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On The Page

Pilar Alessandra

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

tv & film

All Episodes

38:57

923. "That’s Another Story!”

On The Page ·

2025/02/14

On the Page “rising star" Tamar Feinkind has found stories from her dad, herself, her motherhood and her Jewish identity. Here, she talks about her projects, pitches and a pivotal name reclamation that helped change everything.

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42:19

921. On Call With Tiffany Bratcher

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2025/01/31

Writer Tiffany Bratcher worked her way up from writers PA to writer for the Amazon Prime series On Call and story editor for Chicago PD. Here she talks about writing procedural and half-hour drama, police ride-alongs and the need to always be pitching.

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38:21

920. The Women’s List

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2025/01/24

Writer Jan Kimbrough discusses The Women’s List, a nonprofit spotlighting production-ready scripts by women writers.

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28:08

919. When Your Life Becomes a Movie

On The Page ·

2025/01/17

Pilar and her husband Pat describe how their real life story felt like a movie story as they evacuated Los Angeles during the wildfires.

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30:15

917. The Short

On The Page ·

2025/01/03

Writer/director/educator Rae Shaw discusses her new book, The Short, emphasizing the many forms of short form storytelling and the different approaches that can be taken to writing it.

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38:51

913. “You Can’t Not Do It"

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2024/12/13

Writer/Director Coley Sohn talks about the fun and frustration of writing and directing her independent movie “Mudkey,” which satirizes the right/left divide during one miserable day on a Florida island.

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39:45

912. "The Product is Never the Story"

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2024/12/06

Writer/Publicists Alexandra Grizinski and Jenny Beres talk about ways that screenwriters can mine their personal story to get interest in their scripts as well as the ways they can expand to different media to help them get work and get noticed.

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03:04

911. Announcement: 2024 Logline Contest

On The Page ·

2024/12/04

It’s time for the annual On the Page logline competition! Pilar explains the rules and gives the deadline.

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40:35

908. Aaron Kozak Can’t Stop Writing

On The Page ·

2024/11/15

Writer Aaron Kozak was a winner at the Austin Screenwriting Festival this year and a finalist in two other categories! Here he talks about the many ideas he’s put on the page, his ability to write a lot of material very fast and how moving away from Los Angeles has made him a better writer.

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39:32

907. The “Ikigai" of Virgil Williams

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2024/11/08

Virgil Williams, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Mudbound, talks about his latest feature film, an adaptation of the August Wilson playThe Piano Lesson, produced by Denzel Washington and directed by Malcolm Washington.

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47:21

905. Dystopic Yet Hopeful

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2024/10/25

Lynn Renee Maxcy, writer for The Handmaid’s Tale and The Complex talks about her love of sci-fi and speculative fiction where, no matter how dark it seems, a story can always provide hope.

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35:49

901. Drawing From the Well

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2024/09/27

Writer/Director/Professor Shahari Moore draws from her “well" of experience and knowledge as she writes personal stories that grab the attention of industry and writers labs.

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36:52

900. Getting Sucked Into the TV

On The Page ·

2024/09/20

Adrian Colón Jr went from being a Wayans fan to working in the writers room with them on the new CBS show Poppa’s House. Hear what he learned as he went from Writers PA to CBS Fellow to working writer.

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41:30

896. In the Thicket With Elliott Lester

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2024/08/23

Director Elliott Lester returns to talk about how a gender swap and involvement by Peter Dinklage brought him to his latest project, The Thicket.

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57:55

893. Breaking Down the Logline

On The Page ·

2024/08/02

Writer James “Doc” Mason digs into the elements of the logline as discussed in his book, Mastering the Logline: How To Excite Hollywood in a Single Sentence.

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51:52

892. Coming Full Circle

On The Page ·

2024/07/26

From getting stuck in a Zoom room to working in hospice, everything that writer Lauren Glover (Chicago Med, Fight Night) thought was an obstacle, came full circle to help her in her writing career.

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45:45

891. The Rules of the Show

On The Page ·

2024/07/19

Barbara Stepansky, writer/producer on Outlander and head writer on Woman of the Dead, talks about how the rules of the shows she writes on present creative challenges that make her job even more interesting.

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47:51

888. Lawyer and Dream-Maker

On The Page ·

2024/06/28

Entertainment attorney and composer Corey Field sees his work as helping writers and creators achieve their dreams. Here he explains the difference between sales, options and work-for-hire and discusses potential gains and traps along the way.

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37:56

885. Middle East Meets West

On The Page ·

2024/06/07

Writer Suha AL Khalifa is a senior writer at the Saudi Giant MBC Studios (Rashash, Devil’s Promise) and also wrote the region's first female super-hero film. She talks about how her experience as a psychotherapist and as a "cultural hybrid" (Bahrain, UK, and US) has informed her writing and storytelling.

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45:12

883. Curating a Film Career

On The Page ·

2024/05/24

Emily Harris is not only an award-winning writer-director (Carmilla), she also has an amazing “day job” as the Curator of Film at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

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