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SC17 - Sidecast: Screenwriters Everywhere - Cologne and Copenhagen

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John August

Screenwriter, Tv & Film, Writing, John, Screenwriting, August, Craig, Screenplay, Mazin

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Scriptnotes listeners Anton Breum in Copenhagen, Denmark and Pierre Puget in Cologne, Germany interview writers picketing in support of the WGA during the International Day of Solidarity, organized by Screenwriters Everywhere.

Thank you to everyone who was interviewed and thank you Anton and Pierre!

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0:00.0

Alright, I'm Pierre Puget for the European podcast reporting live for the first time and

0:07.0

yes, I have been in front of me. A lot of the writers working in circle,

0:11.6

all doing science, saying WGS strikes, green writers everywhere support the WGS

0:16.1

strike, there's also some sign in German, there's also some on-man sign and it's all

0:20.1

opening in the sun under the very impressive dark looming figure of the very

0:25.4

famous Cathedral of Colourone and this is quite a this is quite a view.

0:29.9

Hi, my name is Anton Breum, I'm a TV writer from Denmark and I'll be your on

0:36.7

the ground script notes reporter in Copenhagen for the day. I'm here in front of

0:41.8

the Warner offices in sunny Copenhagen where the writers guild of Denmark is

0:46.6

out in support of the writers guild of America. My name is Don Troubert, I'm a

0:51.4

screenwriter and director living and working in Germany. So what made you

0:56.1

organize this gathering here today? Well shortly before the WGA started to strike

1:02.0

I was talking to Ellen Stutzmann who works for WGA West and she was

1:06.3

explaining some of the problems they were facing in their negotiations and

1:09.5

those are the same kind of problems we're facing here and so that's why I

1:12.7

said you know if they're on strike we have to do something. Hi, I'm Adrian from

1:17.4

Switzerland and I'm a writer and why are you here and what did you think it was

1:21.1

important to come at this demonstration? I'm at the Syrian camp festival right now

1:26.4

and when I heard that there is like solidarity support for the writer's strike I

1:31.0

thought of course I'm coming here because it is important what they're fighting

1:34.8

for because a lot of these topics are important for us in Europe as well.

1:38.6

Yeah we are students from the IFS so screenwriter students. And why do you think it's

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