Writer's Block

Troy tries to find inspiration while he continuously hits writer's block.

The Writer With No Hands

A British propaganda expert goes to Hollywood to solve a CIA murder mystery - but his cameraman has other ideas.

John Steinbeck: An American Writer

Although he won the world's top literary prize, Steinbeck never lost his own sense of inferiority. Playwrights Edward Albee and Terrence McNally, as well as Steinbeck's widow and son, offer their special insights on the

The Writer's Room

Two screenwriters go through different stages of friendship and fame in this 15 minute short film.

Writer's Block

Two friends try to help a writer overcome his writer's block through increasingly eccentric methods.

Writer's Workshop

Aspiring writer Jeremy attends an exclusive writer's workshop session. A dark, absurdist look at the world of creative writing peer review.

Writer's Block

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

Tom Robbins: A Writer in the Rain

A half-hour program about the life and writing of this popular author. Partially funded by Bumbershoot, The Seattle Arts Festival. Broadcast on KCTS, and screened at Bumbershoot award ceremony honoring Robbins, August 19

I'm a Writer

Growing up, Walter accepted that having dyslexia meant he would never be a writer. Now, in his final year of screenwriting, Walter works to finish his feature film script. Walter is one of thousands of aspiring Australia

On the Writer and Death

Documentary behind the making of Paul Driessen's animated short film The Writer.

The Ghost Writer Show - The Call of Cthulhu

In a haunted cemetery, the ghost of a writer dramatizes the short story “The Call of Cthulhu”, by H. P. Lovecraft, to an audience of skeletons.

Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man, Celebrated Writer

Ralph Ellison was an African-American writer and essayist, who's only novel Invisible Man (1953) gained a wide critical success. Ellison's ambitious journey from a childhood of hardship and poverty to celebrated African

The Writer’s Horror

An egotistical horror writer turns to ChatGPT for help in writing a new script. As artificial intelligence blurs the lines between fiction and reality, eerie and disturbing events unfold in an isolated cabin in the fores

The Writer's Room

Two writers work to generate story ideas for their next film against the deadline of their pitch meeting in the morning.

Portrait of a failed writer

At the age of twenty-three Joris writes his first novel and starts filming himself while opening letters from publishing houses. He receives nothing but rejections letters, but keeps on writing. Eight novels in seventeen

Isabel Allende: A Writer in Exile

A look at the life and work of Chilean writer Isabel Allende, the most widely read author in Spanish, with a special focus on her latest novel.

Beggar Writer's House

Why do we care for writers who don't care for anything or anybody, even not for themselves? Still we need them and feed them, we love them and give shelter. Can it be that at certain moments we would like to be writers a

Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith

Portrait of Georg Glaser, who is a writer in the mornings and a blacksmith in the afternoons.

Detective Ushio vs. Case Writer Saeko: Survivors

The body of Kazuyoshi Kawagishi, a construction company worker, is discovered stabbed to death in Shinjuku Central Park in Tokyo. Detective Masanao Ushio of Shinjuku West PD begins an investigation and finds that the mur