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Moving Your Mindset From Aspiring To Professional Screenwriter

  • Staff Writer
  • . January 20, 2025
And so it goes… What you think, you become. Dream and become it. These might seem like an endless stream of feel good memes on your social media feed, but they do serve a useful purpose, especially if you seek a career in a business as fickle, unpredictable, and unstable as screenwriting.The first thing aspiring screenwriters mu...
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Creative Screenwriting
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16 Screenwriting Competitions That Screenwriters Should Consider Entering

The first question screenwriters of all experience levels should ask themselves is their ultimate goal for entering a screenwriting competition. A win is the start of a long process, so buckle in for the long haul.Your reasons for entering could be as simple as working to a submission deadline to finish your script or it could b...
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Sundance Film Festival 2025 – Interview with ‘Touch Me’ Filmmaker Addi...

  • Sadie Dean
  • .January 27, 2025
Writer-director Addison Heimann shares how the concept of the story came to him from a personal place and a recent friendship breakup, how Japanese pink films were an important key player to the style and tone of the film, his creative collaboration with his cinematographer and production designer, and so much more. After a seri...
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A Sacrifice, a Scarf and a Courageous Action Figure Highligh...

  • Lauren Muniz
  • .January 21, 2025
A Viet Cong medic's sacrifice, a grandmother's scarf and a boy's reliance on an action figure are among the subjects of the films spotlighted by NewFilmmakers Los Angeles's InFocus: Veteran Cinema program. The October event's programming also a collection of October Shorts as well as the Los Angeles premiere of director Jean Shi...
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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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Nathan Lane Says Billy Crystal and Robert Redford Were Also Floated for ‘The Birdc...

  • Sharon Knolle
  • .January 28, 2025
“The Birdcage” could have starred Billy Crystal or Robert Redford, Nathan Lane revealed on Tuesday’s episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s “Dinner’s On Me” podcast.Lane, who played Albert Goldman in the 1996 comedy with Robin Williams as his husband, Armand Goldman, shared the story about director Mike Nichols.“I would run into Mike...
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ISA Staff Picks: January 2025

These screenplays and their writers were selected by ISA staff members as standouts in their genres and formats for the month of January, 2025. They are being submitted to agents, managers, producers and production companies actively looking for writers to rep or projects to produce.  Staff Picks: ELIZABETH KLEIN HAS NO FRIENDS ...
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ISA ARTICLES

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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ISA ARTICLES

Which Screenplay Should You Write Next? (Part 1)

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series What To Write.Perhaps the most important decision any writer makes is what to write. There’s a lot to consider including the market, trends, your strengths, etc. When I started my career I had in mind to create good sci-fi material. It was what I read and loved and I couldn’t think of anyt...
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ISA ARTICLES

Why Do We Procrastinate?

I had that moment of “gasp” last night because I’ll just be honest with you…I forgot to post my weekly Almanac! I then realized why I did such a thing…and it actually doesn’t have anything to do with the topic of today’s Substack. It actually had everything to do with basic mental and emotional health…but for good reason! I just...
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CS MAGAZINE

Which Screenplay Should You Write Next? (Part 1)

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series What To Write:Perhaps the most important decision any writer makes is what to write. There’s a lot to consider including the market, trends, your strengths, etc. When I started my career I had in mind to create good sci-fi material. It was what I read and loved and I couldn’t think of anyt...
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CS MAGAZINE

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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CS MAGAZINE

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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SCRIPT MAGAZINE

Write What You Know

  • Tim Schildberger
  • . January 22, 2025
‘Write what you know’ is too often interpreted as ‘write about something that happened to you.’ But that’s wrong. It is NOT a license to write a movie about a personal experience in a literal sense. Here's some advice on how to unravel this common misunderstanding.CanvaWe’ve all heard the advice ‘Write what you know’. It’s simpl...
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Selling Your Screenplay Premium Collection

  • The Writers Store
  • . January 21, 2025
Congratulations, you did it! You wrote a screenplay. You've poured your heart and soul into it, did rewrite after rewrite, and it is ready! But now what? Congratulations, you did it! You wrote a screenplay. You've poured your heart and soul into it, did rewrite after rewrite, and it is ready! But now what? How do you get it into...
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Creatives from Nat Geo's 'Sally', A24's 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You', Bleecker Street's 'The Wedding Banquet' ...

  • Script Magazine
  • . January 21, 2025
The House is announcing a day full of community, filmmaker conversations, and networking. The first-ever “Behind the Camera House” will launch in Park City during this year’s 2025 Sundance Film Festival, inviting industry professionals, creatives, and media to engage in a day of community building through meaningful conversation...
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SCRIPT MAGAZINE

Writer-Director Mike Leigh Talks about His New Indie Gem, 'Hard Truths'

  • Andrew Bloomenthal
  • . January 16, 2025
Seven-time Academy-award nominee Mike Leigh, known for coaxing hyper-realistic performances from his actors through months-long collaborative rehearsal processes, spoke to Script Magazine about bringing emotional truth to 'Hard Truths'. In Hard Truths, we may never know for sure why Pansy, the film’s belligerent protagonist, has...
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MOVIEMAKER

The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker in 2025

  • Tim Molloy
  • . January 22, 2025
First things first: The Los Angeles fires had no impact on this, our latest annual list of the Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker. Los Angeles, like New York City, has been in our Best Places Hall of Fame for five years, because those two cities are so obviously the world's entertainment capitals that there's no need t...
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7 Weird Things About the Batman and Robin Relationship That No One Likes to Talk About

  • Tim Molloy
  • . January 22, 2025
Batman and Robin have a very weird and probably illegal relationship. Let's discuss it.But first: There's a big joke, going back decades, that Batman and Robin are gay. This wonderful article is not about that. This is about things in the Batman and Robin relationship that everyone takes for granted, but are actually exceptional...
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13 Sequels That Took Forever to Finally Come Out

  • Tim Molloy
  • . January 23, 2025
These 13 sequels came out a decade — or five — after the originals.We aren't including straight-to-video cash-ins or films promoted as sequels that don't involve any of the original creative team from the first movie. So we are not including, for example, 2012's Easy Rider 2: The Ride Home, which didn't bring back the cast or pr...
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MOVIEMAKER

A Succession Showdown Between Kieran Culkin and Jeremy Strong in Oscar Best Supporting Actor Category

  • Tim Molloy
  • . January 23, 2025
The Best Supporting Actor category at the 97th annual Academy Awards features a duel between two former Succession co-stars: Jeremy Strong for his role in The Apprentice, and Kieran Culkin for his role in A Real Pain.The pair played two brothers — and potential successors to a media empire — in the HBO series that wrapped in 202...
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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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FILM INQUIRY

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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FILM INQUIRY

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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FILM INQUIRY

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

What Time Does ‘Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’ Drop on Disney+?

  • Haleigh Foutch
  • . January 28, 2025
Marvel is back with an all-new Spider-Man story with the animated series “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.” Originally conceived as a prequel to Tom Holland’s debut as the web-slinger in “Captain America: Civil War,” the series was rejiggered as an original story that imagines what might happen to Peter Parker if he was me...
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THE WRAP

Sony’s Hiroki Totoki Elevated to CEO as Kenichiro Yoshida Steps Down After 7 Years

  • Jeremy Fuster
  • . January 28, 2025
Sony President Hiroki Totoki has been named the new CEO of the Japanese tech conglomerate, taking over from chairman Kenichiro Yoshida as part of a leadership shuffle. Totoki, who previously served as COO and CFO at Sony, has been at the company for 38 years and will begin his duties as CEO on April 1. Yoshida, who served as Son...

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