Look, I love the movie, and I'm glad it's nominated. It deserves every award it gets, but come on now.

We need a sequel or a TV show just about Ruby's parents and only about Ruby's parents.

Howdy? I'm Jeff Goldsmith, and this is the Q&A. My agenda is simple. Each week, I plan to bring you in-depth insight into the creative process of storytelling.

Folks, I am quite pleased to have with me today,

writer-director, Sean Heeter, to talk about her Oscar and WGA-nominated film, Coda.

You know, this is a great film.

If you haven't yet seen it, you are sleeping, my friends,

but I kind of think you probably have seen it by now.

It's on Apple Plus, and, you know, one of the things that I

did recently that makes this Q&A was we did a virtual screening for CODA. That's right. This

Q&A played after hundreds of people all over the U.S. and world, actually. We took off geo-blocking.

We're able to watch Kota from the comfort of their own home and then see the

Q&A between Sean and I. And you know, all of our Q&As that we do on Zoom go straight into

the Backstory Magazine YouTube page. So you could watch them there as well if you'd like to watch

us chat. And you know if you're not on our list to get these invites for virtual screenings

and for in-person

screenings in Los Angeles when they start up again, you could just go to backstory.net slash events

and sign up. It's totally free. And you'll get emails from us from time to time, especially when

we do these virtual events, which we'd love to have you at as they are free. And look, without a

doubt, Coda is such a fantastic film,

and Sean had so many great insights in what it took to write it and direct it.

So that it became this WGA and Oscar-nominated flick,

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