Inneresting 40
issue 40
February 21, 2021
Yes, Virginia, there’s still an awards season
With nominations and For Your Consideration notices circulating in the world of film and television, what writers have that awards buzz? And, more importantly, what can writers learn from them?
Let’s start with a virtual roundtable held by The Hollywood Reporter, featuring Aaron Sorkin (The Trial of the Chicago 7), Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman), Radha Blank (The Forty-Year-Old Version), Sam Levinson (Malcolm & Marie), and Kemp Powers (One Night in Miami, Soul).
One-on-One Conversations with Talked-About Writers
Looking to spend a little more time with an individual writer to get to know more about their work and process?
Nomandland’s Chloe Zhao discusses what it was like to work on a personal film while also getting ready to make her mark on the Marvel Cinematic Universe. You can also look back at her earlier film The Rider with this interview about writing for non-actors.
Screenwriting Magazine talks to Andy Siara about Palm Springs, and the 90s films that inspired the film.
Emerald Fennell tells PopSugar all about writing and directing Promising Young Woman, working with actors from an actor’s perspective, and writing fan fiction. She’s also featured at Shondaland, where she digs into the inspirations for the film.
Lee Isaac Chung (screenwriter of Minari) and Min Jin Lee (author of Pachinko) sit down for a conversation about Minari, presented by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.
For Your Consideration
You’ve seen the films (or they’re still in your queue), but now that you*re seeing who’s nominated for the big screenwriting awards, how can you get a look at what those films looked like on the page? Take a look at Weekend Read!
Weekend Read is a free app that makes it easier to read screenplays on your phone. It melts PDFs to give you a perfectly-formatted version for your small screen.
We’ve just added over a dozen of the best scripts of the past year in our For Your Consideration 2021 list. Just download the app and you’re all set to check out copies of some of this year’s award contenders.
But what if you’ve finished this year’s list and you’re thirsty for more? You’ll find additional collections of some of our favorite scripts of all time across many genres, or you can import PDF scripts on your own!
Other Cool Things
At TEDXSydney, Simon Stone gives a humorous and heartfelt explanation of the tools of theatrical performance and how stage craft can change the meaning of a moment.
Television characters in the 1990s knew the struggle to understand new technology was real. This compilation showcases the frustrations of then-new concepts like email, virtual goggles, and fatal disc errors.
With both characters and icebergs, the conventional wisdom is that 90% of them are hidden beneath the water. But in the case of water, computers can simulate what you’d actually see.
And that’s what’s inneresting this week!
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