"Directors and Showrunners" from ATX
The Writers Panel
Ben Blacker
4.7 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
As different directors tackle single episodes or an entire series, a strong relationship between directors and showrunners is crucial to maintaining a cohesive and dynamic vision of the storytelling. Join these showrunner + director pairs, who have worked together across multiple episodes, as they discuss the challenges of collaborating across a season of stories, establishing trust, and what occurs when opinions collide.
Panelists: Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields (The Americans); Thomas Schlamme (The Americans); Kevin Falls (Pitch, The West Wing); Paris Barclay (Pitch); Dave Andron (Snowfall)
Moderated by Director Kat Candler (Queen Sugar)
Recorded Live at ATX Television Festival June 10, 2017
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| 0:32.6 | Forever! |
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| 0:35.9 | Hi, it's me, Ben. |
| 0:37.4 | And this is sort of an ad, but it's not really an ad, because I'm telling you about something that I give a damn about. |
| 0:43.9 | We've talked in the past about the ATX television festival. |
| 0:48.0 | You've heard recordings as podcasts that we've put out that were recorded at ATX from past years. |
| 0:54.0 | It really is one of my |
| 0:55.8 | favorite things to do, one of my favorite times of year. It's happening this year, June 7th to |
| 1:01.3 | 10th. It's right around the corner. So go to Austin and do it. And they're doing some cool stuff |
| 1:06.5 | there. They've got a Nash Bridges' Writers' Room reunion. They've got the creators of The Good Wife and the Good Fight, |
| 1:13.2 | the people behind the Americans, Boy Meets World, Drunk History. |
| 1:16.9 | David Simon will be there. |
| 1:19.2 | But in addition to the festival, ATX has started a podcast, and you should listen to it. |
| 1:25.2 | It takes a deep dive with some of the biggest names in television. |
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