SUCCESS STORIES
Jennifer Zhang’s Fetish Wins Best Short and $30,000 Grant
Congrats to Jennifer Zhang for her film Fetish, which won the Panavision Award: Outstanding Short at the 2022 Micheaux Film Festival!
Save the Cat!® Goes to the Tribeca Film Festival
Wes Schlagenhauf Is Dying, a comedy which features the Save the Cat! beats, premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Jennifer Zhang’s Fetish Is an Official Selection of the Micheaux Film Festival
Filmmaker Jennifer Zhang has 3 films about to hit the marketplace!
David Heska Wanbli Weiden “Beat Out” His Award-Winning Novel, Winter Counts
Read how acclaimed novelist David Heska Wanbli Weiden, author of the best-selling “Winter Counts,” used the Blake Snyder beat sheet to write the novel.
The Bad Guys Save the Cat!
See one of the hysterical scenes of “The Bad Guys,”
as they try to save the cat to become likeable characters.
The Importance of Putting Yourself into Your Scripts
Writing team Matt Allen and Krista Suh explain what it was like to work on the first Juneteenth family comedy, Block Party.
Squid Game‘s Hero Saves the Cat!
Hats off to the creators of Netflix’s #1 program, Squid Game, who describe how and why they created a Save the Cat! moment for their hero! Thank you—and congrats on your international smash hit!
A Pandemic Pivot
Screenwriter Alden Olmsted met Blake Snyder several times back in the day. His book, A Virus Ate My Movie, chronicles how Alden started a BMX bike company at 19, then 25 years later made a movie about it called 30 Bikes, and then released the…
How Diversity Informs Our Storytelling Workshops
Anyone with the price of admission and an internet connection, anywhere in the world, can now take the Save the Cat! Storytelling Workshops.
