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Should I Give Up on My Script?

Jenna Avery
.January 16, 2025

Writing coach and Called to Write founder Jenna Avery responds to a reader about whether to give up on a script.Welcome to “Ask the Coach.” As a writing coach, I answer questions from writers about making the work of writing happen, tackling craft, business, and personal questions along the way. (Have a question you’d like answe...

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 ...

Interview with 'A Complete Unknown' Editors Andrew Buckland and Scott Morris

Susan Kouguell
.January 15, 2025

Andrew Buckland and Scott Morris delved into their close collaboration with each other and director James Mangold, discussing the challenges of editing live performances, integrating archival footage and sound, and creating the narrative and musical rhythms of the film.It was a pleasure to speak with Academy Award®-winning film ...

Meet Beulah Marie Dix: Award-Winning Scholar and Anti-War Novelist Turned Screenwriter

Dr. Rosanne Welch
.January 15, 2025

Dr. Rosanne Welch celebrates the female screenwriters who came before us with this month's spotlight on novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Beulah Marie Dix.Last month you read about Beatrice DeMille who after her own successful writing career became a writer’s agent. Today we’re introducing you to one of her early clients: p...

Interview with 'The Brutalist' Filmmakers Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold

Susan Kouguell
.January 14, 2025

Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold talk about their award-winning film 'The Brutalist', including their writing collaboration, the sacrifices and support within creative partnerships, their personal connections to architecture, and the challenges of funding films.Fresh off their win for Best Picture Drama at the Golden Globes, I spo...

Emotionally Truthful on the Page: An Interview with ‘Unstoppable’ Screenwriter John Hindman

Sadie Dean
.January 14, 2025

Screenwriter John Hindman talks about his approach to tackling this true story adaptation, why ‘What is it about?’ was crucially important to staying on the straight and narrow path of the story, to his personal connection and bond with Anthony Robles, and so much more.Unstoppable is the inspiring true story of Anthony Robles wh...

Interview with 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig' Award-Winning Writer and Director Mohammad Rasoulof

Susan Kouguell
.January 13, 2025

In this wide-ranging discussion, Mohammad Rasoulof reflects on his many years of dealing with censorship and the intelligence services, his imprisonments, his challenges in balancing the story for Iranian and non-Iranian audiences, and the time and safety constraints making the film clandestinely.I first saw The Seed of the Sacr...

SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep. 530 - I Shot 2 Movies On My Phone With Jamie Grefe

Ashley Scott Meyers
.January 13, 2025

Indie filmmaker Jamie Grefe talks about how he recently wrote and produced four movies and how two of them were shot on his phone in only one day, and how Roger Corman would inspire this horror movie genre with titles such as 'The Slumber Party Massacre'. In this episode of the podcast our host Ashley Scott Meyers talks with ind...

Creative on Her Own Terms: How 'The Last Showgirl' Screenwriter Kate Gersten Finds Discipline Through Dance

Valerie Kalfrin
.January 10, 2025

Kate Gersten shares how inspiration for 'The Last Showgirl' struck more than a decade ago and how the film explores what qualifies as art. The Last Showgirl (2025) Courtesy of Roadside AttractionsBefore she’d ever met a real-life Vegas performer, screenwriter Kate Gersten of The Last Showgirl approached writing with the same dis...

UNDERSTANDING SCREENWRITING: Oldies and Newbies, Take Your Pick

Tom Stempel
.January 09, 2025

So here is a mix of newbies such as 'Blitz', 'Gladiator II', 'Day of the Fight', and 'Here' and oldies like 'Crossroads' and 'Doctor Zhivago', and maybe the last of one that has been around for a while, 'Yellowstone'.Oh, Hey, Let’s Start with An Oldie.Crossroads (2002. Written by Shonda Rhimes. 93 minutes) Crossroads (2002). Cou...