Movies: Writing

A writer tells a joke. Complications ensue....

Like a ticking time-bomb, Ronnie tries to hold his personal relationships and artistic career together while struggling with a debilitating writers block. "A Beautiful Rush" is a silent film that explores what it means to be selfish and lose sight o...

imagine... follows celebrated British TV writer Russell T Davies as he prepares to return as the showrunner of Doctor Who – with two Doctors and bigger ambitions....

Two writers work to generate story ideas for their next film against the deadline of their pitch meeting in the morning....

After fighting with his boss and losing his job, Monty, a semi-successful thespian, flees back home to live with his parents under false pretenses. His old friends and family are left to deal with his inflated ego, while he comes to terms with the fa...

Several puppets convene at a wooded retreat for a weekend-long writing workshop in which secrets are spilled and lives changed....

Mason Mecartea and Rob Hull push their brains to the limits in order to make the perfect film submission for Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show Film Festival....

Unable or unwilling to conform to the rigid atmosphere of Washington and Lee College as a freshman, Ed bailed out after a brief stint there to attend—and graduate from—Miami of Ohio. After graduate work at UK, he left for the Left Coast, and it suite...

This feature doc profiles acclaimed writer Alistair MacLeod. Hailed internationally as a master of the short story, MacLeod also wrote a novel, No Great Mischief, which was celebrated around the world. Depicting men and women living out their lives a...

A journey back through Dacia Maraini's and her trips around the world with her close friends cinema director Pier Paolo Pasolini and opera singer Maria Callas. An in-depth story of this fascinating woman's life. Maraini's memories come alive through ...

A man writing a script slowly realises that what he is writing is happening real-time...

Documentary tracing the extreme life of outlaw writer, performance artist and punk icon, Kathy Acker. Through animation, archival footage, interviews and dramatic reenactments, director Barbara Caspar explores Acker's colorful history, from her well-...

A mysterious young woman will appear in Clément’s solitary life. She will guide him and accompany him to his inner liberation....

Upon a stay in his grandparent's countryside house, young writer Matt begins to encounter strange happenings as he attempts to write his first novel....

Oliver doesn't know how to deal with the fact that he is not with the girl he loves. So in desperation for coping with his feelings he starts to write letters in which he describes all the feelings and thoughts that he's trying to bury deep down....

A documentary exploring two student artists and their unfinished projects, discussing why certain projects are abandoned and the personal connections that the creator may have to them....

Documentary about the writer Thomas Verbogt and the creation of his latest work. The film shows how Verbogt takes a radical experience from his earliest childhood as the starting point for a novel. Drawn animations, combined with filmed scenes, depic...

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A film school graduate struggles to come up with an idea for his final project....

A writer becomes obsessed with creating the greatest novel....