Podcast appearances and mentions of jenna ricker

Title: Nicola Tesla: A Man of ScienceDescription: Today, Steve is joined by podcaster, professor and scientist Chad Davies to discuss the life and times of one of the most important scientists and inventors of the modern era, Nicola Tesla. Was Tesla a mad scientist, the most forward looking scientist of all times or all of the above? Learn More About our Guest:Chad Davies of the Scientific Odyssey Podcasthttps://thescientificodyssey.typepad.com/You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comClick here to support Beyond the Big Screen!https://www.subscribestar.com/beyondthebigscreenhttps://www.patreon.com/beyondthebigscreenClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:Begin Transcript:Thank you again for listening to Beyond the Big Screen podcast. 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You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen, great movies and stories so great they should be movies on various social media platforms by searching for A to z history. Links to all this and more can be found at beyond the big screen dot com. I thank you for joining me again, Beyond the big Screen., [00:00:00] this is beyond the big screen podcast with your host, Steve Guerra. Today, we will be talking about how a particular person, a scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla has been portrayed in both popular media, such as films and books, and a few of the last previous episodes we spoke with Annie of the five foot, two blog about the movie and the book, the prestige, what shows Tesla as the archetype, all mad scientists.We also talked with the producer and lead actor of the movie, the American side, they use the idea of Tesla as the futurist who predicted and developed the ideas that could radically change the world. As we know it. Today, we're going to focus in on who exactly Nikola Tesla was his life and [00:01:00] times and how he was portrayed, how his portrayal in these films matches up to his real life.I am very happy to be joined by Chad Davies of the scientific Odyssey podcast to discuss all these fascinating films in this fascinating person of Nikola Tesla, Chad Euro scientists. Can you just tell us a little bit about yourself and your podcast? Sure. Steve, thanks for having me on. I really appreciate the opportunity to be here.Um, my background actually is a little bit different than the subject that we're going to be talking about on the show. Um, my, I have a PhD in computational astrophysics. Um, I'm a professor of physics at, uh, a little access institution called Gordon state. Um, and then my podcast, as you mentioned, is a scientific Odyssey, which, um, is a show where we really look at the process of scientific inquiry.In other words, how science has done, how it asks questions and answers, questions, and that sort of thing through, um, the history and philosophy of science. And so, you know, my [00:02:00] background coming from that is I'm really interested in not just. What the results of science are, because I think oftentimes there's a lot of that that goes on.But the process at which we arrived at those results in the people who did the work and what they did and the types of questions they asked and the things that they sort of thought were important, how they, you know, stumbled around sometimes in the dark and sort of search their way to the answers, how sometimes they get the right answers for the wrong reasons, or they got wrong answers, but we're on the right path.It's all just really fascinating to me. Let's excellent. I think that you are the exact person when I was thinking about who to have on, I actually put it out there and I was like, who could this be? And then when somebody mentioned your name, I was like, why didn't I think of that in the first place?Excellent. Uh, just to set things up a little bit of context of some of the background that we'll be using here, Nikola Tesla has been used as a character or a literary device in a number of fictional movies and films today. A few of the [00:03:00] pieces that we'll at least reference a little bit are the prestige by Christopher priest, which was also a movie, the movie, the American side produced by Jenna Ricker and Greg stewer.Along with the novel, the city of light by Lauren for that gets a little bit into Tesla at Niagara falls. I thought we'd start off with just two quotes from Tesla that I thought really got to the point of where we're going here. And then the one is Tesla said, one must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.And the other one is the present is there's the future for which I really worked is mine. And I thought that those were just two really cool quotes. That book-ended what Tesla was all about. Um, now Chad, can you just tell us a little bit about Tesla's early life? Yeah, absolutely. So Tesla's kind of an interesting guy.One of the things that, you know, probably [00:04:00] your listeners should know is the, the biggest problem with Tesla is. Just so much information out there that's probably apocryphal or, you know, folklore. I mean, some of it even, you know, borders on almost fairy tale or mythology, um, it's, you know, until probably the last 15 years, 20 years, something like that, um, there wasn't a lot of good scholarship on his life.There wasn't a lot of folks looking in and really digging into the documents that sort of, you know, laid out what his life was going to be like. And so there's all kinds of stuff that, especially if you go back before that, about 20 years or so, there's a, you'll find all sorts of information. That's really.

