Mansha Daswani

In the Istanbul neighborhood of Arnavutköy, overlooking wooden homes that are remnants of Turkey’s ancient architecture, you’ll find Yazi Odasi, the country’s first, and only, U.S.-style writers’ rooms. In a three-story converted house, Yazi Odasi’s founders—the in-demand writing duo of Kerem Deren and Pinar Bulut Deren—are churning out scripts for …

This interview originally appeared in the MIPCOM 2014 issue of TV Europe. British screenwriter Simon Donald wanted to make a film about a violent crime that takes place in an isolated community in the Arctic—until he told his friend Patrick Spence about the concept. Spence, who heads up Fifty Fathoms—a …