Interview Series

Wrecker is the story of two women who after getting lost on a road trip, they become the random target of a psychotic truck driver. Writer and director Micheal Bafaro always loved chase movies and had a particular soft spot for one of Steven Spielberg’s first films, Duel, the story of a commuter who is

“This was literally non-paid labor for seven or eight years,” screenwriter John McNamara laughs when asked how he came across the idea to write Trumbo, the biopic about Hollywood’s most famous blacklisted screenwriter. “I wrote the screenplay on spec back in 2008. It’s the best David and Goliath story that Hollywood and Washington D.C. have

Truth is a film about one of the last major stories CBS news anchor Dan Rather reported on before he retired from a long career as a veteran journalist. In 2004, president George W. Bush was campaigning for re-election, and the news media was intrigued about his former days in the national guard. This is where

It seems hard to believe that women less than 100 years ago didn’t have the right to vote. But does it seem even harder to believe that women still suffer from inequality in 2015? This was noted recently in an essay penned by actress Jennifer Lawrence about how she fails to understand why women are

After writing a script that got the attention of several Hollywood creative executives, writing partners Alistair Legrand and Luke Harvis pitched the idea for The Diabolical. It may seem like an easy task to have a meeting on one project and pitch another, but it takes more than that to get a movie made in

It’s been 50 years since Ford unveiled the first Mustang. The moment was revolutionary for American cars and its pop culture. “People have a real emotional connection,” says director David Gelb of the relationship many people around the world have with the car. “I had this feeling of how cool Mustang was and had these fond

Screenwriter Jason Fuchs has been obsessed with Peter Pan since he and his dad were stuck on the Peter Pan ride at Disney World when he was 9 years old. Since then, Fuchs has been fascinated with the idea of writing Peter Pan’s origin story. Fuchs says he remembers being fascinated by all kinds of

The most famous chess player of our time is also the most complicated. In the late 1950s, a boy from Brooklyn named Bobby Fischer took the world by storm when he became the youngest grandmaster in chess up at age 15.When screenwriter Steven Knight sat down to write Pawn Sacrifice, the new biographical thriller about the chess

It took screenwriter Jeff Gendelman nearly two decades to see his quiet, psychological thriller The Surface become a reality. The story takes place on Lake Michigan where a young man comes across a stranger who is delivering a mysterious package. The film co-stars Sean Astin, Mimi Rogers and Chris Mulkey. “I grew up on the lake

“With every character I write I try to put myself in their shoes,” says writer/director Mora Stephens of the troubled protagonist in her new thriller, Zipper, the story of a rising political star who becomes obsessed with call girls. Zipper, staring Patrick Wilson, has been a festival favorite for its unique point-of-view of a protagonist who