Taking Bollywood more seriously: the career of Salman Khan
WriteMovies Director Ian Kennedy writes: Why Bollywood should take ITSELF more seriously! The career of Salman Khan and the Bollywood tropes that hold the Indian film industry back…
FULL CONFESSION – Spring Contest 3rd Place Winner!
After receiving an Honorable Mention in our Winter Contest, the third placed script from our Spring Contest has kept getting better and better, and shows why you should always keep working to improve your script: FULL CONFESSION by Michael Mack!
Taking Bollywood more seriously: classic SHOLAY’s scriptwriting
Ian Kennedy writes: In this series of articles, I’m exploring some reasons we should take Bollywood cinema more seriously – it’s definitely not for everyone, but I for one find it a refreshing way to enjoy movies on different terms to the normal Hollywood mindset. Here, I’ll be looking at the biggest classic of the Bollywood system, SHOLAY (1975), to show why it’s got something distinctive to offer English-speaking audiences.
SHOLAY’s scriptwriting works differently to Hollywood classics and as a script analyst and producer I find that refreshing. On my editors’ suggestions, the film and its songs also found a place in several episodes of the drama series I used to write for, so I had a personal connection to it long before I saw the movie, which made it even more enjoyable to finally see it years later.
Spring 2021 Screenwriting Contest – Winners Announced!
It’s the day we’ve all been waiting for – today we announce the winners of the WriteMovies Spring 2021 Screenwriting Contest! This is the last major contest we’ll be running this year, so it’s extra exciting for us to see which entries emerge as the winners that we’ll be working to develop and pitch to industry.
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Spring 2021 Screenwriting Contest – Semi-Finalists!
The latest step towards our final Grand Prize of 2021 is revealed today. Our Semi-Finalists for the Spring 2021 Contest cover a fascinating range of subjects, with wideranging and often distinctive execution. Congratulations to all of them for presenting scripts that we felt were engaging and had good potential to go further.
Spring 2021 Screenwriting Contest – Quarter-Finalists Announced!
Today is a big day in the WriteMovies calendar, as we announce the Quarter-Finalists of our final Grand Prize contest of 2021, with hundreds of writers looking out to see who’s in the running this time via our many platforms.