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Hosts Dave Bossert and Aljon Go chat with Roger Allers, film director, screenwriter, storyboard artist, animator, and playwright. Allers is best known for co-directing the highest-grossing traditionally animated film of all time, Disney's The Lion King, and for writing the Broadway adaptation of the same name. He also directed Sony Pictures Animation's first feature-length animated film, Open Season. Allers worked as an animator for Sesame Street, The Electric Company, and worked as part of the storyboard team for Tron, which was the first theatrical feature film he worked on. He served as a storyboard artist on The Little Mermaid, The Prince and the Pauper, and The Rescuers Down Under before he was appointed as Head of Story on Beauty and the Beast and assisted as a storyboard artist during the re-writing phase of Aladdin. In October 1991, Allers signed on to co-direct The Lion King with Rob Minkoff. Following the release of The Lion King, Allers and writer Matthew Jacobs conceived the idea of Kingdom of the Sun, which was reworked into The Emperor's New Groove. Allers began work on Lilo & Stitch as an additional story supervisor and was approached by Don Hahn to direct the short film, The Little Matchgirl.

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