Go Into The Story Interview: Spencer Harvey and Lloyd Harvey

Brother-sister filmmaking duo who won 2016 Nicholl Fellowship

Spencer and Lloyd Harvey wrote the original screenplay “Photo Booth” which won a 2016 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting. Recently I had the opportunity to chat with the pair about their background as writers and filmmakers, and their award-winning screenplay.

Here are links to the six installments of the entire interview:

Part 1: “I think for us, we saw the dos and the don’ts and the pros and cons of the art world up close and personal.”

Part 2: “In fact, when I was doing my law degree, I kept complaining that it wasn’t what I wanted to be doing, that ‘I want to be a writer. I want to be a writer.’”

Part 3: “When we give of ourselves, are we in some way imparting something good or making an impact on others in a way that gives our lives some sort of meaning?”

Part 4: “That’s what we had to keep coming back to. ‘Whose story is this? What’s the most important information? Whose mouth do we put it in?’ Answering these questions is how we understood where the subplots would come together.”

Part 5: “We wrote the whole first draft of Photo Booth within our writer’s group. We had 20 pages a week to present, then we’d go away, tweak, take it back, and bring the next 20.”

Part 6: “Give yourself permission to make mistakes with people you trust, and make them often because that is the only way you learn.”

Spencer and Lloyd are repped by UTA and The Gotham Group.

Twitter: @SpencerandLloyd.