If you haven’t seen Hereditary yet, you should probably a) stop reading, since this piece is geared towards those who have watched the film, and b) stop what you’re doing…
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“Stop thinking of writing as art. Start thinking of writing as work.” – Paddy Chayefsky It would have been a dream come true for Aaron Tracy, host of Yale Podcast…
How can you teach screenwriting to kids amidst a world of Fortnite, YouTube, texts, and Snapgrams? There are millions of little potential Ephrons, Spielbergs, Codys, Tarantinos, Feys, Goldmans, and Rhimes out there…
It’s easy to forget just what an extraordinary catalog the public domain is for us writers. The public domain contains works whose copyrights have expired, and are therefore available for…
We’re excited to announce the recipients of the 5th annual ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship. The program is designed to advance the careers of talented screenwriters through ongoing mentorship and introductions to…
Orb Media Group and ScreenCraft are pleased to announce the two recipients of the second annual China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship! These winners will each be offered an option fee, one of which will…
As much as we like to deny it, this is a business that works like any other. We provide a product (content) that delivers a service (entertainment) in exchange for…
The number one leading cause of death of a screenwriter’s journey is cynicism. It’s both a practice and phenomenon that is destructive and difficult to contain or eradicate. Amidst the…
In case you’ve been trapped in a dark basement for the past year or so, let me be the one to tell you: horror films have fully hit the mainstream…
Violence and horror films have become fairly synonymous. While early genre films were censored into tameness, filmmakers in the 1960’s and 70’s managed to overcome the stringent Hayes code in…
