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Synopsis
ON THE PAGE: Join professional script consultant Pilar Alessandra as she demystifies screenwriting and answers your questions about script craft and story.
Episodes
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861. 2023 Writing Year in Review
29/12/2023 Duration: 42minCareer coach Lee Jessup returns to discuss the industry changes and writing trends of 2023 and shares what’s ahead for the new year.
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860. Logline Competition 2023: Part 2
22/12/2023 Duration: 01h11minPilar reads and gives feedback on the loglines that didn’t make the top fifteen lists for the 2023 Logline Contest.
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859. Logline Competition 2023
22/12/2023 Duration: 01h25minPilar and Aadip read, evaluate and vote on feature and TV loglines sent in by listeners. Dimwitted extraterrestrials. Time-traveling teachers. Felons at birthday parties. Who will win?
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858. Making Things Happen
15/12/2023 Duration: 41minA healthy “impatience” led writer Lenore Adediran to stop waiting and make a web series. Since then she’s sold a pilot, a feature and the Christmas movie, A Christmas Serenade, produced by Harpo Films and streaming on Max.
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857. Building a Better Mousetrap
08/12/2023 Duration: 45minPortuguese Script writer Miguel Simal spent years in telenovela writers rooms learning to be as creative as possible before going on to co-write the award-winning Netflix series, Glória.
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856. A Christmas Movie in 70 Beats
01/12/2023 Duration: 43minWriter Isabel Dréan talks about her shift from thrillers to holiday movies, leading to five of her scripts being produced in an 18-month period.
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855. Announcement: 2023 Logline Contest
28/11/2023 Duration: 03minReady to submit for the annual On the Page logline competition? Pilar explains the rules and gives the deadline.
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854. Writing His Way Into a New Life
24/11/2023 Duration: 46minAs he reaches his ten year anniversary of writing, Scotty Mullen returns to share his thoughts on what he’s learned from writing low budget horror, women in peril movies, Christmas movies and so much more. Bottom line: Writing has to be fun!
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853. Action and Heart
17/11/2023 Duration: 37minWriter/Director Lee Whittaker spent years as a stunt man, stunt coordinator and second-unit director before setting out to make a feature film on his own. Hear what he learned from his experience and desire to make a movie with a message.
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852. Telling Their Stories
10/11/2023 Duration: 36minWriter/directors Dave Merlino and Dustin Sweet set out to document the stories of the men who served in the 9th Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam. But what they ended up with was a documentary about the need to talk through trauma. Here they discuss their years-long journey making and distributing Apache Blues: Welcome Home.
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851. Creating a Community
03/11/2023 Duration: 45minFrom providing a performance space for the UCB in New York to creating writing/acting "Second Draft” evenings in Los Angeles, writer Ellen Ancui continually brings together groups of creatives and builds her own supportive writing community.
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850. Crescent Dials In
27/10/2023 Duration: 38minWriter Crescent Imani Novell won the Nickelodeon Writing Fellowship in 2018 and has been writing on an animated shows like Dreamworks' Fright Krewe, Marvel’s Moon Girl and Mattel's Barbie: It Takes Two. She’s got excellent advice about story, character and dialogue, with a little personal hustle thrown in.
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849. Horror Themes
20/10/2023 Duration: 35minWriter Seth M. Sherwood (Leatherface, Light as a Feather) discusses common horror themes from “screwed by the system” to “man plays God” as written about in his new book, The Scary Movie Writers Guide.
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848. Hammer Time
13/10/2023 Duration: 51minWriter Nick Smith joins Pilar and her husband Pat Francis in a discussion about Hammer Films, the production company that made Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Mummy and much more!
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847. The Strike is Over!
06/10/2023 Duration: 38minFrom writers' room minimums to guaranteed second steps, career coach Lee Jessup talks about the “exceptional” gains made by the WGA as a result of the 148-day writers’ strike.
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846. All The Things
29/09/2023 Duration: 39minWriter/director Nico Casavecchia has made award-winning movies and short films with everything from VR to carbon monoxide molecules. Here he discusses his approach to telling story through unconventional mediums and ways to think of AI as a potential creative tool.
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845. Calling Himself A Writer
22/09/2023 Duration: 44minLast time writer/actor Michael-Leon Wooley was on the podcast his script Hey Wait A Minute had just gotten the attention of UTA. Two years later UTA is repping another script, Witch Please, and both have been optioned and packaged by major production companies. His ultimate goal? To write "everyone’s favorite movie."
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844. Climate Screenwriting
15/09/2023 Duration: 43minLeigh Medeiros, co-founder and co-director of the Hollywood Climate Summit’s Pitchfest for Film and TV, talks about how climate screenwriting equals good storytelling and gives “ten reasons why the time is now for screenwriters to help save the planet."
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843. The Augustin Empire
08/09/2023 Duration: 53minDaniel Augustin and Sh’Kia are actors, writers, musicians and spouses. Listen to how they learned production from music, acquired filmmaking skills from auditioning and started writing directing and starring in their own projects to keep it all alive.
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842. Storytelling for Docuseries and Reality
01/09/2023 Duration: 38minProducers 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.