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Our first annual Emmys Week continues with costume designer Jeriana San Juan, nominated for the Halston episode, "Versailles"

In addition to designing all of the show-stopping looks, she also consulted on the series to give the fashion design elements a more authentic look and feel. In our conversation, she talks about working with Ewan McGregor and other cast members to bring this story to life, the timelessness of Elsa Peretti, how a photo inspired Halston's style in the series, and recreating Liza Minelli's wedding ensemble.

Jeriana is nominated in the "Outstanding Period Costumes" category at this weekend's Creative Arts Emmys.

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This is the inaugural Fem TV Presents: The Queen Sugar Directors' Series with Season 6, Episode 1 director, Carmen Marrón.

Beginning today, and every Wednesday following each new episode of Queen Sugar's sixth season, we'll be releasing a conversation with the director of that week's episode.

Carmen shares the story of how she became a part of the Queen Sugar family and takes us behind the scenes of the Season 6 premiere, "If You Could Enter Their Dreaming."

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Our first annual Emmys Week continues with editor Jessica Brunetto, nominated for the pilot of Hacks, "There Is No Line."

We chat about her start in the industry, her work on female-led shows like Another Period and Broad City, and when she realized that they'd captured lightning in a bottle with Hacks. We also talk about her short film, Sisters, which she produced and directed.

Jessica is up for the "Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series" award at this weekend's Creative Arts Emmys.

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Fem TV's first annual Emmys Week kicks off with hair department head, Liliana Maggio. Liliana and her team were nominated for "Outstanding Contemporary Hairstyling" for Season 2, Episode 6 of The Politician, "What's in the Box?"

In addition to chatting about her work on The Politician, we touch on how she made the jump from a career in advertising to becoming a hair stylist, her first full-time hair department job on Smash, and briefly lending her talents to one of my all time fave series, Pose.

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Actor Sydney Mikayla, a Daytime Emmy nominee for her role as Trina Robinson on General Hospital, joins us to discuss being a part of a soap opera legacy, voice acting and more.

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Editor JoAnne Yarrow joins us to chat about her start in the industry, her first job in TV working on American Crime, and working on the crime caper comedy, Only Murders in the Building.

We also touch on her previous projects, Vida and Queen Sugar, especially the indie film sensibility embraced by those series.

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Music supervisor Jennifer Smith stops by to discuss her start in the industry, her career so far, and working on Season 2 of Why Women Kill.

Jennifer was also very candid about the challenges that music supervisors face with pay inequality.

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In this minisode, Motel Makeover's April Brown and Sarah Sklash discuss their Netflix docuseries about transforming a rundown motel in Sauble Beach, Ontario into The June Motel.

April and Sarah share how they landed on Sauble Beach for their second motel, completing a huge undertaking like this during a global pandemic, and how they're excited for the rest of the world to discover The June.

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Nicole Winters, Lucia Entertainment Co-founder and Head of Development and Partnerships, joins us for this SeriesFest conversation to discuss her docuseries pilot, Go Green, that screened at this year's festival.

We discuss Nicole's start in TV ad sales, creating the hit digital series, Drinking with the Stars, the potential she sees for Go Green, and how she partnered with Mark Ruffalo's non-profit, The Solutions Project, to bring the pilot to life.

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From Season 7 of SeriesFest, writer/producer/director Michele Palermo joins us to discuss her dramedy pilot, Middle of Nowhere.

In addition to discussing the Middle of Nowhere pilot (which won the Audience Award for Best Independent Pilot at SeriesFest), our conversation covers her prolific career in TV, including her first TV writing job on Boy Meets World, working in development, and guiding a new generation of screenwriters as a professor at Columbia.

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