Go Into The Story Interview: Jane Therese

My interview with the 2020 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.

Jane Therese wrote the original screenplay “Sins of My Father” which won a 2020 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting. Recently, I had the opportunity to chat with Jane about her creative background, her award-winning script, the craft of screenwriting, and what winning the Nicholl Award has meant to her.

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

Part 1: “As a photojournalist, I have this way things should be played out. As a screenwriter with a storyline, I have that same structure.”

Part 2: “Love is a central thing for me. It propels us to do the most heinous crimes and the most compassionate of gestures. We just go all over the spectrum.”

Part 3: “It’s a huge complicated family with a lot of their own individual realizations, awakenings, awareness of what really their childhood was a like.”

Part 4: “We thought we rehabilitated this animal, but come to find out, this animal really isn’t rehabilitated because we just see him slip.”

Part 5: “The story couldn’t really have been told from a legal point of view. I find those really boring. I find the psychology of the person going through these moments more interesting.”

Part 6: “If you want to follow your passion and follow your bliss, it means putting in the hard work and doing it and doing it and doing it.”

IMDb

Jane’s Website

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

For my interviews with Black List writers, go here.