Creative England
'Creative England is committed to supporting and developing film making talent across England, with a particular emphasis on the English...
The BAFTAS 2018
Screendaily goes into detail about this year's BAFTA nominations. . . 'For the producers, directors and writers nominated for best...
Ergo the Ego
All screenwriters have an emotional attachment to their screenplays. I loved my early spec screenplays like they were my babies. When...
LION
I’ve only now seen LION (Garth Davis) 2016). I have never been so affected (emotionally and humanely) by any film. This film states the...
I'm not going to call it Method Screenwriting
Most of us are familiar with method acting. “Method acting initially came to the attention of the U.S. public at about the same time that...
Gravity
I watched GRAVITY (Alfonso Cuarón 2013) again recently. Why? The film's astonishing visual impact. I think Gravity is one of if not the...
To be, and stuff
It's hard not to go online and not be, well, a tiny polka dot bikini bit desperate about the human world, if for no other reason than...
The right kind of rewriting
Some years ago, I listened to a talk on screenwriting given by the British screenwriter and novelist Frank Cottrell Boyce at the British...
Screenplay adaptations
Should novelists adapt their books to the screen? I've performed numerous adaptations. In my experience the person who wrote the book...
Does it come in black?
Consider: how much better than the line 'So you're fast' would 'I knew it' be @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIHH5-HVS9o Why? 'So...