Hey everyone welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafour.

And I'm Lorian McKenna and today we're excited to talk to the director of

Pixar's Inside Out 2, Kelsey Mann.

Kelsey started his career at Cartoon Network where he worked as a storyboard artist on

shows like Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and Star Wars, The Clone Wars.

Kelsey joined Pixar where he started as a story supervisor for monsters university,

eventually directing the short film Party Central, which I love,

which he also wrote. I met Kelsey when he was head of story on the Good Dinosaur and

onward I most recently worked with him on Inside Out too so Kelsey so honored to have

you on the show today.

Thanks, you guys.

So happy to be here.

This is exciting.

We're going to have so much fun.

Okay, but before we get started and dive into all things

inside out, too, we're gonna to do our week or what we call

adventures in screenwriting. We'll let L'Orian go first to show you how it's done.

Lorrying, how is your week? Good. I'm working on quite a few different projects that are in different stages of development.

One that I've been working on since for about two and a half years.

It's based on IP, it's an animated show that I developed. We were all set to take it out, to pitch it right before the strike, and then we had to pull it back. And I'm taking it out again. So I'm rewriting the pitch a little bit.

I'm really excited about it. The thing about this project is that it is a bit of a hard sell and that it's an

animated project for a junior high audience but it is really really personal to me

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