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On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Lisa Jackson, an award-winning filmmaker, whose work spans hybrid documentary, installation, VR, and more. Am and Lisa discuss her latest work, Wilfred Buck, a portrait of Cree Elder Wilfred Buck, an Indigenous star lore expert. They also talk about her time as an undergraduate student at SFU and her journey as a filmmaker. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/261-lisa-jackson.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/261-lisa-jackson.html Resources: Lisa Jackson: https://www.lisajackson.ca/ Door Number 3: https://doornumber3.ca/ Wilfred Buck: https://doornumber3.ca/wilfred-buck/ Transmissions: https://doornumber3.ca/transmissions/ Biidaaban: https://doornumber3.ca/biidaaban-first-light/ Suckerfish: https://www.lisajackson.ca/Suckerfish Bio: Lisa Jackson lives in Toronto and is Anishinaabe from Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Her award-winning work has screened at CPH:DOX, Sundance, Berlinale Forum Expanded, SXSW, Camden, Hotdocs, Tribeca, BFI London, the Melbourne Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and broadcast widely. She's made works ranging from current affairs to IMAX, animation to VR, and even a residential school musical. In 2021 she received the Documentary Organization of Canada's Vanguard Award and in 2022 she was selected for a Chicken & Egg Award. Her 2024 hybrid feature documentary Wilfred Buck premiered in the DOX:AWARD section at CPH:DOX and was a top five audience pick at Hot Docs and won Best Canadian Film at Calgary Film Festival and the Women Inmate Jury Award at RIDM. Her short Lichen screened at Sundance in 2020 and Indictment: The Crimes of Shelly Chartier is one of the top watched documentaries on CBC, won the 2017 imagineNATIVE Best Doc award and was also co-produced by Lisa. Her Webby-nominated VR Biidaaban: First Light premiered at Tribeca Storyscapes in 2018, exhibited internationally to 25,000+ people, and won a Canadian Screen Award (Canada's Oscar), the second time she's received this honour. Transmissions, a 6000-square-foot immersive multimedia installation and sister project to Biidaaban, premiered in Vancouver in 2019 and was featured on the cover of The Georgia Straight. In 2016, she directed the VR Highway of Tears for CBC Radio's The Current which was nominated for a Canadian Association of Journalists award. In 2015 she was drama director for the 8 x 1 hour APTN/ZDF docudrama series 1491: The Untold Story Of The Americas Before Columbus, based on the bestselling book by Charles C. Mann, which was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award. She has an MFA in Film Production from York University (thesis prize) and is an alumna of the TIFF Talent and Writers Labs, Canadian Film Centre's Directors Lab, IDFA Summer School, CFC/NFB/Ford Foundation's Open Immersion VR Lab, and was a Fellow at the MIT Open Doc Lab. Cite this episode: Chicago Style Johal, Am. “Star Stories — with Lisa Jackson.” Below the Radar, SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, February 4, 2025. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/261-lisa-jackson.html.

In the final episode of the season, Hilliard and guest co-host, veteran actor/writer TONY WINTERS sat down for a 2 hour conversation with award-winning writer/director of the new hit film - Searchlight Pictures THE SUPREMES AT EARL'S ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT - TINA MABRY (also Mississippi Damned, “Queen of the South”, “Pose”, "Queen Sugar", "Women of the Movement", "Insecure") to list a few!A native of Tupelo, Mississippi, Tina Mabry graduated from the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts with an MFA in Film Production. A true hyphenate, Mabry is an award-winning writer, director, and producer for television and film. She was a co-producer, writer, and director for USA's hit drama "Queen of the South". Mabry was also a producer, writer, and director on OWN's "Queen Sugar" created by Ava DuVernay.Mabry's vast episodic directing credits include “Insecure” (HBO), “Dear White People” (Netflix), “Pose” (FX), “Grand Army” (Netflix), “Women of the Movement” (ABC), “Power” (STARZ), the “Beast Mode” pilot (Macro/TNT), and “The Politician” (Netflix).Out Magazine listed her as one of the most inspirational and outstanding people of the year (2009), Filmmaker Magazine named Mabry among the “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” the Advocate magazine featured her in their list of “Top Forty Under 40”, and with over 300 nominees and only 50 selected artists, United States Artists named Mabry the James Baldwin Fellow in Media (2010). In addition to winning the Creative Promise Award of Tribeca All Access, Mabry has participated in several talent development programs including the Fox Writers Intensive, Sundance's Screenwriters Intensive, and in a plethora of FilmIndependent's Artist Development programs (Project: Involve, Directors Lab, Writers Lab, Fast Track) where Mississippi Damned was awarded the Kodak Film Grant. She was also in the inaugural class for Women in Film's ReFrame Rise initiative (2019), highlighting her commitment to promoting diversity and inclusion in the industry.Our Motto: "We keep it GAME all day!"For information, Merch (T-SHIRTS/HOODIES), and all things Rant Room!Screenwritersrantroom.comhttps://screenwriters-rant-room.printify.me/productsSubscribe, like, follow, share & 5-star review!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@Hilliard Guess on all social mediaIG: @ScreenwritersRantRoom@TinaMabry@prettytonywintersWE ARE NOW OPEN TO SPONSORSHIPS AND BRANDING OPPORTUNITIES⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Screenwritersrantroom@gmail.comWe invest countless hours per week to deliver the actionable content that goes into this podcast. We appreciate your support!SCREENWRITER NETWORKS:OBSwriter.comBTFC.orgSend in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/screenwriters-rant-room/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/screenwriters-rant-room/support⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠PODCASTS WE SUPPORT:2 Writers Talkin Shit: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2-writers-talking-shit/id1671253747Hollywood Confessional: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hollywood-confessional/id1628848064?i=1000630276175The Qube & Queer News: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/queer-news/id1595777135A Conversation With Floyd Marshall Jr: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-conversation-with-host-floyd-marshall-jr/id1544499834THEME SONG: Jack SpadeWEBSITE: Abigail Bloom & Laura HuieLOGOS: Rachel MusikanthRANT ROOM TEAM:Richard Scott - Creative ProducerTyler Musikanth - Associate ProducerBrooke Baltimore - MarketingTogo - Marketing --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/screenwriters-rant-room/support

