The Bear: A Conversation with Joanna Calo
This week on On Story a conversation with Joanna Calo, showrunner of the character driven dramedy The Bear. Joanna delves into her experience sharing showrunning duties with creator Christopher Storer, and discusses their approach to incorporating real life events into the show’s deeply grounded characters and high stakes world.
AMERICAN FICTION With Cord Jefferson
This week on On Story, a conversation with Cord Jefferson on adapting the novel Erasure into his strikingly sharp debut feature American Fiction. Cord discusses bringing his own perspective and sense of humor to the source material, and marrying comedy and drama in one film.
Past Lives + Finestkind
This week on On Story, we’re joined by Celine Song to discuss writing and directing her semi-autobiographical debut feature, the bittersweet romantic drama Past Lives. The film was recently nominated for Academy Awards in two categories: Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture. Later in the episode, we’ll speak with celebrated writer and director Brian Helgeland about the decades-long journey it took to bring his deeply personal film Finestkind to life.
We're highlighting some of our On Story shorts that have played throughout the 8 seasons of On Story.
