Meg LeFauve is an American screenwriter and film producer.

Early life

LeFauve was raised in Warren, Ohio, and attended

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Career

LeFauve began her film career as a producer and President of Egg Pictures, Jodie Foster's film company. During that time, LeFauve produced films that were nominated for an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and was awarded a Peabody for Jane Anderson's Showtime film, '' The Baby Dance''. LeFauve produced "The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys" for Egg Pictures. Starring Kieran Culkin, Jodie Foster and Vincent D'Onofrio, the film opened to rave reviews and won the 2003 IFP Spirit Award for Best First Feature. LeFauve was a mentor at Meryl Streep's writer's lab, and is currently a consultant to Screen New South Wales, Screen Australia, and Film Victoria. She has mentored at the Sundance Creative Producer Lab and is a board member and returning participant at CineStory Script Sessions. LeFauve has taught at AFI and served as co-chair of the Graduate Producers Program at UCLA's School of Film and Television, where she taught master level story and development classes for over seven years. LeFauve also has been known to giv
seminars
from time to time. She was nominated for the

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for

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for co-writing the script for

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's '' Inside Out''. She was nominated for

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in 1999 for producing ''The Baby Dance''. She also produced the 2002 film ''

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys ''The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys'' is a 2002 American comedy-drama film directed by Peter Care and written by Jeff Stockwell and Michael Petroni based on Chris Fuhrman's 1994 semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel of the same name. The fi ...

''. She also wrote the script for ''

The Good Dinosaur ''The Good Dinosaur'' is a 2015 American computer-animated adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The film was directed by Peter Sohn (in his feature directorial debut) an ...

'' which was nominated for a Golden Globe. LeFauve received a "story by" credit on the live action '' Captain Marvel'' movie.

Podcast

Meg LeFauve co-hosts a Podcast
The Screenwriting Life w/ Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
The show, co-hosted by writer Lorien McKenna and producer Jeffrey Crane Graham, is dedicated to unpacking both the craft and artistic journey of pursuing a career in screenwriting. Featured guests include

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, Mike Jones, and Bonnie Curtis, among others. The show was cited as one of Feedspot's ''Top 25 Screenwriting Podcasts You Must Follow in 2021'', FilmCon's ''Top 10 Recommended Filmmaking Podcasts.'', and Podcast Magazine's ''Top 8 Must-Listen Podcasts For Screenwriters.''

Personal life

LeFauve is married to filmmaker Joe Forte.

Filmography

References

External links

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