Rosanne Welch's video: 33 The First Six Years from Why Researching Screenwriters Has Always Mattered

A clip from my keynote speech (http://rosannewelch.com) at the 10th Screenwriters´(hi)Stories Seminar for the interdisciplinary Graduation Program in "Education, Art, and History of Culture", in Mackenzie Presbyterian University, at São Paulo, SP, Brazil, focused on the topic "Why Researching Screenwriters (has Always) Mattered." I was especially pleased with the passion these young scholars have toward screenwriting and it's importance in transmitting culture across the man-made borders of our world. Watch this entire presentation https://welchwrite.com/rwelch/2019/10/30/why-researching-screenwriters-has-always-mattered-10th-screenwritershistories-seminar-dr-rosanne-welch/ Transcript: I read once that Tennessee Williams, who's a famous playwright in the United States, had said that most writers work from the emotions of the first six years of their life and some people laughed at that and I laughed at that and then I realized that in many episodes that I had written, a recurring theme that I tend to go to is that -- to be a father is the most important job in your life and you should take it seriously. My father left when I was six years old. Until looking backward at things that I had written I did not notice the repetition of that theme. Clearly, it means something to me. Everybody doesn't have that experience but everybody has been abandoned in some way or another. We recognize that emotion of loss and that's what we sell.