Today is all about mentors, pitching, pilots, and breaking in! In a new topical format, today’s podcast with TV writer-producer Kam Miller is sure to help your career… buckle up!
Kam Miller is a TV writer-producer who has created pilots for FOX, CBS, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Television, and Universal Cable Productions. She wrote for the long-running show Law & Order: SVUas well as the short-lived show Killer Instinct. Her first feature, The Iris Effect, was produced while she was at USC film school. She also wrote and directed Descendents of Eden, a sci-fi short film that premiered at the San Diego Comic-Con Film Festival.
As a grad student, she created the highly successful USC First Pitch, the official pitch festival for the USC School of Cinematic Arts. As an alumnae, she co- created USC First Team, a program that shepherds teams of writers, directors, and producers through development and takes feature projects out to the industry.
Currently, Kam is attached to the TV project Grave Sight, which is based on True Blood author Charlaine Harris’ Harper Connelly book series. Kam is attached to another pilot with the producers of Saving Grace and The Glades. She also is finishing her first novel, Myth of Crime.
On her blog, Glass half-full in Hollywood, Kam shares insights from other film and TV industry professionals about how they keep their glasses half-full in a town that can be draining. You can find it at kammiller.com. Follow Kam on twitter: @kammotion.
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First published October 22, 2012.
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096 - Keto Shimizu (Co-Showrunner, DC's Legends of Tomorrow)
095 - Michael Narducci (Showrunner of The Originals)
094 - Arika Lisanne Mittman (EP of Paradise Lost, Timeless)
093 - Sarah Watson (Creator of The Bold Type, Author of Most Likely)
092 - Bob Goodman (Creator of The Zeta Project, EP of Elementary)
091 – “How I Wrote That” Podcast Host Khanisha Foster (mp3)
090 – Touched By An Angel, A Prairie Home Companion Writer Ken LaZebnik (mp3)
089 – Kirby Buckets Co-Creator Mike Alber (mp3)
088 – Jimmy Kimmel Writer, 2nd Smartest in the World Rick Rosner (mp3)
087 – Hand of God Creator/Showrunner Ben Watkins (mp3)
086 – Automatic Pilot Author Bill Taub (mp3)
085 – San Diego Comic-Con Panel - How to Write a TV Pilot (mp3)
084 – Unseen Africa Pilot Producer/Host Francis Tapon (mp3)
083 – Bad Teacher Creator/Showrunner Hilary Winston (mp3)
082 – Caper Creator, Eureka Writer/Producer Amy Berg (mp3)
081 – Lost Co-Creator, Tuck Everlasting & Necessary Roughness Writer Jeffrey Lieber (mp3)
080 – UK Writers James Whitehouse & Hannah George (mp3)
079 – The Finder, The Good Guys Writer Aaron Ginsburg (mp3)
078 – The Client List Writer, Script Anatomy Consultant Tawnya Bhattacharya (mp3)
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