Uploaded October 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Needing advice on how to take that next step from short form to long form content?
In this episode, Kacie Anning explains how short films and the festival circuit wasn’t her path to working in long form narrative. Rather, she embraced the web series format.
“What I always tried to do with Fragments of Friday, my kinda ‘calling card’ web series was to create a mini TV show.”
With two seasons of a web series under her belt, Anning felt it was easier to then pitch herself to producers to demonstrate what she had achieved with very little time and money.
“In terms of pitching yourself, you just have to be confident and you have to come in with a take. You have to have a version of what you see is the show… But I think tone is everything in a pitch.”
Anning also discusses how she pitched to land the directing job on Stan’s The Other Guy and how a casual breakfast in Los Angeles with legendary showrunner Greg Daniels (Parks and Recreation, The Office) lead to her directing episodes on his new Amazon show, Upload.
For more interviews and opportunities, head to Screen News: https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/screen-news
Needing advice on how to take that next step from short form to long form content?
In this episode, Kacie Anning explains how short films and the festival circuit wasn’t her path to working in long form narrative. Rather, she embraced the web series format.
“What I always tried to do with Fragments of Friday, my kinda ‘calling card’ web series was to create a mini TV show.”
With two seasons of a web series under her belt, Anning felt it was easier to then pitch herself to producers to demonstrate what she had achieved with very little time and money.
“In terms of pitching yourself, you just have to be confident and you have to come in with a take. You have to have a version of what you see is the show… But I think tone is everything in a pitch.”
Anning also discusses how she pitched to land the directing job on Stan’s The Other Guy and how a casual breakfast in Los Angeles with legendary showrunner Greg Daniels (Parks and Recreation, The Office) lead to her directing episodes on his new Amazon show, Upload.
For more interviews and opportunities, head to Screen News: https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/screen-news
