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How to write a biopic
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How to write a personal biopic

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Tips for Writing a Bio,
Personal Statement, and
Screenwriting Resume

Perhaps the greatest thing you can do to advance your film/TV writing career is to have a few scorching hot writing samples that burn themselves into a reader's mind even after they've reached the last page.... but what good are your scorching hot samples if you can't get anybody to take a chance on you as a writer and actually read them?

This is where bios, personal statements and screenwriting resumes come in.

These bits of accessory writing are equally important to helping you get your foot in the ever-elusive door. An intriguing bio or personal statement can get a manager, showrunner, program head (or any person on the other end of the hiring table) excited about you and eager to read your work. However, it's not always easy to convince someone of your wit and storytelling abilities in as little real estate as a few paragraphs... or even a few short sentences.

To fill the voracious appetite amongst program participants and library patrons for information on how to write short bi

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“Write what you know” is the advice that most writers receive, but few actually know what to do with it. Writing from personal experience is a tricky beast, as personal experience often comes attached to personal bias, and a deep dive into flawed characters requires a degree of distanced perspective. Still, semi-autobiographical works have been a mainstay of film and television. And for good reason.

Movies crafted from the historical record dominated every market in 2020 — from faith-based to mainstream — and intimate stories told from true-life tales like MARRIAGE STORY, PRECIOUS, ERIN BROCKOVICH, and RAGING BULL have shown that personal journeys can be worthy of Academy Awards. Of course, a true story isn’t always a good story, and knowing what seed of truth can grow into a dynamic film or pilot script will help you do justice to your history and all the characters who’ve lent their voices to your work. Here are three ways to use personal experience to write your screenplay.

Good seeds grow healthy crops

The urge to tap your the biggest, most powerful life experienc

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Best Biographical Screenplays

Doors of Miracles

A young woman trembles as she thanks God anticipating another disaster when The Light of Heaven descends upon her projecting her past the Universe to Heaven to return with supernatural powers, miracles, and God speaks. Script Excerpt

PIRANDELLO'S WIFE

Quiet, passive, obedient, a wonderful mother to her children and perfect wife to her Nobel Prize winning husband. Then, when it was time, she was locked away in an insane asylum for the final 40 years of her life. Here, she attempts to tell her story. https://pirandelloswife.com/ Script Excerpt

and The Devil called!

Undeterred by her refusal to accept his gifts and proposal to be his bride, The Devil visits God's Chosen-one five times, and with his charcoaled tri-step-headed Alien Goons, examines her brain as she sleeps, for answers. Script Excerpt