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Film Courage: We have this quote from a forward in your book. It’s by Jay Roach. We’ve only fit a portion of it on the board and we have the rest of it here.
Kelly Edwards, Staff Writer, Author, Producer: Sure, “Most development execs, producers and even assistants you encounter along the way are solid story crafters and could directly or indirectly become your collaborators and co-creators if you would…”
Film Courage: Dot, dot, dot “just engage with them enthusiastically as teammates rather than defensively as critics and saboteurs.” Where does your mind go when you hear this quote?
Kelly: Well, what immediately pops to mind is how many stories I know of people who found a property or found a script or found a writer and latched on and like a dog with a bone, forced that thing into existence right? You think about Gina Bailey and Game of Thrones or I feel like a lot of things that I’ve done where you find somebody and you just go I’m so excited about this writer! Let’s figure it out. There’s a lot of stories I think that you can pull out of HBO alone. Like I said I’m listening to this book right now and it’s just like David Levine and True Detective, there’s Franny Orsi and how she really took…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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BIO:
As HBO and WarnerMedia’s SVP of Talent Development for seven years, Kelly Edwards oversaw all of the emerging artists programs for HBO, HBOMax, and Turner, both domestic and abroad. Edwards’s career spans both television and film, having served as a key corporate diversity executive at Comcast/NBCUniversal and a creative executive for both film director Garry Marshall and producer Laura Ziskin. After moving to television, she spent six years as a senior executive at Fox, where she developed Living Single, Clueless, and The Wild Thornberrys. As SVP of Comedy Development at UPN, she developed Girlfriends, The Parkers, and Malcolm in the Middle. Edwards also produced the movie of the week A Christmas Detour for Hallmark, and the one-hour drama series Sex, Love, and Secrets. She holds a BA in Theater from Vassar and an MFA in Screenwriting from Emerson. Edwards has served on the Annenberg Inclusion Board, the UNCF Leadership Council, the ATAS Diversity committee, as a Trustee for NALIP, and is a 2019 Sundance Episodic Lab fellow. Kelly’s book The Executive Chair: A Writer’s Guide to TV Series Development is now available (via Michael Wiese Productions).
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