75 | Finding Your Brand as a Writer w/ Manager Alison Mann

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Whether or not we want to admit it, being seen and getting staffed is easier if we can tell others WHO we are as writers. Industry powerhouse Alison Mann believes this so strongly that she has her clients create "brand decks" when she pitches them for jobs. And for Alison, it's just as much for their potential partners as it is for her clients themselves. After a long and impressive career working as a studio executive in animation, Alison Mann now works as the Talent Manager and Co-President of Fourth Wall Animation at Fourth Wall Management

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafour. And I'm
0:04.1	L'Orian McKenna. We are professional screenwriters. We've worked together as a
0:07.6	team and separately. We've worked on studio and indie films, live action and
0:11.4	animation from my work on Inside Out and
0:13.9	Captain Marvel. 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 lights,
0:23.5	had to not only survive the ups and downs, but thrive.
0:26.6	We want to help you become the best screenwriter you can be
0:29.1	and to reassure you that you are not alone on this journey. Hey everyone, welcome back to the show.
0:35.0	Today we are chatting with entertainment industry leader, executive, and inclusion advocate
0:39.7	Allison Mann.
0:40.7	Allison has experience in TV, film, and gaming while working at Walt Disney Animation
0:46.0	Studio, Zinga, Disney Interactive, Paramount Pictures Animation, Illumination Entertainment, and
0:51.7	Sony Pictures Animation.
0:54.0	She is the co-founder and CEO of the Brick Foundation and organization set up to create new access points for women
1:01.0	and people from unrepresented groups so that they can excel at creative leadership and to enable cultural change through engaging and empowering talent.
1:10.0	So welcome, Allison.
1:12.0	Thank you so much for having me.
1:14.0	Welcome.
1:15.0	Can I add my current job in there?
1:18.0	Please.
1:19.0	So I'm currently, so I left the studio system after 20 some odd years and I decided to go and become a talent manager over at fourth wall management and then I'm also co president of our animation division.
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