ICYMI – Script’s ‘The Climate Screenwriter’ Columnist Leigh Medeiros on Pilar Alessandra’s On the Page Podcast
Listen to Pilar Alessandra’s On the Page Podcast with special guest, Script’s ‘The Climate Screenwriter’ columnist Leigh Medeiros.
Leigh Medeiros, co-founder and co-director of the Hollywood Climate Summit’s Pitchfest for Film and TV, talks about how climate screenwriting equals good storytelling and gives “ten reasons why the time is now for screenwriters to help save the planet."
And yes, Climate Screenwriting can be engaging, entertaining, evoking, and educational - give it a whirl!
Join writing teacher Pilar Alessandra and industry guests as they demystify screenwriting and answer your questions about craft and story. Listen to Episode 844. Climate Screenwriting.
Additional Reading:
The Climate Screenwriter Column
The Climate Screenwriter: All Hands on Deck! 10 Reasons Why the Time is Now for Screenwriters to Help Save the Planet
What Is Climate Screenwriting?
About On the Page Podcast
On the Page covers feature writing, tv writing, pitching, writer branding and almost everything script related!
Each week successful screenwriters, tv writers, and content creators get specific about their process for writing and storytelling. Host Pilar Alessandra, instructor at On the Page® adds nuggets of her own, offering advice and writing tools from her classes and books.
About Pilar Alessanda
A veteran Hollywood script consultant, author of the top selling screenwriting book, The Coffee Break Screenwriter, and host of the On the Page Podcast (now in its 16th-year), Pilar Alessandra is known as one of Los Angeles’s leading story instructors.
Pilar has traveled the world teaching screenwriting and television writing to production companies, film schools and festivals in London, Rome, Beijing, Lisbon and Cape Town.
In addition to the regular classes she teaches through On the Page, she’s trained writers at Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad program, taught classes at Disney and DreamWorks, trains writers through NBC’s Universal Launch Program and the CBS Paramount Writing Program and has been a pitch coach for the producers at the MIA Film Market in Rome since 2020.
Pilar’s greatest accomplishment is the achievement of her students, many of whom gained success on series such as House of the Dragon, Homeland, Dear White People, Grey’s Anatomy, Silicon Valley, and The Chi and have sold feature films and pitches to Netflix, Sony, Warner Bros. and other major studios.
About Leigh Medeiros
Leigh Medeiros is the co-director of the Hollywood Climate Summit’s ‘Writing Climate: Pitchfest for Film and TV’, author of ‘The 1-MinuteWriter: 396 Microprompts to Spark Creativity and Recharge Your Writing’ (Simon & Schuster, 2019), and founder of the Linden Place Writers’ Residency in Rhode Island. Her screenplays have placed in numerous competitions, including the Nicholl, Project Greenlight, San Diego International Film Fest, and PAGE, and have also garnered two Screenwriting Merit Fellowships through the State of Rhode Island. Leigh is a member of the United Nations Entertainment and Culture for Climate Action (ECCA) working group and has consulted with Good Energy on a climate story campaign. Her motto is: Big Impact, Small Footprint. And, yeah, she hugs trees!
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