Scripts can take a few days or a decade to write. As you’ll hear again and again… “writing is rewriting”. Whether you’re flying solo or co-writing a screenplay, the beast can become unruly, get away from us and sometimes get
West Side Stories
The recent Academy Award Nominations held a number of surprises, and though the Best Adapted Screenplay category is particularly stacked this year, the lack of love for West Side Story was truly unexpected. Why Academy voters neglected to honour Pulitzer
Irish Kung Fu and Learning from Failure
Accented Cinema is a wonderful YouTube channel, which covers mostly foreign films. The host provides insightful analysis about filmmaking, but what makes the channel somewhat unique is its perspective: that of a Chinese Canadian movie-buff, most popular for his insightful
Kurt Vonnegut Grades his Own Writing
Take a look in Palm Sunday, the “autobiographical collage” of renegade genius Kurt Vonnegut, and you’ll find that the nonconformist writer once engaged in an interesting bit of self-reflection. Thirteen books into his career, Vonnegut decided to grade his own