Sean Wang is one of the most exciting directors in the world right now. His debut feature film Dídi comes out this week in cinemas near you. It was presented at this year's Sundance, where it won the US Dramatic Audience Award and Special Jury Prize for Best Ensemble Cast, and closed Sundance London. It was also acquired by Focus Features. Sean was Oscar Nominated for his short doc, Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó, about his grandmothers and their beautiful friendship. It won the SXSW Grand Jury Prize & Audience Award. You can find it on Disney+ and Hulu. Sean is a Fellow of the Sundance Screenwriters & Directors Lab, having previously been a fellow of Sundance Ignite and Google Creative Lab 5.

Tom Schulman graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in Philosophy. He studied at USC Graduate School of Cinema, with Jack Garfein at the Actors and Directors Lab, Los Angeles, and with director Joan Darling. He directed the Actors' Studio first west coast production, Harold Pinter's The Caretaker.Tom wrote Dead Poets Society for which he received an Academy Award for best original screenplay. He also wrote What About Bob?, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Medicine Man, and Holy Man. He wrote and directed Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag He was an executive producer on Indecent Proposal and Me, Myself and Irene. He was the writer/producer of Welcome to Mooseport. He co-wrote and co-produced with Rafael Yglesias and J.J. Abrams, The Anatomy of Hope, a pilot for HBO. He recently wrote, with Callie Khouri, Trae Crowder, and T Bone Burnett, a pilot for Amazon.He recently wrote and directed Double Down South, an indie feature that will be released in April. Tom served on the board of directors and then as vice president of the Writers Guild of America, West. Tom was the president of the Writers Guild Foundation and serves on its board. He serves on the advisory board of the Science and Entertainment Exchange.Please enjoy my conversation with Tom Schulman.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/indie-film-hustle-a-filmmaking-podcast--2664729/support.

Jerrell L. Henderson is a Theatre Director, Puppeteer, and African American Theatre Historian and Archivist. Through the mediums of theatre and/or puppetry and film, Jerrell seeks to disrupt generational curses of self-hate (i.e. racism, homophobia, religious intolerance, etc.). Intellectually curious and emotionally dexterous, Jerrell is at home in a number of wide-ranging genres including, but not limited to, American Realism, Magical Realism, Traditional and Contemporary Musical Theatre, Poetic Black-Queer Narratives, and Live Spectacle Events. Upcoming projects include directing Ragtime at Metropolis Arts Center this Spring. A recipient of a 2023 Henson Foundation Workshop Grant and the 2022 League of Chicago Theatre's Samuel G. Roberson Fellowship, Jerrell will present an original shadow play titled, AmericanMYTH: Crossroads with Free Street Theatre this Fall. Recent projects include directing Reverie by James Ijames (2022 Pulitzer Prize recipient for Fat Ham) with Azuka Theatre in Philadelphia, co-directing Marys Seacole by Jackie Sibblies Drury with Griffin Theatre in Chicago, and collaborating with The Classical Theatre of Harlem and St. Ann's Warehouse on: When The World Sounds Like A Prayer (https://www.cthnyc.org, walkwithamal.org) in Bryant Park in NYC. Other credits include Mlima's Tale with Griffin Theatre (Jeff Award nomination for Direction and Best Play), The River with BoHo Theatre, and Untitled with Inis Nua (Barrymore Award nomination for Outstanding Direction of a Play). Puppet short films include a filmed version of his signature puppetry piece, I Am The Bear with The Chicago International Puppet Theatre Festival. Other puppet short films include, Hamlin: La Revue Sombre with Heather Henson's Handmade Puppet Dreams and Diamond's Dream with Chicago Children's Theatre. His Juneteenth Puppet Protest: The Welcome Table was featured in the New York Times (June 2020) and his Fall 2020 puppetry celebration of the lives of John Lewis and C.T. Vivian titled, Black Butterfly was later expanded into an educational performance piece with Tria Smith of Guild Row and a student collective working with Urban Growers Collective on Chicago's South Side. He received his MFA in Theatre Directing from Northwestern University (2015), is an artistic associate with Black Lives, Black Words, is a member of Lincoln Center's Directors Lab (2012), and was a Henson Foundation sponsored participant at the Eugene O'Neill National Puppetry Conference (2020). He is on the board of Directors Gathering. (DG) is a national organization based in Philadelphia, PA which offers theatre directors consistent community, resources, and elevation.  As a theatre historian and archivist, Jerrell contributed to Fifty Key Musicals (Routledge Press). He authored the chapter on Shuffle Along (1921) and co-authored the chapter on The Wiz (1975). He also serves as the creator and curator of black_theatre_vinyl_archive on Instagram. black_theatre_vinyl_archive is an extensive collection of vinyl albums which highlight the contributions of members of the African Diaspora in Theatre/Musical Theatre History.  

