Giving Voice: A Writer in the Classroom
The poet Donald Campbell gives workshops in an Edinburgh high school.
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Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer
A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing counselor for his next book by night.
Wang Shiwei: The Buried Writer
Wang Shiwei was known to most as the first victim of Chinese Communist Party's literary persecution, who was killed in 1947 while CCP troops were retreating from Yenan.
The Writer’s Dilemma
Authors Libby Daricek and Mark LaSalle are each working to finish their respective novels — Mark’s being a crime thriller, and Libby’s an emotional drama. But as they describe scenes from their works (and propose changes
The Writer's Block
A writer struggling to write her next bestseller decides to move into the house of a famous writer after her house goes up for sale in the hope of writing her next big novel.
The Writer's Burrow
Carlos writes crime novels but since the death of his wife he has been suffering from writer's block. When his publishing company sends an assistant at his house to help him overcome this difficulty, Carlos believes he m
On the Writer and Death
Documentary behind the making of Paul Driessen's animated short film The Writer.
Eric Carle, Picture Writer: The Art of the Picture Book
An intimate portrait of Eric Carle, creator of more than 70 books for children including the best-selling "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". At 82, Eric is still at work in his studio making books and creating art. As he met
The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room
The Big Daddy of televised comedy sketches, Sid Caesar had millions of Americans holding their sides and howling at his uproarious antics and those of his inspired sidekicks--Imogene Coca, Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, an
The Writer Who Hated the Swedish Language
A documentary about Antti Jalava, a Swedish-Finnish writer who was among the first to write about the immigrant experience in Sweden.
Sasha Sokolov. The Last Russian Writer
A story about the most mysterious and, possibly, the most significant of the living Russian-speaking writers - "Russian Salinger". Sasha Sokolov is a classic of Russian literature and Russian modernism, who influenced wr
A Writer in the Nuclear Age: A Conversation with Margaret Laurence
In this short film, internationally acclaimed author Margaret Laurence passionately addresses several issues related to peace: the social responsibility of the writer; language usage and reality; jargon and "newspeak"; i
Antonio Muñoz Molina, the Job of the Writer
María del Puy Alvarado, through her production company Malvalanda, faced the proposal to produce a documentary about the writer Antonio Muñoz Molina, in one of the programmes offered by Televisión Española to give an acc
The Thief and the Writer
Rahman is recently released from the prison and wants to make a decent life and not to return to the crime again. But anywhere he goes can't find a job so he decides to return to crime once again.
The Writer from a Country Without Bookstores
The ruthless dictator Teodoro Obiang has ruled Equatorial Guinea with an iron hand since 1979. Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel is the most translated Equatoguinean writer, but he had to flee the country in 2011, after starting a
An Owl, a Garden & the Writer
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi is one of the most prolific Iranian novelists. In this beautiful, poetic portrait, gracefully crafted by his filmmaker daughter Sara Dolatabadi, he reflects on his life throughout the turbulent 20th c
Musings From a Writer at the End of Days
A Writer - the last man on Earth, records his thought process to the only person who will listen. Himself…
Through the writer's mirror
In a small office cluttered with books and other detritus of the writer's life, filmmaker Alexandre Westphal and the writer Percival Everett explore his work. Archival images are projected onto the walls, invading the sp
Franz Kafka - Writer between the Worlds
During his lifetime, he commanded the burning of his complete stock of works, letters and writings after his passing away. Fortunately, his publisher and friend didn't carry out his wish and has in this way saved a cruc
The Writer and the Murderer: The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère
In 1993, Jean-Claude Romand murdered his entire family, shattering a lifetime of lies. Fascinated by the case from the beginning, French writer Emmanuel Carrère reviews the painful gestation of the book he dedicated to i