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Film Courage: How do you know you’re a storyteller?
Carole Kirschner, Entertainment Career Coach, Speaker & Author: You love to tell stories, you’ve been telling stories since you could talk. I have people that have applied to my CBS program and they write in their letter of interest I started writing stories when I was five years old or somebody just watched SpongeBob SquarePants and then they wrote the next episode of what they wanted it to be and she was like six. So maybe you keep a journal. You are a writer, you’re a storyteller if you love telling stories.
Film Courage: What do great storytellers have in common?
Carole: They have something they need to express, they want to delight someone, they want to scare someone, they want to move someone, they want their story to make an impact and that’s how you know if you have a burning desire to get your story and stories out there you’re a storyteller.
Film Courage: What are the key elements of a good story?…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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Carole Kirschner spent fifteen years as a television development executive. A former Vice President of Television for Steven Spielberg’s first Amblin Entertainment and a Comedy Development exec at CBS, she’s had the privilege of working with some of the most respected writers in the industry.
Switching to the other side of the desk she became a consultant and created and runs the CBS/Paramount Writers Mentoring Program, which has helped launch the careers of more than eighty television writers of color, including 14 showrunners. Because of her work with CBS she was asked to help writer/producer Jeff Melvoin as he developed the curriculum for the WGA Showrunner Training Program and as the Director has been running the Program for 18 years.
Ms. Kirschner, through her career coaching practice, Carole Kirschner Entertainment Career Strategies (carolekirschner dot com) works primarily with screenwriters who are stuck or need help navigating the political landscape. She recently launched the successful online course, “How to Pitch a TV Show That Sells” and is gearing up for her new online course, “Get the F Unstuck: Break Through and Create Your Ideal Hollywood Career” in late spring. She is also an international speaker and her book, Hollywood Game Plan: How to Land a Job in Film, TV and Digital Entertainment is taught in colleges across the country.
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