On The Page

Pilar Alessandra

  • 38 minutes 21 seconds
    920. The Women’s List

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

    24 January 2025, 1:01 pm
  • 28 minutes 8 seconds
    919. When Your Life Becomes a Movie

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

    17 January 2025, 11:44 am
  • 38 minutes 34 seconds
    918. Playdate to Red Carpet

    Filmmaker, author, comedian Sari Karplus made a movie with her kids on a lark and ended up winning film festivals! Listen to her take on working with kids, how she wrote four childrens' books and how taking time to “look at the trees,” might just be the key to a work / life balance.

    10 January 2025, 1:00 pm
  • 30 minutes 15 seconds
    917. The Short

    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.

    3 January 2025, 1:00 pm
  • 38 minutes 30 seconds
    916. Logline Competition 2024: Part 2

    Pilar reads and gives feedback on the loglines that didn’t make the top fifteen lists for the 2024 Logline Contest.

    28 December 2024, 4:00 pm
  • 1 hour 7 minutes
    915. Logline Competition 2024

    Pilar and Aadip read, evaluate and vote on feature and TV loglines sent in by listeners!

    27 December 2024, 1:00 pm
  • 43 minutes 58 seconds
    914. 2024 Writing Year in Review

    Career coach Lee Jessup returns to discuss the industry changes and writing trends of 2024 and shares what’s ahead for the new year.

    20 December 2024, 1:00 pm
  • 38 minutes 51 seconds
    913. “You Can’t Not Do It"

    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.

    13 December 2024, 1:00 pm
  • 39 minutes 45 seconds
    912. "The Product is Never the Story"

    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.

    6 December 2024, 1:00 pm
  • 3 minutes 4 seconds
    911. Announcement: 2024 Logline Contest

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

    4 December 2024, 5:34 pm
  • 28 minutes 11 seconds
    910. Reality to Scripted

    Filmmaker Pooja Parvati Gupta’s experience in reality shows turned out to be excellent narrative training for creating compelling scripted stories. Hear how she made the choice to move from one to the other and how personal experience impacts her storytelling.

    29 November 2024, 1:00 pm
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