Title: Going Over the Falls on the American SideDescription: Today Steve is joined by the director, actors and producers of the feature film The American Side from 2016. Jenna Ricker and Greg Stuhr discuss how they made the film and the impact that Nicola Tesla had on the creation and direction of the film.Learn More About our Guest:Jenna Ricker and Greg Stuhr, The American Sidehttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt3093286/You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comClick here to support Beyond the Big Screen!https://www.subscribestar.com/beyondthebigscreenhttps://www.patreon.com/beyondthebigscreenClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:By https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3093286/, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57788336Begin Transcript:American Side, [00:00:00] this is beyond the big screen podcast with your host, Steve Guerra. Today. I'm very happy to be joined by Jenna Ricker and Greg stewer of the 2016 film, the American side, Jenna wrecker as the director and co-writer with Greg's store, who has also the star as the lead. Charlie the movie set in Buffalo, New York.You could say Buffalo is even more than just a setting. It's a supporting character. Uh, Jenna and Greg, why don't you tell us a little bit more about yourselves and maybe, uh, What connected you to make this film in Buffalo? Right. It's like it as being so, uh, so complimentary to each other, you kick it off.Um, okay. So I grew up in Southern California and I grew up loving [00:01:00] films and, um, really thought I might be an actress for a long time and came out to New York city to study acting at NYU. Uh, but while I was there, love. Being a part of the whole process, the set and the writing and the costumes. And, um, so I quickly worked out that I might be more of a director or at least more driven to be a director.Then the drive, it takes to be an actor. Uh, and I have nothing but admiration for actors and, and the drive that it takes. So, um, so I started shifting gears and focusing on my writing and directing, um, some theater, but also getting some chops in some films and working on sets. And that's, I made my first film in 2005 and, um, kept going from there.And that first film, the work I did on that, and some theater stuff that I was involved in is how I met. [00:02:00] And we shared a very similar taste in films and love of films. And. Then I'll toss it over you, Greg, and you can tell how we started working here. Yeah. Well, the, you know, when we first met, I think you were, you were right in the midst of rewriting in the midst of shooting.Your first film was that. Oh yeah. Right. When we first met, we met in the theater and I was just going to pre-production for myself. Yeah. I was, I remember, uh, being very, very impressed with that. That Jenna was. Actually making a film. There's so many people out there who want to make films who flirt with making films, but she was making it and she was taking it upon herself to make it because she was, you know, producing it.She was, she wrote it. She was directing it, obviously. And, uh, she was using her connections to, to cast it. And, uh, it was just very, it was the main apartment with me. Um, but it was, I was just really impressive that because, um, film, I was [00:03:00] making my living, um, as a theater actor, uh, Still pretty much how I survive, but I'd always wanted to get into film.And I, I, I thought that I naturally would, that it would just start happening and it really wasn't happening. And then of course, the there's so many options now for independent filmmakers. Um, and there certainly was starting to happen at that time that I thought, wow, I really just need to have the drive to, to write something and make something.So that's why I was really impressed with Jenna and then to top it off and we started hanging out, we discovered we both could sort of passionately talk about films and show each other films that maybe one of the other hadn't seen. And we. And we had very similar tastes, um, for the most part and probably where we don't have the same case.That probably just enough to keep the other one, you know, semi honest, um, what's that movieyeah. We [00:04:00] used to have a list of films that maybe we wouldn't, we will want to say that we love. Um, but we do, but we do, we do share a lot of, um, A similar taste. And so as far as the American side goes, it was just something, it was an idea that I'd been kicking around and Jetta, and I had decided to write a script, um, based on my idea of hers.And we wrote that script together and it got into, you know, the first draft of it somehow got into this independent film market in New York, where you get to sit with producers and kind of pitch. And, but again, you know, the script gets vetted and you have all these people looking at and they say, oh, this is good enough to get in here.And they set up these meetings for you, but we of course, went back and looked at that script and we're like, wow, I can't believe that got in. Yikes. Um, uh, and we went in taking those meetings. We, we ended up, you know, being asked, of course, as you often are. What else do you have? And because I've been kicking around this idea, um, just kind of on the spur of the moment started pitching the [00:05:00] American side because it's a little bit.Commercial maybe than, uh, than our other project at the time. Um, and the story itself, you know, having grown up in the Buffalo area, I loved this city. I I've always been a fan of mystery and film war, and, um, conspiracy theory films from the seventies. And I w I always felt like a store, like. Could be told and could be made on a, on a relatively low budget in a place like Buffalo, because I think that's one of the few places because there was kind of throwback feel and vibe.And as you talked about Buffalo being a character in the film, which Jenna does such a remarkable job of capturing, um, Buffalo just felt like a great place to set a story like that. So that's, you know, basically, uh, part of the, part of the discussion's done and I had very early on, um, as the story developed.One of the things that I love the most about this movie is that it was, it doesn't easily fit in any genre. It's a crime new wire at, as a science [00:06:00] fiction element, but it's also fit into it's placed in the modern day. Where did this idea come from? I'm fascinated to know where this idea was originated and what the Genesis of it was.Greg. Um, but, well, you know, it's interesting part of the, um, challenge and the low budget world. I mean, it was never, I don't think it was ever a consideration for us to make it any kind of period piece, even though we wanted film noir. And as I said, conspiracy film from the seventies and even Hitchcock does sort of resonate, um, throughout the story.Um, so. You know, it was always going to be contemporary setting, but because it's a detective story and kind of old fashioned in that sense, we also wanted, first of all, to believe in a private detective character in, you know, 2015 or 16, you. You do have to set it in a place where you can [00:07:00] buy into a character living a little bit off the grid, working out of the back room of a bar using, um, you know, public phones and things like that.So, uh, that all sort of fit into this idea of this timeless quality. And it just, for us, it just added a layer to the, the depth of the story, given that it's about Tesla, who. Sort of definitive autobiography on Tesla's called man out of time. And, and then we've got this main character of Charlie Potynsky, who's a detective who's kind of out of time, you know, one's kind of forward thinking the other, one's a little backward thinking, but the two of them in a way come together in this world and Buffalo certainly feels like a place.You can imagine that that might happen well. And also along those lines, I think one of the key reasons that, you know, the, the Tessa element even exists. And then so much of the story is born out of that is because, you know, in wanting to tell a story back in his hometown of Buffalo, Greg, you went [00:08:00] down that rabbit hole of like, what, what were some of the things that were happening here?

