In The Can w/ Prof. Lucas Cuny

Jorge Heredia, from The Garcia Center of the Arts, sits in Prof. Cuny to talk about the need and importance of art, how the city of San Bernardino could do better to supports it's artist, and how the Garcia Center of the Arts is trying to grow the community.

Prof. Lucas talks to three alumni who recently finished the FTVM program at SBVC and talk about life after film school. Noah Donnelly, Stephen Prater, and Michael Contreras join Prof Lucas on this episode. Great advice for breaking into the industry and how to stay there.

Mark Rupert is the founder of the 48 Hour Film Project. He talks about his 20 years in running this event, what he did before and how the 48 continues to influence independent and regional filmmaking.

This week, Prof Cuny is joined by beloved podcaster Natalie Michaud about the incredible art of storytelling. Natalie hosts the popular podcast "The Murder Diaries," the podcast focuses on the sometimes forgotten victims of true crime stories.

Rosanne Welch is a screenwriter, author, professor, and all around iconoclast in the field of media education. She wrote on Beverly Hills 90210, written a book about The Monkeys, but got her start as a teacher. Hear here journey from the classroom to the writers room.

Michael Wexler, former FTVM students sits down with host Lucas Cuny to explore the field of sports broadcasting. Ranging in topics from social media to dentistry to professional wrestling, they talk it all.

Kevin Lyons joins our host Lucas Cuny for a robust conversation on the value of still teaching film in the digital age. Kevin is a faculty at the SBVC FTVM program and is near completion on his MFA in Screenwriting from Cal State Fullerton. Kevin’s also a local indie film and video producer here in the Inland Empire. Enjoy the conversation.

Briana Navarro is one of our FTVM department Fellows helping to produce our sketch comedy show “Loco Valley.” In this episode she discusses what drew her to the FTVM program at Valley and how it’s made an impact on her life, what’s she learned and she didn’t think she knew.

Manny Sandoval is an alumni of the San Bernardino Valley College Film, TV, and Media program and tells his story of balancing being a full-time student with seeking a career in media. From LA radio, working as a full-time reporter to now a YouTuber, you’ll form one of San Bernardino’s own.

Lucas and Daniel talk about how Daniel made "'The Dino' A city in Focus". We go into how and why Daniel wanted to make the Dino in the first place. He goes into detail about his backstory and how it lead up to making the award-winning documentary. After that, we go into future projects for Daniel Saldaña. Watch The Dino now: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B08KHNTZ4P/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r

When this episode recorded we were at the height of the pandemic. Daniel is a Literary Manager in Hollywood and filled us in on how Hollywood is being affected by this global pandemic.  We also find out how Daniel got to where he is now and gives loads of tips in filmmaking! 

We discuss a wide variety of things in this episode. We go into how Jen Senko got her start in filmmaking. How she made her documentary "The Brain Washing of my Dad (2015)'.  Senko even gives lots of helpful tips to early filmmakers on how to get your film out to the world. We learn tons about being an Indie Media artist and how art always imitates life. https://www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com/