[Video]: The Coen Brothers circa 1996

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Check out this blast from the past: scowling ironically over their coffees, iconic filmmaking duo Ethan and Joel Coen discuss their creative process and rationale with Charlie Rose. If you liked this, check out more videos about screenwriting or filmmaking. And if you know of a great video on Screenwriting, let us know in the … Read more

[Video]: Dean Craig on Not Writing for the Money

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Dean Craig (Death at a Funeral, A Few Best Men) gives you a little pep talk about focusing on screenwriting. Seriously. Stop going out. To hell with your social life. Figure out how you’re going to get the script done. If you liked this, check out more videos about screenwriting or filmmaking. And if you … Read more

[Video]: On Breaking In

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A selection of TV writers from British series such as Dr Who, Peep Show, Black Books, and The IT Crowd tell the stories about how they got started, how they write, and what they hate and love about writing. If you liked this, check out more videos about screenwriting or filmmaking. And if you know … Read more

[Video]: Hollywood’s Black List Sets The Standard for Screenplays

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BLACKLIST founder Franklin Leonard offers a surprisingly unique perspective on Hollywood’s reality: sleepless script execs slaving through piles of bad scripts, all asking each other the same question: ‘read anything good lately?’ This is the riveting origin story of www.blcklst.com If you liked this, check out more videos about screenwriting or filmmaking. And if you … Read more

[Video]: Alex Garland on subverting Judge Dredd

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Alex Garland (writer of the iconic 28 Days Later) talks about why writing a fascist cop protagonist contains the seeds of its own subversion, how to make him a functional anti-hero, and the relationship between comic books and film. If you liked this, check out more videos about screenwriting or filmmaking. And if you know … Read more