Tuesday on Lake Effect : We talk with the city of Milwaukee’s outgoing Commissioner of Health Jeanette Kowalik about the challenges she faced on the job. Then, we learn about the man who built the now infamous bunkers along the Milwaukee River. Plus, we learn about Janet Guthrie: the first woman to qualify for the Indianapolis 500. Guests: Jeanette Kowalik, outgoing commissioner of health for the city of Milwaukee Dan Simmons, journalist Jenna Ricker, director of the ESPN Films 30 for 30 series documentary Qualified

Shannon is joined on the podcast by Jenna Ricker, a film director whose latest work is "Qualified," an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary about race car driver Janet Guthrie, who in 1977, became the first woman to qualify for the Indianapolis 500. Shannon and Jenna's conversation bounces back and forth between their mutual loves: film and sports. They begin by talking about sports and storytelling (4:19); and dive into the similarities within the creative process and sports (8:45); Before circling back for Jenna to share her origins in sports, and what ultimately led her to fiercely pursue writing and directing (15:10); Shannon and Jenna then talk about coaching and directing, and the similar skills involved (20:30); and make the case for all athletes to take theatre (29:15); The conversation then shifts to discuss Jenna's documentary, "Qualified." They start on the topic of the difference in writing for fiction and non-fiction and how she became involved the project, which involved a trip of her own to Indy (35:50); And continue on to passionately discuss gender in regards to pay and opportunity in sports and film (47:15); Shannon offers a question to Jenna on the topic of finding confidence in your work from one of her former players who recently finished her first year in art school (59:59); To close out the conversation, Shannon and Jenna list their Top 5 female-directed films of the last five years (1:09:14); and finally, the sixth edition of player voicemail (1:24:18).

Catch up with our firecracker core team members Naomi @snieckus Emily @emchurchill AJ @atotheje and Chelsey @chelseymackenzie  as we talk about the Jenna Ricker episode. She's sharp and focused, filled with wisdom and endless ideas! Let us know what resonated with you too! Reach out anytime @firecrackerdept, and find this awesome Aftershow in FULL over on our Youtube channel! Come say hey!

Director Nat Faxon & Jim Rash discusses their new film, Downhill, with fellow director Jenna Ricker. Inspired by Ruben Östlund's 2014 feature Force Majeure, Downhill follows a married couple who are forced to reevaluate their relationship after barely escaping an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://www.dga.org/Events/2020/April2020/Downhill_QnA_0220.aspx

This week’s guest is actor, writer, producer, director, JENNA RICKER! Meeting Jenna (Ben’s Plan, The American Side) was such a lucky catch with both our schedules - but we had our share of struggles to get to the start, let alone the finish line. We met up in NYC at a restaurant, and by the time we finally found a quiet spot... the restaurant staff decided to have their meal right next to us! Technical difficulties aside, I was not about to let this opportunity slip by. So plug in your headphones and pull up a seat at the table, we’re ready for you to join! We talked about being a “lazy actor,” Terms of Endearment, music in film, creativity in math, how to recharge, being patronized during financing, comebacks, problem solving, Janet Guthrie and more!  Follow her work at #jointheconspiracy #theamericanside #qualified #30for30film. She’s working on adapting several of her existing projects into new series’ - follow Jenna below to hear more! Jenna on Twitter: @rickernyc Jenna on Instagram: @rickster5000 Stream 30 for 30: Qualified  Subscribe to our newsletter and find more info at https://www.firecrackerdepartment.com/, and follow us @firecrackerdept!

