Will Mitchell, a film student in college, has a screenplay due in class in one week but is having sever writers block. This begins a tumultuous few days as Will refuses to leave his apartment until he has a finished script, leading to a worsening and worsening mental state.
Uses live action and still photography to show how to develop paragraphs logically according to time, space or contrast. Suggests the use of transitions to connect ideas smoothly.
Multipart Documentaries released with the BluRay of the movie, looking into the creation and production of Ad Astra, with interviews of Cast and Crew. Consists of : To The Stars, A Man Named Roy, The Crew Of The Cepheus, The Art Of 'Ad Astra', Reach For The Stars
A creative writing student brimming with inner monologues suffers from writer's block while trying to write his so-called "masterpiece," all the while a strange man waits outside his house
Michael Crichton discusses his early career as a writer, leading up to his writing of the best-selling novel "The Andromeda Strain" and his involvement with the making of the film.
Alex (a young journalist) seeks to quit his job writing tabloid articles and instead pursue a writing career fuelled by his use of LSD on the other side of the world.
A son inherits the unhealthy habits of his work-obsessed father to write the perfect student short story.
Mason Mecartea and Rob Hull push their brains to the limits in order to make the perfect film submission for Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show Film Festival.
After being discovered by a top writer online, a high schooler learns that his idol isn't who thought him to be.
Oliver doesn't know how to deal with the fact that he is not with the girl he loves. So in desperation for coping with his feelings he starts to write letters in which he describes all the feelings and thoughts that he's trying to bury deep down.
Several puppets convene at a wooded retreat for a weekend-long writing workshop in which secrets are spilled and lives changed.
Russian Roulette takes you on a journey across Russia and Ukraine, exploring post-soviet underground- systems of Kiev, Kharkov, Minsk, Moscow, Nizhny, Novgorod, and St. Petersburg.
The reason why there isn't a cast or a crew list and all the artists' faces are blurred is that this film portrays people breaking the law.
A poetic exploration of the multi-generational affects of Canada's Indian Residential School system, based on the personal trials of Aboriginal playwright Yvette Nolan.
In this dialogue-driven, "second coming of age" comedic drama, Felix has all but given up on his pursuit of becoming a filmmaker when he meets Stella, a down to Earth, chain-smoking cinephile, whose unexpected friendship inspires him to start writing again–and falling for her. Never hesitating to take steps outside of reality through the use of movies within movies, found footage and action sequences, Mountainside is also a love letter to film itself.
A writer turns his sense of alienation and isolation during a party in the house of the woman he loves into an astronaut's lonely journey to an unknown planet. Both - writer and astronaut - set out in search of answers and life in hostile environments.
A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of Britain's greatest poets.
The narration of a letter which consists of themes such as the passing of time, the unexpectedness of life, the fear of death, and the fear of change.
Two writers work to generate story ideas for their next film against the deadline of their pitch meeting in the morning.
Tatiana faces an economic crisis that has forced her to be temporarily away from her kids, her "gang", as she calls them. By writing out her feelings and covering her wall with pictures of the kids, Tatiana opens her heart from the loneliness of a rented room in Bogotá. While she attempts with determination to let her kids know that, despite the circumstances, she is still there for them.