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screenwriter

a person who writes screenplays
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New Delhi [India], May 1 ( ANI ): Veteran film writer and lyricist Javed Akhtar, on Tuesday, hit back at the Madariya Sufi Foundation for allegedly threatening singer Sona Mohapatra to take down a music video.
Film writer and director Ajith Nair also wrote the lyrics for the songs while the music is by former Bahrain resident Reji Wayanad.
Since then he has developed a career as a film writer, director and producer, and in 2002 established The Universal Language of Film, a training scheme that teaches socially excluded people the skills and techniques of film making.
The author, who is a film writer and director, has created a suspenseful near-future story that would make a great movie.
The film star - who played a drugs baron in hit television series 24 - has been signed up for the role by film writer and director Alan Walsh, and producer John Filan.
Indian film writer Sachin Bhaumik has filed a defamation case against bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford after she obtained an injunction from an Indian court barring Sahara Television from broadcasting a soap opera which she claimed had been plagiarised from her novels.
Some have even hinted the 30- year-old film writer could be a rival for the star's new fiancee, stunning Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen.
She also worked as a film writer, reported on the Spanish Civil War, and collaborated on several plays.
actor, humorist, film writer. After serving in World War I, Stewart began writing popular satirical novels.
McGovern is a prolific TV and film writer whose credits include Cracker, Hillsborough, The Street, The Lakes and Moving On.
Guardian film writer Mike McCahill will be joined by University of Warwick film academics for this unique event.
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