Getty Editor’s note: As part of Deadline’s ongoing coverage of the WGA strike, we have been giving voice to below-the-line workers who have been impacted by the work stoppage. Here, we decided to change gears by asking a writer to recall first-hand what it was like to create a low-budget comedy for Netflix that had […]
The inspiration for Cassandra In Reverse came—as art sometimes does—from heartbreak, or something quite like it. A short but intense relationship that unravelled so quickly, and so unexpectedly, I was left reeling. What had gone wrong? Was it my fault? What could I have done differently? Caught in a familiar, never-ending thought-loop, I spent months […]
This conversation is presented in partnership with the Refocus Film Festival, which celebrates the art of adaptation. The 2nd annual Refocus Film Festival will take place in Iowa City October 12-15, 2023. Passes are on sale now , with individual tickets and full festival announcements coming in September. * Scott Beck and Bryan Woods had […]
BCMN executive director Barbara Clara Makhalisa Nkala The Barbara Clara Makhalisa Nkala literary trust (BCMN) recently concluded its writing competition for children’s stories in IsiNdebele language, and the winners were announced recently. Calls for entrants to write stories for lower and upper primary were made at the beginning of the year. There was one winner […]
