A Conversation with Lee Eisenberg
This week on On Story, Lee Eisenberg lends his insights into writing The Offices’s iconic “Dinner Party” episode and creating the hysterical viral sensation, reality-sitcom hybrid, Jury Duty.
A Conversation with Craig Mazin
This week on On Story, a conversation with writer, director, producer and industry frontrunner, Craig Mazin.
Mazin is perhaps best known for his Emmy award-winning historical Drama, Chernobyl. The HBO miniseries captivated audiences with its story of the aftermath of the 1986 disaster and earned Mazin the Emmy for Outstanding Writing on a Limited Series. Prior to his television work, Mazin gained recognition as a sharp comedy writer through features such as Scary Movie 3 and 4, Superhero Movie, The Hangover parts 2 and 3, and Identity Thief. The prolific writer is a long-time friend of Austin Film Festival and often hosts live recordings of his industry-insider podcasted, Scriptnotes, co-hosted with fellow writer John August, during AFF’s Annual Writers Conference each October. Eager to inform and support up-and-coming writers, the podcast discusses all things current in screenwriting.
On Writing: Sing Sing and American Pyscho
This week on On Story, screenwriter-producer Clint Bentley and producer Monique Walton join us to discuss the making of the independent, prison-drama feature, Sing Sing and their process developing a script inspired by a real-life rehabilitation through the arts program and their mission to depict an authentic incarcerated experience.
Then, we’re joined by screenwriter Guinevere Turner to discuss her process writing the infamous, slasher film American Psycho. Turner deep-dives into her process translating the original novel and satirizing 80s culture, while striking a tonal balance of black-comedy and horror.
We're highlighting some of our On Story shorts that have played throughout the 8 seasons of On Story.
