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Ep. 83: William Lustig, legendary filmmaker & founder, Blue Underground, Pt. 2
August 24, 2022 07:59 - 17 minutes - 24.2 MBDuring his teenage years, Lustig avidly watched a huge volume of lowdown trashy exploitation fare at numerous 42nd Street grindhouse theaters in Manhattan and also worked as a movie theater usher in Fort Lee, New Jersey. After graduating from high school, he took a few film classes at New York University. In 1980, Lustig found himself at the center of a storm of controversy when he made the grim, gory and disturbing slasher sleaze splatter landmark "Maniac," which boasts an incredibly inten...
Ep 82: Mark Mills, Best Selling Author of "The Cloud Revolution".
August 17, 2022 18:19 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBThe team sits down for a discussion with Mark Mills, as part of the Sonoma Valley Authors Festival. Mark P. Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science where he co-directs the Institute on Manufacturing Science and Innovation. He is also a strategic partner with Montrose Lane, an energy-tech fund focused on software. His new book, The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Te...
Ep. 81: Roger Love, vocal coach extraordinaire
August 10, 2022 07:37 - 17 minutes - 24.6 MBThe team sits down with the one and only, Roger Love! Roger Love is recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on voice. No other vocal coach in history has been more commercially successful in both the speaking and singing fields. Roger has vocally produced more than 150-million-unit sales worldwide and written three top-selling books. Roger coaches singers such as John Mayer and Selena Gomez, as well as speakers like Anthony Robbins, and actors including Brad Pitt, Reese Withers...
Ep. 80: Nikki Erlick, journalist & travel writer, NY Times Best Selling Author
August 03, 2022 07:37 - 19 minutes - 26.8 MBThe team sits down with Nikki Erlick, as part of the Sonoma Valley Authors Festival. Nikki's book debuted #6 on the NY Times Best Seller list. Nikki Erlick is a journalist and travel writer whose work has appeared online with New York Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Newsweek, Cosmopolitan, Indagare Travel, The Huffington Post, and Vox. Erlick’s eagerly anticipated debut novel, The Measure, will be published by HarperCollins in June 2022. Equally charming and thought-provoking, The Measure explo...
Ep. 79: Rebecca Halpern, Director of "Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter"
July 27, 2022 07:14 - 20 minutes - 28.4 MBThe team sits down with Rebecca Halpern, Director of "Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter." Rebecca Halpern From true crime and social justice docuseries that affect real world change to epic feature documentaries rooted in history and the arts and culture, Rebecca's work evokes emotion, and enlightens and empowers audiences. LOVE, CHARLIE marks Rebecca's directorial debut. Most recently, Rebecca wrote and produced a forthcoming feature documentary with the SpringHill ...
Ep. 78: Danny Huston, Actor, and Bernard Rose, Director and Writer
July 20, 2022 07:19 - 23 minutes - 32.5 MBThe team sits down to get the scoop on new film, "Traveling Light". Featured in this interview is Bernard Rose, Director and Writer, and Danny Huston, who plays "Harry" in the film. Traveling Light tells the story of Caddy (Tony Todd) over a twenty four hour period on May 30th 2020 as he searches for his missing son who has been living on the streets, while working as an Uber/Delivery driver during the early days of the Pandemic in Los Angeles. His path crosses Harry (Danny Huston), a cult ...
Ep. 77: Georgette Angelos & Chris Chesson, Executive Producers of "Boston George: Famous Without the Fortune"
July 13, 2022 07:00 - 18 minutes - 26 MBGeorgette Angelos: Born in South Florida, Georgette moved to Los Angeles to pursue her love of photography. Working as the house photographer for Silverback Music Management Label, she was soon led to her career in the film industry. She transitioned between assistant directing and associate producing for music videos, commercials and short films presenting the opportunity to work with brands such as Adidas, WWE, GQ, Audi and NFL Films before settling into her position as Senior Producer a...