Host Tim Z. Hernandez speaks with award-winning film and television director Carlos Avila in this episode of Words on a Wire.Carlos Avila has directed for various companies such as NBC/Universal, Warner Brothers Television, Sony Pictures Television, CBS, Jerry Bruckheimer Television, Shoreline Entertainment, New Line Cinema and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). His credits include the television series, Grimm and Cold Case, the feature film, Price of Glory (which was developed at the Sundance Institute's Writers and Directors Lab), and several independently produced projects including Distant Water, Foto-Novelas and Tales of Masked Men. Carlos's new award-winning short film, The Kill Floor, is currently playing at film festivals throughout the country. Carlos is also partnered with veteran producer David Valdes (Avatar: The Way of Water, Dune 2 and Unforgiven). Together, they are developing the feature film, Last Band Standing, which Carlos wrote and will direct.

In this episode of the Musicbed Podcast, Drea provides a behind-the-scenes look at Sundance from a programming POV and what filmmakers need to know about submitting their films. Programmer/producer Drea Clark has been a fixture of the festival circuit for almost 20 years, serving at Sundance Film Festival, the LA Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, and more. She's also produced three features, music videos, web series, and a TV pilot directed by Charlie Day. Talking Points: The importance of original, consistent storytelling A-list talent isn't always an advantage Art is subjective and so is rejection Submit a short over a proof of concept No one's buying your excuses for bad sound A good programmer finds filmmakers to champion Show Notes: Slamdance Film Festival – https://slamdance.com/festival/ Sundance Film Festival – https://festival.sundance.org/ LA Film Festival – https://www.filmindependent.org/la-film-festival/ Bentonville Film Festival – https://bentonvillefilm.org/ Napoleon Dynamite (2004) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374900/ Damien Chazelle – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3227090/ Whiplash (2014) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2582802/ Chanshi – https://festival.sundance.org/program/films/indie-episodic IndieGoGo – https://www.indiegogo.com/ Kickstarter – https://www.kickstarter.com/ Kim Yutani – https://www.linkedin.com/in/kim-yutani-aaba3520a Catalyst Films – https://www.catalyst-films.com/ Directors Lab – https://directorslab.com/home/ Ann Arbor Film Festival – https://www.aafilmfest.org/ Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2388637/ David Lowery – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1108007/ Ben Foster – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3244731/ Strawberry Mansion (2021) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11398346/ Kentucker Audley – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2310589/ The Killing of Two Lovers (2020) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10702148/ Film Independent Spirit Awards – https://www.filmindependent.org/spirit-awards/ Aftersun (2022) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19770238/ Stan Brakhage – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0104132/ Brought to you by Musicbed, the filmmaking industry's music licensing platform of choice. Learn more: ⁠⁠musicbed.com⁠⁠. About Musicbed:Musicbed is the leading sync licensing platform for authentic music from relevant artists. We're a one-stop licensing agency representing a curated roster of authentic artists, bands, and composers for film, TV, and advertising. From leading composers to tour-tested bands, and rising singer/songwriters, we believe music brings emotion and has the power to amplify your story.

A theatre director, puppeteer, and African American theatre historian and archivist that seeks to disrupt generational curses of self-hate, racism, homophobia, and religious intolerance. Intellectually curious and emotionally dexterous, Jerrell is at home in a wide range of genres including, but not limited to, American Realism, Magical Realism, Traditional and Contemporary Musical Theatre, Poetic Black-Queer Narratives, and Live Spectacle Events. He is the recipient of a 2023 Henson Foundation Workshop Grant and the 2022 League of Chicago Theatre's Samuel G. Roberson Fellowship. Recent projects include directing Reverie by James Ijames (2022 Pulitzer Prize recipient for Fat Ham) with Azuka Theatre in Philadelphia, co-directing Marys Seacole by Jackie Sibblies Drury with Griffin Theatre in Chicago, and collaborating with The Classical Theatre of Harlem and St. Ann's Warehouse on: When The World Sounds Like A Prayer in Bryant Park in NYC. Other credits include Mlima's Tale with Griffin Theatre (Jeff Award nomination for Direction and Best Play), The River with BoHo Theatre, and Untitled with Inis Nua (Barrymore Award nomination for Outstanding Direction of a Play). His puppet short films include a filmed version of his signature puppetry piece, I Am The Bear with The Chicago International Puppet Theatre Festival. His other puppet short films include, Hamlin: La Revue Sombre with Heather Henson's Handmade Puppet Dreams and Diamond's Dream with Chicago Children's Theatre. His Juneteenth Puppet Protest: The Welcome Table was featured in the New York Times and his Fall 2020 puppetry celebration of the lives of John Lewis and C.T. Vivian titled, Black Butterfly was later expanded into an educational performance piece with Tria Smith of Guild Row and a student collective working with Urban Growers Collective on Chicago's South Side. He received his MFA in Theatre Directing from Northwestern University, is an artistic associate with Black Lives, Black Words, is a member of Lincoln Center's Directors Lab, and was a Henson Foundation sponsored participant at the Eugene O'Neill National Puppetry Conference.  As a theatre historian and archivist, Jerrell contributed to Fifty Key Musicals (Routledge Press). He authored the chapter on Shuffle Along (1921) and co-authored the chapter on The Wiz (1975). 

