Browsing: Screenwriting

The script is finished. The story is on the page. The characters are alive. For a brief moment, it feels like the hardest part might be behind you.

The next great Australian screen story is likely not being workshopped in a writers’ room in Los Angeles or behind the gates of a major studio. Instead, it’s probably started as a single page penned at a kitchen table, or typed on the screen of a laptop during a train commute or in the Notes…

Two years ago, I ran an open call for horror film scripts through my company, Apple Park Films. With a feature film almost at picture lock after feedback from our test screenings, I had a real sense of momentum and wanted to capitalise on this by preparing projects to shop around when people asked what…

On a sticky Delhi afternoon in the late 1980s, a group of architecture students loiter, argue and dream their way through a city that seems permanently unfinished.

H Vinoth and Vijay from the pooja of Jana Nayagan Updated on: 31 Jul 2026, 4:41 am

Ah the dream of being discovered through a screenplay contest; plucked from obscurity and showered with accolades and praise. Maybe some cash for your troubles. But the truth is, most scripts don’t even make it past that first round of cuts, never to be seen by taste-making producers or discriminating judges. Where did your script…

Call it nostalgia, but there was nothing quite like an action movie in the 1990s. They were fun, driven by practical effects and populated with memorable characters. The stories were both fantastic yet believable, as if real people were thrown into incredible situations. One of the greatest action films of the 1990s was Point Break,…

Tires, created by comedians Shane Gillis, Steve Gerben, and John McKeever, has been wildly popular with sitcom fans across two seasons, with a third on the way.

San Diego Comic-Con has just wrapped, but that doesn’t mean we have to leave the buzz of the convention behind. Maybe you hit up Southern California in your best cosplay and waited in those monstrous lines for Hall H. (Or you watched the livestreams. That’s cool, too.) If you were just skimming headlines, you were…

Matt Sacca ’19 never gave up on his screenplay. Nine years after writing the comedy “Second First Date,” Sacca’s dream is set to become a movie. John BoccacinoJuly 28, 2026