Our fifth Script Essentials session was hosted by writer and filmmaker Sai Karan Talwar with professional script readers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Studios, producers and agencies receive countless spec scripts – original feature length screenplays that weren’t the product of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Morris Chapdelaine always has a daunting stack of scripts on his desk. As an indie producer, he reads about three a week and farms ...

In a nutsell, the test arranged by the cutter’s union documented that AI tools are great for organizing, classifying and summarizing. Giving helpful notes with observations on the merits of the ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with a reader at The Black List. Their employment has been verified by Insider. The following has been edited for length and clarity. During COVID, I ...

There are a plethora of reasons why anyone’s script is rejected by the powers that be. Some reasons are big and some are small, but screenwriters need to know and study all possible factors that could ...

Catherine McGrotty gives an update from the Open Call reading and shares a few pointers about which scripts are cutting through, from her point of view. Northern Ireland-based Catherine McGrotty is ...

Morris Chapdelaine always has a daunting stack of scripts on his desk. As an indie producer, he reads about three a week and farms out the rest to interns and film students, who send back detailed ...

Exclusive: A new study tries to answer what Hollywood's anonymous gatekeepers think makes a great screenplay. Studios, producers and agencies receive countless spec scripts – original feature length ...

Northern Ireland-based Catherine McGrotty is one of the newest members of our team of freelance Script Readers, who support our team through the reading stages of the BBC Writers Open Call. She gives ...