WEIKO LIN: Screenwriting Secrets

The author of Crazy Screenwriting Secrets: How to Capture a Global Audience and an accomplished international storyteller who wrote and produced the Chinese-language romance film 100 Days. Weiko is an associate professor at Emerson College, a Fulbright Senior Specialist, a Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award recipient, and an AMPAS Nicholl Fellowship finalist. He has written projects for The Walt Disney Company, The Mark Gordon Company, Turner Broadcasting’s Super Deluxe, Ivanhoe Pictures (SK Global Entertainment), Don Mischer Productions, and Wanda Pictures. Weiko Lin shares the importance of comfort food in Eastern Culture, how much fear impacts the stories he tells, and why he has an affection for the movie Rain Man as he chats with Pat from Taipei.