The ISA Podcast
Welcome to the Curious about Screenwriting Podcast where you'll enjoy listening to fascinating film industry guests who share their insights on how you can take your screenwriting career to the next level.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 104
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
ISA Insider News - Broadcast TV Pilot Ratings, Layering Your Scenes & Free Hotel Rooms? Good Luck!
Max & Shayna talk about the pilot ratings from new fall broadcast TV season and other news including the big box office weekend from Black Panther. Creatively, they dive into the elements needed to m…
00:28:32 |
Wed 16 Nov 2022
Steve Feld, Emerging Screenwriter
Steve Feld is a multiple Emmy winner as a producer and has made major progress in his screenwriting career, winning Shoot Your Sizzle and being named an ISA Top Screenwriter to Watch. He has also tur…
00:24:33 |
Tue 15 Nov 2022
Rob Ripley: Emerging Screenwriter Interview
Rob "R.B." Ripley put a music, then theatre career behind him to focus on screenwriting, keeping emotion at the core of every aspect of his screenplay, which lead him to the Warner Media Access Writi…
00:34:03 |
Fri 11 Nov 2022
ISA Insider News - Top 50 in Comedy, Twitter Mayhem & Holiday Gifts that Give Back
Max & Shayna discuss the top comedy creators of the year, utter chaos at Twitter, being on the hunt for new ideas (and actually remembering them), plus finding positive gifts for the holidays.
00:22:28 |
Wed 09 Nov 2022
Katie Crone: Emerging Screenwriter Interview
Feature and television writer Katie Crone writes stories are female-driven comedies with hard truths at the core. Get to know this Midwestern writer who came to LA after learning the music scene in N…
00:29:03 |
Mon 07 Nov 2022
Rachel McClard: Emerging Screenwriter Interview
See how Rachel McClard's journey went from the least glamorous aspects of looking after a writer/director's pet to working on Wilford Brimley's diabetes commercials to now being a top screenwriter to…
00:33:48 |
Sun 06 Nov 2022
ISA Insider News - AFM, Script Page Counts & Santa Found!
Max & Shayna celebrate the return of AFM while also tackling some common questions about page counts (assist to Lee Jessup) & determining when a new scene starts. Also, did you hear they found Santa?
00:25:37 |
Wed 02 Nov 2022
Halloween Special - Screenwriter Jim Hart (Contact, Dracula, Hook): a UFO Witness & the Ghosts of the Murdered Lovers
Screenwriters Jim Hart may be known for some modern classics like Bram Stoker's Dracula, Hook, Contact and may others, but it's also a witness to multiple strange events in the sky and stayed in an a…
01:08:34 |
Sun 30 Oct 2022
ISA Insider News - Halloween Special! +Create Your Writing Ritual
Max & Shayna celebrate the launch of the new ISA website and discuss the importance of creating a writing 'ritual' (routine) to help you get down to business more efficiently and then dive into Hallo…
00:28:23 |
Thu 27 Oct 2022
FSS 36: John Cox on the Psychic Battles, Seances & Strange Death of Harry Houdini
Life-long Harry Houdini researcher John Cox join us to discuss the origins of Houdini's battles with fraudulent mediums, his odd death, the 'final Houdini seance,' and his time in Delavan, WI... all …
01:13:54 |
Thu 27 Oct 2022
ISA Insider News - Top 50 Showrunners, Logline Writing & Cat Purrs
Shayna & Max look at the top 50 show runners of 2022 & discuss why it's important for writers to know who runs which shows. They also discuss logline writing, the many shows and movies they're watchi…
00:29:58 |
Tue 18 Oct 2022
FSS 35: MJ Dickson on British Ghosts, South African Cryptids & Aleister Crowley
Max & Scott dive into working on ghost hunting TV shows with producer and investigator MJ Dickson, who has looked into paranormal stories & haunted locations across the globe. Her fantastic story alo…
01:18:09 |
Wed 12 Oct 2022
ISA Insider News - The Polarizing "Blonde," Budgeting Your Script & Geeking out over Hocus Pocus and Rings of Power
Max & Shayna love the new controversial (fictionalized) bio pic "Blonde," and discuss why it's so debated, while going over how to identify the production budget of your script. They also geek out ov…
00:22:48 |
Wed 05 Oct 2022
ISA Insider News - Happy B-Day Hollywood Sign! Deeper Genre Writing, True Screenplays & Nielsen Ratings
Max & Shayna celebrate the 100th birthday of the Hollywood sign, discuss writing horror films with meaning, telling true stories that are also entertaining before thinking about their next vacations.
00:24:42 |
Wed 28 Sep 2022
ISA Insider News - Screenplay Contests & Advice, Screenwriting Positivity on Twitter & 50 Years of M*A*S*H
Max & Shayna talk about the many screenplay contest opportunities that are currently open, the importance of creating an engaging antagonist & how you can use Twitter to positively impact your screen…
00:26:45 |
Wed 21 Sep 2022
Take 10 with Craig: Self-Training & Using the Site to Your Advantage
ISA founder Craig James talks about the importance of self-training and how to best use the ISA site to your advantage.
00:05:46 |
Thu 15 Sep 2022
ISA Insider News - TIFF, D23, Writing Awkward Subtext & Good News at the Box Office
Max & Shayna take a look a two big industry events: D23, Disney's announcement extravaganza, and the importance of the Toronto International Film Festival. They also discuss articles on the ISA web s…
00:24:47 |
Wed 14 Sep 2022
FSS 33: Jay Bachochin, Hiking Kettle Moraine & Looking for Bigfoot... or Fairies or the Beast Bray Road
Documentarian Jay Bachochin enjoys hiking a vast wilderness in Wisconsin, but a number of unexplainable experiences there have opened his eyes to the nature of reality and what's possible in our know…
01:19:07 |
Wed 14 Sep 2022
ISA Insider News - YOUR Comments, The Venice Film Festival, Lord of the Rings series & Top Gun Shortcomings
Max & Shayna respond to all of your comments & go over the big difference between festival films & popcorn flicks (Venice Film Festival Vs. Top Gun Maverick). The two fantasy nerds also discuss the A…
00:22:56 |
Wed 07 Sep 2022
ISA Insider News - Animation Cancellation, Pitch Challenge & Hooray for Cinema Day
Max & Shayna talk about the continued fallout of the Warner Discovery budget cuts, they provide some tips regarding the upcoming ISA Pitch Challenge and subject lines for query emails while also gear…
00:27:10 |
Wed 31 Aug 2022
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