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Time Travel and the Filmmaker's Trek (4x5)

Air date: May 16, 2014

Rian Johnson (Looper), Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko), and Roberto Orci (Star Trek), masters of weaving time travel into film, dissect the elements that make for a believable “operating system” when writing a comprehensible screenplay timeline. A Conversation About Cheating with my Time Traveling Future Self follows, with one man’s attempt to better his life by traveling back in time to offer himself advice, written/directed by Pornsak Pichetshote.