The deadCenter Film Festival has a history of shining a light on films made in Oklahoma about Oklahoma, and this year is no exception. Last night's closing film was the Sundance Film Festival darling, Fancy Dance, from Oklahoma-born director Erica Tremblay. The film tells the soulful story of Jax, a Native American woman living on the Seneca–Cayuga Nation Reservation, who serves as a stand-in mother for her niece, Rokie, just before Rokie's grandparents separate them. Fancy Dance received a standing ovation from the audience in The First American's Museum Five Moons Theater before taking home the Best Indigenous Feature and Best Narrative Feature awards. Erica Tremblay is the 2023 deadCenter Icon Award winner, one of the highest festival honors. In this deadCenter 2023 interview, we talk with Tremblay about her experience bringing Fancy Dance back to Oklahoma. She shares her perspective on why representing Queer native women on the big screen is essential to understanding the urgent state of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation along with some of the unique challenges faced making the film. Tremblay is a Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Lab fellow and recipient of SFFILM Rainin and Lynn Shelton grants. She was the executive story editor of Dark Winds, an AMC series produced by George R.R. Martin and Robert Redford. She […] The post Erica Tremblay on Bringing ‘Fancy Dance' Home to Oklahoma – dCFF23 appeared first on The Cinematropolis.

Tom Schulman graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in Philosophy. He studied at USC Graduate School of Cinema, with Jack Garfein at the Actors and Directors Lab, Los Angeles, and with director Joan Darling. He directed the Actors' Studio first west coast production, Harold Pinter's The Caretaker.Tom wrote Dead Poets Society for which he received an Academy Award for best original screenplay. He also wrote What About Bob?, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Medicine Man, and Holy Man. He wrote and directed Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag He was an executive producer on Indecent Proposal and Me, Myself and Irene. He was the writer/producer of Welcome to Mooseport. He co-wrote and co-produced with Rafael Yglesias and J.J. Abrams, The Anatomy of Hope, a pilot for HBO.He recently wrote, with Callie Khouri, Trae Crowder, and T Bone Burnett, a pilot for Amazon.He recently wrote and directed Double Down South, an indie feature that will be released in April. Tom served on the board of directors and then as vice president of the Writers Guild of America, West. Tom was the president of the Writers Guild Foundation and serves on its board. He serves on the advisory board of the Science and Entertainment Exchange.Please enjoy my conversation with Tom Schulman.

In this episode, Adam speaks with directors Dante Benazzo & Amanda Connors.Andrea Dante Benazzo trained as an actor and graduated from National Academy Silvio d'Amico in 2020. Feeling the urge to move from acting to personal research in directing his first work, in alto il Sole in basso, which premiered at the Contaminazioni Festival in 2018. His second work, Partschótt, was part of the 2020 Romaeuropa Festival. He's worked as assistant director for Alessandro Businaro for George II  (Venice Biennale Teatro 2020) and is currently working as assistant director for Valentino Villa for “Au bord” (Romaeuropa Festival). His work explores accumulation, cataloging & statistics - as a means of expression of human frailty - through live performance and its possible extensions.  Starting from autobiography and documentary, he investigates non-linearity, inconsistency, and non-existence of reality. Amanda Connors is a director based in NYC. With degrees in theatre and journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she is a graduate of the National Theater Institute at the O'Neill Theater Center, and teaches at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. She's directed in NYC and around the U.S and assisted at Second Stage, Signature, Guthrie, O'Neill, Cal Shakes, and more. She was in the MTC Directing Fellowship, a recipient of the SDCF Directing Observership, the NAMT Directing Observership, and an alumna of Directors Lab Mediterranean, North, and West. She's studied Complicité, Droznin movement under Rachel Jett, with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators, with certifications from the Society of American Fight Directors. Mentioned in this episode:Paul Auster's The Invention of SolitudeMilo RauApitchatpongNick ConnorsSupport the showIf you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: https://www.purpl...

In this episode, Adam speaks with performance makers Gregory Bonsignore & Basma BaydounGregory Bonsignore is a vagabond Playwright, director, actor, & writer for stage & screen who works & travels between LA, NYC, & abroad. He has a degree in Storytelling from NYU, trained at the BBC in London, was Playwright in Residence at The Library of Alexandria, Egypt, and is a graduate of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop (his musical The Talented Mr. Ripley was selected by Steven Schwartz for the ASCAP Workshop). He's lectured at Universities, NY Public Library, and is Guest Faculty at the O'Neill Center. He has been in the writer's rooms of Homeland, Three Rivers, My Little Pony, and many others. His feature film “Can You Tell Me How” about Sesame Street, was written for a script deal with HARPO productions (Oprah Winfrey). His newest critically-acclaimed debut illustrated book  "That's Betty: The Story of Betty White" was recently released.Basma Baydoun is an Acting graduate of the Lebanese University in Beirut, & Theatre Design at Concordia University in Montréal, and currently completing her Master's in Theatre Directing at Saint Joseph's University in Beirut. Basma splits her time between performance & production work, as well as being a program manager with Ettijahat - Independent Culture, (a cultural institution that designs, implements, & supports artistic and cultural research, education, capacity-building, and production, in response to the needs of independent artistic and cultural practitioners in the Arab Region). She's collaborated with artists between Lebanon and Canada such as Sahar Assaf, Robert Reid, Mo Sabbah, and Doyle Avant, & coordinated the first & fourth editions of Director's Lab Mediterranean. Other passions revolve around food, dying houseplants, & cats. All the cats.  Mentioned in this episode-AUBLiz McCannTyler PerryOussama GhanamOssama HallalHammana Artist HouseJohnBengal TigerThe Lives of OthersWerkmeister HarmoniesSupport the showIf you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: https://www.purpl...

