Author @BrokenSleep @BloomsburyMedia, Screenwriter, Filmmaker, Lecturer in Screenwriting @EdinburghNapier, PhD Creative Writing @McrWritingSchl #XDissenter
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I've long said the 2 best books on screenwriting are by Paul Gulino and Linda Aronson, so to get cover endorsements from both slightly blew my mind...
BEYOND THE MONOPLOT out in Feb 2025, ask your uni library to order it (it's expensive). Affordable paperback coming 2026.
I'm not deleting this account, but I'll no longer post, on account of the owner being a neo-Nazi.
This is my BlueSky: chrisneilan.bsky.social
My 2nd article in the Journal of Screenwriting, this one looking at non-linear narrative structure in Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin
intellectdiscover.com/conten…
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We go through this ridiculous right-wing click bait nonsense every single natural disaster over this payment, which is the maximum allowed for immediate needs under the program, with more needing to be authorized by Congress, which Republicans are currently threatening to block.
This is an exceptionally good video essay published by Illuminace, a Czech film journal.
youtu.be/s-FwBeohmfo
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No filmmaker, writer or artist should ever have to tell the story of their own extermination. Yet 22 courageous Palestinian filmmakers found a way to film their story this past year in Gaza using whatever tools they could pull from the rubble of their homes and cities. The extraordinary film FROM GROUND ZERO — for which I am proud to be an Executive Producer — is the collection of these short films, told all together in under 2 hours. The fact that this film exists at all is a human and cinematic miracle. Go see FROM GROUND ZERO — in theaters now!
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I've long said the 2 best books on screenwriting are by Paul Gulino and Linda Aronson, so to get cover endorsements from both slightly blew my mind...
BEYOND THE MONOPLOT out in Feb 2025, ask your uni library to order it (it's expensive). Affordable paperback coming 2026.
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Everyone! Whether friend or not, have a great Christmas and look after those around you. Ultimately all we have is each other. Big love 👍💚🕺
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Immensely grateful for @davidehrlich's penetrating look at THE END, the enshittification of culture, and the urgent need to acknowledge and mourn the awful consequences of sentimental storytelling. "Otherwise, our tears are just for show."
Joshua Oppenheimer's The End is by far the best movie musical of 2024.
i wrote a bit about how it's one of the only films this year that confronts why "the power of storytelling" can absolve us from our moral obligation to help people in the real world
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He was there against the NF
He was there against apartheid
He was there against missiles
He was there against war
He was there for the students, the nurses and the refugees
And he's standing with the Palestinians, today.
Shoulder to shoulder in solidarity
Hell to the no
‘Harry Potter’ Inspired Argentina Horror Flick ‘The Witch Game,’ Dubbed in English Using AI, Acquired by Miracle Media for North America, U.K. variety.com/2024/film/global…
When the right wins, the argument from centrists is always and forever: move away from the left and closer to the right or die.
How's that working out in the UK?
'Just imagine - instead of watching a movie directed by Martin Scorsese, I can watch a movie that looks like an Xbox game directed by me.'
always loved this song
A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetery gates
ONE MINUTE OF ENLIGHTENMENT.
#johnnymarr #thesmiths
What is a one-act feature film?
Here's a 23min video-essay, derived from my presentation at the Screenwriters Research Network conference 2024 at Palacky University in Olomouc, Czechia, to explain.
More in my forthcoming book.
#screenwriting
vimeo.com/1032701648/9b2066f…