Hi, I'm Michael. Welcome to Beyond the Screenplay. Today we're talking about the film

Searching. I'm joined by part of the lesson from the screenplay team, Alex Cayanos. Hi. And we have

the creative team behind searching here, writer-producer Zev Ohan.

Hey.

And writer-director, Anise Chaganti.

Anish Chaginti.

You always had it.

I can see you thinking about it and, like, wanted to get it right, which is all, yeah.

Okay.

You tried.

Hello regardless, you know.

Thank you guys so much for joining us. This is so exciting. So Alex and I saw

searching at the screening you guys had at LACMA last year and I've never been in a screening that had like

that kind of energy like the house was packed and everyone's just really excited and it's the kind of movie

where there's a lot of opportunity for audience reaction

and it was so much fun being in an audience that was like along for like so into it and like

so down yeah whispering of like oh did that person do it and there's just this like energy in there

and it's one of my favorite screenings that I've ever been to and yeah it's a

great movie you guys did an awesome job so congratulations thank you yeah thank you um can we say

something first too yes i just got to say this is such an amazing honor for us to be talking to you

guys because like no joke lessons from the screenplay is my shit.

I've watched every episode, some of them multiple times.

...