After graduating from Florida State, Robin Swicord made her start in copywriting and playwriting. She eventually migrated west where she has since set up shop as one of Hollywood’s top screenwriters. Her first big-screen adaptation was of the Louisa May Alcott novel Little Women, which starred Winona Ryder and proved to be a big success. That was soon followed by the adapted screenplays for The Perez Family, Practical Magic, Memoirs of a Geisha and Matilda, which she penned with husband Nick Kazan, as well as the upcoming The Jane Austen Book Club, which she wrote and directed. In this interview, learn more as Swicord delves into the adaptations, collaborations and frustrations she’s experienced as a screenwriter.

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Running Time: 81 minutes

DVD Chapters 1. Intro 2. We are Dramatists 3. Learning to Write Visually 4. Story is Story 5. A Poetic Little Story 6. I Write Forward and I Look Backwards 7. We Were Simpatico 8. Never Write What You Know 9. Not So Fast 10. The Reader of Last Resort 11. I Am Jo 12. The Roy Hat 13. Is It This or Is It That? 14. Pink and Blue Coding