Ep. 76 : Richard Gray, Director of "Murder At Yellowstone City"
July 06, 2022 07:15 - 12 minutes - 16.5 MBThe once peaceful and booming Yellowstone City has fallen on hard times, but when a local prospector strikes gold, things seem to be turning around. Any hope is soon shattered when the prospector is found dead and the Sheriff quickly arrests a mysterious newcomer. But nothing is so simple in this sleepy western town, and more than a few of the locals have secrets to keep and reasons to kill. As the brutal murders continue, pitting neighbor against neighbor,Yellowstone City goes down a bloody...
Ep. 75: Andrew & Nick - Co-Director's of Sleeze Lake
June 29, 2022 07:02 - 18 minutes - 25.6 MBSleeze Lake comes exclusively to Fandor on June 28. In the 1970s, the custom van craze was sweeping America. Van clubs began to form all over the country. In Chicago, one of the wildest to ever exist came into creation: Midwest Vans Ltd. On Memorial Day Weekend in 1977, these blue collar outcasts set out to throw a gonzo party and built their own personal van utopia around a small farm pond. They erected a ramshackle resort town and called it “Sleeze Lake." When over 20,000 people showed up ...
Ep. 74: Diving into GATLOPP
June 22, 2022 15:55 - 14 minutes - 20.4 MBThe team sits down with Director, Alberto Belli, and Writer/Star, Jim Mahoney from film, GATLOPP. A group of old friends reunites for a nostalgic evening of fun and games after a decade apart. After one too many, they decide to play a drinking game, but it’s quickly revealed that this game comes with supernatural stakes. Mischief leads to mayhem, and the group realizes that if they can’t come together to win the game by sunrise, they will be forced to play for eternity — in hell. Starring ...
Ep. 73: Ásgeir and Anton, the co-directors of "Come to Harm"
June 15, 2022 07:00 - 17 minutes - 39.3 MBThe team sits down with Ásgeir and Anton, the co-directors of "Come to Harm," available exclusively to Fandor this month. Ásgeir Sigurðsson and Anton Karl Kristensen, the co-directors behind “Come to Harm” started their filmmaking journey early in their lives. Born in 2000 (Ásgeir) and 1998 (Anton), they met when they were little through their parent's friendship. One evening when they were bored at a dinner party, they looked to the laptop to kill their time with iMovie and after some expe...
Ep. 72: Daniel Adams, Director of “The Walk”
June 08, 2022 19:48 - 17 minutes - 23.9 MBThe team sits down with Daniel Adams, Director of “The Walk“. This film has its WORLD PREMIERE at the Opening Night (8pm PT) of the 25th annual Dances with Films Festival in Los Angeles. Fandor is a proud sponsor of Dances with Films, a defiantly independent festival. The festival will run from June 9 – 19th, 2022. Daniel Adams grew up in Boston and worked in politics, including two gubernatorial campaigns, a race for attorney general, and a presidential campaign. He also garnered valuable ...
Ep. 71: Leslee and Michael, co-founders of Dances with Films Festival
June 01, 2022 07:29 - 16 minutes - 38.2 MBLESLEE SCALLON & MICHAEL TRENT are the Co-Founders of DANCES WITH FILMS, a tremendous indie film festival now in its 25th year! Fandor is a proud sponsor of this festival. Both Turducken and The Huntsman and the Hound were selected for the Fandor service at this festival last year - both available to watch now on Fandor! A Regent Scholar at New York University, Michael Trent began his career as one of the youngest stage managers to receive an Equity production contract with Broadway and to...
Ep. 70 Herb Stratford, Program Director at Mendocino Film Festival
May 25, 2022 07:29 - 11 minutes - 16.2 MBThe team sits down with Program Director for the Mendocino Film Festival, Herb Stratford! Herb Stratford is the program director for the Mendocino Film Festival and Film Fest Tucson. He was previously the program director for the Napa Valley Film Festival and a guest programmer at the Sonoma International Film Festival. He is also a documentary filmmaker, film critic and historic theatre consultant. Fandor is a proud sponsor of the Mendocino Film Festival where the first "Fandor Independen...
