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Film Courage: How do you define story?
Margaret Kerrison, Immersive Storyteller, Narrative Director and Writer: A story transports me to a different place, to a different world, to a world and a life and meeting new characters that immerse me in an entirely new experience. I think about some of the early storytellers in my life (like my grandmother) who was an oral storyteller and she would tell us stories when we were kids about her life and how she met her husband, stories of our youth when we were children. I like to think of story as there are stories that are nostalgic with a beginning, middle and an end but when I think about stories in general, they’re a great format, no matter what kind of medium it is, a place to be transported into a world and characters that you might not know. It’s a way for you to walk in someone else’s shoes, to have empathy for another character and to see someone else’s life through their eyes. I think that’s extremely important for us as human beings and living in the society that we live in today to be able to hear other people’s stories through their own voices, through their unique perspectives, to really appreciate, understand, empathize with how they see the world. That’s a roundabout answer but story transports you…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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BIO:
Born in Indonesia and raised in Singapore, Margaret Kerrison received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Screenwriting from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Her career spans television, film, digital media, games, brand storytelling, location-based entertainment, and immersive experiences. She has worked as a Story Lead, Story Consultant, and Writer for multiple projects around the world, including Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, Star Wars: Launch Bay, Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, Avengers Campus, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, National Geographic HQ, and the NASA Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s Journey to Mars: Explorers Wanted. She was the writer for five projects that won Themed Entertainment Association (THEA) Awards. She has appeared in the Disney+ series Behind the Attraction, the Freeform television special Star Wars: Galaxy‘s Edge – Adventure Awaits, and the online educational program Imagineering in a Box. She was a Disney Imagineer from 2014-2021. She is currently a Sr. Experiential Creative Lead at Airbnb. Immersive Storytelling for Real and Imagined Worlds – A Writer’s Guide is her first book.
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