In this episode, Adam speaks with directors Paolo Costantini, Maria Varnakkidou, and Marta Mari. Berlin-based Italian director Paolo Costantini is a graduate of the Silvio d'Amico National Dramatic Academy. He joined the Interkulturelles Theaterzentrum, a Fabulamundi partner, in Berlin, before collaborating with Italian-German company Barletti/Waas. He is a trusted Assistant Director to Antonio Latella whose current production of Hamlet won the Ubu Award for best show of the year. In 2021, Paolo won the Venice Biennale Teatro's Under 30 Directors competition with the project "Uno Sguardo Estraneo",  still touring across Italy today. He was recently selected for a project “Il Fondo” led by the Santarcangelo Festival, supporting non-conventional artistic research. Maria Varnakkidou is a Cypriot theatre director who studied at Brunel University and completed her master's degree in Theatre Directing at Royal Holloway University in the UK. She has worked in the theatre and film world for the past ten years across various projects. Her interests include devised, immersive, and community theatre, creating work for social change and critical thinking.  She was a creative director of the Buffer Fringe Festival 2020-21, and this year she is one of the artistic curators. Edinburgh-based Polish director Marta Mari, is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago, & has an MA in Arts and Cultural Management from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh.  Marta is a director, producer, & teacher and was an artistic director of Asylon Theatre for 9 years creating new writing, site-specific, devised as well as classic works. Her work as a director for young audiences and as a producer and arts manager has been presented at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh International Science Festival, Puppet Animation Festival, Edinburgh Mela Festival, and Universal Arts.Mentioned in this episode-HamletAntonioniTarkovskyBela TarrThom LuzFranko BForced EntertainmentApitchatpongBoal Sheldon PatinkinMrozekSupport the show

In this episode, Adam speaks with directors Sam Hunter,  Benedetto Sicca, and Olive Pascha.Sam Hunter is a writer, director, & teacher specializing in devised ensemble theater and collective play development. After graduating from UC, San Diego, he founded the Hungry River Theater Company and later co-founded The West, a collective creating theater, film, and radio dramas in LA. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation German Chancellor Fellow in 2018, researching ensemble and collective theater administration. The research was published in American Theatre Magazine. He has been in Berlin since then working around Germany. His most recent play, Wandersterne is in rep at the Vagantenbühne.Benedetto Sicca is an  Italian director, playwright, actor, trainer, & artistic director. He writes for theater, musical theater, cinema, & television. In 2017 he was the Artistic Director of the Tramedutore Festival at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan and until then, was the artistic co-director of Mare Culturale Urbano. Winner of Carlo Annoni international award for LGBTQ dramaturgy (2020) National Association of Italian theatre Critics Award (2020) He is a Watermill Center fellow having worked with Robert Wilson and has collaborated extensively with Luca RonconiOlive Pascha is a Liverpool-based Director who works across theatre and film. She studied at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts and is an alumnus of the Young Everyman & Playhouse Director's program. Between 2014 and 2017 she worked in Russia and India with young people devising theatre and leading workshops. In 2020 she founded Make Vague, with writer Sarah Power, making her professional directing debut with Pig at The Royal Court, Liverpool. Olive's directing credits include Mike Bartlett's Bull and Katherine Manners Threads. She has made numerous short films including Evie, an official selection for London Super Shorts 2020, World London Film Festival, and Brussels Independent Film Festival. Mentioned in this episode:ACTKeith JohnstoneGabor TompaKim RubensteinGOB Squad Rude MechsClaire KaplanBela BanathyMartin Esslin's The Field of DramaNational Academy of Dramatic ArtSocietas Rafaello SanzioJulie StanzakAlSupport the show

Stefan is a Serbian-born, Toronto-based international director and creative producer. He is best known for his interdisciplinary stage practices merging film, digital and live performance. Stefan's work has been seen on stages in Europe, Canada, and Off-Broadway. He is a Director and Creative Producer at Toronto's award-winning BirdLand Theatre. Among other things, Stefan is the founder of a creative StartUp Digital Dream Society. Stefan is alumnae of Directors Lab at The Lincoln Center in New York, and fellowship recipient of International Theatre School at University of Edinburgh, Scotland. His work has been featured in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Star, and in many online publications. Twitter: @DzeparoskiS Support Stageworthy Patreon: patreon.com/stageworthypod Tip Jar: tips.pinecast.com/jar/stageworthy

