Are you made of the ‘write’ stuff? a youth film academy has started its search for screenplays to be made into full length feature films next year. The Co-operative British Youth Film Academy gives 14-25 year-olds unique experiences of the movie industry and is seeking new scripts or, screenplays of classics, for next summer’s filming schedule. It is backed by The Co-operative Group as part of…

Adrian Mead, hairdresser-turned-writer, has written a guide to selling your screenplay that's been getting great reviews from some of the big names of the screenwriting world. Best of all, all the money raised from the £7.79 download goes to Childline - with over £1,000 raised in the first week alone. Adrian wrote and directed the award winning £300,000 feature Night People (pictured) with produ…

Celtx is a free open-source Canadian scriptwriting programme that connects with an online community where you can develop the script with other collaborators and writers. Unlike some of the other pretty cool free online scriptwriting tools, like Zhura.com, Scripped, PlotBot and ScriptBuddy - Celtx is a standalone piece of software so you don't need to be online to use it.  It has built in st…

At the touted advertising rate of $60 per 1000 web video views, this could have earned the producers up to $3m for a two minute short, with no notable initial outlay. With the Studios showing no sign of responding to the seemingly reasonable demands of the Writers Guild of America, and the threat of a joke-free Oscar ceremony on the horizon, the LA Times is reporting that writers are n…

FilmingFolk are now accepting submissions to their 2008 Short Film Script Competition. Get your script turned into that all important short film.  

Veteran Hollywood screenwriter Syd Field held a two-day workshop for wannabe writers in London’s Bloomsbury last weekend (12th/13th May), in association with Moviescope magazine. The event drew in participants from far-flung lands: “there are nine different countries represented here today,” as the man himself said. Suchandrika Chakrabarti joined them. Syd began the course with a short biograp…

  This week Hot Fuzz the new film from the makers of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced was screening at New York's Lincoln Center. PSFK, the website that likes to keep an eye on new trends went along. PSFK's verdict is that the film is superb - go see it - but what's more interesting is the way they wrote the script and filmed it....

  Its portrayal of the lives of heroin addicts in Scotland's capital was the unlikely smash that put the country on the movie-making map and brought international fame and fortune to its home-grown cast.  Trainspotting became one of the greatest British films ever made, ushering in a new era of gritty Scottish films that have generated millions of pounds for the economy. N…

We've said no to lots of people who want to make it into a cool, big commercial film... The ever wonderful BoingBoing is reporting on an RU Sirius interview with Neil Gaiman earlier this week where the author of Mirrormask and the forthcoming Matthew Vaughan helmed Stardust, talked about long discussed plans for Terry Gilliam to direct his novel Good Omens. Like Lars von Trier's…