Browsing: Screenwriters

The 83rd Venice International Film Festival runs Sept. 2-12, 2026. Traditionally, Venice marks the beginning of the end-of-year awards push for film, with recent Oscar darlings Bugonia and Frankenstein coming off the Lido last year.

You have probably heard that filmmaking is a director’s medium. Whether it’s ranking directors by their total box office or even their number of “perfect movies,” there’s no denying that a lot of attention is paid to whoever is sitting in the director’s chair. Perhaps this dedicated devotion to directors is unfair to the screenwriters, who,…

Given that what we see in the movies often originates in the minds of screenwriters, it’s inevitable that screenwriters occasionally become the subjects of movies themselves; their practices, their inspirations, their relationship to filmmaking and place within the industry all put up on the screen. Cinema hardly knows of a more self-reflexive act. If your…

Protesters gather on Clapham Common in London after a vigil in memory of Sarah Everard is cancelled in March 2021. Photo: Victoria Jones / Getty

Gala screening of Hajduk in Belgrade at MTS Hall, the film that opens the competition program in Vrnjacka Banja./ Photo: Kurir/Filip Olcan

With the inaugural Jewish Roots Screenwriters Collective now complete, we’re proud to introduce the program’s first cohort of fellows. Over the past several months, these actively working film and television writers explored Jewish texts, wisdom, values, and culture while developing original stories and strengthening projects they ultimately pitched to industry financiers. Meet the writers helping…

My conversations continue with friend and fellow film lover Adam Kent, this time with a focus on screenwriting.

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