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Compensation
With regard to writers, the money paid for writing services or for the sale of a screenplay. Also called "consideration." ....
Complications Ensue
The Crafty TV and Screenwriting Blog by Alex Epstein, a narrative designer for games, a writer for television and movies, a director, and an author.....
Composer
Musician whose music appears in a movie's score. ....
Composite Print
Print with a images and sound on the same strip of film. ....
Concept
The concept of your script is the idea or story premise. And every story is about an interesting character, who wants something badly, and is having trouble getting it.....
Concept to Pages Italy Writing Retreat
Ready to run away to Italy to write your next script?
*Please note, this is a writing retreat, not a contest*
PageCraft's Concept to Pages writing retreat is designed to move each project forward, offering you analysis and discussion with our leader and collaboration with fellow writers. We focus on exchanging ideas and pages so that you fe....
Confederation Internationale des Societes d\'Auteur
We promote the interests of creators and provide the highest business standards to protect their rights.....
Conflict
Conflict occurs when a character finds him/herself in a predicament, facing obstacles - physical, psychological, social - that requires him/her to take decisive action.....
Conformations
Varying progressive versions of a film that is in the editing stage. ....
Connecticut Office of Film,Television & Digital Media
Serves as liaison between production companies, state agencies, municipalities, production facilities, local crew and vendors.....
Conquer Writer\'s Block with Jacob Krueger
What if you could write any time you wanted to: confidently, passionately, and even joyfully? What kind of writer would you be then? Find out in this mind-opening free teleseminar with award winning screenwriter Jacob Krueger how to root out writers block at the source, and banish it from your life. Jacob will show you powerful techniques you....
Conquering Writer's Block with Jacob Krueger
WriteYourScreenplay.com founder and the creator of the Jacob Krueger Studio in New York (and online) talks with host, Laurie Lamson, during one of the ISA's recent free teleconferences about getting and breaking through that dreaded cycle of writer's block. Some believe writer's block is an outside force that affects each ....
Contact Print
Copy of a print whether it be a workprint, answer print, or release print. ....
Contest Winner: Blue Cat, Kimi Howl Lee
With her script Mouth, Kimi won the Grand Prize at the prestigious 2015 Blue Cat Screenplay Competition. MOUTH explores the notion that in a sense, all relationships are somewhat transactional. The title is derived from Sam Shepard and Patti Smith’s play Cowboy Mouth, which is featured in the script, about two alcoholic....
Contest Winner: ISA's Fast Track, Martin Blinder
One of two chosen writers of the ISA’s inaugural Fast Track Mentorship Program, Martin was a professor of law at UC Hastings College and professor of psychiatry at UC Medical Center, and the Langley Porter Institute. As a career forensic psychiatrist he has interviewed over 300 killers in his multiple decades of work, often just h....
Contest Winner: ISA's Fast Track, Melissa Birks
The ISA’s inaugural Fast Track Mentorship Program chose two writers to participate in meetings with six industry executives, Melissa Birks was one of the writers chosen with her project, Uncaged – a thriller set in the 19th century and touted as a light origin story of Jack The Ripper. Melissa has worked as a journalist for ....
Contest Winner: Multiple Wins and Recent Script Option, Mark Robertson
Mark Robertson trained as an actor at Edinburgh’s Queen Margaret University, after which he appeared in numerous stage plays and London West End musicals. Since turning to writing full time, Mark has become a prolific writer on various UK television series, including Shaun the Sheep and Chop-Socky Chooks (Aardman Animation); D....
Contest Winner: Table Read My Screenplay Best Drama, Lucy Luna
Despite Lucy’s young age, she has been lucky enough to learn directly from the “big ones” such as, Syd Field, Robert McKee, Linda Seger, Michael Hauge, and John Truby. As well as from the Mexican Academy Award nominee, Guillermo Arriaga, and was Paula Markovitch’s former student. Lucy recently graduated from the New ....
Contest Winner: Table Read My Screenplay London, Derek Asaff
A Harvard grad, Derek Asaff pursued a general business degree in college but quickly realized that writing and literature was his real passion. Eventually gravitating toward the screenwriting realm, Derek focused nearly all of his time on educating himself on the craft and improving his own writing ability through mentorships and conti....
Contest Winner: Table Read My Screenplay Park City, Ed Klau
Edward Klau is from Miami and has lived in Los Angeles since 2000. When not working as a producer in reality television, he has written twenty six screenplays including Brights, the Grand Prize Winner of the Table Read My Screenplay - Screenplay Contest, Park City. Other scripts including Invisible Scars, Criminal Element, Pyramid and Plan ....