Ep. 69: Aaron Hillis, Director of Programming at Cinedigm
May 18, 2022 05:16 - 12 minutes - 17.8 MBThe team sits down with Aaron Hillis, Director of Programming at Cinedigm. Aaron Hillis is the Director of Programming (VOD) at Cinedigm. As a film curator with an eclectic career from exhibition to distribution to owning a video store, he was praised by Brooklyn Magazine as one of "The 100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture" alongside Lena Dunham and Spike Lee. His writing has appeared in The Village Voice, VICE, Variety, Vanity Fair, and other outlets that don't begin with V. Dur...
Ep. 68: Lori Shockley, Producer and Director
May 11, 2022 05:15 - 16 minutes - 38.1 MBThe team sits down with Lori Shockley, Producer and Director. Lori is a seasoned, multifaceted independent writer, producer, and director. Her most recent project, Corked, an award-winning short film, follows a young woman and her struggle to enter the male-dominated wine industry in the early 70s. Corked also serves as a proof of concept for the feature script of the same name. Having won multiple screenplay awards, the feature script is based on a true story. Over the years, Lori has...
Ep. 67: Steve Harms, Professional Opera Singer
May 04, 2022 05:15 - 18 minutes - 41.6 MBMAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU. Special episode of the Fandor Festival Podcast releases today with guest, Steve Harms, Professional Opera Singer! Steven A Harms was classically trained as a professional opera singer and has been performing nationally and internationally for two decades. He has shared stages with well-known greats such as Placido Domingo and Andrea Bocelli. While spending the last two decades singing, speaking, and teaching, he has developed expert-level breathing techniques th...
Ep. 66: Sunnie McFadden-Curtis, Director of Broken Vows
May 03, 2022 05:15 - 14 minutes - 20.1 MBThe team sits down with Sunnie McFadden-Curtis, Director of Broken Vows. Sunnie McFadden-Curtis is a multi-award-winning independent filmmaker, director, producer, actor, educator, social advocate for women and children, and above all a devoted mother. Before she included independent filmmaker to her repertoire of titles, Sunnie was an actor for over twenty years, including the soap opera “Family Passions”. After taking a hiatus she went back to acting concurrently with filmmaking and can...
Ep. 65: Lori Miller, Director and Producer of Living Wine
May 02, 2022 05:15 - 10 minutes - 15 MBThe team sits down with Lori Miller, Director and Producer of Living Wine. Lori Miller, a Los Angeles-based producer/director, is known for her documentaries about arts and culture. As a producer, credits include They Came to Play about the inspirational stories of older amateur pianists rekindling their musical dreams, Shakespeare High which follows underserved teens who study Shakespeare and stay in school, and Virtuosity, about the Van Cliburn piano competition. As producer/director, Lor...
Ep. 64: Mikey Corker, Director, and "Taz" Knight, world class Surfer
April 28, 2022 07:22 - 17 minutes - 23.8 MBToday we site down with Mikey Corker (Director of "Savage Waters") and Taz Knight (professional surfer featured in the film). Savage Waters is a captivating surf adventure inspired by a tantalizing passage in a 19th century treasure hunter’s journal. Director Mikey Corker follows modern day adventurers, renowned skipper Matt Knight, world-class big wave surfer Andrew Cotton as they embark on a modern-day adventure to find and surf a spectacular wave in some of the most remote and dangerous ...
Ep. 63: Ed Vincent, CEO of Festival Pass
April 26, 2022 17:24 - 19 minutes - 26.6 MBThe team sits down with Ed Vincent, CEO of Festival Pass. Ed Vincent is the founder and CEO of Festival Pass, the world’s first festival and live events subscription marketplace providing access to thousands of experiences around the globe across music, film, food and wine, art, sports, theater, lifestyle, and tech & innovation experiences. Enjoy thousands of events & festivals locally and globally for one monthly fee. Festival Pass is a story about community and creating experiences that c...
Ep. 62: Dr. Nate Kohn, Director of Ebertfest
April 21, 2022 05:15 - 8 minutes - 11.7 MBThe team sits down with Dr. Nate Kohn, Director of Ebertfest. Dr. Nate Kohn is the festival director at Ebertfest and a professor at the University of Georgia. His producing credits include Zulu Dawn starring Burt Lancaster and Peter O’Toole; the independent feature Somebodies, which premiered at Sundance (2006); Rain, the Bahamas’ first indigenous feature which premiered at Toronto (2007) and on Showtime (2010); the feature film Bottleworld (2010); he was Executive Producer on the BET tele...
