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At The Santa Fe International Film Festival, Variety’s Screenwriters To Watch Reveal How They Use Personal Inspiration to Tell Powerful Stories
At the Santa Fe International Film Fest, Variety's 2024 Screenwriters to Watch discussed personal inspirations and profound ideas for their stories.
All 10 recipients gathered at Santa Fe’s Lensic Performing Arts Center for a lively conversation about their path to screenwriting and the work that earned them their place on Variety ’s annual list of the most promising up-and-coming scribes in the entertainment industry. Additionally, Dan Brier (“Sweethearts”) indicated that “Napoleon Dynamite” changed his life; Jocelyn Bioh (“ Once on This Island ”) picked “Coming to America” (“I’d never heard people speaking even remotely close to my parents ever on a TV screen or in a movie”); Chandler Baker (“Oh. “I was watching a movie called ‘High Art,’ and I saw ‘written [and] directed by Lisa Cholodenko’ at the end of the film, and I was like, whoa, I can do that as a job?” she recounted, highlighting the fact it would be an especially significant career shift from stripping, which was how she made money at the time.
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