I don’t know about you. But one of the most frustrating things FOR ME coming up as a writer, eager to figure out this whole screenwriting thing, was understanding what agents and executives meant when they’d tell me my characters weren’t “three-dimensional.” Some of the many ways I’d hear the criticism was that my characters […]

Genre: Biopic/Sports Premise: Set in the early 2000s, superstar Ivory Coast soccer player, Didier, joins his flailing home-country team again, but finds that they’re divided by the political civil war brewing within their nation. About: A fresh and green writer pens one of the top ten Black List scripts. Writer: Jackson Kellard Details: 115 pages […]

Genre: True Story/Comedy/Drama Premise: Based on the true story of James Hogue, a talented student and long-distance runner who was admitted to Princeton University under the false identity of “Alexi Indris-Santana”–an orphaned, self-educated, teenage ranch hand. About: James Hogue is a real person and, if you google him, he’s had a pretty adventurous life. The […]

C’mon Netflix. You’ve had your streaming service for 17 years now and you STILL don’t know how to release a movie! The only reason I knew Rebel Ridge came out on Netflix this weekend is because I saw a couple of you guys talking about it. The strange thing is that they seem to know […]

In the lead-up to this month’s “Scene Showdown,” the question must be asked: ‘What, exactly, is a scene?’ Before we break down what a scene is, here are the submission details for Scene Showdown. Literally EVERYBODY who reads this site should enter. Here’s what I need from you… Title Genre Logline Up to 50 words […]