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Announcing the 2021 WeScreenplay Contest Schedule

After an exciting and record-breaking year, WeScreenplay is excited to announce the competition dates for 2021! While WeScreenplay is primarily known as Hollywood's #1 Script Coverage Service, our writing competitions are proving to be very effective talent-discovery programs for the…

wescreenplayDecember 16, 2020

Coverage

Ultimate Guide to Script Coverage: Price, Coverage Types, and How to Use Feedback & Notes

Script coverage is one of the most useful tools in screenwriting. As a writer, getting notes on your script is not only essential to your growth, but it is also a reality of working in the entertainment industry. As uncomfortable…

wescreenplayDecember 3, 2020

Screenwriting

HOW TO WRITE (AWESOME) FIGHT SCENES

The Amazons battling Germans on the beach in WONDER WOMAN. The Bride facing off with O’Ren in KILL BILL: VOLUME 1. Inigo Montoya avenging his father in THE PRINCESS BRIDE. Audiences love a stellar fight scene! With high stakes and…

Joanna KeDecember 1, 2020

Screenwriting Scripts

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

Filmmaking Screenwriting

Screenwriting Advice from Lynn Chen: How to Know When Your Script is Ready

Lynn Chen wrote, directed, and starred in the feature film I WILL MAKE YOU MINE, which had its world premiere in competition at the 2020 SXSW Film Festival. Her three-decade career includes credits in over 50 television shows (SHAMELESS, SILICON VALLEY),…

Julia CamaraNovember 13, 2020

screenwriting competitions and diversity

Diverse Voices Industry News Screenwriting

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

Filmmaking Screenwriting Scripts

How Taika Waititi Writes a Script: 5 Screenwriting Tips

Somehow, Oscar-winning screenwriter/director Taika Waititi made a movie about World War II into a comedy. Which is no easy task. Before writing and directing Jojo Rabbit, Waititi co-directed and starred in the horror-comedy WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS and…

Julia CamaraOctober 29, 2020

Screenwriting

How One Feature Script Can Change Your Life: Liz Hannah

In the summer of 2016, Liz Hannah thought her career as a screenwriter was a non-starter. By Christmas, she would write and sell her screenplay for The Post, which would go on to be directed by Steven Spielberg, star Tom…

Shannon CorbeilOctober 27, 2020

Screenwriting

Women Who Write Action: 6 Top Female Screenwriters

Today's audiences want more stories that represent the broad spectrum of diverse voices that we really are - and Hollywood has noticed. Genres that have been mainly written from the white male cis perspective are rife with opportunity for a…

Joanna KeOctober 22, 2020

Filmmaking Screenwriting

How To Write a Contained Screenplay: 8 Great Scripts With One Location

Contained screenwriting can be challenging. Not everyone is wired to tell a story that involves only a small amount of characters and that mostly happens in just one or two locations. But like most creative endeavors, the right kind of…

Julia CamaraOctober 12, 2020