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unusual facts about Screenwriting


Robin Bernheim

Robin Jill Bernheim, a.k.a. Robin Burger, is a female producer and writer for television, as well as a story editor and creative consultant.


2010 Sundance Film Festival

Winter's Bone, which won the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, was nominated for 4 Oscars: Best Picture, Jennifer Lawrence for Best Actress, John Hawkes as Best Supporting Actor, and Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini for Best Adapted Screenplay.

A.D. Calvo

Calvo's early filmmaking and screenwriting efforts gained the praise and support of Oscar-nominated producers Howard and Karen Baldwin, and Grammy-winning musician Michael Bolton.

Act One, Inc.

The Writing Program was created the same year as Act One, and until 2009 was an intensive one-month course devoted to teaching the rigors of screenwriting; a TV track was added in 2002, allowing a select group of writing students to participate in a mockup of a real TV writer's room.

Alice Winocour

After studying screenwriting at La Fémis, Winocour made three short films and wrote the script for Vladimir Perisic's film Ordinary People (released in 2009).

Barrie Chase

When she was six, her father, writer Borden Chase, moved the family to California so he could start his screenwriting career.

Beirut I Love You

Following season two it was announced that the show would be put on hold while Mounia and Cyril complete Masters of Fine Arts in Directing/Screenwriting at Columbia University in New York.

Bonnie and Terry Turner

Between 1987 and 1995, they were responsible for authoring or screenwriting six films, including Coneheads, Wayne's World, Wayne's World 2, Tommy Boy, and The Brady Bunch Movie.

Cloud Tectonics

Rivera puts magical realism (he studied screenwriting with Gabriel García Márquez at the Sundance Institute in 1989) to good use in the play by distorting our conceptions of time, space, and even (although not to the same extent) sound.

Dan Pavlik

Nominated was written using the widely popular Save the Cat method of screenwriting by the late Blake Snyder.

David Bellini

He was also pupil of Furio Scarpelli and years later he participated in a course for screenwriters organized by Dino Audino and Rai Fiction held by some of the best Italian and American screenwriting coaches: John Truby, Dara Marks, Francesco Scardamaglia, Gino Ventriglia and Linda Seger.

Ethan Drogin

Desperate Genius, a screenplay written by Drogin, was a semi-finalist in the 2005 Zoetrope Screenwriting Contest, judged by Terry Zwigoff.

Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber

The screenwriting was overseen by the exec producers Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen.

Gustavo Fuertes

He has been Screenwriting and Audiovisual Narrative teacher in the European University of Madrid, as well as in the CEV and in the Screenwriting Factory.

Hana Yori Dango Final

It was also announced that the series' chief director Yasuharu Ishii would return to direct the film, and the original manga artist Yoko Kamio would help Mikio Satake (the pen name of actor Takayuki Takuma) with the screenwriting.

Jane Withers

Withers also took a flyer in screenwriting: she wrote the original story filmed as Small Town Deb, under the pseudonym "Jerrie Walters." In 1979, Withers was honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its very first Former Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award recognizing her outstanding achievements within the film industry as a child actress.

Jayce Bartok

The Cake Eaters marked Bartok's screenwriting debut, and he also wrote and directed his first short film called Stricken, starring Hayley Mills.

Jenny Wingfield

Her screenwriting credits have included the films The Man in the Moon and The Outsider, as well as Hallmark Hall of Fame's A Dog Named Christmas, which was the winner of the 2010 Genesis Award.

John Gilling

Gilling began screenwriting with Black Memory in 1947, and made his directing debut with a Bulldog Drummond film The Challenge in 1948.

Kathleen Collins

She joined the faculty of City College at the City University of New York and became a professor of film history and screenwriting, where cinematographer Ronald Gray encouraged her to go ahead with a screenplay she had adapted from a Henry Roth short story.

Kenneth Gyang

He studied Film Production at the National Film Institute in Jos and screenwriting at Gaston Kaboré's IMAGINE in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Lauren Davies

Davies' screenwriting credits include Waveriders, and she also writes for television and multi-platform games.

Marcus Lloyd

The following year he won BBC Television's Double Exposure screenwriting award for his 60 minute television play, A Relative Stranger, which was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1996 starring Siobhan Redmond (Alison Fraiman), Suzanna Hamilton (Jenny Bell), Ioan Gruffudd (Nigel Fraiman) and Jason Isaacs (Peter Fraiman).

Martin Berkeley

His screenwriting credits, often shared, include So Dark the Night (1946), Gypsy Colt (1954), Tarantula (1955), Revenge of the Creature, The Big Caper (1957) and Dr. Gillespie's Prison Criminal Case.

