He's a strong swimmer, a good friend and an up-and-coming bicyclist. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm

talking about Luca and his friend Alberto, too. Howdy. I'm Jeff Goldsmith, and this is the Q&A.

My agenda is simple. Each week, I plan to bring you in-depth insights into the creative process

of storytelling. Folks, we have a fantastic episode for you today. We have director in Rico

Casarosa and screenwriter

Jesse Andrews and screenwriter Mike Jones to chat about their latest film, Luca. You know, I love

Luca. It was great when I saw it the first time. It gets even stronger on a second viewing.

And, you know, this was part of a virtual online event that we did. It was a blast. Everybody in the

event had a chance to see the movie for a week if they hadn't already. And also early access to the

Q&A as well before it went into iTunes and Spotify and on the YouTube backstory magazine page.

So if you're not on our invite list, I highly encourage you to sign up.

Invites are free. The events are free mostly. If they're ever not free, we'll tell you, but

really most of what we do is free events. And you could sign up at backstory.net slash events.

But look, this was a really good episode, and I love getting into how the Pixar story development process works

and what it takes to make these great films. So I know you'll dig this episode. And speaking

of things to dig, we just published the new issue of Backstory Magazine. It's our Dune issue,

our winter issue. And folks, there is so much in it. I hope you will check it out by looking at the

table of contents over at backstory.net. And you know, since it's during the holiday season,

you could still gift a subscription of Backstory Magazine to that special storyteller in your life.

Anytime you want, you can do it year round. Just check the gift box on checkout at backstory.net. And of course, the credentials

of the gift subscription you're buying will work both on our desktop or laptop version of backstory,

which is bagstory.com. Or on our iPad app, backstory. So there's a lot of options there. And I'm really

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