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Synopsis
ON THE PAGE: Join professional script consultant Pilar Alessandra as she demystifies screenwriting and answers your questions about script craft and story.
Episodes
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867. Advice From The Experts
09/02/2024 Duration: 38minWriter Andrew Zinnes provides nuggets from his new book, Screenwriters Advice, a “how to” as told through the interviews of successful writers of film and TV.
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866. Hidden Treasures
02/02/2024 Duration: 37minSpotlight on Robert Wooldridge and Kimberly Dilts, two talented On the Page writers with excellent material, ready for their big break!
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865. Multimedia Storytelling
26/01/2024 Duration: 45minWriter Allison McGevna talks about how the tools and narrative style she uses in her job as a multimedia storyteller and media executive help her as a screenwriter. Please note: This episode was originally recorded on January 20, 2024 before the recent Conde Nast strike in response to media layoffs.
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864: "None of That Boring Love”
19/01/2024 Duration: 58minToday’s glut of rom-coms: Why do we love them? What do they get right? What do they get wrong? Writer Elizabeth McKenzie has opinions!
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863. Proof of Concept
12/01/2024 Duration: 48minWriter/director Christy Stratton returns to the podcast to discuss her short film, The Runt (and to hear about Pilar’s horror-movie Christmas.)
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862. Comedy Expert
05/01/2024 Duration: 35minJonterri Gadson went from "comedy nerd" to "comedy expert" when she earned fellowships with the NBC Late Night Writers Workshop and Kevin Hart’s LOL to land a show on adult swim and launch a career writing for The Upshaws, A Black Lady Sketch Show and the upcoming animated show Everybody Still Hates Chris.
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861. 2023 Writing Year in Review
29/12/2023 Duration: 42minCareer coach Lee Jessup returns to discuss the industry changes and writing trends of 2023 and shares what’s ahead for the new year.
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860. Logline Competition 2023: Part 2
22/12/2023 Duration: 01h11minPilar reads and gives feedback on the loglines that didn’t make the top fifteen lists for the 2023 Logline Contest.
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859. Logline Competition 2023
22/12/2023 Duration: 01h25minPilar and Aadip read, evaluate and vote on feature and TV loglines sent in by listeners. Dimwitted extraterrestrials. Time-traveling teachers. Felons at birthday parties. Who will win?
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858. Making Things Happen
15/12/2023 Duration: 41minA healthy “impatience” led writer Lenore Adediran to stop waiting and make a web series. Since then she’s sold a pilot, a feature and the Christmas movie, A Christmas Serenade, produced by Harpo Films and streaming on Max.
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857. Building a Better Mousetrap
08/12/2023 Duration: 45minPortuguese Script writer Miguel Simal spent years in telenovela writers rooms learning to be as creative as possible before going on to co-write the award-winning Netflix series, Glória.
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856. A Christmas Movie in 70 Beats
01/12/2023 Duration: 43minWriter Isabel Dréan talks about her shift from thrillers to holiday movies, leading to five of her scripts being produced in an 18-month period.
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855. Announcement: 2023 Logline Contest
28/11/2023 Duration: 03minReady to submit for the annual On the Page logline competition? Pilar explains the rules and gives the deadline.
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854. Writing His Way Into a New Life
24/11/2023 Duration: 46minAs he reaches his ten year anniversary of writing, Scotty Mullen returns to share his thoughts on what he’s learned from writing low budget horror, women in peril movies, Christmas movies and so much more. Bottom line: Writing has to be fun!
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853. Action and Heart
17/11/2023 Duration: 37minWriter/Director Lee Whittaker spent years as a stunt man, stunt coordinator and second-unit director before setting out to make a feature film on his own. Hear what he learned from his experience and desire to make a movie with a message.
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852. Telling Their Stories
10/11/2023 Duration: 36minWriter/directors Dave Merlino and Dustin Sweet set out to document the stories of the men who served in the 9th Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam. But what they ended up with was a documentary about the need to talk through trauma. Here they discuss their years-long journey making and distributing Apache Blues: Welcome Home.
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851. Creating a Community
03/11/2023 Duration: 45minFrom providing a performance space for the UCB in New York to creating writing/acting "Second Draft” evenings in Los Angeles, writer Ellen Ancui continually brings together groups of creatives and builds her own supportive writing community.
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850. Crescent Dials In
27/10/2023 Duration: 38minWriter Crescent Imani Novell won the Nickelodeon Writing Fellowship in 2018 and has been writing on an animated shows like Dreamworks' Fright Krewe, Marvel’s Moon Girl and Mattel's Barbie: It Takes Two. She’s got excellent advice about story, character and dialogue, with a little personal hustle thrown in.
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849. Horror Themes
20/10/2023 Duration: 35minWriter Seth M. Sherwood (Leatherface, Light as a Feather) discusses common horror themes from “screwed by the system” to “man plays God” as written about in his new book, The Scary Movie Writers Guide.
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848. Hammer Time
13/10/2023 Duration: 51minWriter Nick Smith joins Pilar and her husband Pat Francis in a discussion about Hammer Films, the production company that made Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Mummy and much more!