canva Tim Schildberger - Script Magazine - September 17th, 2025 All writers share a common bond. They’ve all committed time and energy to...

canva Tim Schildberger - July 18th, 2025 It’s OK if you’re not super familiar with the term ‘callback’. It’s not one of the most commonly...

The Poster for 'Black Bag' Tim Schildberger - March 18th, 2025 This is an optimistic post. I promise I come at this with the most...

Sean Baker with one of his 2025 Academy Awards. Courtesy of NPR ‘Anora’s' win for Best Original Screenplay is a slap in the face to the...

by Tim Schildberger - November 23, 2024 I recently went on a quick road trip to the middle of the USA. It was fascinating on many levels,...

By Tim Schildberger - November 12, 2024 Trigger reassurance…this is not an article written to make you feel any better or worse about the...

By Tim Schildberger - First published in Script Magazine Anora – winner of this year’s Palm d’Or at Cannes (the festival’s top prize) has...

Welcome to new beginning of sorts for the Write LA script competition. We’re changing a few things, and I figured I’d explain why!   For...

By Tim Schildberger - May 20th 2024 On paper, “The Fall Guy” ticks all the boxes. Great lead actors at the peak of their powers who have...

Tim Schildberger - Script Magazine - April 16th, 2024 We, the global film and TV audience are making it very clear what we want to watch,...

Tim Schildberger - Script Magazine - July 18, 2023 To: Any Studio Currently Spending $100+ Million to Make a Movie From: The Audience...

Tim Schildberger - Script Magazine - July 6th, 2023 ** No real spoilers in here. ** There’s a lot of talk about why the latest chapter...

Tim Schildberger - Script Magazine - June 22, 2023 I saw a video clip recently, where a very earnest actor/writer insisted creators...

TIM SCHILDBERGER AUGUST 28, 2022 One of the most often repeated bits of screenwriting advice bestowed upon the aspiring, from the...

A “vomit draft” is only worthwhile if you are emotionally prepared to write a radically different second draft. This article originally...

Hello, As someone who has worked hard over the last six years to create a community for writers and actors, I can tell you most of the...

HUGE NEWS!! We are thrilled to announce out 2021 Grand Prize Winners Mads Gauger and Christan Leonard have found representation, thanks...

The script for this movie, written and directed by the supremely talented Jane Campion...is bad. Quite bad actually. The film looks...

We're thrilled to reveal the video of the reading of our Grand Prize Winning Script! We did something different this year - it's more of...

Congratulations to the Grand Prize Winners of Write LA '21 - Mads Gauger and Christan Mary Leonard!! Their Pilot script 'That Woman' has...