Lynn Singer – LS VoiceworksAired Thursday, January 27, 2022, at 5:00 PM PST / 8:00 PM ESTI named this podcast Vox Novus, Latin for “New Voice,” to offer interviews that would give voice to the rapidly changing world we live in. But what about your voice? Do you feel empowered to communicate, embody your message, and speak your truth? Are there subtle ways to make our voices more powerful and effective?My guest this week on Vox Novus, Lynn Singer, says, “Your voice holds your hidden gifts, passions and power.” Lynn Singer was born with a special voice and an ear for spoken language. For more than thirty years, she has helped people find their voice. She has taught acting, speech and voice at Yale, NYU, The New School, Circle in the Square, The Actors and Directors Lab, the Gene Frankel Theater and at the T. Schreiber Studio in New York City. She has worked with a wide range of clients, from Tony, Emmy, Golden Globe, Pulitzer Prize and Fulbright winners, to Fortune 500 companies and top business and management executives. Lynn has appeared Off-Broadway, on television and film and was a well-known voice of radio and television commercials for two decades. Lynn currently offers private voice and presentation classes through her established https://lsvoiceworks.com/ practice. She joins me this week to share her path and her voice!Visit the Vox Novus Show Page https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/vox-novus/Connect with Victor Fuhrman at http://victorthevoice.com/#LynnSinger #LSVoiceworks #VoxNovus #VictorFuhrmanSubscribe to our Newsletter https://omtimes.com/subscribe-omtimes-magazine/Connect with OMTimes on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Omtimes.Magazine/ and OMTimes Radio https://www.facebook.com/ConsciousRadiowebtv.OMTimes/Twitter: https://twitter.com/OmTimes/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omtimes/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2798417/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/omtimes/

About the Guest Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj is a Milwaukee-based, multi-disciplinary, American Theater Artist and Advocate. Mr. Maharaj was hailed in The New York Times for his award-winning play Little Rock, was selected as a New York Times Critics Pick. He is currently the Associate Artistic Producer of Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Mr. Maharaj's playwrighting residencies include the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New Orleans Writer's Residency, Alliance Theater, Arkansas Repertory Theater, Crossroads Theater, Amas Musical Theater, Triskelion Arts, the 2020 Resident Playwright of the Letter of Marque Theatre, is a member of Theater Now's 2021 Virtual Musical Theater Writer's Group, a 2021 Season Finalist in The Downtown Urban Arts Festival in New York City, the inaugural playwright for the Theatre Raleigh New Works Reading Series, and a finalist for the 2021 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. Mr. Maharaj has been honored with many awards for his body of work in the American Theater including the prestigious Woodie King Jr. Award, four Vivian Robinson AUDELCO Awards, Barrymore Award, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society Theatrical Moment of the Year, The New York International Fringe Festival Overall Excellence Award, Theater Communications Group Directors Grant and Playwriting Grant, Recipient of the 2020 National Alliance for Musical Theater Fifteen-Minute Musical Theater Challenge Award, he was a semi-finalist for the 2021 Blue Ink Playwriting Award Competition presented by American Blues Theater. He has been featured in numerous articles and interviews in notable industry publications such as The American Theater Magazine, The New York Times, The Yale School of Drama / Repertory Theater Review, The Dramatist, The Uptown Magazine, Playbill, Broadway World, The Daily News, The New York Post, The New York Beacon, The Philadelphia Sun, Time-Out New York, Harlem News, Amsterdam News, and The Stage Directors and Choreographers Journal for his work as a theater practitioner and leader. As a storyteller, Mr. Maharaj has worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and at many of our nation's top Regional Theaters including the Bernard B. Jacobs, The Theater at Madison Square Garden, The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture, The Public, Second Stage Theatre, Soho Playhouse, Classical Theater of Harlem, New Federal Theater, New World Stages, Nuyorican Poets Café, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Lark Play Development Center, Theatre Row, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Portland Stage, Actors Theater of Louisville, Alabama Shakespeare, Signature Theater, Theater Works, Goodman Theater, The Kennedy Center, Arkansas Repertory Theater, Perseverance, and New Freedom Theater. After his graduate studies at Brooklyn College, Mr. Maharaj was awarded a Masters of Fine Arts Degree from Brooklyn College. Mr. Maharaj is a proud alumnus of the Actors Studio Playwrights and Directors Unit, Lincoln Center's Directors Lab, and Theater Communication Group's Rising Leaders of Color in the American Theater. He has served as the Artistic Director of New Freedom Theater in Philadelphia as well as the Artistic Director of Rebel Theater. Mr. Maharaj founded the Voices at the River, an African and Latino American Playwrights New Works Festival hosted at Arkansas Repertory Theater. Mr. Maharaj is represented by Michael Moore of Michael Moore Agency Literary and Creatives. Connect with Beltline to Broadway Facebook – @beltlinetobroadway Twitter – @beltlinetobroadway Instagram – @beltlinetobroadway Web http://www.rduonstage.com/ (www.beltlinetobroadway.com) Support this podcast

