Whether you have a book or movie idea that’s been percolating for years, or you’ve tried to sit down and write only to hit a series of roadblocks—every aspiring writer needs some direction. If you’re ...

Writing is a much-prized skill and a difficult one to master and, while some are naturally gifted in stringing sentences together, we all need to take the time to learn the craft. Whether you want to ...

In 2009, Cineuropa launched the present scriptwriting training course online. This course, which can be taken at an affordable price, is aimed at scriptwriter, author ...

Writing for an animated film is like painting on an infinite canvas—there are literally no bounds. You don’t have to worry about expensive or dangerous stunts, keeping your sets small for the sake of ...

Every great film starts with a great idea. Writing (and finishing!) a screenplay can be a labor-intensive, sometimes complicated undertaking. You’ll need time, flexibility, creativity, and a healthy ...

Once your Cineuropa (or any other) screenwriting course has been completed, you should be capable to write high-quality scenes. Now that you’ve learned the basics of screenwriting you’ll perhaps be ...

As any aspiring screenwriter knows, the process of writing a movie script isn’t easy. But if you break it down into its discrete parts—the type of script, a strong premise, solid plot, believable ...

“Judging a screenplay from a finished film,” an apocalyptically disheartened screenwriter once told me, “is like arriving at a murder scene and instantly deciding that the victim had it coming.” It’s ...