When writing a screenplay, or a novel, you should have two objectives as you create characters: 1. Make them different to what we've seen before, but still r...

I was going through my old screenwriting files the other day when I came across this 'scene checklist'. I remember compiling these tips from various sources,...

In January 2020, I completed FORTE, a writing assignment for a production company in the UK. The story was inspired by a real event in the life of a now-famo...

FLY GIRLS, the "rip-roaring" action & adventure screenplay Phil Parker was hired to write, continues to garner great reviews from industry sources! Draft One...

Australian/American screenwriter Phil Parker has been hired again to write a feature script based on a true story. This live-action tale centers around a bra...

I'm delighted to announce that Elliott D. Yancey, p.g.a. at Toil Films has hired me again to work on FLY GIRLS, a WWII live-action feature script. I was orig...

This week I found out that a script I was hired to rewrite for a client placed as a Top 10 Finalist in the Stage 32 Sci-fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competitio...

The soon-to-be released animated film CATSAWAY by Emirati director Fadel Al Mehiri (story by Phil Parker and Fadel Al Mehiri) has created a lot of buzz in th...

Every screenwriter knows how hard it is to get attention for your own work, let alone finding someone willing to pay you to write for them. That's why I feel...

Screenwriter Phil Parker and director/screenwriter Josh Bryer are pleased to announce they've signed a non-exclusive shopping agreement with a U.S. productio...

I love that trailer for the Downton Abbey movie. The editing, the music, the choices of dialogue - it all combines to press the right emotional buttons for f...

Since finishing the first draft of a paid writing assignment for a producer here in Australia, the feedback on the script has been tremendous. (phew!) "None ...

At the beginning of last year, I was honored and humbled when the International Screenwriters’ Association chose me as one of their Top 25 Screenwriters to W...

Phil's success with securing screenwriting assignments continues! This time, Toil Films in #Australia has hired him to write a very timely WWII action/drama ...

CATSAWAY – THE MOVIE #Screenwriter Phil Parker was hired to develop the animated feature film #CATSAWAY from a bare-bones idea to a fully-formed, 30-page #tr...

An Indian Sports Movie Like No Other Producers Ravindra Choudhary, Rob Kaplan and Tanuj Kumar Bansal have hired screenwriter Phil Parker to write the script ...

Like most people (whether they’re conscious of it or not) I go to see a film hoping to discover interesting #characters to care about, to identify with, peop...

Client’s Indigenous Superhero Project at VFX House Last year, Phil was hired by Josh Bryer at Red Centre Films to rewrite his Indigenous superhero, sci-fi sc...

ISA Spotlights Top Screenwriters Screenwriter Phil Parker has been honored by the International Screenwriters' Association with his inclusion on the ISA’s To...

BAFTA-winner Sias Wilson has just announced the renewal of his option on Phil Parker’s multi-award winning WWII script ‘The Third Bomb’. Sias, best known for...