Movies: Writing

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Documentary tracing the extreme life of outlaw writer, performance artist and punk icon, Kathy Acker. Through animation, archival footage, interviews and dramatic reenactments, director Barbara Caspar explores Acker's colorful history, from her well-...

A 50-year-old housewife, Manana, struggles with her dilemma - she has to choose between her family life and her passion, writing, which she had repressed for years - she decides to follow her passion and plunges herself into writing, sacrificing to i...

This feature doc profiles acclaimed writer Alistair MacLeod. Hailed internationally as a master of the short story, MacLeod also wrote a novel, No Great Mischief, which was celebrated around the world. Depicting men and women living out their lives a...

Ricardo Azolar is looking for the right words, the exact phrases that will give him literary glory. The days are sterile and lacking in those brilliant ideas that should allow him to express through narrative, the fertile flow arising from the imagin...

After fighting with his boss and losing his job, Monty, a semi-successful thespian, flees back home to live with his parents under false pretenses. His old friends and family are left to deal with his inflated ego, while he comes to terms with the fa...

At the beginning of winter, a filmmaker retires for six months to a hermit's cabin in the middle of the forest, cut off from the world and its means of communication. Through the words of four women she has filmed previously, all of whom have dedicat...

Japanese writer Kyoko Murakai comes to in Paris with the purpose of meeting “mythic Parisian women” and uncover the secret of their fulfilling lifestyles, which, she hopes, will serve as an inspiration for the main character of her next novel. This l...

A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of Britain's greatest poets....

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...

After being discovered by a top writer online, a high schooler learns that his idol isn't who thought him to be....

A normal night is changed by a prewritten script...

imagine... follows celebrated British TV writer Russell T Davies as he prepares to return as the showrunner of Doctor Who – with two Doctors and bigger ambitions....

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You are in the countryside. Just you and your girlfriend. You hope that with the silence of an isolated house in the woods you will find inspiration to write your next book. There is something wrong. You don't like this place. It tortures you. It's n...

Oli wants to finish her book. Jo wants to get over her breakup. What they don't want is to share a house....

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A mysterious young woman will appear in Clément’s solitary life. She will guide him and accompany him to his inner liberation....

A film school graduate struggles to come up with an idea for his final project....

Two different persons who have hopelessly given up on life and the world for different reasons are brought together by fate....