Ep. 61: Joseph A. Ziemba & Annie Choi, Creators behind BLEEDING SKULL!
April 19, 2022 17:55 - 21 minutes - 28.9 MBThe team sits down with Joseph A. Ziemba & Annie Choi, the Creators behind BLEEDING SKULL! On January 4, 2004, Joseph A. Ziemba launched BLEEDING SKULL! with a simple intention: to share a passion for obscure genre films and honor the filmmakers behind them. Since then BLEEDING SKULL! has become the authority on cinematic dispatches from the fringes. FANGORIA called BLEEDING SKULL! “The go-to encyclopedia for trash, bizarre, and shot-on-video horror cinema,” while VICE referred to it as “li...
Ep. 60: David Goldblum & Julie Parker Benello, Producers of "Sell/Buy/Date"
April 18, 2022 17:14 - 14 minutes - 32.7 MBThe team sits down with David Goldblum & Julie Parker Benello, Producers of "Sell/Buy/Date". Sell/Buy/Date is a heartfelt, witty doc/narrative hybrid following Tony-winning performer/comedian Sarah Jones and her multicultural characters on a journey exploring her personal relationship to the sex industry through a social justice lens. David Goldblum is a writer/producer at the intersection of social justice and entertainment. Next up he's writing/producing an adaptation of the #1 New York ...
Ep. 59: Ondi Timoner, Award-Winning Non-Fiction Filmmaker & Director of "Coming Clean"
April 12, 2022 05:30 - 28 minutes - 38.6 MBThe team sits down with Ondi Timoner, award-winning non-fiction filmmaker & director of "Coming Clean". Ondi Timoner is known to be one of the greatest talents in non-fiction filmmaking. She often takes on the stories of visionaries fighting against all odds with a gripping and unique narrative style. She has the rare distinction of winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival twice - for her documentaries DIG! (2004) and WE LIVE IN PUBLIC (2009). Both films were acquired by M...
Ep. 58: William "Bill" Lustig, legendary filmmaker & founder of Blue Underground
April 05, 2022 15:00 - 18 minutes - 41.2 MBDuring his teenage years, Lustig avidly watched a huge volume of lowdown trashy exploitation fare at numerous 42nd Street grindhouse theaters in Manhattan and also worked as a movie theater usher in Fort Lee, New Jersey. After graduating from high school, he took a few film classes at New York University. In 1980, Lustig found himself at the center of a storm of controversy when he made the grim, gory and disturbing slasher sleaze splatter landmark "Maniac," which boasts an incredibly in...
Ep. 57 Greg Baldwin
April 01, 2022 07:58 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MBIt's Fandor's April Fool's Special! Today the team brings special guest, comedian/actor Greg Baldwin, to the show. Greg Baldwin is a comedian/actor and producer and host of the popular podcast Second Chances. Greg performs regularly at the top clubs performing in shows with many of today's biggest comedians. He currently tours and features for Jay Mohr and Darrell Hammond from Saturday Night live. Greg is also a seasoned actor. He has honed his craft with amazing teachers Howard Fine, Kir...
Ep. 56: Ryan De Quintal, Actor, Producer, Writer
March 29, 2022 08:03 - 10 minutes - 14.9 MBThe Team sat down with Ryan de Quintal, actor, producer, and writer. In the fall last year as he was on set of "Big Sky," please excuse the technical difficulties! Since that time we're pleased to announce that you can now watch Ryan's short film, The Huntsman and the Hound, on Fandor.com! Ryan began his acting career in 2005 while attending California State University Fullerton. He received his BA from CSUF in Radio, Television, & Film. He trained in the Meisner technique with veteran acto...
