Local filmmaker, writer and educator Claire Ayoub is helping young storytellers discover their voices through her new Try Anyway Creative Workshops, a summer program that blends creative writing, ...

Movie trilogies like The Lord of the Rings, The Dark Knight, the Before films showcase some of the smartest, most rewarding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. My last screenwriting class wrapped up this week, and one of the biggest lessons I took away was the importance of tension, ...

Have you ever seen a phrase like this in a book on film screenwriting or novel writing theory? Three-act structure, beat sheets, character arcs... these are the established conventions of creation, ...

Most of us don’t actually grow into the futures we sketched out on our 1st-grade vision boards — the ones where we boldly declared our dream professions: astronaut, veterinarian, doctor, and imagined ...

Jim Burnstein is retiring from the University of Michigan screenwriting program that he created and grew into a top destination for film students. Burnstein has defied the odds by forging a successful ...

This familiar phrase echoes through the halls of the Film School at Olympic College, where students produce everything from commercials to short films. While making these projects, classmates work ...

At first glance, the Distribution Center may just look like a typical mailroom you’d find in many big institutions, office buildings and especially college campuses. Boxes and bags line the walls as a ...

Sunlight spills across the classrooms of Grays Harbor College’s Columbia Education Center in IIwaco, ready to welcome students back for the first time in years. Empty halls that once echoed with ...

The talent development program supports non-professional screenwriters. By Scott Feinberg Executive Editor of Awards Three individuals and two writing teams have been chosen to receive the Academy of ...

Ready to construct your screenwriting masterpiece? This immersive course led by produced, award-winning screenwriter Sean Mick is made for writers who are ready to go big. Whether starting fresh or ...

At 89, Joan Tewkesbury doesn’t begin her screenwriting workshop with structure or formula. The legendary screenwriter of Robert Altman’s Nashville starts with a trap for the imagination: a scavenger ...