After a week of devastating fires in Los Angeles, we’re revisiting John’s conversation with Anna Jane Joyner and Quinn Emmett from Good Energy Stories on how to talk about climate change on screen. They discuss opportunities for writers to inspire change, raise awareness, and capture the environmental concerns of our time.

We follow up on disability representation in Hollywood with the release of the Cost of Accommodations report from the Inevitable Foundation.

In our bonus segment for premium members, we talk about asking people for money, whether it’s to finance a movie or launch a campaign to save the planet.

Links:

• The Original Episode 547 and its transcript
• Stanislav Petrov, The Man Who Saved the World Documentary
• How Much Does it Really Cost to Make Hollywood More Accommodating for Disabled Talent? by Abbey White for The Hollywood Reporter
• Inevitable Foundation
• Good Energy Stories Playbook
• David Robert Ted Talk on Climate Change
• Years of Living Dangerously Clip with Anna and her Dad
• Subscribe to Important, Not Important
• First Reformed
• Dana Fox and The Lost City
• Russian Doll Season 2
• Redactle Game
• Anna Jane Joyner and Good Energy on Instagram
• Quinn Emmett on Instagram
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• Check out the Inneresting Newsletter
• Gift a Scriptnotes Subscription or treat yourself to a premium subscription!
• Craig Mazin on Threads and Instagram
• John August on BlueSky, Threads, Instagram, and Mastodon
• Outro by Jade Carda (send us yours!)
• This episode was originally produced by Megana Rao. Scriptnotes is produced by Drew Marquardt and edited by Matthew Chilelli.

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You can download the episode here.