May 24 Love0 Interview with John Sayles: The Indie Film Legend Tells Us What it Means to be an Independent Filmmaker By Valerie Kalfrin Main Story is a guiding principle for writer-director John Sayles. For nearly forty years, he’s made films outside the studio system…Read More
May 23 Love0 The Zookeeper’s Wife: How to Write a True Story By Marisa Dupras Main The Zookeepers Wife is about as close to the true story as a film can get. That is to say it's…Read More
May 23 Love0 The Orwellian Future of Script Analysis: Would You Trust the Fate of Your Screenplay to AI? By Staff Main Can a character’s likability be quantified? Think about that for a second. Imagine scanning your screenplay through a piece of…Read More
May 22 Love0 37 Problems: An Interview with Lisa Ebersole By Ben Larned Main Lisa Ebersole knows what she’s doing when it comes to writing intimate character pieces. After working with Tom Noonan’s Paradise…Read More
May 22 Love0 Calling All Writers: Weekly Contest Roundup – 05/22/2017 By Admin Main Welcome back to The Script Lab’s weekly contest roundup - our gathering of all the latest in contest news, and…Read More
May 19 Love0 Reminder: Get Your Tickets for Tomorrow’s TSL Summit Live Interview Event Featuring the Writers of Jurassic World By Admin Main Last weekend, we hosted the inaugural session in our brand new TSL Summit Live Interview Series! We want to thank everyone…Read More
May 19 Love1 Team Building: Lessons from Guardians of the Galaxy 2’s Dysfunctional Family By Valerie Kalfrin Main UCLA screenwriting instructor Tim Albaugh notes that a story is interesting when someone becomes something, not when someone is what he or she was…Read More
May 18 Love1 Global Perspectives: Interview with Award-winning Writer Dominique Holmes By Admin Main Dominque Holmes is a Jamaican-born screenwriter in the midst of a majorly impressive winning-streak. Over the past few years, her…Read More
May 17 Love2 Fail Fast—Then Re-Write, Re-Pitch, Re-Dream By Jeff Leisawitz Main Fail fast. I dare you. Fail at writing a decent screenplay. Fail to distill it into a killer logline. Fail…Read More
May 16 Love1 Congratulations to the Winners of the 4th Annual ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship By Admin Main Culled from over 2000 screenplays submitted from all over the world, ScreenCraft has announced the winners of the 4th annual ScreenCraft…Read More