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Pilar Alessandra
ON THE PAGE: Join professional script consultant Pilar Alessandra as she demystifies screenwriting and answers your questions about script craft and story.
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Sep 1, 2023 • 39min
842. Storytelling for Docuseries and Reality
Producers 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.

Aug 25, 2023 • 52min
841. "What Is The Truth?”
Whether 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.

Aug 18, 2023 • 51min
840. Metamodernism
What 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!

Aug 11, 2023 • 48min
839. Are You Having Fun?
Writer 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.

Aug 4, 2023 • 51min
838. Feeling “Luckey”
Rocky (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!

Jul 28, 2023 • 37min
837. Telling Positive Stories About Mental Health
Dr. Laura Erickson–Schroth, psychiatrist, writer and activist, discusses positive and negative portrayals of mental health issues in film and television.

Jul 21, 2023 • 50min
836. Zack Facts
Managers versus agents, packaging deals versus spec sales. Zack Zucker from Bellevue Management breaks it all down for us.

Jul 14, 2023 • 56min
835. Creating Together
Proving 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.

Jul 7, 2023 • 29min
834. Independence Day
Pilar helps you “declare your independence” from a conventional screenwriting school of thought on outlining, branding, daily writing and more!

Jun 30, 2023 • 48min
833. Bringing a Trans-perspective to Storytelling
Actor/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.