Filmnut – Season 2 Episodes – Industry Professionals

So You Think You Can Stage Manage?

Filmnut 234 Guest: Debbie Williams Crew Position: Stage Manager A partial list of credits: “American Idol”, “So You Think You Can Dance”, “ER”, “The West Wing” Link of interest: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0930406/ Who do you want around you when what can go wrong does go wrong? A top Stage Manager. And Debbie Williams is one of a more »

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Documentary Filmmaking

Filmnut 232 Guest: Udy Epstein Company: Seventh Art Releasing A partial list of credits: “Family Inc.”, “Heart of Fire”, “X’s & O’s”, “The Last Western”, “Oswald’s Ghost”, “Daughters of Wisdom”, “The Long Way Home”, “Bad Faith”, “Ten Commandments, The Musical” and many more. Websites: http://www.7thart.com http://www.imdb.com/company/co0048319/ Documentary filmmaking has come a long way in the more »

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Product Placement w/ Jay May of Feature This

Filmnut 229 Guest: Jay May Product Placement and Branded Entertainment Company: Feature This A partial list of credits: ‘Superman Returns’, ‘The 40 Year Old Virgin’, ‘The Terminal’, ‘Fifty First Dates’, ‘Terminator 3’, ‘Austin Powers In Goldmember’ Websites: http://www.featurethis.com/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0561990/ With the advent of Tivo and the proliferation of cable dvr, product placement is fast on more »

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Bianca Bezdek: Financing Feature Films

Filmnut 223 Guest: Bianca Bezdek Crew Position: Entertainment Lawyer, Advisor & Consultant (Licensed to practice in the state of New York and Europe) Company: Bezdek Law Website: http://www.bezdeklaw.com Bianca Bezdek is not your father’s entertainment lawyer. Intelligent but not stuffy, informative but not condescending, (unless she is friends with you and then all bets are more »

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Script Supervisor: Jeanne Marie Byrd

You know all of those continuity errors you see if movies and on TV? Well who on set is suppose to catch those? The Script Supervisor. Jeanne Marie Byrd has worked on films like Something’s Gotta Give, Alpha Dog, The Wedding Singer, and TV shows like Jericho and talks about the role of the Scipty. more »

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Do You Want to Make a Movie?

Guest: Kelly Herrin Crew Position: Gaffer / Key Grip /Welder / Rigger Company: All In One Truck Website: http://www.all-in-one-truck.com The name says it all. If you’re a filmmaker or thinking of becoming one, Kelly Herrin is someone to put on your list to check into. He has streamlined the process of making a no to more »

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Film Threat Editor in Chief Mark Bell

Guest: Mark Bell Editor In Chief of www.filmthreat.com Aside from the fact that one of us is a few pounds underweight and the other a few pounds over, one is bald, the other has hair, you really couldn’t tell me and my guest apart. Just two film geeks (in the most positive sense of the more »

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