Jun 9, 2026 · 56 min · 12 segments
Writer/director Tin Pang joins the podcast to talks about drawing from his own life for his projects, takeaways from taking his series *Sell-Out* to market, key learnings from directors’ attachments…
Tin PangGuest
Caris BizzacaHost
[electronic music] Uh, we always start this podcast the same way, talking about inciting incidents.
And my mom would probably be, like, the influence in my screen/film, you know, storytelling life because she was the one that really introduced me to so many different movies.
And that's probably a seminal moment in my life when I realized I loved movie scores.
And I was also learning to play piano at the time, and I sucked at sight reading, absolutely.
But I have a really good ear, and so I listened to that probably twice, the theme, then I just started playing it on the piano.
I got really, really good at it, and then I'm like, "I really wanna compose music for films." So that's probably what got me started, you know, watching different, like, John Williams music and, and Star Wars and, and then of course that expanded out with all of his other amazing films that he's done over the years.
And it wasn't until probably high school where I realized, oh, no, it's not just the music that I really, really like, it's the, it's the stories themselves and, and, you know, acting and, and the process of putting a movie together.
But I'd say the, yeah, the inciting incident for me was actually playing along on the piano to Danny Elfman's Batman theme.
[electronic music] Uh, we always start this podcast the same way, talking about inciting incidents.
And my mom would probably be, like, the influence in my screen/film, you know, storytelling life because she was the one that really introduced me to so many different movies.
And that's probably a seminal moment in my life when I realized I loved movie scores.
And I was also learning to play piano at the time, and I sucked at sight reading, absolutely.
But I have a really good ear, and so I listened to that probably twice, the theme, then I just started playing it on the piano.
I got really, really good at it, and then I'm like, "I really wanna compose music for films." So that's probably what got me started, you know, watching different, like, John Williams music and, and Star Wars and, and then of course that expanded out with all of his other amazing films that he's done over the years.
And it wasn't until probably high school where I realized, oh, no, it's not just the music that I really, really like, it's the, it's the stories themselves and, and, you know, acting and, and the process of putting a movie together.
But I'd say the, yeah, the inciting incident for me was actually playing along on the piano to Danny Elfman's Batman theme.
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