BPS 051: The Coffee Break Screenwriter with Pilar Alessandra

I've been trying to get today's guest on the show for months. Pilar
Alessandra is an author, podcaster, and script consultant. She is
the director of the popular writing program “On The Page” and
author of “The Coffee Break Screenwriter.” A sought-after teacher
and lecturer, she’s traveled the world teaching screenwriting,
pitching and story analysis. As a consultant, Pilar has helped
thousands of writers create, refine and sell their scripts and was
named “Cream of the Crop” in Creative Screenwriting’s Script
Consultant Survey.

Her students and clients have sold to Disney, DreamWorks, Warner
Brothers and Sony and have won prestigious competitions, including
the Austin Film Festival and Nicholl Fellowship.

Pilar jump-started her career in film as a script reader for Amblin
Entertainment. With the formation of DreamWorks, she became Senior
Story Analyst and a reader liaison between the studio and Robert
Zemeckis’s company ImageMovers.

Her expert script analysis was also sought out by The Robert Evans
Company, Cineville Entertainment, Handprint Entertainment and
Saturday Night Live Studios. Work at Interscope Communications led
her to a position as Senior Story Analyst for Scott Kroopf’s
production company Radar Pictures.

Pilar was later bitten by the “teaching bug” while teaching
screenwriting and story analysis at the UCLA Writers’ Program. In
2001, she started her own company “On the Page,” and in 2004 opened
the On the Page Writers Studio in Sherman Oaks, California.

In the interest of expanding access to her teaching tools, Pilar
created the weekly “On the Page Podcast” with guests from within
the industry. Recently, Pilar was listed as one of LA Weekly’s top
100 people in their “Best of LA People” issue.

Enjoy my conversation with Pilar Alessandra.

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