Producer-director Jenna Ricker has worked solely in narrative film until now. In “Qualified,” her first non-fiction feature, the film’s subject is a pioneer in motor sports — and feminism — Janet Guthrie, the first woman to compete in the Memorial Day spectacle, the Indianapolis 500. Janet started out as an aerospace engineer with a longing for flight and a parallel love of motor sports, which in turn steered her into racing on the stock car circuit. In 1977, her passion and skill for auto racing — honed on road tracks like Daytona and Sebring — led her to be enlisted as the first woman to qualify for Indy. This required her to not only be an elite athlete reaching the pinnacle of American auto racing, breaking into one of the last bastions of the male dominated sport, but she also had to endure a barrage of public insults and belittlement; yet she persisted. “Qualified” is a documentary covering a pivotal moment in U.S. sports history, a gripping and inspiring chronicle of the calm resolve of racer Janet Guthrie. Host: Jim Kamp http://polychromemedia.com/jameskamp/ @kampjames Today's Guest: Jenna Ricker https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1789315/

Producer-director Jenna Ricker has worked solely in narrative film until now. In “Qualified,” her first non-fiction feature, the film’s subject is a pioneer in motor sports — and feminism — Janet Guthrie, the first woman to compete in the Memorial Day spectacle, the Indianapolis 500. Janet started out as an aerospace engineer with a longing for flight and a parallel love of motor sports, which in turn steered her into racing on the stock car circuit. In 1977, her passion and skill for auto racing — honed on road tracks like Daytona and Sebring — led her to be enlisted as the first woman to qualify for Indy. This required her to not only be an elite athlete reaching the pinnacle of American auto racing, breaking into one of the last bastions of the male dominated sport, but she also had to endure a barrage of public insults and belittlement; yet she persisted. “Qualified” is a documentary covering a pivotal moment in U.S. sports history, a gripping and inspiring chronicle of the calm resolve of racer Janet Guthrie. Host: Jim Kamp http://polychromemedia.com/jameskamp/ @kampjames Today's Guest: Jenna Ricker https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1789315/

A bonus conversation about the new 30 for 30 film 'Qualified,' which chronicles Janet Guthrie's captivating rise to become the first woman to ever compete in the Indianapolis 500. Host Jody Avirgan welcomes Janet herself along with filmmakers Jenna Ricker and Caroline Waterlow for an exploration of Janet's stunning achievements, how her career inexplicably stalled out, and what her story tells us about the state of women's equality. | All bonus conversations about 30 for 30 films are available in our archives: http://bit.ly/30Chat.

Jenna Ricker, director of 'Qualified,' the new ESPN 30 for 30 documentary on racing pioneer Janet Guthrie, and producer Greg Stuhr visit the Marshall Pruett Podcast to discuss the film and the many choices they made to honor the first woman to qualifying and compete in the Indianapolis 500. Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast

Title: The American Side with Jenna Ricker and Greg StuhrDescription: We have a very special episode today. It is a first for the podcast. We are talking with the writers, director and lead actor of the movie “The American.” Director Jenna Ricker and lead actor Greg Stuhr of the American Side join me to talk about Nikola Tesla, his impact on Buffalo and the process of creating major motion pictures. You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:http://atozhistorypage.com/email: steve@atozhistorypage.comhttp://rss.acast.com/beyondthebigscreenAgora: www.agorapodcastnetwork.comhttps://www.patreon.com/papacyOn Social Media: The New A to Z History Page Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/Beyondthebigscreen/https://twitter.com/BigScreenBeyondLearn More About our Guest:Jenna Ricker and Greg Stuhr http://www.theamericansidemovie.com/https://www.amazon.com/American-Side-Matthew-Broderick/dp/B01G1S1760https://www.netflix.com/title/80105965Agora Podcaster of the Month:Chris Stewart - History of China Podcast https://thehistoryofchina.wordpress.com/ Music Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today's guest is a producer and director of notable films including Ben's Plan (2007) and now most recently The American Side (2014). Jenna Ricker studied acting at the prestigious NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and has received recognition in the industry ever since including the Mira Nair Award for Rising Female Filmmaker.  Her latest film is The American Side : She co-wrote and directed the movie which was hailed by the Hollywood Reporter as "an adrenaline-charged pop-noir mystery." The film will hit theaters next Spring and to expand its release she and her team have launched a Kickstarter campaign. Some takeaways from our interview... Jenna talks about being a woman – behind the camera, Jenna’s take on all the discussion in Hollywood and beyond about giving females a greater voice in cinema. And financing a film in 2015…how she convinced backers to give her over a million dollars for The American Side. For more information visit www.somoneypodcast.com.