If you have tried financing a genre film or get development funding for your script in Australia over the past ten years, chances are at some point you were rejected by the gatekeepers on the basis of plausibility. Some people simply don’t understand how film works. If
The theatre, and now the Cinema and TV and Internet, all play a propagandist role in any society. If you are going to write a war movie, it is unlikely you are going to write about how badly your people behaved. by Lawrence Gray And who are
What’s the story? That’s the first thing anyone asks a writer and it is, unquestionably, seen as the province that the screenwriter rules over in the film industry. Except the story you should be working on is perhaps not the obvious one. by Lawrence Gray Most big
In this section we are publishing the loglines from the participants of the Circalit / Story Department “First Draft Script Contest”. Our judges have reviewed the loglines and give you their considered feedback. It may help you craft a powerful logline. by The Judges The Hitman From
Maurice Sendak is the man behind the story and illustrations of Where The Wild Things Are. The 2009 movie version may not have achieved much but the original book is a timeless classic. Here he speaks about his artistic vision. If you liked this, check out more
I have liked Touch of Evil since before it became fashionable in 1998, at the time of its rerelease. Recently I watched it again with some students and came to an interesting conclusion: it is not a Film Noir. by Karel segers More importantly, for me the
For most of my life, Steven Spielberg has been my favorite filmmaker. He has just re-won my heart with The Adventures of Tintin and in this video he shares some insights that weirdly I had come to realize only recently myself. Enjoy. Yesterday I was talking to
Thanks to Paramount Pictures, the Belgian ambassador in Australia and my friend Nathalie Surmont, I had the privilege of seeing Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin one day before its American release. Spielberg got me into movies – and he keeps exciting me. I was extremely skeptical… I
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