The Craft
Writing for Film and Television 2014
September 12, 2014
Drops of Zen
Dennis Lehane follows his subconscious back into the underworld of bleak, blue-collar criminals to tell the story of scarred characters searching for penance, peace, and love in The Drop.
Written by Dylan Callaghan
August 29, 2014
Inventing the End of the World
Manhattan’s Sam Shaw makes use of the “hive mind” and his own obsessive attention to detail to dramatize the lives of those burdened with the task of potentially killing millions in the name of world peace.
Written by Denis Faye
August 15, 2014
Lost and Found
Ray McKinnon, creator of the SundanceTV’s character drama Rectify, artfully wanders in the dark space between concrete notions of justice and closure and the fickle illusiveness of real life.
Written by Dylan Callaghan
August 01, 2014
While You Were Making Other Plans
Does TV really need another show about cancer? Chasing Life’s Joni Lefkowitz and Susanna Fogel didn’t think so until they found a new perspective on the disease that they realized had yet to be explored.
Written by Denis Faye
July 25, 2014
In the Company of Men
Ray Donovan creator Ann Biderman pulls no punches about why she doesn’t worry over her characters’ likeability and why gender should have nothing to do with what one writes.
Written by Denis Faye
July 18, 2014
The Eyes Have It
Mike Cahill ponders the big questions about science, God, coincidence, and the nature of attraction all through the lens of the human eye in his ambitious indie drama I Origins.
Written by Rob Feld
July 03, 2014
The Times of His Life
Richard Linklater reflects on his Boyhood, a deeply felt, groundbreaking cinematic experiment chronicling a boy’s coming of age over the course of 12 years.
Written by Todd Aaron Jensen
June 20, 2014
The IT Crowd
The success of TV newcomers Christopher Cantwell and Chris Rogers might appear to have happened overnight, but the Halt and Catch Fire creators explain why the road from point A to point AMC was more circuitous than some might think.
Written by Todd Aaron Jensen
May 23, 2014
Spies, Character, Action
Simon Kinberg might be the go-to scripter for tentpole actioners like X-Men: Days of Future Past, but the comic book hero scribe says every screenplay he writes—no matter how superhuman—is a character-driven story that’s deeply personal.
Written by Todd Aaron Jensen
May 09, 2014
Two Ladies and a Baby
Jessica St. Clair & Lennon Parham, creators/stars of the new baby-raising series Playing House, offer their insights on the recent shift in women-driven comedy and what they really think about breast pumps in the writers’ room.
Written by Denis Faye