Jessica Mitolo is a brilliant sketch Comedy director who has worked at The Second City, The Nursery, and on 40 plus productions all over the world. Jonny Nelson and Jess talk about comedy theaters post pandemic, taboo comedy, when "yes and" is bad, people who are too nice, and needing something new and fresh in live entertainment. Jessica Mitolo is a performer, director, and teaching artist based in Chicago Illinois where she teaches improvisation and comedy writing to students of all ages and skill levels at The Second City. Independent of Second City, Jessica has trained comedians in over 10 different countries and leads corporate improv and idea-generating workshops. Jessica is also a performer and director (and the Education Manager at The Nursery!). She has directed more than 40 productions and was a participant in LaMama International's 2017 Directing Symposium as well as The Lincoln Center's 2018 Directors Lab. She is proud to have directed one of The Second City's National Touring Companies and to have worked as Assistant to the Director on Second City's Mainstage production, South Side of Heaven. jonnynelson.com/podcast

With a background in animation, live action and visual effects, Andrew Thomas Huang’s work bridges the gap between video art and film, expanding beyond into alternative modes of storytelling. His film and video work has exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, NYC; MoMA PS1; The Barbican Centre, London; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Having developed a strong reputation for his collaborative practice, Huang has worked extensively with Icelandic artist Bjork, among others including FKA Twigs, Thom Yorke and British director Joe Wright. Huang served as creative director for Bjork’s VR exhibition Bjork Digital, creating multiple immersive experiences within the pioneering traveling installation. With his strength in world-building, Huang carries on his visual aesthetic as he continues his foray into narrative feature film. Huang is a Cinereach Fellow, a recent fellow in Film Independent’s Directors Lab, and a recipient of the K Period Media Fellowship grant. www.artistdecoded.com Get 15% OFF on all Four Sigmatic products: foursigmatic.com/artist-decoded

Lynn Singer was born with a special voice and an ear for spoken language. For over thirty years, she has helped people find their voice. She taught acting, speech and voice at Yale, NYU, The New School, Circle in the Square, The Actors and Directors Lab, the Gene Frankel Theater and at the T. Schreiber Studio in New York City.  She works with a wide range of clients, from Tony, Emmy, Golden Globe, Pulitzer Prize and Fulbright winners, to Fortune 500 companies and top business and management executives.  Lynn has created a new kind of learning experience with her interactive creation, Breaking into Brilliance: An Awakening of Creative Consciousness, which is more than a book, to help us release out of old beliefs and ideas and activate our creative powers  We know that everyone is capable of brilliance. However, learning to live in our brilliance is quite another matter. Many of us meditate, have sought counseling, and are careful about what we eat and how we take care of our bodies. And yet, we are still yearning. We have not anchored our relation to spirit nor accepted that we are creating the world around us.  Interactive and multi-sensorial, Breaking into Brilliance is an electronic book experience that takes the process of self-investigation to a whole new level. Animated with Lynn’s personal artwork and narrated by the author, it draws the reader more deeply into the content and offers an integrated electronic journal.  Check out her websites: http://breakingintobrilliance.com/ and  http://lynn-singer.com At the top of the show, it's Anastasia's Starseed News, bringing topics of interest to starseeds not heard in the mainstream! Thanks for tuning in!

Breaking Into Brilliance: An Awakening of Creative Consciousness ~ Guest: Lynn Singer Breaking into Brilliance is an interactive and multi-sensorial electronic book experience that takes the process of self-investigation to a whole new level.  Narrated in the compelling voice of the author, and including her animated art, we are lead through stories, questions and images on a platform which allows the user to write and upload images - all of which serves to open the creative conscious. Lynn Singer was born with a special voice and an ear for spoken language. For over thirty years, she has helped people find their voice. She taught acting, speech and voice at Yale, NYU, The New School, Circle in the Square, The Actors and Directors Lab, the Gene Frankel Theater and at the T. Schreiber Studio in New York City. She works with a wide range of clients, from Tony, Emmy, Golden Globe, Pulitzer Prize and Fulbright winners, to Fortune 500 companies and top business and management executives. For more info visit http://www.lynn-singer.com/ http://breakingintobrilliance.com/ ************************************************* For more information about BITEradio products and services visit: http://www.biteradio.me/index.html