Ep. 55: Louis Godbout, Writer & Director
March 23, 2022 05:25 - 11 minutes - 25.9 MBThe team sits down with Louis Godbout, Writer & Director. Louis Godbout is a writer and director living in Montreal. He holds law and philosophy degrees and has taught philosophy for fifteen years in a Montreal college. In parallel with teaching, he has pursued a career as a writer, publishing essays in philosophy before recently turning to screenwriting and directing. His film credits include “Coda”, starring Patrick Stewart and Katie Holmes (2019, writer); “Mont Foster” (2020, writer-dire...
Ep. 54: Eric J. Adams, Producer & Writer
March 22, 2022 05:00 - 11 minutes - 26.8 MBThe team sits down with Eric J. Adams, Producer & Writer. A passionate filmmaker, Eric is best known for his provocative and poignant storytelling. Most recently he produced the girl-empowerment feature film Rickshaw Girl — the first-ever US-Bangladeshi co-production — and winner of six international film festival awards. Eric wrote and co-produced Supremacy, starring Academy-Award-winner Mahershala Ali, Danny Glover, Anson Mount, Lela Rochon and Joe Anderson. He also co-wrote and produced ...
Ep. 53: Gardner Grady Hall, Writer and Director of "Winter Ball"
March 21, 2022 08:35 - 12 minutes - 28.4 MBThe team sits down with Gardner Grady Hall, Writer and Director of "Winter Ball." WINTER BALL is the debut feature film of writer-director Gardner Grady Hall. A former professional baseball player, Hall was a first round draft pick of the Chicago White Sox and is a member of Northwestern University's Athletic Hall of Fame. He wrote and directed the short film Fencing Miss Morality that starred Harry Lennix and Marc Blucas. He also worked with Morgan Creek Productions as part of the developm...
Ep. 52: Brian Lilla, Director of Children Of The Vine
March 21, 2022 04:08 - 11 minutes - 26.4 MBThe team sits down with Brian Lilla, Director of Children Of The Vine. Brian Lilla is an award-winning American documentary filmmaker. Lilla's first films began with raw super-8 footage of skateboarding empty pools in his 1999 short, Twenty To Life, and would later be nominated for best documentary short for Tale Of Two Bondage Models at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. From 2009 to 2011 Lilla directed Patagonia Rising which investigated the impacts of a proposal to build five large-scale da...
Ep. 51: Kathleen Ermitage, Director & Producer
March 19, 2022 07:55 - 9 minutes - 20.9 MBThe team sits down with Kathleen Ermitage, Director & Producer. Mixtape Trilogy: Stories of the Power of Music is written and directed by Kathleen Ermitage. This film is her directorial debut. Previously, she was an associate producer on Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary; Sergio Mendes: In the Key of Joy; Herb Alpert Is; and the forthcoming What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears? Fandor is a proud sponsor of Sonoma International Film Festival. Fandor on Social Media: F...
Ep. 50: Patricia Nazario, International Journalist
March 18, 2022 09:46 - 10 minutes - 24.2 MBThe team sits down with Patricia Nazario, International Journalist. Patricia is an international journalist with 18 distinguished recognitions, including two Congressional Awards. Her career spans from hurricane coverage in Florida and New York during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, to Argentina's severe financial, social, and political crisis in 2001. Her outstanding coverage of Miami's Cuban community won South Florida's WLRN (NPR affiliate) its first award and prestigious statewide recogniti...
Ep. 49: Marc Shaffer, Documentary Filmmaker, Investigative Reporter, & Founder of Inside Out Media
March 17, 2022 23:00 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBThe team sits down with Marc Shaffer, Documentary Filmmaker, Investigative Reporter, and Founder of Inside Out Media. Marc Shaffer's latest film is Exposing Muybridge, the first feature documentary on the revolutionary 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Exactly 150 years after Muybridge made the very first photographs of Northern California winemaking in Sonoma, Exposing Muybridge has its California premiere at the Sonoma International Film Festival. Over a documentary career sp...
Ep. 48: Stan Zimmerman, Writer, Producer, & Director
March 15, 2022 08:09 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBThe team sits down with Stan Zimmerman, industry veteran, and multi-talent. Stan Zimmerman is a writer, producer, and director, with multiple decades in the entertainment industry, including two nominations from the Writers Guild of America for Episodic Comedy. Stan's writing has spanned across film and television, including such notable credits as "The Golden Girls," "Roseanne," "A Very Brady Sequel," and "Gilmore Girls." In recent years, Stan acts as the host and producer of "Brunch Date"...
