If you spent quarantine consuming everything Netflix has to offer, then you can thank

Carolina Garcia, Netflix is director of original series,

for bringing you Stranger Things, a typical 13 Reasons Why, Fuller House,

and the chilling adventures of Sabrina.

Carolina walks me through what makes a project stand out,

how an executive shepherds an idea from pitch to execution,

and how she learned to bring more of who she is and what she loves

to the place she works.

Carolina, thank you for doing this.

Of course.

Thank you for having me.

Here's where I want to start, which is by the time a project reaches your desk, who has already seen it and how has it

gotten there? So most times I see a project through an agent or a manager. I have relationships with

many agents and managers in the business. And through those relationships, that's where we get

most of our submissions. Now, I think we're coming to a place where we understand that not

everybody has access to an agent or a manager. And we want to be cognizant of that. And so a lot

of times, colleagues of mine or I will find something that someone

has created and just put out on the internet and we'll say like, hey, that's a really cool

idea or that person has a really great voice. What are they about? And then we'll kind of get into

tracking that person down, I guess you should say. And are you looking at things in various forms?

Like, are you looking at scripts and three-page proposals and books? Are things coming to you

fully baked? Are they in various stages? Various stages. So there are times when it's just an

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