Working Surface: A Short Study (with Actors) in the 'Ways' of a Bourgeois Writer
Bill Douglas plays a writer struggling with a script about the interior lives of two women (played by Joanna David and Heather Page).
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Bill Douglas plays a writer struggling with a script about the interior lives of two women (played by Joanna David and Heather Page).
Magazine Writer Phil Austin meets Stripper Becca on an interview assignment, and ends up giving her a ride to her Dad's "Survivalist" compound in the middle of nowhere.
A drama depicting the world of the female writer Midori Osaki in three parts: the dramatic creation of her masterpiece, "Wanderings in the Realm of the Seventh Sense," her unknown years spent in poor health and poverty,
Documentary about writer Charles Portis, author of True Grit.
A desperate screenwriter who turns to AI to salvage his failing script, only to find out the software can rewrite his reality as well.
Two political speech-writers struggle to spin the antics of an unlikely leader.
This short showcases composers and lyricists of songs that are now considered standards of American popular music. For several of these song writers, this is their only known appearance in a theatrically released film.
Mitchell Dyer has always been a loner. The only two things he has ever been passionate about are his inventions and his autograph collection. He has only one friend, Vance Marlow. One day, while Mitchell is working in hi
In this slacker bro-mantic comedy, writing partners Dulal and Mainak dream of shaking up the Bollywood film industry, however their scripts are continually rejected by all the big producers. They find some hope when the
Andy Richter hosts a comedy special featuring several of late-night talker Conan O'Brien's writers and a musical performance by comic Reggie Watts. Recorded at the 2010 Just for Laughs festival in Chicago.
For more than a century, New York’s Greenwich Village was home, playground, and inspiration to many of America’s leading writers and artists—Henry James, Edith Wharton, Eugene O’Neill, Theodore Dreiser, Stephen Crane, Ed
Yari Yari -- Black Women Writers and the Future: An International Conference on Literature by Women of African Descent was held at New York University in October 1997. Yari Yari means "the future" in the Kuranko language
This installment of the Great Women Writers series celebrates the collective talent of the Bronte sisters by reciting passages from their works.
In 2007, the Writers Guild of America, the Screenwriters Union, hit an impasse in their contract negotiations with the Studios. At the center of the dispute was jurisdiction over the internet. Unable to make progress, th
A touching story about little Futyan and his sister Matiko. Their parents are very poor, but the children are not discouraged—they run to school together and find many interesting things in life. The children love litera
Writers of crime fiction and nonfiction discuss influential movies about police officers and the criminal element.
Following the appeal of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, founding member of the International Parliament of Writers besieged in Ramallah, a delegation of writers went there to demonstrate alongside the Palestinians
RAVE NEW SOULS is a documentary detailing the thoughts, goals and inspirations of a new generation of Black creators in graphic novels, television, cinema, literature and digital media. Producer/director Brandon M. Easto
An author of popular fantasy novels discovers that the mythical world he’s known for creating is actually real.
Mark Gatiss steps into the mind of M.R. James, the enigmatic English master of the supernatural story. How did this donnish Victorian bachelor, conservative by nature and a devout Anglican, come to create tales that cont