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118 | SPECIAL: Live Story Workshop From the 2022 Austin Film Festival (ft. Joe Forte)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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The DNA of a TV Show Is Gonna Be That Emotional, Right?

Producer: "The DNA of your show is gonna be that emotional and I can feel it" The trick is, all of your characters are soldiers of some kind. They already know about war in a way that the audience won't,. So who's the conduit for us? Do you see what I'm saying? Like she's a combat medic, she thinks she's seen it all, but in looking for her son, she encounters.

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