Nancy Sexton

In 2011, she co-authored with Alon Bar the book "Write Your Film," a screenwriting manual exploring the two unique writing system and collaboration.

Nelson Gidding

His long-running course on screenwriting adaptions at the University of Southern California inspired screenwriters of the present generation, including David S. Goyer.

Nila Madhab Panda

He is also the Founder and Executive Director of the India Screenwriting Lab, which focuses on creating quality scripts for Indian Cinema, quality children cinema with the British Council, The royal Netherlands embassy and Saregama, the European Union Media International Programme, Eon Productions, Goethe Institute in Germany, Cinekid in Amsterdam, Children’s Film Society, India.

Noribumi Suzuki

He made his screenwriting debut on director Kōkichi Uchide's 1963 film Zoku: Tenamonya Sandogasa (co-written with Takaharu Sawada), and his directorial debut in 1965 with Osaka Dokonjō Monogatari: Doerai Yatsu, starring Makoto Fujita.

PAGE International Screenwriting Awards

The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards were founded in 2003 by an alliance of Hollywood producers, agents, and development executives to recognize up and coming screenwriters from around the world.

Pareh

Artistic direction and some of the screenwriting was handled by Mannus Franken, an avant-garde documentary filmmaker from the Netherlands, whom Balink had brought to the Indies.

Raúl daSilva

daSilva has been an adjunct instructor on the script scenario at St. John Fisher College and a lecturer in screenwriting and directing at NYU, Rochester Institute of Technology, Brooklyn College, and Ithaca College.

Rebecca Miller

Rebecca Augusta Miller (born September 15, 1962) is an American film director, screenwriter, author and actress, most known for her films Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (winner of the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award), The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Angela and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, all of which she wrote and directed.

Richard Switzer

He started making films at the age of 10 and had taught himself the film business, screenwriting, and the art of risk taking by the time he graduated from Fitch Senior High School in Groton, Connecticut.

Satoko Okudera

A graduate of the Literature Department of Tokai University in Tokyo, Okudera did not originally consider a career in screenwriting.

Sejong University

Yu Ha, film director, screenwriter and poet, English major; was nominated for Korea's premier film awards for directing/screenwriting several times; his film credits include: "A Day of Poet Goobo" (1990), "We Must Go to Apgujeong-dong on Windy Days" (1993), "Marriage Is a Crazy Thing" (2002), "Once Upon a Time in High School" (2004), "A Dirty Carnival" (2006), "A Frozen Flower" (2008) and "Howling." (2011; TBA)

Stel Pavlou

Pavlou's first screenwriting credit was for the film The 51st State (known as Formula 51 in the USA) starring Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Carlyle.

Stephen Geller

Eventually, in 1986, he returned to Hollywood, working there for a time, but leaving eventually to found screenwriting programs at Arizona State University, and at the Boston University College of Communication.

Suzanne Grossmann

Suzanne Grossmann (December 21, 1937 – August 19, 2010) was a Swiss-American actress, playwright and television writer, born in Basel, Switzerland.

Syd Field

:This article is about the screenwriting guru; for information on the British comedian, see Sid Field.

Tassie Cameron

She is the daughter of journalist Stevie Cameron and she has also worked as a screenwriting instructor at the Humber School for Writers.

The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers

The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers is a popular screenwriting textbook by writer Christopher Vogler, focusing on the theory that most stories can be boiled down to a series of narrative structures and character archetypes, described through mythological allegory.

Truby

John Truby, screenwriter, director and screenwriting teacher

Vatroslav Mimica

He had his directorial and screenwriting debut in the 1952 Yugoslav film In the Storm (Croatian: U oluji) which starred Veljko Bulajić, Mia Oremović and Antun Nalis.

Vishesh Films

Thereafter, Bhatt retired a director and took to screenwriting, churning out stories and screenplays for over twenty films, many of which were box-office successes, like Dushman, Raaz, Murder (2004), Gangster (2006), Woh Lamhe (2006), Murder 2(2011), Jism 2(2012) and Murder 3(2013).

When Harry Tries to Marry

Initially a featured screenplay project at the Sundance Institute Independent Producers’ Conference in 2004; and a top-ten finalist of the Creative Screenwriting contest in 2009, filming commenced on the film on October 21, 2009 in New York City, with additional location shooting in Kutch, India.

William Fruet

His later screenwriting credits include Rip-Off, Wedding in White, Slipstream, Death Weekend, Spasms and Imaginary Playmate, while his film directing credits include Wedding in White, Death Weekend, Spasms, Search and Destroy, Killer Party, Cries in the Night and Bedroom Eyes.


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