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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.
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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.
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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!
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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. 
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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. 

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