Go Into The Story

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Go Into The StoryCinemaSimilar But Different Or Precedent and Analogy. However you refer to it, it’s how Hollywood operates. Remakes. Reboots. Sequels. Prequels. Shequels.

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Go Into The StoryCinemaLearn the Craft Being a screenwriter is much more than just writing a script. Here’s one big problem with most of the screenwriting approaches I see floating around: Their focus is almost exclusively on writing a…

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Go Into The StoryCinemaOn Writing “You have to live with the notion of, ‘If I don’t write this, no one’s going to write it. If I die, this idea dies with me.’” — Lin-Manuel Miranda For 100s more On Writing posts, go here .

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Go Into The StoryCinemaStacking Projects One key to the craft: Learn how to manage several projects at once. Here’s something interesting to do if you subscribe to IMDbpro.com: Check out some of the top screenwriters and see what projects…

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Go Into The StoryCinemaGet the damn thing done! The one unalterable truth about writing a first draft. I lied. When I wrote that thing about “There are no screenwriting rules” … Actually there is one. It’s about first drafts.

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Go Into The StoryCinemaGo Into The Story Interview: Omar Al Dakheel and Elie El Choufany Omar Al Dakheel and Elie El Choufany wrote the original screenplay The Washroom which won a 2025-2026 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting.

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Go Into The StoryCinemaScreenwriting 101: Rob Meyer “It’s easy to spend a lot of time worrying about how other people are doing, why you’re not succeeding.

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Go Into The StoryCinemaGo Into The Story Interview (Part 6): Omar Al Dakheel and Elie El Choufany Omar Al Dakheel and Elie El Choufany wrote the original screenplay The Washroom which won a 2025-2026 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting.

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Go Into The StoryCinemaTweetstorm: Ed Zwick on Screenwriting Back when Twitter was fun, screenwriters would sometimes string together a series of tweets - what came to be known as "tweetstorms." Advice, personal anecdotes, reflections on the craft.

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Go Into The StoryCinemaGo Into The Story Interview (Part 5): Omar Al Dakheel and Elie El Choufany Omar Al Dakheel and Elie El Choufany wrote the original screenplay The Washroom which won a 2025-2026 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting.

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Go Into The StoryCinemaOn Writing “If you want a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere. Have them be an observer all the time.” --Lin-Manuel Miranda For 100s more On Writing posts, go here .

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Go Into The StoryCinemaGo Into The Story Interview (Part 4): Omar Al Dakheel and Elie El Choufany Omar Al Dakheel and Elie El Choufany wrote the original screenplay The Washroom which won a 2025-2026 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting.

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Go Into The StoryCinemaWatch movies. Read scripts. Write pages. You can learn pretty much everything you need to know about screenwriting by doing these three things: Watch movies. Read scripts. Write pages. Why watch movies?

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Go Into The StoryCinemaGo Into The Story Interview (Part 3): Omar Al Dakheel and Elie El Choufany Omar Al Dakheel and Elie El Choufany wrote the original screenplay The Washroom which won a 2025-2026 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting.

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Go Into The StoryCinema2026 Award Season Screenplays —1 New Script It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo