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ON THE PAGE: Join professional script consultant Pilar Alessandra as she demystifies screenwriting and answers your questions about script craft and story.

Katrina Medoff, co-founder/executive director of the Moonshot Initiative, talks about the program's mission, events, film challenge and scri...

Sylvia-Anne Parker is already a rockstar script supervisor, but over the years she's also been selected to the Sundance Episodic Lab , the W...

Writer Jeremy Slater has built serious genre credentials across major IP, from creating Marvel's Moon Knight and developing Netflix's The Um...

Named a top 25 screenwriter to watch by the ISA, Irish screenwriter Conor Dowling has written for everything from kids animation to live-act...

Creating involved character bios and being ready for the script shifting at a moment's notice; LaNisa Renee Frederick talks about the acting...

Veteran producer Eleanor Greene talks about the ways she discovers and develops stories, often "beginning at the end" to help a project find...

Zunaid Mansoor, a leading professional script editor and consultant in South Africa, shares his wisdom about screenwriting, the entertainmen...

Phil Stark, screenwriter and licensed therapist, talks about his latest book, How to Be a Screenwriter , covering how to network, get an age...

Pilar and her friends Brian Pope, Mike Musa and Alex Troxler get together in person for one last time for their annual discussion about the...

Writer Chris Hill, the host of the podcast Blacklisted , talks about his personal screenwriting journey and what he's learned talking to wri...

Following years as a successful screenwriter, Irene Turner talks about the work and fun that went into writing and producing the Ambie Award...

Writer/Director Jethro Waters talks about the ways that cinematography reflects emotion and how that is shown in his new independent feature...

"Dapper" David Bax, host of the long-running podcas t Battleship Pretension , returns to talk about the movies that had the most impact on h...

Craig Brewer, Writer/Director of Song Sung Blue , Dolemite is My Name and Hustle and Flow , talks about his inspiration and script writing p...

Actor/writer Danielle Pinnock gives an actor's take on the writers' room, drawn from five seasons of playing the iconic "Alberta" on the CBS...

After graduating UNCSA, fimmaker Kat Street made decisions about what she really wanted to do as she filmed a web series and developed scree...

Writer/ director Drew Feldman is also a financial planner who specializes in helping creatives. Hear what he has to say about smart budgetin...

The "first five second rule" and "cliff hangers that force the swipe." Writer Isabel Dréan discusses her new book, How to Write a Vertical S...

Hanelle Culpepper's career as a director spans dozens of series and a variety of genres. Here, she talks about her character-driven approach...

Career coach Lee Jessup returns to discuss the industry changes and writing trends of 2025 and shares what's ahead for the new year.

Pilar reads and gives feedback on the loglines that didn't make the top fifteen lists for the 2025 Logline Contest.

Pilar and Aadip read, evaluate and vote on feature and TV loglines sent in by listeners. Which ones will win and which ones will make the "b...

Vilma Llaguno's dream of making her movie 40 Before 40 was accelerated when she won a Kickstarter initiative, placing her film on Tubi and f...

Actress/writer Corbin Reid shadowed directors and learned what went on behind the scenes of the shows she acted on, making her ready when th...

It's time for the very last On the Page logline competition! Pilar explains the rules and gives the deadline.

Filmmaker/social scientist Dena Seidel talks about how her digital lab brings the story of scientists and scientific work to the public.

Filmmaker Landi Maduro walks us through the elements of her Ultimate Feature Film Production Planner which give creatives a timeline to help...

Writer Brett Melnick ( King of the Hill, Dave ) walks us through the different jobs and duties of the "support staff" in a writers' room: wr...

Writer/director Rhona Rees knows what she wants to say before she writes. Here she talks about her award-winning dystopian thriller and her...

Entertainment attorney Britton Payne talks about his work with The Autism Scene , a nonprofit advocating for the inclusion of explicitly aut...

What happens when you're feeling discouraged in your writing career? You "persevere" and eventually carve out a career like writer-producer...

Writer Lori Rosene-Gambino does not back down from adding social commentary into her fictional narratives. Hear what she has to say about he...

Krista Knight discussed her work as a playwright, screenwriter, and new media artist, including scripting a ride for Tokyo Disneyland, adapt...

Writers Jake Emanuel and Willie Block talk about the "epic intimacy" they created for their fictional podcast Edge of Sleep which went on to...

Rae Benjamin ( The Witcher, Sirens of the Deep ) says she's "inspired by stories and characters" and isn't afraid to explore any medium to g...

What happens when fire breaks out on the first day of your film shoot? Writer/director John W. Kim talks about that and other challenges tha...

Filmmaker Michelle Muldoon joins Pilar to talk about all of the ways your storytelling and creativity can be applied to other creative work...

Producer Lauren Vilchik talks about the love and hard work it took to make the movie A Little Prayer , currently in theaters.

Writer and UCLA Professor Paul Chitlik talks about his newest book, The Screenwriting Sensei , which takes screenwriters from start to finis...

As she did with her mother, Pilar learns about her father through a series of "loglines" discussing the movie-worthy moments in his life.

This week's writing wisdom is brought to you by the writer/producer of Speed, Broken Arrow, From The Earth to the Moon, Band of Brothers, Sn...

Actor / writer Stephanie Koenig ( English Teacher, Lessons In Chemistry ) talks about the jokes and ideas that inspired her to write and the...

A real-life UFO sighting combined with knowledge of the addiction world helped to create the fictional independent movie Star People written...

Film entrepreneur Gray Jones discusses the new platform Share which aims to split film profits with everyone involved - above and below the...

Writer Melissa Cassera, who now has 14 Lifetime movies to her credit, discusses her businessperson's approach to getting and keeping work an...

Writers George N Koulouris and Will Amato talk about the fun and work that go into writing short, entertaining content for "vertical films."

Writer/producer David Simkins ( Adventures in Babysitting, Charmed, Grimm, Blade, Roswell, Angel) talks about his start as a screenwriter an...

From development funds to film markets, Frederik Ehrhardt talks about what it's like to write and produce in the United States and Europe.

The five writers selected for the 2025 CBS/Paramount Writers Mentoring Program talk about the craft and career lessons they've learned from...

Bill Thompson discusses his exceptional arts non-profit Young Storytellers and the new report, Growing Pains, which centers around the conce...