Pens are down, so we’ve decided to invite film and TV writers from all levels to the WGF Library for a chat about why stories matter to them. Of course, we couldn’t also help but ask some craft questions, so watch and learn helpful writing advice, from how they overcome challenging stages of the process to practical ways writers can start putting words on the page.
Scroll down for the latest video interviews and stay tuned for more!
On Day 2 of WGFestival 2022, we spent the early evening at Tudum Theater in Hollywood with Netflix Original Series creators and showrunners, including Wednesday's Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, From Scratch's Attica Locke and Tembi Locke, Grace and Frankie's Marta Kauffman, Dead to Me's Liz Feldman, and Stranger Things's The Duffer Brothers. Watch the video above to learn how they each crafted their series and their advice for tackling the challenges of writing and producing television.
Photo Credit: Michael Lynn Jones
On May 19, we teamed up with Netflix for “Inspired By…”, an evening with the best-selling authors of Bridgerton, MAID and Anatomy of a Scandal and the showrunners who have brought these entertaining and powerful stories from the page to the screen. Watch and learn about their processes for adapting the novels for streaming. For more content from Netflix FYSee events, click here.
Hilliard Guess with Bridgerton author Julia Quinn and showrunner Chris Van Dusen joining virtually. Photo courtesy of Netflix.
Hilliard Guess with Anatomy of a Scandal co-creator, writer and executive producer Melissa James Gibson and executive producer and author Sarah Vaughan. Photo courtesy of Netflix.
From left: Julia Quinn (Bridgerton), Molly Smith Metzler (MAID), moderator Hilliard Guess, Melissa James Gibson (Anatomy of a Scandal), Sarah Vaughan (Anatomy of a Scandal). Photo courtesy of Netflix.
Hilliard Guess with MAID Creator, Writer, Showrunner and Executive Producer Molly Smith Metzler. Photo courtesy of Netflix.
MAID showrunner Molly Smith Metzler at the Squid Game activation at Netflix’s FYSee Live experience. Photo courtesy of Netflix.
On March 9, WGF librarians Javier Barrios and Lauren O’Connor welcomed CODA writer/director Siân Heder for a Script Breakdown of her screenplay, which is nominated for a 2022 Writers Guild Award and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Watch and learn how Heder approaches crafting the script, from her outlining and extensive research to how she worked with the deaf community to tell an authentic story and translate the script into American Sign Language (ASL).
For more WGF Library Script Breakdown videos, click here.
We love awards season because it gives us an opportunity to gather some of the industry’s best writers to talk about their acclaimed projects. This year, we hosted Between the Lines, which highlights writers nominated for a 2022 Writers Guild Award for Episodic Drama and Episodic Comedy, and Beyond Words, which gathered nominees for the Writers Guild Awards for Adapted and Original Screenplay.
Watch each panel below. The 2022 Writers Guild Awards will be held on Sunday, March 20.
Panelists: Kerry Ehrin & Scott Troy (The Morning Show), Eboni Freeman & Kay Oyegun (This Is Us), David Schulner (New Amsterdam), Taylor Sheridan (1883), Kira Snyder (The Handmaid’s Tale). Moderated by Michael Schneider, Deputy TV Editor and Senior Editor, TV Awards, Variety
Panelists: Jonathan Green, Gabe Miller and Justin Spitzer (Superstore), Sterlin Harjo (Reservation Dogs), Lee Sung Jin (Dave), Steve Martin & John Hoffman (Only Murders In The Building), Tony McNamara (The Great), Saladin K. Patterson (The Wonder Years). Moderated by Lauren O’Connor, WGF Librarian.
Panelists: Guillermo del Toro (Nightmare Alley), Siân Heder (CODA), Tony Kushner (West Side Story), Steven Levenson (tick…tick…BOOM!), Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts, and Denis Villeneuve (Dune). Moderated by Franklin Leonard, Founder and CEO of The Black List.
Panelists: Zach Baylin (King Richard), Adam McKay (Don’t Look Up), and Aaron Sorkin (Being the Ricardos). Moderated by Franklin Leonard, Founder and CEO of The Black List.
