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Sinopsis
ON THE PAGE: Join professional script consultant Pilar Alessandra as she demystifies screenwriting and answers your questions about script craft and story.
Episodios
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833. Bringing a Trans-perspective to Storytelling
30/06/2023 Duración: 48minActor/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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832. Call to Action
23/06/2023 Duración: 36minJon Fitzgerald, co-founder of Slamdance and author of Filmmaking for Change talks about ways to get attention at film festivals, the importance of a call to action in movies with a message and how his latest venture, Cause Cinema, highlights content with social impact.
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831. True to His Film School
16/06/2023 Duración: 58minWriter Bill True, Department Chair at the Scottsdale School of Film and Theater, talks about the specific factors that helped propel a community college in Arizona to Variety’s list of "Top Film Schools in North America.”
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830. The Great Tony McNamara
09/06/2023 Duración: 37minBafta-winning, Academy Award-nominated writer Tony McNamara, (The Favourite, The Great, Cruella), talks about his approach to telling story and creating period pieces with a contemporary stamp.
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829. Learning on the Job
02/06/2023 Duración: 43minJennifer Cram’s experience in casting helped her say “yes” to directing her first feature. Jen talks about the years-long journey of her soon-to-be-released feature film, Sick Girl, why it’s fun to write about unlikeable characters and how she’s learned to be an advocate for her own work.
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828. Getting Them To 100
26/05/2023 Duración: 01h13minAdvice from Brian Keith Etheridge (Mythic Quest, The Neighborhood, The Ranch, Mike and Molly), will help you with pitching and characters, and may just make you a better poker player as well!
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827. “Not All Teenagers Say Slay"
19/05/2023 Duración: 44minFor Mother’s Day, Pilar’s 18-year-old daughter Rita Dodson shares her thoughts and wisdom about on-screen content that portrays teenagers in accurate and interesting ways.
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826. Unsticking the Duck
12/05/2023 Duración: 32minCareer coach Carole Kirchner returns to the podcast to talk about ways to brave career obstacles and overcome writers block.
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825. Writers Strike 2023
05/05/2023 Duración: 47minWGA writers are striking to get the pay and benefits they deserve. But how does this effect non WGA writers as well? Career coach Lee Jessup explains it all.
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824. Chat GPT and the Future of Screenwriting
28/04/2023 Duración: 41minA little scared about AI’s role in the writing world? So are we. Writer and communications data analyst Michael Grebb helps us understand what’s happening now and what might be ahead.
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823. The Journey of Paint
21/04/2023 Duración: 34minBrit McAdams talks about the fact that it took twelve years to make his comedy Paint, starring Owen Wilson, only to discover that now is the perfect time.
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822. The Marvelous Mona Mira
14/04/2023 Duración: 40minWhat does a late night talk show, a game show, a limited series about The Godfather and a college soap have in common? The writer Mona Mira! Listen to how she wrote and learned on The Weakest Link, The Offer and the Hulu series Tell Me Lies.
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821. A Truly Irish Movie
07/04/2023 Duración: 38minCo-writer/directors Peter Murphy and Rachael Moriarty talk about making movies in Ireland, their creative process and the open door that allowed them to write their award winning movie, Róise and Frank, about a grieving woman and the dog who may or may not be her husband.
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820. "They’re Looking for You”
31/03/2023 Duración: 38minWhen Broadway went dark and Tommar Wilson found himself without a job, he turned to writing. Now he’s an NBC Fellow and has just been staffed on an upcoming TV show for Universal Content Productions that will air on Netflix.
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819. Writing What He Knows. Doing What He Loves.
24/03/2023 Duración: 42minAfter years in the music business and as a counselor in corrections, Jevon Graves found himself writing on the We TV show, Kold x Windy. Now he’s truly doing what he loves.
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818. Scene Direction Contest 2023
17/03/2023 Duración: 01h59sActor/writer Kristen Lee Kelly (original cast of Rent) stage-reads scene direction submissions from listeners as they showcase their writing skills! Who will win?
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817. Theater vs. Film: A Director’s POV
10/03/2023 Duración: 46minAcclaimed theater director Marya Mazor shares her thoughts on the differences between directing for theater and for the screen and how she follows the clues within the script to help achieve her vision.
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816. Announcement: 2023 Scene Direction Contest
06/03/2023 Duración: 02minDid you write a prize-worthy piece of scene direction? Enter it in the On the Page Scene Direction Contest! Pilar explains the rules and gives the deadline.
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815. Scene Writing
03/03/2023 Duración: 52minEmphasizing “the art of reader engagement," writers Chris Perry and Eric Henry Sanders’s new book Scenewriting helps writers come up with new ways to plan, draft and perfect their scenes.
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814. Oscar Talk 2023
24/02/2023 Duración: 01h33minPilar and her friends Brian Pope, Mike Musa and Alex Troxler get together for their annual discussion about the best screenplay and best adapted screenplay Oscar nominees.