In collaboration with THE VERGE. Supported by: Anne-Marie Canning In July, we are delving into the incredible power of VR to put people in other people's lives. And also the challenges and questions that come with that power. Storytellers are only beginning to explore the potential for virtual reality to put people inside other perspectives — and other lives. In our second POP, you'll get the chance to experience some of the best work that's been done to date, and also to question the limits of the technology and the ethical questions it raises. From escapist fun (take a drive around Mars! Wander an alien world!) to crushing and immersive VR documentaries to a one-of-a-kind room-scale augmented reality experience, you will leave this installation with some new views on things. ROSS MILLER CO-FOUNDER AND MANAGING EDITOR, THE VERGE Ross Miller is a cofounder and Managing Editor of The Verge. For over a decade, he has covered technology, gaming, entertainment, and all aspects of modern storytelling. He has followed virtual reality since early 2012 when John Carmack showed him a very early Oculus Rift prototype. He honestly didn't get it at the time. He's also really bad at writing bios, especially in the third person. ADI ROBERTSON SENIOR REPORTER, THE VERGE Adi Robertson is a Senior Reporter for The Verge. She has followed virtual reality since the original Oculus Rift’s unveiling in 2012, and her work includes a definitive oral history of VR, along with coverage of the medium’s science, technology, and culture. Besides VR, she also writes about video games, biohacking, science fiction, policy, and gender. SPEAKERS PAUL RAPHAËL CO-FOUNDER/​CREATIVE DIRECTOR, FELIX & PAUL STUDIOS Paul is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Montreal. With a combined passion for cinematic storytelling, visual effects and technology, he teamed up with collaborator Félix Lajeunesse and created award-winning stereoscopic 3D films, multimedia installations and commercials presented across the world. The two directors founded Felix & Paul Studios, now recognized as a pioneer and key player in the fast-growing industry of virtual reality content. LISA JACKSON FILMMAKER Lisa Jackson comes from a documentary background and her work has played at festivals internationally — including the Berlinale, SXSW, London BFI, HotDocs, and Edinburgh — and been broadcast on CBC, CTV, TMN, Bravo!, Knowledge, SCN, and APTN. Jackson’s films have garnered numerous awards and in 2012 the ReelWorld Festival named her a Trailblazer. She is Anishinaabe, has a BFA in Film Production from Simon Fraser University, has completed the Canadian Film Centre’s Directors’ Lab, and works in both fiction and documentary. She is the Director Mentor for the National Screen Institute's Aboriginal Documentary Training Program. ALEX WILLIAMS FILMMAKER Alex Williams is a Toronto-based multi-disciplinary artist, working in documentary and narrative film, theatre, and still photography. His most recent film, The Pass System, is an investigative documentary into an illegal segregationist practice of the Canadian government that has played widely in festivals and communities across Canada, and was broadcast on CBC and APTN. Alex teaches video design at the National Theatre School of Canada, is a member of Canadian Actor’s Equity Association, the Documentary Organization of Canada. He is President of the artist-run centre Charles Street Video, and sits on the boards of Indigenous Theatre Company Article 11, and the Toronto Media Arts Centre (TMAC).

Tina Mabry an American film writer and director from Tupelo, Mississippi. Following the release of her first feature film Mississippi Damned (2009), she was named one of '25 New Faces of Indie Film' by Filmmaker Magazine and among the 'Top Forty Under 40' by Advocate Magazine. Mabry was named a James Baldwin Fellow in Media by United States Artists. A native of Tupelo, Mississippi, Tina Mabry graduated from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts with an MFA in Film Production in 2005. While participating in Film Independent’s (FIND) Project: Involve, Tina finished developing and writing her short film, BROOKLYN’S BRIDGE TO JORDAN, which she went on to direct. The film screened at more than fifty film festivals worldwide and won multiple Jury and Audience Awards as well as an award for Best Director. BROOKLYN’S BRIDGE TO JORDAN aired on Showtime Networks, BET J (now Centric), and was voted the #1 film on the season finale of LOGO’s The Click List 2: Best in Short Film. Shortly after graduating from USC, Tina co-wrote the feature screenplay ITTY BITTY TITTY COMMITTEE, which was directed by Jamie Babbit (BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER). The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival (2007) and won Best Feature Narrative at the South by Southwest Film & Music Festival (2007). In 2008, Tina participated in the FIND’s Directors Lab with her feature film, MISSISSIPPI DAMNED; the film was later awarded the Kodak Film Grant. While playing on the festival circuit, MISSISSIPPI DAMNED garnered an impressive thirteen awards from participation in fifteen film festivals including awards for Best Feature Film and Best Screenplay at the Chicago International Film Festival (2009). The film premiered on Showtime Networks in February 2011. Tina was named among the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in Filmmaker Magazine in July of 2009 and was recognized by Out Magazine as one of the most inspirational and outstanding people of 2009. She was featured in the Advocate magazine as part of their “Top Forty Under 40” issue, which features the top 40 individuals who are raising the bar in their respective fields. With over 300 nominated artists and only 50 selected artists, Tina was named the James Baldwin Fellow in Media by United States Artists, a national grant-making, and artist advocacy organization, in December of 2010. Tina’s latest feature, COUNTY LINE, was accepted into FIND’s 2010 Screenwriters Lab. In April 2011, the script participated in Tribeca All Access where it won the Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award. COUNTY LINE also took part in FIND’s Fast Track, a film financing market, which was held during the Los Angeles Film Festival 2011. Concluding in June 2012, Tina participated in the Fox Writers Intensive, which is a highly selective writer’s initiative designed to introduce experienced writers with unique voices, backgrounds, life and professional experiences that reflect the diverse perspectives of FOX’s television and feature film audiences. Independent Television Service produced Tina’s latest short film, CROSSOVER, as part of their FUTURESTATES program; a series of independent mini-features showing visions of what life in America will be like in decades to come. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival (2012) and screened at the Urbanworld Film Festival (2013) and the Pan African Film Festival (2013). In February 2013, Tina was a fellow in the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriters Intensive. * See Mississippi Damned on Netflix * Select Links Below: IMDb: IMDb Tina Mabry Facebook: Tina Mabry Facebook Twitter: @TinaMabry Morgan's Mark Website Link: Morgan's Mark Mississippi Damned Film & Poster Purchase Link: MorgansMark.com/store Film Link: Mississippi Damned Film Site Thank You for checking out Hollywood Breakthrough Show This podcast main purpose is to serve up positive information. There are thousands of great Films & TV shows with, Staff Writers, Editors, Cinematographer, Actors, Set Designers, and Make-up Artist just to name a few. Join us at Hollywood Breakthrough Show, as we interview some of the most talented people in the business, which names you may, or may not know! But you have seen their work! Whether they're well- established veterans of the business, or current up and comers, these are the people who are making a living in Hollywood. 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