Dec 30, 2015
Comedy television writer Dan Goor joins us for this informative and entertaining episode. Dan has written for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Office, and Parks and Recreation all before he became the cocreator of the very successful Brooklyn 99 which has already won 2 Golden Globes...
Dec 30, 2015
Scott Neustadter discusses how an internship was an incredibly valuable experience that helped to launch his career, and how his time working in development affected his screenwriting process. He also discusses his bi-coastal writing partnership with Michael H. Weber and the several successful adaptations, including The...
Dec 30, 2015
Andrew Jenks, award-winning twenty-something American filmmaker, explains how to find the story in documentaries, and how the story often leads you to discover material you were never expecting. From the realities of nursing homes to a young man fighting to get a wrongful conviction overturned, Jenks finds moving...
Dec 29, 2015
Final Draft sits down with WME's Christopher Lockhart and Benderspink's Daniel Vang for a discussion about the life of a script. Many writers don't consider what happens after an executive reads a script and thinks it has potential to go to production. But the more you the screenwriter know about the process, the...
Dec 27, 2015
Phillip Iscove, creator of hit TV series Sleepy Hollow, talks about his early days at film school in Toronto, working as an assistant at powerhouse agency UTA for eight years, and how Sleepy Hollow was not just his first sale: it also saved him from being kicked out of the country. Along the way he discusses the...