‘Butcher’s Stain’ Filmmaker Meyer Levinson-Blount On Creating “Respectful Dialogue” Surrounding Israeli & Palestinian Discrimination In Oscar Shortlist Short Film

Meyer Levinson-Blount is already having an impactful new year. The 24-year-old New York native, now a decade-long resident of ...
Variety

The Horror Section, WeShort Unveil Winners of Horror Short Film Script Competition

The Horror Section and WeShort have unveiled the winners of HorrorShorts, a global competition for original horror short film scripts created to champion bold new voices and develop original ...
The Film Stage

Charlie Kaufman and Eva H.D. on the Creative Freedom of Short Films, Unproduced Scripts, and Staying Challenged

From just his scripts alone, Charlie Kaufman is certainly one of the most distinctive voices in American cinema, be it Being John Malkovich or Adaptation. Ever since 2008’s Synecoche, New York, he’s ...
Raindance

Seven Guaranteed Ways to Make a Terrible Short Film

So here it is — the Raindance Seven guide to making a truly, spectacularly terrible short film and how to avoid it.
Backstage

6 Places to Read + Study Movie Scripts for Free

Internet Movie Script Database: IMSDb has a deep catalog of screenplays—and we mean deep. (The site boasts of being “the biggest collection of movie scripts available anywhere on the web.”) Along with ...