A Writer

On January 24, 1996, at the Writers Guild Theater in Los Angeles, CA, legendary comic Sid Caesar was reunited with nine of his writers from Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour. The event was taped for release on PBS and BBC in a 1-hour cut, and later on VHS and DVD in its full 2-hour length. Be prepared to laugh non-stop as the panel, made up of head writer Mel Tolkin, Caesar, Carl Reiner, Aaron Ruben, Larry Gelbart, Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Danny Simon, Sheldon Keller, and Gary Belkin share stories about their time working on Caesar's shows and offer their insights about writing comedy.

Past her prime and afflicted with a severe case of writer's block, a veteran songwriter finds new inspiration in a bird that takes up residence outside her home.

Claire, a young aspiring writer, embarks on a retreat to shut off the world, and turn on her creative flow. Will she discover her voice and make it as a writer, or was this a grave mistake?

Oscar nominated documentary short from 1969

An egotistical failing author must face reality to save himself and those around him.

Just when a young girl is finding it hard to believe in the spirit of the holidays, she and her brother discover a pen with magical wish-granting powers. Watch as they spread the magic of giving and generosity throughout town - one wish at a time.

Slim and her husband Joe live in a posh Manhattan apartment building. One of their neighbors is Jessop, a hermit whom Slim can't wait to integrate into her circle of friends and her swinging lifestyle. Jessop isn't interested, so Slim goes to great lengths to change his mind. The question is if she finally reels him in, will she just as easily spit him back out?

The short film is a poetic interpretation of the writer's mental journey during the writing process. The writer, played by Bryan Cranston (AMC’s Breaking Bad), creates a woman in his mind, played by Lela Edgar, while working on his next script.

This short film focuses on the job of the Hollywood screenwriter.

RAVE NEW SOULS is a documentary detailing the thoughts, goals and inspirations of a new generation of Black creators in graphic novels, television, cinema, literature and digital media. Producer/director Brandon M. Easton - himself an acclaimed comic book and animation writer - wanted to shine much-needed light on new Black writers whose contributions and market awareness have been buried under the onslaught of the myriad of entertainment options in the 21st century.

In a prison for bad writers a group of cons manage to get their hands on a legit script to the goings-on within the prison and figure it needs a rewrite - one that sees them busting out of jail to freedom.

A writer tells a joke. Complications ensue.

A writer finds an ancient evil book and suffers the consequences for it.

A novelist is haunted by a murderer obsessed with the game Truth or Dare.

Wall Writers promises unprecedented access to the early years of American graffiti. Interviews with TAKI 183 and CORNBREAD, along with other legendary artists, illuminated a time when a new form of wall writing emerged from dilapidated city neighborhoods.

In 2007, the Writers Guild of America, the Screenwriters Union, hit an impasse in their contract negotiations with the Studios. At the center of the dispute was jurisdiction over the internet. Unable to make progress, the WGA called a strike which brought Hollywood to a halt for 100 days.

Bill Douglas plays a writer struggling with a script about the interior lives of two women (played by Joanna David and Heather Page).

This documentary examines Borges' extraordinary life and work, using dramatizations of his most memorable stories and rare interview footage with the author at his Buenos Aires home.

In eleven episodes we get to know eleven countries through one or more literary greats and the works they created. Diverse archives as well as reports by writers filmed in emblematic places form these kaleidoscope portraits of Europe and national belonging. Four authors with converging perspectives on a Germany that is at the center of all questions of identity: Christoph Hein, Wladimir Kaminer, Bernhard Schlink and Emine Sevgi Özdamar. In Iceland we meet Arni Thorarinsson, one of the masters of the crime novel, Jon Kalman Stefánsson, more in the romantic tradition, and Audur Ava Olafsdottir with offbeat humor and modernity. Through the strength of their literary identity, we understa

A female writer of popular thrillers decides that it is time to kill off one of her characters, a serial killer who has appeared in many of her recent books. Soon afterward, she finds herself pursued by a copy-cat serial killer.