With ever-growing avenues for premium content, establishing a unique and vital voice as a writer is becoming more and more of a challenge. In this lively conversation moderated by The Black List’s Franklin Leonard, three of the most invigorating storytellers in film and television — Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip), Cord Jefferson (Watchmen), and Leslye Headland (Russian Doll) — give us a peek into their working process: what compels them to write, how they deal with writer’s block, and where they find inspiration.

The 45th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 10 to 19, 2020. For more, visit http://tiff.net.