How to Use Your Personal Experience to Write a Screenplay

“Write what you know” is the advice that most writers receive, but few actually know what to do with it. Writing from personal experience is a tricky beast, as personal experience often comes attached to personal bias, and a deep…

Joshua NobleNovember 19, 2020

screenwriting competitions and diversity

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How Screenwriting Competitions are Making Hollywood More Diverse

Screenwriting contests have been a fixture of the entertainment industry for decades. Photoplay Magazine invited contest submissions as a form of interactive fandom as far back as the 1920s. Later during the 1950s, Samuel Goldwinn Jr. gave a platform to…

Joshua NobleNovember 10, 2020

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5 Ways to Lean into Latinx Inclusivity in Screenwriting

Recently, Carlos Aguilar of Variety lamented the failure of Hollywood to invest in the Latinx community. While the article detailed Latinx directors grappling with the gap in industry representation, and the superficial generalities that lend to a perpetually untapped source…

Joshua NobleAugust 31, 2020

Contests Diverse Voices Screenwriting

5 Essential Tips from WeScreenplay’s Industry Panel on Diversity in Hollywood

In an industry in which diverse characters have faced sidelining at best and erasure at worst, the current moment of industry interruption has created an opportunity for further discourse. As Karen Horne, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Inclusion for Warner…

Joshua NobleAugust 10, 2020

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