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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafour. And I'm L'Orian McKenna. We are professional screenwriters. We've worked together as a team and separately. We've worked on studio and indie films, live action, and animation from my work on Inside Out and |
| 0:13.9 | Captain Marvel. |
| 0:14.8 | To my work in Pixar Story Department on Up, Brave, and Inside Out. |
| 0:18.8 | We are here to share our insights on the craft of screenwriting and also the life. |
| 0:23.0 | Had a not only survive the ups and downs but thrive. |
| 0:26.0 | We want to help you become the best screenwriter you can be and to reassure you that you are not alone on this journey. |
| 0:32.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:34.0 | Today we're chatting with two rising stars in our industry, |
| 0:37.0 | Zoe Chang and Caitlin Fucorpa, |
| 0:39.0 | who are going to discuss the ecosystem of the writer slash assistance navigating their early |
| 0:45.2 | careers in Hollywood. Zoe is a Taiwanese American writer who is currently a story |
| 0:50.4 | editor on season four of the rookie, a position she earned after her stint with the |
| 0:55.5 | 2020 Walt Disney Television Writing Program. After earning her BFA from USC for writing for Screen and Television. |
| 1:03.5 | Zoe worked as a Writers PA. |
| 1:05.7 | Caitland earned her MFA in Television Writing and Production at Chapman |
| 1:10.1 | and has interned with CBS Television Studio CAA and ICM partners where she currently works as an assistant in the LIT department. |
| 1:18.0 | And oh my God, I only did one stumble. Applause, applause. |
| 1:22.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:24.0 | So we're really excited to have these two young writers with us. |
| 1:28.0 | They're in the thick of it when it comes to navigating Hollywood |
| 1:31.0 | as emerging writers for Caitlin and established writer for Zoe. |
| 1:36.0 | We can't wait to gather some intel and some insight into their journey. |
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