Shanee Edwards

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Shanee Edwards graduated from UCLA Film School with an MFA in Screenwriting and is currently the film critic for SheKnows.com. She recently won the Next MacGyver television writing competition to create a TV show about a female engineer. Her pilot, Ada and the Machine, is currently in development with America Ferrera's Take Fountain Productions. You can follow her on Twitter: @ShaneeEdwards

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Lion screenwriter Luke Davies eschews “obvious” screenplay structure to create a spiritual journey

The emotionally powerful film Lion is both a fairytale and a nightmare at the same time. The first half of the movie tells the real-life survival story of an Indian boy named Saroo (Sunny Pawar), who gets lost in a train station when he’s just five-years old (the nightmare). The second half of the film focuses on Saroo (Dev Patel), as an ...

Sing’s writer/director Garth Jennings takes on a new genre: the animated musical

ScreenwritingU sits down with writer/director Garth Jennings on the new genre: the animated musical.

Barry writer Adam Mansbach reveals how he “smuggled a movie about race and identity into the mainstream”

Barry writer Adam Mansbach tells ScreenwritingU about writing a film about Barack Obama.

Office Christmas Party writer Justin Malen on writing a comedy in the shadow of a messy election

Justin Malen, along with screenwriters Laura Solon and Dan Mazer, each added their wit, personal experience and twisted holiday spirit to Office Christmas Party, making it one of the funniest films of the year. As a former corporate lawyer, Malen is very familiar with office culture and stiff holiday parties. To write this screenplay, he ...

In SiREN, David Bruckner explores “Masculinity going out of bounds” with terrifying results

How writer David Bruckner used the horror genre to delve deeper into the psyche of young, American white men with truly terrifying results.

Steven Knight’s new film Allied, holds up a mirror to our own divided world

ScreenwritingU goes deep with writer Steven Knight and his new film Allied, which holds up a mirror to our own divided world.

Bleed for This writer/director Ben Younger shares the huge blunder he made in the script

“I made a huge error in the script-writing process. I put the car crash at the midpoint. In the script it’s page 60 and we shot it like that,” says Ben Younger, screenwriter of Bleed for This. Check out ScreenwritingU's interview with him to see how he fixed it.

Arrival screenwriter adds drawings of his own language to script

How do you put a secret made-up language into your script? Arrival screenwriter Eric Heisserer drew his and inserted it into the PDF.

Trolls writers tackle the fugly princess of tomorrow

How would you tackle the princess story in 2016? Trolls writers Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger flip the genre of beautiful helpless girls on its head.

ScreenwritingU’s guide to writing horror scripts: 13 chilling subgenres

Halloween is upon us, so we thought it was a good time to take a closer look at the ever-evolving (and ever-lucrative) horror genre. Here's our guide to 13 horrific sub-genres.

If you write about horror, you need to know about The BloodList

You need to know about The Blood List, an annual survey of screenplays compiled of the best dark scripts that fit into the wide horror genre. We sat down with The Blood List creator, Kailey Marsh, to find out more.

Bonni Cohen opens up about the difficult journey making the doc Audrie and Daisy

Documentary director Bonni Cohen talks about the tough decisions she and other filmmakers have to make when taking on dark subjects like abuse.
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