Ep. 47: Rosalie Chiang, star of TURNING RED
March 14, 2022 07:56 - 11 minutes - 25.2 MBThe team sits down with the talented Rosalie Chiang! Rosalie is the voice star in Pixar's new release, "Turning Red" (2022). Rosalie Chiang was born in the Bay Area, California. She is the lead in Pixar's "Turning Red" (2022). She also played the lead in the USC MFA thesis film, "Soiled" (2018), and was the principal in Yamaha Piano's first TV commercial in the US (2017). She has published two poetry books: "A is for Albatross: Birds A to Z" and "A is for Arowana: Freshwater Fish A to Z". T...
Ep. 46: Domee Shi, Director of TURNING RED
March 14, 2022 06:28 - 14 minutes - 32.8 MBThe team sits down with Domee Shi, Director of Pixar's new film, "Turning Red" (2022). (And she did the screenplay!!) Domee Shi is a Chinese-Canadian animator, director and screenwriter. Since 2011, she has worked for Pixar, where she has contributed to multiple films including Inside Out (2015), Incredibles 2 (2018), and Toy Story 4 (2019). She was the first woman to direct a short film for Pixar ("Bao," 2018), and is the Director for Pixar's new film, "Turning Red" (2022). Fandor on Soci...
Ep. 45: Kevin McNeely, Artistic Director at SIFF
March 11, 2022 09:52 - 12 minutes - 28.6 MBThe team sits down with Kevin McNeely, Artistic Director at SIFF. The Sonoma International Film Festival is celebrating 25 years this year! The SIFF team does an incredible job each year of curating talent from around the globe. This year there is an incredible 120 films showing at the festival and 79 of those (79!!) are premieres of some sort. Kevin W. McNeely, Artistic Director at Sonoma International Film Festival since 2010, is a catalyst for inspiring and supporting creative developm...
Ep. 44: Iryna Pravylo, Ukrainian Filmmaker
March 09, 2022 15:48 - 24 minutes - 55.1 MBThe team sits down with very special guests, Iryna and Lesya. This interview was recorded on 3/7/22. Iryna Pravylo, filmmaker, is in the middle of a war zone in Ukraine. Please excuse any technical difficulties. Iryna Pravylo Film director, screenwriter, producer, member of the NGO "Congress of Cultural Activists", and associate professor of the Institute of Screen Arts of Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University, member of the National Union of Cinemato...
Ep. 43: Obie Benz, Producer & Director
March 08, 2022 09:09 - 19 minutes - 45.7 MBThe team sits down with Obie Benz, Producer, and Director. Benz was born in 1949 in New Jersey. After graduating from Middlebury College in 1971, he founded the Vanguard Foundation, a San Francisco-based philanthropic group that granted over $400,000 a year to social change organizations. Benz served on the boards of progressive organizations: TVTV, one of the first groups producing PBS programming with videotape; The Film Fund, a foundation supporting documentary films; and the Funding Exc...
Ep. 42: Brad Parks, CEO of Hollywood Film Festival
March 03, 2022 09:46 - 12 minutes - 28.6 MBThe team sits down with Brad Parks, CEO of Hollywood Film Festival. Brad has over 30 years' experience in community engagement and social commerce technology development. In February of 2014, Brad financed the acquisition of the Hollywood Film Festival and became the CEO, before managing the acquisition of other “Hollywood” related brand properties that now make up the Hollywood Film Holding Corporation. Prior to that, he worked over a decade each in three separate disciplines. First as V...
Ep. 41: Claudia Puig, Director of Programming SBIFF 37
March 01, 2022 18:02 - 10 minutes - 23.8 MBThe team sits down with Claudia Puig, Director of Programming for the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The SBIFF, in its 37th year, is happening in person from March 2—12th in Santa Barbara, CA. Claudia Puig is a nationally recognized film journalist. Currently, she is Director of Programming for the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and also President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Claudia has been a film critic on National Public Radio’s “Film Week,” on KPC...
