Filmmaker Chris Robert Riegel Manages His “Expectations” In His Companion Piece Of The Charles Dickens Classic (Part 1)
Filmmaker Chris Robert Riegel has a unique background as both a financier and filmmaker through his Rainmaker banner. He is known for being involved with award-winning feature films including Dallas Buyers Club, Stealing Cars, and Stowaway. Furthermore, he has worked his creative muscles by directing movies including Another You and Ten and has recently completed […]
“Writers Shouldn’t Compare Their First Draft To An Oscar Winner’s Final Draft” Steve Harper Talks Screenwriting
“I started out as an actor and that was in the driver’s seat of my life for a couple of decades. I did a bunch of that and I felt like I eventually hit a wall in terms of the kinds of things that I was getting offered and the kinds of projects that I […]
Film & TV Writer Kayla Alpert Discusses The Changing Face Of The Biz
Known for her work on Wednesday, Emily In Paris, and Code Black, prolific film and television writer Kayla Alpert spoke with Creative Screenwriting Magazine about building and sustaining a career in a business which has dramatically changed since she started. “I started as a staff writer on a sketch show called All That in 1994,” […]
Writers Dan Hernandez & Benji Samit On Writing Partnerships
The Meeting Of Minds “We met at Brown University where we both went to college. I think that our initial bond was through silence,” says Dan. “We both did a lot of theater in college so we were in similar circles, but for the first few years of college, we didn’t actually know each […]
TV Writer & Playwright Sofya Levitsky-Weitz Talks “The Dropout” & “The Bear” (Part 1)
“I started writing professionally as a playwright and that was my entry point to film and TV,” says Sofya Levity-Weitz (The Dropout) who works on the wildly successful TV show The Bear, starring Jeremy Allan White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Ayo Edebiri. “I also acted and directed in preschool and undergrad. Then I went to graduate […]
