Humanitas Industry 101 Podcast

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The Humanitas Industry 101 Podcast is a component of a series of online and in-person events and content introducing topics that are foundational to understanding and launching television and film writing careers. The podcast features audio from our digitized archive, as well as new conversations. The Humanitas Industry 101 series is made possible with support from our series sponsor Sony Pictures Entertainment. Learn more about Humanitas at humanitasprize.org. 

Episodes

  1. Jun 16

    Episode 1: Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick

    Our first episode comes from a discussion between legendary writers, directors, and producers, Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick, recorded December 11, 1993.  While the business of screenwriting has changed dramatically over the last 32 years, their advice about structure and character remains evergreen.  With five Emmys, an Oscar, and multiple Humanitas Prizes between them, Marshall and Ed have a storied partnership spanning film and television.  They met as students at American Film Institute (AFI) and have gone on to write, produce, and direct projects such as The Last Samurai, Legends of The Fall, Traffic, Thirtysomething, and My So-Called Life. This conversation was moderated by Greg Apparcel during the Humanitas Master Writers Workshop series held in the early 90s through the early 2000s.  – If you’d like to hear more about Ed Zwick’s time in Hollywood his memoir, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood, was released in 2024 by Gallery Books and is available where books are sold.  Books and authors mentioned in the episode include Shakespeare (King Lear), The Oresteia, Stanislavski, Uta Hagen, and Aristotle.  Link to the full Humanitas Industry 101 resource collection is here: https://www.humanitasprize.org/101-resource-page. - Host/Writer-Producer: Michelle Franke Featuring: Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick Audio Editor-Producer: Campbell Moore Writer-Producer: Daniel Plagens Mixing/Mastering: Jeff Schoeny at Voxstop Music: "We Don't Stop" and "Got to Be" by Mooveka Music Licensing: Artlist.io

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The Humanitas Industry 101 Podcast is a component of a series of online and in-person events and content introducing topics that are foundational to understanding and launching television and film writing careers. The podcast features audio from our digitized archive, as well as new conversations. The Humanitas Industry 101 series is made possible with support from our series sponsor Sony Pictures Entertainment. Learn more about Humanitas at humanitasprize.org. 

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