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This episode, we've got a special treat for you.

As we close our annual Meet the nominees special, we have one more great discussion for you from our Movies for Television and miniseries symposium.

Like the Feature Film Symposium, the annual event is a roundtable discussion

with the directors nominated for the Guild's Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement

in Movies for TV and miniseries.

On January 31st, Kira Sedgewick, the director of Story of a Girl,

and Jean-Marc valet, the director of Big Little Lives,

joined moderator Mike Robe at the DGA Theatre in Los Angeles

to discuss the making of their projects.

Nominees Scott Frank, the director of Godless, Barry Levinson, the director of The Wizard of Lives, and George C. Wolf, the director of the immortal life of Henrietta Lacks, were not

available to participate.

So please enjoy our Meet the Nominees Movies for Television and miniseries special,

and listen to the nominees take you through the challenges and triumphs of their productions.

Highlights include Jean-Marc Ballet speaking about his behemoth 90-day schedule for Big Little Lies, and Kira Sedgwick on the necessity of making a small story with large ramifications feel nuanced.

Thank you. making a small story with large ramifications feel nuanced. Well, welcome, everyone, and thank you for coming this evening.

These are just five terrific films that should be a real marker for how much the long-form television

has advanced over the years. As Betty mentioned, I think the first television movie was

clocked as 1961, see how they run, directed by David

Lowell Rich, and over the years, those of us who do long form have suffered some abuse

a little bit. I can recall a time when the worst thing you could hear

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