In conversation with Frances O'Connor: Emily, AI: Artificial Intelligence and directing

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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After building a strong career as an actor over the past few decades, Frances O'Connor has now taken the jump into feature writing and directing. In a special episode of the Film Stories podcast, she chats to Simon about why she's decided to take the plunge now, and what was it that unlocked her film, Emily. She takes us into the writing process of the film, the battle to get funding, and making the move into directing. Plus, there's time for a little bit of A.I.: Artificial Intelligence chatter in there too... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to a special episode, the Film Stories podcast.
0:38.2	Come with me.
0:40.4	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:43.7	And movies.
0:44.8	Movies that had stories.
0:46.5	That the story just sucks a man.
0:49.0	This is just the beginning.
0:51.5	We would be honored if you would join us.
0:58.4	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew. I am Simon Brew. As always, that's absolutely everything you need to know about me.
1:06.0	The album of the podcast, though, well, it's given away in the title. I'm here to talk off the stories of film.
1:10.2	And I tend to talk about development stories, production stories, marketing stories, release stories, all those
1:14.5	ingredients that go to make the films that we know and sometimes love, just that the films that we
1:18.6	know and sometimes love. The films I tend to cover on this podcast have more of a mainstream
1:23.1	leaning to them than anything else. They're films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree.
1:32.8	I try not to do snark. I try not to punch down. This podcast is a celebration of cinema and the people who make it, which is fortunate really because you've happened upon one of my special
1:37.1	episodes of the podcast where I bring in a filmmaker to talk about their latest film or their
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