Category: Film Scripts

Scenarios USA addresses Gender and Power through Youth Scripted Films

Jamie’s Team Pick: Scenarios USA is a non-profit prompting under-served youth to speak about issues shaping their lives in an annual script-writing contest. and get this: The winning writers are partnered with some of Hollywood’s finest filmmakers to transform their stories into award-winning short films. 15 million people a year watch the Scenarios USA films [...]

Actress/Filmmaker Rie Rasmussen Says If Tarantino’s “Django” Doesn’t Change Face Of Films, Then Hollywood Is Truly ‘Mothereffin’ Racist

The Playlist had a very interesting interview with 'model-turned-actress-turned-filmmaker' Rie Rasmussen, who has closely followed the development of Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained since its inception a year and a half ago.  Rasmussen first connected with Tarantino while her short film Thinning the Herd traveled the festival circuit. ever since, the two have become business comrades; [...]

Here’s Film Independent’s 2011 Producers Lab Fellows, Including the $25,000 Sloan Grant Winner

Film Independent has announced nine projects and their filmmakers for their 11th annual Producers Lab, including Brent Hoff and Malcom Pullinger’s “El Diablo Rojo,” which has been awarded the $25,000 Sloan Producers Grant. Both the lab and the grant are sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which is designed to create and develop scripts [...]

2011 SLIFF Preview

| Print | Written by Adrienne Jones Friday, 11 November 2011 21:02 I’d like to be able to give you more of the story, but I swear there isn’t one. Lord Byron is as aimless a film as Byron is as a character. After watching a couple of handfuls of this year’s SLIFF offerings, an idea that’s [...]

How To Write A Film Script

Learning how to write a film script is manageable when you understand the basics of film script writing. Anyone can write a film script if they are creative, willing to put in the time, and have good language skills. a person with even an iota of flair for creative writing can polish their inborn skill [...]

NYCC: Marvel Television Has Big Plans

Jeph Loeb, head of Marvel Television and writer of “Avengers: X-Sanction”, presented the full slate of Marvel Television’s current and upcoming projects Saturday afternoon at New York Comic Con. before his presentation began, Loeb gave a shout out to “Amazing Spider-Man” writer Dan Slott and editor Steve Wacker, who were sitting in the audience, crediting [...]

Movie Scripts Online

There are numerous websites that offer free movie scripts from all over the world and from all time periods. One can get access to scripts of classics such as gone with the wind and Casablanca as well as of relatively recent films such as Stepmom and Legally Blonde. There are many websites that have a [...]

Lucifer: The Movie

Archangel Lucifer – Ray GriggsAn interview with Director Ray Griggs about his visually stunning fantasy short film. Suite101 sat down with Ray Griggs to discuss his background as a filmmaker, how he plans to produce Lucifer as a feature film, and how he attracted Oscar-Winning talent to his production. Suite101: Can you tell us about [...]

Movie Script Writing

Movie script writing has become quite competitive, and many aspiring movie script writers become disappointed if they cannot sell their script. Practice and dedication can provide you with an advantage. Even some of the most well-known and successful script writers had to write several screenplays before one ever went to production. Since their inception, movies [...]

Getting Started As a Film-Maker

If you’re itching to make a movie, and haven’t completed film school, don’t worry. You’re in good company. Film-making is a lot of fun and even if you don’t have much money or a budget, it shouldn’t stop you from pursuing this creative endeavour. I hold a university degree and started film-making with a whole [...]