The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle. Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all. A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper. If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.
Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.