Valerie Kalfrin
Valerie Kalfrin is an award-winning crime journalist turned essayist, film critic, screenwriter, script reader, and emerging script consultant. She writes for RogerEbert.com, In Their Own League, The Hollywood Reporter, The Script Lab, The Guardian, Film Racket, Bright Wall/Dark Room, ScreenCraft, and other outlets. A moderator of the Tampa-area writing group Screenwriters of Tomorrow, she’s available for story consultation, writing assignments, sensitivity reads, coverage, and collaboration. Find her at valeriekalfrin.com or on Twitter @valeriekalfrin.
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![[L-R] Aardman's four-time Academy Award®-winning director Nick Park and Emmy Award-nominated Merlin Crossingham.](https://scriptmag.com/.image/ar_16:9%2Cc_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cg_faces:center%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_620/MjExODM2NTU3MzYxOTQ4MTk1/wgvmf_bts_nick_merlin_inproduction_003.jpg)
![[L-R] Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard), Hank Hanson (Corey Johnson), Jacques Lesgardes (Zinedine Soualem),Geoff Mason (John Magaro), Carter (Marcus Rutherford)Gladys Deist (Georgina Rich), Marvin Bader (Ben Chaplin), Marianne Gebhard (Leonie Benesch) star in Paramount Pictures’ “SEPTEMBER 5” the film that unveils the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today, set during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics.](https://scriptmag.com/.image/ar_16:9%2Cc_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cg_faces:center%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_620/MjExODE3MzMzNjI1MjAyMjEx/september-5_629_b2_k2_rgb.jpg)
![[L-R] Luke Kirby, Phoebe-Rae Taylor, Rosemarie DeWitt and Judith Light in Out of My Mind (2024).](https://scriptmag.com/.image/ar_16:9%2Cc_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cg_faces:center%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_620/MjEwODE2MDQzNjA0NTE4ODg5/disneys-out-of-my-mind-still.jpg)
![[L-R] Annette Bening as Diana Nyad and Jodie Foster as Bonnie Stoll in NYAD (2023).](https://scriptmag.com/.image/ar_16:9%2Cc_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cg_faces:center%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_620/MjA1NjQzNTY0NTYwOTUwODEz/nyad_20220502_09666_rjpgnyad_20220502_09666_r.jpg)
![[L-R] Anne Hathaway as Rebecca and Thomasin McKenzie as Eileen Dunlop in Eileen.](https://scriptmag.com/.image/ar_16:9%2Cc_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cg_faces:center%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_620/MjAyNTM4NTQ4Mjg3NTEzNjY4/eileen_pc_jeong-park-neon.jpg)
