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117 | How To Write A Christmas or Holiday Movie (w/ Eirene Tran Donohue)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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How to Write a Lifetime Christmas Movie

The reaction on social media from the Asian community was so gratifying of people just being like, it was so awesome. I never thought that writing a lifetime Christmas movie would be one of the like important things. The male love interest was originally written as white because I figured, well, you know, they've got the Asian family. They're going to want like a white dude. And again, my executive shout out to Tia Mijini, who's amazing. She was like, can we make him Asian? And I was like, really? We can. "I think for other writers, there is trying to break into the space. There is so much room to add your

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