Writing Movies

An aspiring director wants to submit his own short film to his school's media festival. With less than a month left to participate, he has yet to...

At what point in our evolution did we start talking? To paint, play music and travel? When did we build our first imaginary worlds? When was the need...

Isabella takes her granddaughter to Ireland to stay with a famous family friend for the holidays, only to discover that the best Christmases are...

Haunted by his recent death, a rapper’s younger brother struggles to finish his last verse.

A short film homage to Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño for the Festival d'Art Independent PEPE SALES 2016.

Unable or unwilling to conform to the rigid atmosphere of Washington and Lee College as a freshman, Ed bailed out after a brief stint there to...

In 1975, in a village in southern Morocco, a young illiterate woman’s attempt to write to her absent husband becomes an intimate act of...

Following the success of her debut novel, All This Could Be Different, author Sarah Thankam Mathews embarks on her second novel, drawing from her...

An aspiring author, desperate to finish her first novel to secure a spot in graduate school, seeks help from her estranged father, but their...

The writer's room during the production of the fifth season of Community struggles with time while the show is being filmed. This behind the scenes...

When a young aspiring writer is visited by her keen-eyed grandmother, she learns to push through her perfectionist tendencies while learning her...

A writer tells a joke. Complications ensue.

In this dialogue-driven, "second coming of age" comedic drama, Felix has all but given up on his pursuit of becoming a filmmaker when he meets...

On the first day of shooting, James Franco, David Shields, and Caleb Powell throw out the script when a real-life argument breaks out between the...

A journey back through Dacia Maraini's and her trips around the world with her close friends cinema director Pier Paolo Pasolini and opera singer...

Michael Crichton discusses his early career as a writer, leading up to his writing of the best-selling novel "The Andromeda Strain" and his...

A poetic look at the life and legacy of legendary author Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), who wrote over a hundred short stories and 44 novels of...

Dark and humorous, this extremely short film features a stream-of-conscious look at the writing process, told with animated images straight from the...