Inside the Screenwriting Success Club next month, it’s Filmmaking February, where we’re doing a Make a short film in 21 days Challenge! From February 12 to March 5th, if you want to participate, you’ll have 21 days to make a short film! Team Leads must be Premium SSC members, and to make it easy, there are only 3 🎥 Film Requirements: - You can only have 3 characters Max - You can only use 3 locations Max - You must have 1 character named Max That’s it. The Winner gets a small trophy 🏆, a custom-made Screenwriting Success Fidget Spinner AND at our last meeting on 3/10, I will be showing everyone how to get their film on IMDb, and I’ll be doing this in real time with the winning film. You can use real actors and/or AI, and your film can range from 10 seconds to 10 minutes. To support you, I’ll be hosting optional weekly Zoom meetings every Thursday starting 2/12 (check the Calendar tab). I'll guide you along the way and answer any questions you have every week! Weekly Meeting Breakdown: 2/12: Pre-Production and Writing the Script 2/19: Production 2/26: Post-Production If you have questions or just want to say you’re in, drop a comment below 👇 Let’s make Filmmaking February a month of finished films and real momentum.

BEST PICTURE Nominees: Bugonia F1 Frankenstein Hamnet Marty Supreme One Battle after Another The Secret Agent Sentimental Value Sinners Train Dreams WRITING (Adapted Screenplay) Nominees Bugonia by Will Tracy Frankenstein by Guillermo del Toro Hamnet by Chloé Zhao & Maggie O'Farrell One Battle after Another by Paul Thomas Anderson Train Dreams by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar Writing (Original Screenplay) Nominees Blue Moon Written by Robert Kaplow It Was Just an Accident Written by Jafar Panahi Marty Supreme Written by Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie Sentimental Value Written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier Sinners Written by Ryan Coogler For the 98th Annual Academy Awards, How Do We Feel and Who Do You think will win? What have you seen? What have you not seen?

I'm looking for some recommendations!

Movie Club is Back this Month!!! Like a Book Club, but with Movies! We watch and discuss a different movie! We'll meet on 2/16! For Filmmaking February, it's the classic My Big Fat Greek Wedding! Starring and Written by Nia Vardalos! This movie started as a one-woman play and became the highest-grossing Rom-Com of All Time!!!

I'm debating on getting the newest version of Final Draft, but I've heard good things about others. Anyone have any suggestions?