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RUTH ATKINSON

Script Consultant & Story Editor

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Credits

Working one-on-one with writers, directors and producers as a script consultant and story editor, I have consulted on  hundreds of screenplays and read several thousand. In addition to ongoing script consultation for features, shorts and series, I am a screenwriting advisor for Film Independent’s signature diversity program Project: Involve as well as Film Independent’s Screenwriters Lab and Global Media Makers Program. I’m also the facilitator and lead mentor for the Whistler Film Festival Screenwriters Lab.

Completed Films (Partial List)

Films I’ve consulted on have been distributed both domestically and internationally. They have also screened at festivals around the world where they have garnered both awards and critical acclaim.

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Previous Experience

Prior to independent consulting I worked as a development executive developing features, network television series and network television movies at Unapix Films and Alliance Atlantis including several prestigious, award winning Hallmark Hall of Fame productions. I also have several years of experience on set working in production in Vancouver, BC on both studio features (Warner Bros., New Regency, Morgan Creek) and network television movies (CBS, ABC & FOX).

Oh and then there’s that 21-hour live, televised telethon that got me started in this whole crazy business. But that’s another story.

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Recent Posts

  • Test Your Story Concept
  • Secondary Characters
  • Breaking a Story
  • Talking Theme
  • The Magic Bullet
  • Straight Up Gratitude
  • Writing for the Reader
  • FIND Project Involve
  • Scene & Heard
  • Why, How & Other Dramatic Questions
  • Faulty Thinking
  • Subjectivity – Friend or Foe?
  • The End Is Just The Beginning
  • A Writer’s Worst Nightmare: The Dreaded Synopsis
  • FIND Project Involve Shorts
  • Podcast True Confession
  • Short Screenplays – Structure
  • Short Screenplays – Character
  • The First Ten Pages
  • Twitter Love
  • Jodie Foster on Kristen Stewart’s Canoodling
  • The Sweet Spot – Webinar
  • My Awkward Sexual Adventure!
  • By the Book?
  • Why Second Best Isn’t Good Enough
  • Great American Pitchfest!
  • Pitching The Descendants
  • 7 Steps to a Perfect Pitch
  • Character Arc: The King’s Speech
  • What Does It All Mean?
  • The Perfect Family
  • Too Busy to Blog
  • Rewrite, Rewrite, Rewrite
  • Summer Screenings!
  • Know your Process
  • World Traveler
  • The Black List
  • Predicament
  • The People I’ve Slept With
  • Marketability

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