSTANDING SCREENWRITING: Four, Count’em Four, Movies With Flawed Endings. And a Good Book.

  • Tom Stempel
  • . November 12, 2024
The new movies with their slack hind-ins are 'His Three Daughters,' 'The Critic,' 'Lee,' and 'My Old Ass'. The book is 'Pandora’s Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV'. One That Goes Slightly Off the Rails at the End.His Three Daughters (2023. Written by Azazel Jacobs. 101 minutes) [L-R] Natasha Lyonne as Rachel, Elizabeth...
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Script Review – 'Anora'

  • Tim Schildberger
  • . November 11, 2024
'Anora' – winner of this year’s Palm d’Or at Cannes (the festival’s top prize) has a script that isn’t as good as it could’ve been. [L-R] Mark Eydelshteyn as Ivan and Mikey Madison as Ani in Anora (2024).  Courtesy of NeonAnora – winner of this year’s Palm d’Or at Cannes (the festival’s top prize) has a script that isn’t as good...
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SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep 528 - From the Army to Writer/Director of a Musical With Ryan Smith

  • Ashley Scott Meyers
  • . November 11, 2024
Host Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Ryan Smith about learning visual effects, the structure of writing a musical, and more. In this episode, our host Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Ryan Smith. Our guest Ryan Smith is the Writer/Director of a new Zombie musical titled Eldritch USA.He talks about how he knew he...
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American Film Festival’s US in Progress Winners Include Under the Lights and Bunnylovr

  • Margeaux Sippell
  • . November 11, 2024
The American Film Festival has announced the nine winners of the US in Progress Wroc?aw industry program, and they include Under the Lights and Bunnylovr.The 14th edition of the program took place from Nov. 7-9 during the 15th American Film Festival. Each of the winning films, which are all works in progress, were eligible for p...
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11 Actors Who Quit When They Were on Top

  • MM Writers
  • . November 11, 2024
These actors who quit while they were on top followed the old showbiz rule: Leave 'em wanting more.Grace KellyParamount Pictures - Credit: C/OGrace Kelly is the classic example of a Hollywood star who quit when she was on top. After starring in 10 films, including Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 To Catch a Thief with Cary Grant (above),...
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The Atomic Rocketeer Tells the Story of the German Rocket Scientist Who Helped America Get to the Moon

  • Margeaux Sippell
  • . November 11, 2024
The Atomic Rocketeer, a new feature documentary directed by Larry L. Sheffield and Trent J DiGiulio, tells the story of Wernher Von Braun, a German rocket scientist who was brought to America along with his team of rocketeers by the U.S. Army right after the fall of Germany in 1945. Von Braun is credited with helping NASA develo...
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12 Movies Beloved by Baby Boomers

  • Margeaux Sippell
  • . November 11, 2024
If you're a Baby Boomer (born between 1946 and 1964) let us know what you think of this nostalgic list of classic movies.The Big Chill (1983)Tom Berenger, Jeff Goldblum, Kevin Kline, and William Hurt in The Big Chill (1983) - Credit: C/ODirector: Lawrence KasdanWriters: Lawrence Kasdan, Barbara BenedekCast: Tom Berenger, Glenn C...
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FILM INQUIRY

Glasgow Film Festival 2024: THE G

There seems no end to the vulturous nature of late-stage capitalism. Just when it seems every crevice of society has been mined for content, a fresh new subject crops up waiting to be explored. In this wintery cold noir from Karl R. Hearne, the subject is elder care facilities and the way they’re used to exploit the elderly and ...
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SKIN DEEP: A Body Swap Romance Exploring The Modern “Self”

Skin Deep opens as a disoriented man totters through a bedroom. There’s a catatonic figure lying in the bed nearby as light streams through the window. His befuddlement is ours as well. It sets a perturbing mood against the Gregorian undertones of the music. There’s something strikingly beautiful in another subsequent image: a y...
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Scream Dreams Podcast Interview

In the world of horror podcasts, some can be a nightmare. Or, in the case of Scream Dreams, AMP’s podcast, the horrors are actual nightmares, as the podcast dives into them in a compelling and unique fashion. With a myriad of guests from within the horror genre, co-hosts Catherine Corcoran and James A Janisse interview and get i...
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TAYLOR SWIFT: THE ERAS TOUR: A Lightning In A Bottle Cultural Phenomenon

In her ongoing quest for world domination, Taylor Swift made a quick detour at the gates of cinema last year with her uniquely marketed concert film. Being released in tandem with her ongoing Eras Tour, which the film documents, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour was a box office juggernaut that defied expectations. And while the film ...
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THE WRAP

‘The Masked Singer’ Reveals a Former Nickelodeon Star: And Ice King Is…

  • Andi Ortiz
  • . November 20, 2024
It was “Miley Cyrus Night” on The Masked Singer this week, and ironically, one contestant got slimed. No, not literally. We just mean that it was a former Nickelodeon star that got sent home. The night saw the remaining Group C singers compete to move forward, beginning the night with a group performance of “Party In The USA.” F...
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THE WRAP

How ‘Interior Chinatown’ Creator Tackled the Book’s Show-Within-a-Show Premise

  • Loree Seitz
  • . November 20, 2024
Charles Yu, the author of “Interior Chinatown” and showrunner of its Hulu TV adaptation, admitted he didn’t think his 2020 novel could be adapted to screen when he was first approached with the idea.“Honestly, I did not really think that it would be adaptable, which is probably something I shouldn’t admit,” Yu told TheWrap. “But...

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