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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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847. The Strike is Over!
06/10/2023 Duration: 38minFrom writers' room minimums to guaranteed second steps, career coach Lee Jessup talks about the “exceptional” gains made by the WGA as a result of the 148-day writers’ strike.
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846. All The Things
29/09/2023 Duration: 39minWriter/director Nico Casavecchia has made award-winning movies and short films with everything from VR to carbon monoxide molecules. Here he discusses his approach to telling story through unconventional mediums and ways to think of AI as a potential creative tool.
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845. Calling Himself A Writer
22/09/2023 Duration: 44minLast time writer/actor Michael-Leon Wooley was on the podcast his script Hey Wait A Minute had just gotten the attention of UTA. Two years later UTA is repping another script, Witch Please, and both have been optioned and packaged by major production companies. His ultimate goal? To write "everyone’s favorite movie."
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844. Climate Screenwriting
15/09/2023 Duration: 43minLeigh Medeiros, co-founder and co-director of the Hollywood Climate Summit’s Pitchfest for Film and TV, talks about how climate screenwriting equals good storytelling and gives “ten reasons why the time is now for screenwriters to help save the planet."
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843. The Augustin Empire
08/09/2023 Duration: 53minDaniel Augustin and Sh’Kia are actors, writers, musicians and spouses. Listen to how they learned production from music, acquired filmmaking skills from auditioning and started writing directing and starring in their own projects to keep it all alive.
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842. Storytelling for Docuseries and Reality
01/09/2023 Duration: 38minProducers Trishtan Williams and KC Chan Haimes describe the storytelling process behind their new docuseries Why Not Us: Howard Golf and discuss their approach to finding narrative and character authenticity in all of their work.
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841. "What Is The Truth?”
25/08/2023 Duration: 51minWhether it’s the factual truth for documentary or the emotional truth for her fictional narratives, writer/director Alicia Ontiveros believes in truth and fairness in her work. Here she talks about what she’s learned from her work in docs over the years and where she’s going next in her screenplays.
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840. Metamodernism
18/08/2023 Duration: 51minWhat does Once Upon a Time In Hollywood and Barbie have in common? They’re both examples of “Metamodernism." Writer M. Elizabeth Eller explains it all!
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839. Are You Having Fun?
11/08/2023 Duration: 48minWriter Marc Haimes stresses the importance of creative collaborations and the need to have fun as he returns to the podcast to talk about his latest projects, Nimona, Ultraman and Lost Ollie.
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838. Feeling “Luckey”
04/08/2023 Duration: 51minRocky (RaKenna) Luckey talks about how she took the skills she learned from “pressure cooker" jobs in music, production and film festivals to write a spec and land a job in television!
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837. Telling Positive Stories About Mental Health
28/07/2023 Duration: 37minDr. Laura Erickson–Schroth, psychiatrist, writer and activist, discusses positive and negative portrayals of mental health issues in film and television.
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836. Zack Facts
21/07/2023 Duration: 50minManagers versus agents, packaging deals versus spec sales. Zack Zucker from Bellevue Management breaks it all down for us.
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835. Creating Together
14/07/2023 Duration: 55minProving that a couple who creates together stays together, writer Elizabeth Musgrave and artist Frank Forte talk about their adventures turning features into plays, plays into short films and scripts into comic books.
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834. Independence Day
07/07/2023 Duration: 28minPilar helps you “declare your independence” from a conventional screenwriting school of thought on outlining, branding, daily writing and more!
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833. Bringing a Trans-perspective to Storytelling
30/06/2023 Duration: 48minActor/writer Scott Turner Schofield, Executive Producer of They/Them and consultant for Euphoria, talks about his work bringing complex and authentic stories of trans-characters to script and screen.
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832. Call to Action
23/06/2023 Duration: 36minJon Fitzgerald, co-founder of Slamdance and author of Filmmaking for Change talks about ways to get attention at film festivals, the importance of a call to action in movies with a message and how his latest venture, Cause Cinema, highlights content with social impact.
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831. True to His Film School
16/06/2023 Duration: 58minWriter Bill True, Department Chair at the Scottsdale School of Film and Theater, talks about the specific factors that helped propel a community college in Arizona to Variety’s list of "Top Film Schools in North America.”
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830. The Great Tony McNamara
09/06/2023 Duration: 37minBafta-winning, Academy Award-nominated writer Tony McNamara, (The Favourite, The Great, Cruella), talks about his approach to telling story and creating period pieces with a contemporary stamp.
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829. Learning on the Job
02/06/2023 Duration: 43minJennifer Cram’s experience in casting helped her say “yes” to directing her first feature. Jen talks about the years-long journey of her soon-to-be-released feature film, Sick Girl, why it’s fun to write about unlikeable characters and how she’s learned to be an advocate for her own work.
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828. Getting Them To 100
26/05/2023 Duration: 01h13minAdvice from Brian Keith Etheridge (Mythic Quest, The Neighborhood, The Ranch, Mike and Molly), will help you with pitching and characters, and may just make you a better poker player as well!