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Emerging: How to Eventually Make it in Film & TV

Emerging: How to Eventually Make it in Film & TV

Written by: Three White Guys
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Emerging UK-based screenwriters Tray Epps, Martin F. Wong and Ben Robins chat, debate, moan and celebrate the emotional and financial rollercoaster that is trying to build a career as a working writer in the film and television industry. Alongside a revolving door of (much more successful) guests, they discuss everything from how to approach agents, to which writing competitions are worth applying to and everything inbetween, in a funny, down-to-earth and practical way.


Join us on this journey - you are not alone!

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Episodes
  • Writing Short Films: How is writing for short-form different? (Approaches I)
    May 12 2026

    It's one of Martin's favourite bits of advice - go off and make a short. But how do you even begin to start? What makes writing a short film totally different (and arguably, far more flexible) than writing a TV pilot or a feature? Well, in the first of a lil trilogy of episodes about how we approach different mediums, we're digging deep into exactly that. You've got an idea for a short film, now what?


    Included is quite a bit of tough love (is this going to help your writing career? is a short film script enough to get industry attention?) but also plenty of rock solid advice on how to go from zero to a fully-finished and festival ready short, and of course the ins and outs of why you would even bother with making one in the first place.


    📬 Get In Touch:

    Email us: TheEmergingPodcast@gmail.com

    Follow us on Instagram: @theemergingpod

    Ben is @bmlrobins

    Martin is @bananabreadfilm

    Tray is @ByTrayepps


    ✨ Support the Show:

    If you enjoyed the episode, please rate and review! And share it with a fellow emerging writer who needs a boost (or a laugh).

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    52 mins
  • Last Call: Do we ever feel like we've "made it"? (with Calif Chong)
    May 7 2026

    Look at this - a whole extra 25 minutes with the supremely talented Hong Kong-born writer-director Calif Chong! We take Calif through the Last Call, learn all about the history of Stephen Chow, the most useful takeaways from Blake Snyder's Save the Cat AND how those creative goalposts are always moving, even after you've made your first feature.


    As with her full episode, Calif's incredibly wise and generous with her answers - if you want to follow her career, she's @califcnm on Instagram!


    📬 Get In Touch:

    Email us: TheEmergingPodcast@gmail.com

    Follow us on Instagram: @theemergingpod

    Ben is @bmlrobins

    Martin is @bananabreadfilm

    Tray is @ByTrayepps


    ✨ Support the Show:

    If you enjoyed the episode, please rate and review! And share it with a fellow emerging writer who needs a boost (or a laugh).

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    27 mins
  • Relocating: Do I need to move countries to build my career? (with Calif Chong)
    May 5 2026

    I know we always say it whenever we have a guest on, but seriously, get ready for a true MASTERCLASS in today's episode from Calif Chong, a Hong Kong born writer-director who started in-house at HK's legendary TVB, before moving across the world to London (via Berlin), eventually making her first feature High Wire, which premiered at last year's BFI London Film Festival.


    Calif is incredibly generous, covering the ups and downs of making indie features, balancing it with her blossoming career as an assembly editor in high-end TV, and the challenge of language barriers as she relocated multiple times to find the right creative home. There's also a bit of talk about writing labs, since Calif is on this year's Gatecrashers lab for working-class genre writers.


    And as always, if you want to follow Calif's career, she's @califcnm on Instagram!


    📬 Get In Touch:

    Email us: TheEmergingPodcast@gmail.com

    Follow us on Instagram: @theemergingpod

    Ben is @bmlrobins

    Martin is @bananabreadfilm

    Tray is @ByTrayepps


    ✨ Support the Show:

    If you enjoyed the episode, please rate and review! And share it with a fellow emerging writer who needs a boost (or a laugh).

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    1 hr and 18 mins
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