Episodes

  • 887. Writing Through the Contraction
    Jun 21 2024

    Writer Delondra Mesa (American Rust, Pretty Little Liars) talks about her approach to discovering story and creating content even as the industry experiences “The Great Contraction.”

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    43 mins
  • 886. Finding the Cues
    Jun 14 2024

    Director Dans Karagannis and Writer Liz Renner discuss their journey meeting in an On the Page class and joining together to make their short film Damned If You Do, currently screening in major festivals.

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    49 mins
  • 885. Middle East Meets West
    Jun 7 2024

    Writer Suha AL Khalifa is a senior writer at the Saudi Giant MBC Studios (Rashash, Devil’s Promise) and also wrote the region's first female super-hero film. She talks about how her experience as a psychotherapist and as a "cultural hybrid" (Bahrain, UK, and US) has informed her writing and storytelling.

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    38 mins
  • 884. Interactive Storytelling
    May 31 2024

    Joe Gold’s “Shakespeare Inc.” offers sixteen variations of a story. Hear how he wrote it, how “choose your own adventure” storytelling is structured and how this approach can work for video-game and screenwriting.

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    47 mins
  • 883. Curating a Film Career
    May 24 2024

    Emily Harris is not only an award-winning writer-director (Carmilla), she also has an amazing “day job” as the Curator of Film at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

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    45 mins
  • 882. "Why Not Take a Big Swing?”
    May 17 2024
    When writer-director GG Hawkins had access to a unique location for a limited amount of time, she “planted a flag and figured out a way to do it,” writing, producing and directing an indi-feature called I Really Love My Husband.
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    39 mins
  • 881. Film in the Age of Consent
    May 10 2024

    Filmmaker/ professor Michele Meek shares her thoughts about changing sexuality in teen films, how rom-coms often rely on a non-consent premise and about her wish that writers put their sex scenes on the page.

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    38 mins
  • 880. Story to Script
    May 3 2024

    From "safety nets” to “act three payoffs," Pilar goes solo to talk about what she’s learning while working with writers Story to Script.

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    29 mins