Recommended Screenwriters

ScreenwritingU Alum, Lee Tidball, (ProSeries 15, MSC 2) has been hired by producer, Ricci Moore of Ars Film Productions to rewrite a screenplay. The producer is currently packaging the project and getting funding. The second deal is a script based on a book series Lee optioned called “The Amish Bloodsuckers” Trilogy by the author, Barbara

ScreenwritingU Alum, Jo Hannah Afton, (ProSeries 52, MSC 4) had her screenplay “Ghost In The Fire” optioned by producer, Darlene Korf-Conte, of 100th Monkey Productions. The project out for funding and the producer is meeting with potential directors. Congrats Jo Hannah on the first of many deals!

ScreenwritingU Alum, Lee Tidball, (ProSeries 15, MSC 2) has been hired by producer, Ricci Moore of Ars Film Productions to rewrite a screenplay. The producer is currently packaging the project and getting funding. The second deal is a script based on a book series Lee optioned called “The Amish Bloodsuckers” Trilogy by the author, Barbara

ScreenwritingU Alum, JoAnn Hess, (ProSeries 43, MSC 3) has been hired by producer, Jason Cook, to write a feature film adaptation of a British gangster novel based on a true story. Cook is the producer of The Way Forward Productions and has already attached actor, Keith Mason to star in the movie. JoAnn has two

Christmas is about lights, trees, joy and family. Well… not when you’re in a Seth Rogen movie. Or is it? That’s the genius behind the R-rated Christmas movie called The Night Before. Written and directed by Jonathan Levine (Warm Bodies, 50/50, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane), the film is about three friends who come

More that 60 years ago novelist Patricia Highsmith wrote a controversial book about a relationship between two women in New York City in the late 1940s. The book’s title was The Price of Salt, and the author used a pseudonym due to the story’s content. Finally, after a long battle by one of the author’s

Just when you thought the romantic comedy was dead, along comes this little beauty staring Lake Bell and Simon Pegg. Man Up is the story of two people who meet on a blind date, only one of them isn’t supposed to be on that date. Wait, let’s back up for a minute. Because this is

“It’s about a video store who makes its money off of porno and powder,” says screenwriter Al Kratina when describing the new series 24 Hour Rental. Described as a mashup of Clerks and The Sopranos, 24 Hour Rental is part of a new crop of online shows who push the boundaries of what you can do when

Wrecker is the story of two women who after getting lost on a road trip, they become the random target of a psychotic truck driver. Writer and director Micheal Bafaro always loved chase movies and had a particular soft spot for one of Steven Spielberg’s first films, Duel, the story of a commuter who is

“This was literally non-paid labor for seven or eight years,” screenwriter John McNamara laughs when asked how he came across the idea to write Trumbo, the biopic about Hollywood’s most famous blacklisted screenwriter. “I wrote the screenplay on spec back in 2008. It’s the best David and Goliath story that Hollywood and Washington D.C. have