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Writer/director Josh Radnor is most recognisable as Ted Moseby in How I Met Your Mother) but he’s more than a pretty face, as he proves with his second film, Liberal Arts. It premiered and won an audience award at the Sundance Film Festival. But does he also have anything meaningful to say? If you liked … Read more
Writer/director Brian Klugman and Bradley Cooper discuss their new film The Words, the process of weaving together three distinct stories in a single organic narrative, and what motivates the character of the writer. If you liked this, check out more videos about screenwriting or filmmaking. And if you know of a great video on Screenwriting, … Read more
In my last essay I explained how Australian feature stories lack universality. Today I will focus on the one sub-category where I see this lack at its most blatant: In the case of films that depict indigenous characters and culture. by Steven Fernandez For the purposes of this essay, I will define an “indigenous film” … Read more
Writing is done in isolation. It drives you batty sometimes. Like anything that bleeds, you leave a writer alone for long enough and they’ll snap. by The Single Screenwriter And snapping gets in the way of the writing, no matter what form the meltdown takes – deviant binges, forced stays in a luxury padded cell, … Read more
Did you know Google talks to Artists? Well, here’s the most in-depth recent interview I could find with Peter Hedges, writer-director of the much anticipated Timothy Green. Peter Hedges also talks about What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, which he wrote for Lasse Hallstrom and later in the interview he has few very nice words for Australian … Read more