John and Aline Brosh McKenna co-host a special panel with writers Anna Winger (Unorthodox, Deutschland 83), and Tony McNamara (The Great, The Favourite) for the French television festival Serie Series.
We cover writing coming of age stories, how to choose the best format for a story, and writing with act breaks. We also discuss the production challenges and opportunities of working internationally and how to find a common language on set.
Links:
* Check out [Serie Series](https://www.serieseries.fr/en/) and also find the video recording of the session here!
* [Unorthodox](https://www.netflix.com/title/81019069)
* [The Great](https://www.hulu.com/series/the-great-238db0d4-c476-47ed-9bee-d326fd302f7d)
* [Algonuts](http://www.shardcore.org/shardpress2019/2020/06/17/algonuts/) by Eric Drass
* [Beer Bread](https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/2766-beer-bread)
* [Remastered: The Lion’s Share](https://www.netflix.com/title/80191050)
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* [Anna Winger](https://twitter.com/annawinger?lang=en) on Twitter
* [Tony McNamara](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1110111/)
* [Aline Brosh McKenna](https://twitter.com/alinebmckenna?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) on Twitter
* [John August](https://twitter.com/johnaugust) on Twitter
* [Craig Mazin](https://twitter.com/clmazin) on Twitter
* [John on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/johnaugust/?hl=en)
* [Outro](http://johnaugust.com/2013/scriptnotes-the-outros) by Eric Pearson ([send us yours!](http://johnaugust.com/2014/outros-needed))
* Scriptnotes is produced by Megana Rao and edited by Matthew Chilelli.
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You can download the episode [here](http://traffic.libsyn.com/scriptnotes/459.mp3).
**UPDATE 2-22-23:** The transcript of this episode can be found [here](https://johnaugust.com/2020/scriptnotes-episode-459-international-television-transcript).