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Andy Lauer and The Tehuacan Project
Filmnut 207 Guest: Andy Lauer Crew Position: Actor/Director/Writer Project: The Tehuacan Project Website: http://www.mexicoschoolforthedeaf.org/home.htm Executive produced by Lauer’s college roommate Brad Pitt, The Tehuacan Project is a short documentary about a school in Mexico designed to help deaf children. A passion project for Lauer who appreciates the good fortune he has received and now revels more »
Read MoreMichael Lembeck, Director: Friends, Santa Clause 2 & 3
Filmnut 206 Guest: Michael Lembeck Crew Position: Director IMDB Page: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0501185/ Projects: Features- The Santa Clause 2 & 3 Starring Tim Allen and Martin Short. Lembeck has directed over 300 sitcoms including Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, Mad About You, Coach and many more. Michael Lembeck was very funny tonight (he ought to be considering all more »
Read MoreJeff Dowd: To Pay or Not to Pay a Producer’s Rep?
Guest: Jeff Dowd Writer, Producer, Producer’s Rep Project: Feature film- Local Color Website: www.Jeffdowd.com Known affectionately as “The Dude,” (as many know by now the Jeff Bridges character in the Big Lebowski is based on Dowd) Jeff Dowd was his Dude self on Filmnut last night talking about filmmaking based on his vast reservoir of more »
Read MoreAnimation, Star Wars: Ross Shuman
Guest: Ross Shuman Stop Motion Animator, Model Maker, Artistic Director Company: www.shadowmachine.com Stop motion animation, CGI, cell animation? Tonight we touched on all three with guest Ross Shuman who has worked on projects by Tim Burton, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas (Planet of The Apes, Artificial Intelligence and Star Wars II Attack of The clones). more »
Read MoreCristine Rose of Heroes
Guest Cristine Rose of NBC’s Heroes. Cristine talks to us about her experience as an actor in theater, tv, and film. She recently completed production of the indie film Float, which also stars another previous Filmnut guest Gregory Itzin. During the show we show two clips from that project. We also field plenty of questions more »
Read MoreFilm 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 »
Read MoreJames Gunn is the Man!
Guest: James Gunn Project: “The Specials,” “Dawn of The Dead” (remake), “Slither,” “Pets” Crew Position: Writer/Director/Actor Websites: http://www.jamesgunn.com/ http://www.myspace.com/slithermovie http://www.myspace.com/tjgas (This site is run by fans of James Gunn fans) James Gunn was in form tonight talking in depth about his journey as an artist from his days at Troma to his just announced feature, more »
Read MoreHe is Borg: Resistance is Futile
Guest: Patrick Barnitt Project: ‘Star Trek First Contact’ Crew Position: Actor, Borg Episode 200 kicks off season two of Filmnut. Kudos to Brian Gramo, stream founder, for all of the upgrades made to the site during the break. Tonight we got started with Patrick Barnitt, who in addition to ‘First Contact’, has also appeared as more »
Read MoreOscar Winning Writer for Crash, Bob Moresco
Guest: Bob Moresco Projects: ’10th and Wolf’, (‘Crash’, ‘Million Dollar Baby’) Crew Position: Writer/ Director/ Producer Website: http://www.10thandwolf.com 10th and Wolf: starring, James Marsden, (X-Men) Giovanni Ribisi, Piper Perabo, Brad Renfro, Brian Dennehy, Dennis Hopper, Lesley Ann Warren and featuring Val Kilmer. The intersection where family, honor and betrayal collide. It’s good to meet and more »
Read MoreSlamdance Co-Founder Dan Mirvish
Guest: Dan Mirvish Projects: Co-Founder of Slamdance Film Festival, the feature ‘Open House’ and the short ‘A Message From The President Of Iran’ Crew Position: Writer/ Director Website: http://www.DanMirvish.com www.openhousemovie.com If I were going to write a movie about Dan Mirvish, he would have to play himself. What a great character. This was long show more »
Read MoreGregory Itzin of Fox Show ’24’
Guest: Gregory Itzin Projects: Fox Show ’24’ Independent film ‘Float’ Crew Position: Actor Website: http://www.floatmovie.com www.Gregoryitzinonline.com (This site is not up yet but look for it soon) Gregory Itzin may be best known for his role as President Charles Logan on the hit series ’24’, but he has a career that spans over thirty five more »
Read More1 Degree from Quentin Tarantino
Filmnut 122 Guest: Joe D’Augustine Projects: ‘One Night With You’, ‘Kill Bill’ I and II, ‘Death Proof’ Crew Position: Writer/ Director/ Editor Website: http://www.khpreleasing.com (For the latest news about One Night With You) http://www.filmforno.com (D’Augustine’s blog on film) Joe D’Augustine offered great tips and insight into the editing process where his career began. Having worked more »
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