From Features to Television ft. Cinqué Lee (She’s Gotta Have It) (PT114)




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Summary: Alex and Nick invite Cinqué Lee, indie filmmaker and writer on Netflix's She's Gotta Have It, to have a fascinating discussion about transitioning from movies to television, as well as adapting features to TV series.<br> <br> How does the writers' room of She's Gotta Have It work? How do life experiences help shame themes and characters? How does writing TV compare to writing ongoing issues of a comic? What is it like working for Jim Jarmusch? What are lessons to take into writing from being on set and from acting?<br> <br> The Paper Team gets it...<br> <br> <br> <br> SHOWNOTES<br> <br> Content<br> Working in features and TV with Cinqué Lee (00:30)<br> Final Advice, Resources, and Next Week On (45:24)<br> <br> <br> Links<br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinqu%C3%A9_Lee">Cinqué Lee</a><br> <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80117554">"She's Gotta Have It" available on Netflix</a><br> <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208687/">The Answer</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Train_(film)">Mystery Train</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_and_Cigarettes">Coffee and Cigarettes</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crooklyn">Crooklyn</a><br> <a href="https://amzn.to/2Pac3bH">"Floaters" - Cinqué Lee, Sean Fagan, Lance Tooks</a><br> <br> Resources<br> <a href="https://amzn.to/2Sr2S8S">"On Writing" - Stephen King</a><br> <br> <br> Special thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexSwitzky21">Alex Switzky</a> for helping us edit this episode.<br> <br> If you enjoyed this episode (and others), please consider leaving us an iTunes review at <a href="http://paperteam.co/itunes">paperteam.co/itunes</a>! :)<br> <br> You can find Paper Team on Twitter:<br> Alex - <a href="https://twitter.com/TVCalling">@TVCalling</a><br> Nick - <a href="https://twitter.com/_njwatson">@_njwatson</a><br> If you have any questions, comments or feedback, you can e-mail us: ask@paperteam.co<br> <br>