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Join writing teacher Pilar Alessandra and industry guests as they  demystify screenwriting and answer your questions about craft and story.

Jan 17, 2025

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


Jan 10, 2025

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.


Jan 3, 2025

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.


Dec 28, 2024

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


Dec 27, 2024

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