Go Into The Story Interview: Callie Bloem and Christopher Ewing

My interview with the 2022 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winners.

Callie Bloem and Christopher Ewing wrote the original screenplay “Tape 22” which won a 2022 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting. Recently, I had the opportunity to chat with the couple about their creative backgrounds, their award-winning script, the craft of screenwriting, and what winning the Nicholl Award has meant to them.

Here are links to the entire 6-part series which has run this week.

Part 1: “I was like, ‘You have a Happy Campers poster?’ Not a ton of people had seen that movie.”

Part 2: “What it comes down to is we like exploring the idea of what if you had to start your life over again from scratch.”

Part 3: “I feel like that’s the easiest way for us to start any project is to have that quick, little high‑concept sentence.”

Part 4: We always wanted to make sure that we were following that Pixar model of a really, really strong narrative structure.”

Part 5: “It’s truly life changing, and that’s not even exaggerating in the slightest. There’s life pre‑Nicholl and life post.”

Part 6: “We sculpt that scriptment into a readable document that you get the full idea of the script.”

Callie and Chris are repped by Grandview.

For my interviews with every Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner since 2012, go here.