Script Awards
The Script Awards is an international script and writers competition focused on ideas, talent, and narrative structure. The script remains the core of any project, and we highlight the craft of writing and the discipline of storytelling across genres and formats.
Since 2016, the Script Awards Los Angeles has awarded close to 300 winners and selected an additional 700+ authors from around the world.
For years, we have hosted roundtables and recorded conversations with writers, authors, screenwriters, and playwrights, examining the creative process and the realities of the industry. Today, we are publishing this library online as a podcast, making years of discussions with working writers publicly accessible for the first time.
We hope this initiative will help writers gain confidence by hearing and seeing that no writing path is prewritten or the same.
This podcast channel will also serve as an additional outlet for our Writers' Interview Series, offering writers another platform to shine and share. The series features in-depth one-on-one conversations with writers discussing their craft, career paths, and approach to storytelling.
You write stories; we tell your story.
Script Awards
Writers Spotlight | Ep. 1 | Giovanni Sanseviero
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In this episode of Writers Spotlight, the conversation explores Face Painters, a multi generational drama weaving together two timelines across Italy and America. Set between 1920s Tuscany and 1960s Brooklyn, the story follows Buono, an illiterate casket builder struggling to save his family’s failing funeral home while caring for his aging father, Luca. As old wounds resurface and tensions rise with his estranged brother Michael, buried family history begins to collide with the present.
The episode features a casual and raw discussion with author Giovanni Sanseviero about the personal themes behind the story, the immigrant experience, family legacy, and the emotional weight carried across generations.