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8 is a horror mystery drama, which has just landed on Netflix. Starring Tshamano Sebe, Inge Beckmann, Garth Breytenbach and introducing Keita Luna, this is a truly South African production. The film is directed by Harold Holscher, an up-and-coming director
Screenwriters are world-building, wordsmiths and idea mechanics who ply their craft to create bold stories. Taking us to the edge of our seat, immersing us in fantasy worlds… they are the unsung heroes. While they’re the ones who inevitably spend
Matthew Kalil is currently working on the David Lynch Masters in Fine Arts [MFA] programme in screenwriting as a professor. Author of The Three Wells of Screenwriting, having amassed years of experience in the film industry, he’s a valuable asset
Jodie Foster is best known as an actress, a child star who worked her way through the Hollywood system. She describes her journey as having had many father figures, who helped guide her talent as an actress and served as
The working relationship between a screenwriter and director can be the stuff of dreams or nightmares. Ordinarily, screenwriters will have worked on a project for a few years before a director even comes into contact with the screenplay. Often a
The Masterclass series enables anyone to essentially have a one-on-one tutorial and sharing session with some of the best and biggest names in the industries. Comedian turned filmmaker Judd Apatow is a name associated with films like Knocked Up, The
Screenwriting is a fairly lonely exercise in translating your imagination to page. Converting your thoughts into text and visualising the eventual film playing out is one thing. Yet it can be quite difficult to establish tone when everything is just
Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay this year. It’s a hilarious, touching and edgy war satire about a boy in Hitler’s Youth Army who discovers his mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their
While the illusion of cinema is able to immerse you in other worlds, there are very hard rules when it comes to dialogue and screenplays. A curious example is Marriage Story, the Noah Baumbach independent drama with Adam Driver and
When it comes to writing a screenplay, especially a thriller, there’s a tendency for writers to stick to the genre’s propensity for twists and turns. While it is to be expected that there will be a couple of surprise plot