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the story of a screenwriter

An aspiring director works hard to fulfill his dream of making a movie. However, in the purely commercial process of turning a script into the final product, he faces so many challenges and is forced to make so many changes that his original story completely loses its authenticity. In the end, it becomes a comic farce, but will it become a success at the box office?

A renowned reporter of the 9 PM news program on the national television of Numbfoul makes a sudden statement during a live broadcast, leading to the revelation of truths and ensuing chaos in the story that follows.

Neo illust is a director who stages a courtroom scene for her murdered boyfriend to seek revenge on his killer, as instructed by the organization.

A small educational video about writing your first screenplay.

At the end of his life, gravely ill, François Truffaut took refuge with his ex-wife Madeleine Morgenstern. She tried to keep him occupied during his long agony. The filmmaker confided in his friend Claude de Givray, with the intention of writing his autobiography. Too weakened, he abandoned the project. The film reveals part of this final story.

A short film about the award ceremony at Berlinale '21 and then also about a snail.

An immensely successful film director is getting ready for his latest release when he gets the shock of his life - his wife wants a divorce. He places a condition before her, that the two of them should spend 24 hours in a far off place, with no other people and no outside communication, after which she can do as she pleases. She agrees and they drive to a farmhouse, but will 24 hours be enough for him to re-captivate his wife?

A writer who struggles with his current relationship. His desire's can't be satisfied and he searches for answers while writing his next screenplay. After a while he realizes that the character he spends so much time with might be closer to his heart than he thaught.

Part 9 of the 14-part documentary series which discovers cultural roots and aesthetics of modern Iranian films and the relationship between different Persian art forms and Iranian Cinema.

A man attempts to remain hidden from view from the camera and other eyes.

An original illustrated 110 minute recording by The Pythons of their early screenplay in progress.

A visual essay by writer and filmmaker Jon Spira exploring the evolution of Silent Running's screenplay

This film is an episodic look at the lives of artists who have been separated from their normal lives for nearly a century to create their works. And each time, they switch places with their lover; So that she can continue their unfinished path... Until the next separation comes, and the next, and the next...

A movie script writer tries to create a storyboard for an upcoming project, which is causing her stress, with writer’s block and a deadline to meet, but when she finally creates the perfect story in her mind, the antics of the game begins. Starring Mike Ezuruonye, Mercy Aigbe, Vicky Nwogu, Ejike Obinna and Ejike Ibedilo.

Amy, a writer for a film production company, desperately pitches ideas to a less than interested supervisor.

Using existing film clips to piece together the story prototype of the director's next script, while connecting the various interpretations of such stories in the works of several generations of film history figures.

A young, aspiring screenwriter envisions the over-dramatic death of his parents in an attempt to combat his writer's block.

A suspect is brought to a London police station charged with gross indecency. Police at the station believe he is connected with a murder in the area earlier that night, but the suspect refuses to speak.

Prison inmate Danny Monk does not foresee the circumstances when he barricades himself in a cell during a prison riot with Prison Officer Green as hostage.

To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.

The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is now in the tenth year of a decade-long string of production failures. He finds himself bonding with a new neighbor's lonely young daughter who has mild cerebral palsy; and during one of his middle-of-the-night strolls, he encounters his oddball doppelgänger.

Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.

Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, Nick Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan. Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative and forced to live up to his own legend, channeling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters in order to save himself and his loved ones.

Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.

An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends.

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Monica is a social worker in Mexico City, whose son has a degenerative illness in both eyes. Having exhausted all other options, a corneal transplant is the only hope. Overwhelmed by the slowness of the health care system and the scarcity of resources, she decides to search for an extreme solution in her work environment: the world of street children.

Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been in Paris supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. Benson now has just two days to the deadline and thus hires a temporary secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to help him finish on time.

Hunting down the murderer of their families in an anarchic Berlin of the near future, the outlaws Tan and Javid find themselves trapped in the wicked fairytale of a mysterious screenplay that entangles them in a vicious circle of revenge – apparently all written by a clueless dentist.

After one of his class papers is stolen and turned into a movie, a young student and his best friend exact a hilarious, slapstick revenge on the Hollywood hot shot who has taken credit!

Paul is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.

Flighty Emily "Jacks" Jackson works for the British edition of Vogue magazine. Rather than pursue a relationship, Jacks regularly hooks up with her devoted ex-boyfriend, James Wildstone, and lives with Peter Simon, a gay screenwriter. When Jacks meets Argentinian photographer's assistant Paolo Sarmiento, she assumes he is gay and tries to bring him and Peter together, unaware that Paolo is straight and in love with her.

A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.

Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.

Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them.

A grief-stricken screenwriter unknowingly enters a three-way relationship with a woman and her film executive husband - to chilling results.

One year after her father's death, a high school senior discovers the epic screenplay for a terrible space opera — written by her dad. Equipped with just a VHS camera and pocket change, she decides to honor her late father and make this script a reality.

Olive Oyl's screenplay for an Aladdin movie comes to life and Popeye battles for control of a genie in this, the last of the three Popeye color films.

Dave is a professional internet troll who lies for a living. Candace works at a blood lab with a bipolar boss. They meet online and discover it's hard to hug someone when you're keeping them at arm's length.

A cop suffering from "posterior ulcers" tries to catch a serial killer who seeks out victims with medical problems. One suspect is a man who makes pies from guts, which the cop inadvertantly eats. Eventually the hero cop finds himself tied to an operating table with the killer preparing to deal with his "posterior ulcers"!

Everyone seems to want to stop General Tsai from leaving Peking.

A girl who weds her love against her wishes repents after their daughter is born and her decision makes her husband leave her. He returns 10 years later to see the child.

Nicholas, a ruler of the Zinba Empire, wants to expand his territory and Earth is his main target. After Nicholas destroys City Orion and Earth's defences, three youngsters must find the Phoenix King, the only hope for Earth's survival against this all-conquering foe.