Ep. 40: Renny & Boston McConnaughey, Filmmakers
February 25, 2022 19:12 - 18 minutes - 43.3 MBThe team sits down with Renny & Boston McConnaughey, Filmmakers, Director, and Star of "Alien Country." We'll be checking back in with the duo as they progress through their journey of making their dream a reality, which includes a companion video game! Renny and Boston are a filmmaking duo based in Utah. They got their start writing and directing viral sci-fi action and comedy videos on YouTube. Their YouTube success spring-boarded a career making commercial content for large brands like N...
Ep. 39: Alison Levine, Documentarian, Polar Explorer & Mountaineer
February 23, 2022 09:32 - 17 minutes - 40.9 MBThe team sits down with Alison Levine, Documentarian, Polar Explorer & Mountaineer. Alison is the executive producer of: "Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest;" which has its WORLD PREMIER at The 37th Annual Santa Barbara Film Festival running March 2-12, 2022. Alison will be in attendance for the second screening of the film. Alison Levine is a history-making polar explorer and mountaineer. She served as team captain of the first American Women’s Everest Expedition, climbed the highest peak o...
Ep. 38: Chaz Ebert: Publisher, Producer and Philanthropist
February 15, 2022 08:22 - 22 minutes - 252 MBThe team sits down with Chaz Ebert, Publisher, Producer and Philanthropist. Chaz Ebert is the CEO of Ebert Digital LLC, which publishes the acclaimed movie review site, Rogerebert.com. She is also a producer of television and movies, and co-founded the Ebertfest Film Festival at the University of Illinois, now in its 22nd year. Her civic passions include programs to help break the glass ceiling for women and people of color, and to provide education and arts for women, children and famil...
Ep. 37: Tim Kirkby, Director
February 09, 2022 09:38 - 15 minutes - 35.8 MBThe team sits down with Tim Kirkby, Director of "Last Looks," currently in theaters. "Last Looks," which stars Charlie Hunnam, Morena Baccarin, Lucy Fry, Dominic Monaghan, Cliff "Method Man" Smith, Clancy Brown with Rupert Friend and Mel Gibson is about Charlie Waldo (Charlie Hunnam) an ex-LAPD superstar who left the force. He now lives a life of simplicity and solitude deep in the woods. Alistair Pinch (Mel Gibson) is an eccentric actor who spends his days drunk on set. When Pinch's wife i...
Ep. 36: Frazier Prince, Producer & Director
February 02, 2022 11:39 - 10 minutes - 23.1 MBThe team sits down with Frazier Prince, Director and Producer of Crackdown Big City Blues and Crackdown Retrospective: Behind the Scenes of Crackdown Big City Blues. Both films are set to come to Fandor as exclusives for streaming in early April. Frazier Prince is the CEO/Founder of Prince Henry Entertainment, assembling a multi-talented creative team specializing in feature film, music video, and digital production. He is a Director, Producer, Writer and Media Specialist. His current pr...
Ep. 35: Ray Giarratana, Director of "The Tiger Rising"
January 28, 2022 00:33 - 12 minutes - 27.8 MBChris and Hooman sit down with Ray Giarratana ("Jer - a - tanna"), Director of The Tiger Rising. Ray has been a staple in the commercial industry for over 20 years. Originally visual effects supervising high-end commercials for directors like Fincher, Bay, Fuqua (and many more guys with accents) as well as music videos for artists ranging from Michael Jackson to the latest One Direction video, Ray then moved on to directing commercials for Coca- Cola, Budweiser, Mercedes, Hallmark and many ...
Ep. 34: Anthony Diaz V, President, Kaizen Studios
January 25, 2022 11:57 - 12 minutes - 27.6 MBHooman and Bryn sit down with multi-talent, Anthony Diaz V, "T-Boy," joining us all the way from the Philippines, where he is in pre-production on his next film. Anthony Diaz V discovered his love for film since childhood and enthusiastically began his journey into filmmaking through creating dozens of short films since the age of 15. His passion for filmmaking led him to enroll at the University of Las Vegas Film School, where many famous movies directors and producers have taught. He grad...