For Martin Luther King Jr. Day: SELMA story analysis

Jan 18, 2021

It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Why not celebrate this hero and work on your storytelling craft—by watching Selma?

I’ve been doing a breakdown of the movie for my online Screenwriting Tricks for Authors workshop. The film has a wildly ambitious goal: to depict the monolith of U.S. racism; to educate its audience about King, a key civil rights battle, an…

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