Narrative Development

Join Film Fatales for a discussion about Narrative Development with Anna Sang Park (The Cho Stories), Chanel Monet James (As of Yet), Charneice Fox (Love Dot Com) and Kat Coiro (Marry Me).

When creating scripted content, the process doesn’t start on the first day of production. It begins with the smallest seeds of inspiration, which must be nurtured and guided to grow into complex and compelling stories. In this discussion, seasoned filmmakers will share their tools for creating an effective script, from brainstorming to story mapping to character development and world building, with an eye toward social responsibility in storytelling.

This public event will be accessible with live captions and a video replay link will be available for 48 hours after. See you soon!

Anna Sang Park is a multifaceted filmmaker. Born in South Korea, she grew up in Seoul, then Philadelphia. She is the writer and director of THE CHO STORIES, an award winning, short film trilogy about a Korean immigrant family told in chapter format. THE CHO STORIES received the Audience Award for Short Film at 2021 Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival and one of the shorts from the same trilogy, APPA APPA APPA, won Honorable Mention at 2021 Bushwick Film Festival, the Best Short Film at 2021 Peekskill Film Festival and has been in many other festivals. Anna directed and produced 9 short documentaries for Theatre Communications Group - TCG’s LEGACY LEADERS OF COLOR VIDEO PROJECT (LLCVP) highlighting groundbreaking theatre directors of color who fundamentally functioned as civil rights leaders. She directed for TLC's SAY YES TO THE DRESS for 5 seasons, as well as the spin off shows. Anna also directed for BRIC TV's 2 short doc series. She produced the narrative feature film, WALLABOUT, that won Best Film at the Bushwick Film Festival and Best Personal Narrative Film at the Manhattan Film Festival. Anna was the development producer on the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning doc THE LOVING STORY. She has an MFA in Directing from Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, Brooklyn College and a BFA in Film from Emerson College. Anna is a member of the Film Fatales, Alliance of Women Directors, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, NYC Women. She speaks Korean fluently.

Chanel James has worked as a filmmaker, editor and archivist taking on the roles of digital archivist for Condé Nast and Digital Production Manager on the MTV Vault Project. She served as Production Coordinator on the emmy-nominated documentary United Skates (2018) and on the comedic series The Impossibilities (2014). She released her first original narrative short Lie Awake under her production company Dinosaur Hawk in 2012, and in March of 2018 she premiered her first original narrative feature, The Things We Do When We’re Alone. In 2021, Chanel made her co-directorial debut with the feature film As of Yet, executive produced by the Duplass Brothers, partnering again with Taylor Garron (who co-directed, co-produced, wrote, and stars). Chanel goals to create stories that highlight gradients of human experience, encourage understanding, and above all illuminate music’s relationship with mental health.

Charneice Fox wrote and directed her first feature narrative film Love Dot Com: The Social Experiment finishing in 2019. An award-winning writer and documentary filmmaker, Charneice's work featured on CNN, BET, The BBC America, NPR, and produced off-Broadway. She is the author of the highly acclaimed children’s story The Bread Monster, the first book of her children's cookbook series "Taste Buddies" (available on Amazon and Barnes & Nobel). Currently, she is set to produce a film with acclaimed Nigerian director Tola Odunsi and Urban Vision Productions. Working closely with the international film festival The 48 Hour Film Project, the world’s longest and largest short film competition Charneice produced the first-ever High School 48 in Washington DC in 2016, with plans to produce the next High School 48 in 2019. She just finished writing her latest script “Children’s Story.”

Director and writer, Kat Coiro, continues to be at the forefront of the industry with her unique and thoughtful filmmaking style.Coiro’s Marry Me, starring Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson and Maluma, is currently in theatres and on Peacock. It opened as the #1 title on Peacock and received a 92% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. She is set to direct Sony Pictures’ The Husband’s Secret, based on Liane Moriaty multi-million copy #1 New York Times bestseller. She is currently in production on Marvel’s “She Hulk” for Disney+, serving as an Executive Producer as well as the Director on the majority of the episodes of the series, including the pilot and finale. In addition to Tatiana Maslany and some special guests from the MCU, Coiro is working with a number of her frequent collaborators from her DPs, Florian Ballhaus and Doug Chamberlain, to actors Mark Ruffalo, Jameela Jamil, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Patty Guggenheim, and Rhys Coiro. Coiro gained much of her experience writing, producing and directing shorts and indie features including “And While We Were Here” which received glowing reviews and was nominated for ‘Best Feature’ at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival. On the television side, Coiro directed and co-executive produced the pilot episode of Tina Fey’s “Girls 5Eva,” for Peacock which received a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Additional television directorial credits include the pilot episode of “Florida Girls” for Pop, Netflix's "Dead to Me", ShowTime's "Shameless" and FX's: "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, as well as "The Mick", "Modern Family", "Brooklyn 99", "Mozart In The Jungle" and more. She is passionate about working towards a plastic free environment and has made it a priority to eliminate and reduce the presence of plastic onscreen in her upcoming projects. Coiro studied theatre and film at Carnegie Mellon, AFI and the Moscow Art Theater in Russia where she also studied Russian History and Literature, and she currently teaches at Interlochen Center for the Arts.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

Who is participating?

This public webinar is open to filmmakers of all backgrounds.

Will this be recorded?

Yes, the panel discussion will be recorded and a video replay link will be available for 48 hours after for those unable to attend live.

Will I need to turn my camera on?

No, it will not be possible to turn your camera on.

Will I be able to ask questions?

Yes, you can send in questions in advance or in the Q&A box.

When will I receive the link to join?

You will receive the Zoom link upon RSVP and a reminder will be sent the day of the event.

Film Fatales organizes panel discussions, educational workshops and networking mixers focused on amplifying marginalized voices in film and television. The session will be recorded for those unable to participate in the live program. Your participation constitutes your consent to being recorded and photographed during the event and to Film Fatales sharing those recordings and photos with the world. Please contact us if you require an accessible accommodation.