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Susannah Grant received an Oscar nomination® in 2001 for her screenplay based on the life of working-class heroine Erin Brockovich. The AFI graduate and Nicholl Fellowship winner first started out writing for the television show Party of Five, and then went on to pen the scripts for Ever After and 28 Days. Following her nomination, Grant adapted In Her Shoes and Charlotte’s Web, as well as write and direct Catch and Release, starring Jennifer Garner. In this interview, learn all about the midwife vs. mother role of novel adaptations, the importance of finding your voice and why sometimes you just have to be able to really, really suck.

DVD Chapters

1. Intro
2. "The Familiarity of Your Own Voice"
3. "Constantly, Constantly Rewriting"
4. "You Have to be More Rigid With Your Process"
5. "It's a 12-Minute Shape You're Building"
6. "Make the Cool Stuff Happen Closer Together!"
7. "Two Truck-Driving Trenchmouths"
8. "You Get to Work With the Coolest People"
9. "No Susannah, This is a Good Thing!"
10. "11 Piglets, 10 Teets, One Must Die!"
11. "I Could Show Them 120 Pages Of Dreck"
12. "Do You Know How Much People Pay For That?"
13. "Gender is Never a Non-Issue"
14. "This is One of the Great Days of My Life"

Volume 6, No. 3