Academy Award Nominee BENH ZEITLIN on Directing Beasts of the Southern Wild & Wendy

Academy Award Nominee BENH ZEITLIN on Directing Beasts of the Southern Wild & Wendy

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Writer, Director & Composer

I think it goes to this feeling of freedom, looking how freedom changes as you grow, being a very particular type of freedom that children have just by the nature of not having learned what the rules are. As we grow, we start to limit what we believe is possible. When you’re a kid, there isn’t a delineation between this is real, and this is my imagination. It’s all real. That’s your life experience.

The Redemptive Power of Books w/ Novelist, Showrunner (The Wire, The Deuce) Highlights

The Redemptive Power of Books w/ Novelist, Showrunner (The Wire, The Deuce) Highlights

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George Pelecanos is an award-winning author, essayist, screenwriter and producer from Washington, D.C. He has written over 20 novels and four series in the crime and detective fiction genre. He is also a recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book prize, the Raymond Chandler Award, the Hammett Prize, the Barry Award, the Gumshoe Award, and the Grand Prix Du Roman Noir Award. Pelecanos worked as a screenwriter for HBO’s The Wire, where his writing earned him an Emmy nomination as well as an Edgar and Writers Guild of America Award. Other shows he has written and/or produced for are The Pacific, The Deuce, and Treme.

The Redemptive Power of Books w/ Novelist, Showrunner (The Wire, The Deuce) Highlights
The Creative Process Podcast

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Mia Funk is an artist, interviewer and founder of The Creative Process. 

GEORGE PELECANOS - Award-Winning Writer, Producer, Showrunner - The Wire - The Deuce - We Own This City

GEORGE PELECANOS - Award-Winning Writer, Producer, Showrunner - The Wire - The Deuce - We Own This City

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George Pelecanos is an award-winning author, essayist, screenwriter and producer from Washington, D.C. He has written over 20 novels and four series in the crime and detective fiction genre. He is also a recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book prize, the Raymond Chandler Award, the Hammett Prize, the Barry Award, the Gumshoe Award, and the Grand Prix Du Roman Noir Award. Pelecanos worked as a screenwriter for HBO’s The Wire, where his writing earned him an Emmy nomination as well as an Edgar and Writers Guild of America Award. Other shows he has written and/or produced for are The Pacific, The Deuce, and Treme.

GEORGE PELECANOS - Award-Winning Writer, Producer, Showrunner - The Wire - The Deuce
The Creative Process Podcast

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Mia Funk is an artist, interviewer and founder of The Creative Process.