Hey everyone. Welcome back to the Screen Writing Life. I'm Lorian McKenna.

And I am producer Jeff. Happy Halloween everyone.

In honor of this very spooky day, I'll be chatting with Justin Harding and Cheryl Meyer the writers of Carved a new horror feature that's now available in the stream on Hulu

Justin who directed Carved in addition to co-writing is a multi award winning filmmaker whose body of work in the horror space

includes numerous acclaimed short films that have collectively won over a hundred awards at major festivals

worldwide he's also worked on several TV series including The Haunted Museum and

urban legend both produced by Eli Roth.

Cheryl has worked on several family TV dramas including Amazon Primes Beyond Black Beauty.

She also sold her YA crime pilot, Normal Girls, to Wild Brain.

Her dystopian thriller feature, All the Lost Ones, has been acquired by Paramount Plus Canada, and

the last mark, her crime thriller thriller feature was honored with the 2021 TIF

industry select and landed a home on Super Channel. Cheryl is thrilled to be an

advocate for the community of creatives with disabilities as an early advisor

for the

disability screen office and a community advisor for Real

Abilities Accessible Writers Lab. Justin and Cheryl, welcome to the show and

happy Halloween. Happy Halloween. Thanks for having us.

Happy Halloween, yes.

We're super excited to talk to both of you, but before we jump into our conversation with you, we

have a very special guest joining us for the beginning of our show, the lead actress from the film carved, Peyton Elizabeth Lee.

Peyton got her start as the star of the Disney Channel series Andy Mack, and she went on to star in the Disney Plus series,

Dukee Comae Aloha MD, as well as the Disney Plus movies Secret Society of Second Born Royals and Prom Pact, which she also produced.

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