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My Search for a Screenwriting Truth

In Screenwriting, the truth matters… Today we’re going to talk about The Truth. Not this sort of truth. Or this. Or even this. We’re going to talk about the kind of screenwriting truth that connected six out of the nine Best Picture nominees in the 2014 Oscars. The kind that will in all likelihood connect a similar percentage next year – I’m looking at you Mr. Turner, The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything, Foxcatcher, Unbroken, American Sniper, Selma and

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Tom Williams

Tom has been a development executive (Fine Line Features), a script reader (Working Title), a script editor (The Script Connection) and finally a screenwriter (Chalet Girl, BASE, Kajaki). He is repped by Sean Gascoine at United Agents. No he will not read your fu*king script, Industrial Scripts do that and do it well thanking ye kindly. You can follow Tom on Twitter, check out his IMDb profile, read more of his scribblings and tell him where to go in the comments box below…

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