Podcasts about laurens grant

Stanley Nelson appears as a guest on Before You Go during a career milestone:  Oscar nominee. After decades of directing historical documentaries illuminating African American history through compelling interviews and a library of rare footage, Nelson, an award-winning filmmaker, made it to the big stage. Though he, co-director Traci A. Curry and his team with Firelight Media did not take the Oscar this year, he says it was truly "an honor to be nominated" and Before You Go hosts Nicole and Bryant were honored to discuss his Oscar nominated project, Attica.Laurens Grant (American Experience:  Jesse Owens), an award-winning filmmaker herself, has produced a number of Stanley Nelson's films. Grant joins the conversation and describes behind-the-scenes adventures that occur when getting the story.It's an exciting hour--especially since the hosts appeared Live on the mic in the KBLA Talk 1580 studios.Special thanks to KBLA Talk 1580's Miles Low.   

On today’s nerdtastically newsworthy episode of #NerdORama it’s part 2 of our weeklong salute to ‘Space Force’ revisiting our conversation with acclaimed filmmaker Laurens Grant who joined the program to introduce her film “Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier”; which explores the Cold War, the Space Race, the Civil Rights movement and the legacy of the first African American Astronauts…PLUS – Hannibal Tabu has everything you want to know about what’s on comic shop shelves in a brand new edition of ‘The Buy Pile’!!!

In this bonus episode, Bart and Chris interview filmmaker Laurens Grant, first briefly reviewing two of her documentaries, the 2016 Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement and the brand-new Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier, before launching into an in-depth examination of her career. Both a director and a producer, Grant has a lot to say about the art, craft and business of documentary cinema, as well as about the challenges of being a black woman in this industry. She offers wonderful insights that are especially relevant to the world of today, so listen in! In addition, we ask our loyal listeners, old and new, to help us out for the next bonus episode, which will drop at the end of August. Please email us at disinfo@fogoftruth.com to let us know some of your favorite moments – reviews, interviews, Doc Talk, banter and more – from past episodes, and we will put together a compilation of those excerpts for that episode. What a great way to lead us in to our 10th season! Films Mentioned/Song Featured: Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier (Laurens, Grant, 2020) Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement (Laurens, Grant, 2016) “Gray Area,” by Greenspan, feat Josh Lay, Obias, Ashley Alexander (excerpted from Stay Woke) Timestamps: 00:41 – Bart and Chris intro of show’s topic 04:33 – Reviews of Stay Woke and Black in Space 14:40 – Conversation with Laurens Grant 41:52 – Closing Remarks and End credits Website/Email: www.fogoftruth.com disinfo@fogoftruth.com Credits: Artwork by Hilary Campbell Intro music by Jeremiah Moored Transitional music by BELLS (thanks to Christopher Ernst) Editing and shownotes by Christopher Llewellyn Reed

In this special “From the Archive” episode, Film Forum Presents a Q&A with award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson and producer Laurens Grant following a screening of their film THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION from September 2, 2015, moderated by Sabrina Gordon of the Black Documentary Collective. The documentary chronicles the rise and fall of The Black Panthers – a group and movement whose aims and struggles resonate as strongly today as they did 50 years ago. The film was produced by Firelight Media, a non-profit founded by Stanley Nelson to produce non-fiction cinema by and about communities of color. THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION is currently available to stream for free with a new introduction by Nelson through July 4th at https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/the-black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution-full-film/. Photo by Laura Bregman (Nelson at a 2019 Q&A for MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF THE COOL)

She would love to fly to the moon, enjoys traveling and will only eat a hot dog if it has ketchup on it. Emmy winning filmmaker Laurens Grant talks about her latest film .Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier. Time to go Beyond the Mic with Sean Dillon. I've had great interview opportunities over my 25+ year radio history that never made it to air. Some were due to length others were because of topic. I decided to flip the table on the rules. Any topic / guest is welcome, but you need to tell a story & must go 'Beyond the Mic.'

Pod-Crashing Episode 44 Who Is Your AudienceThroughout my forty one years of terrestrial radio, knowing who your radio listener is has always been a huge part of the connection puzzle. I always saw it as a game of Let’s Pretend. We are reaching our targeted audience of let’s say 25 to 45 year old women. Research shows this is who and how you should be directing every talk break. Do all you can not to step away from this person. I still remember how we handled it at my last radio station. They actually created a book and a name for this invisible person. Everything was listed. Her favorite car, book, movie, soft drink and magazine. The only thing they didn’t cover was her sex life. Which I always thought was odd because most morning radio shows were open to the subject.I’ve been doing this podcasting thing for eight years. I’ve never put any thought into who I’m trying to reach. I have disciplined myself to be organic. To be present and have a purpose. I know there’s someone on the other side of the speaker but to physically lay out a targeted audience puts the episodes in a shadowed area of being too niche and not open to every age and generation. I was with Jamie Mustard the other day. He’s a branding genius. His first words were “Your podcast is everywhere. You’ll talk about any subject and anyone with an idea. You don’t focus on just one thing. That’s why I like listening to your episodes. I’m not going to get the same story.” I look at every episode with an open view. On any given day a 16 year old boy or girl in 2020 just discovered Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones. To put an age limit on who I’m directing my talk toward totally shuts out anyone willing to step in for 30 seconds or seven minutes. That’s right. I said willing. I feel blessed that anyone would take the time to show up. I was shocked when a Facebook post passed one of my episodes forward. He said, “Arroe is sage with the lessons he teaches.” Sage? Oh God I pissed someone off. I had to Google it then go back and listen to the Episode from the Podcast called Poetic Elevation The Choice. I don’t put these episodes on a global front. It’s about God, religion, Spirituality and motivation. Not everybody supports any of these platforms. So I allow the strength of the message to make its own waves. The targeted audience is anyone seeking a moment of holy shit he’s talking about me. All of this changed a couple of years ago when a long list of creative people in music, movies books and culinary found reason to take their lives. I was deeply injured. Here is this platform and I’m doing nothing to help the creative hiders on the planet. Those who have the gift to be creative but not the personal umph to push their art onto the streets of everyday. I had to be a different kind of broadcaster. Open my daily writing journals and start speaking the truth about what it’s like to endlessly lay awake at night with ideas and then bringing them to life during the day light only to fall flat on getting support. A creative life isn’t a choice. It’s a monster. I call it an addiction. So I created a podcast that addresses that issue and iHeart Radio leaped all over it.When it comes to the journals I have one rule: have the guts to enter any conversation not as a Christian but rather a Creative.I’ve lost a huge chunk of my religious followers. It was time to develop a different connection and I had to be faith filled not faithful to do it. The Spreaker platform is pretty healthy when it comes to providing analytics. What I hate are the moments I hit demographics and it just doesn’t agree with what I’m trying to accomplish.Men 25 to 44. Where are the women listeners? Forty one years of adult contemporary radio training and the podcast is drawing them in. A good friend. A female told me that it’s because I’m not talking about motherhood, sex, wine and other alcohol and even more sex. And I won’t. I’m not Dr Ruth. But I love how she located a path to connect with both men and women. She doesn’t fear being real. Sometimes I feel that way when reading from the journals. I do have those days though when being authentic is the toughest part of the journey. I stop. Re-read the journal entry and then give it to a higher energy. We all face daily fears, hatred, guilt and yes even greed. My goals of building a following aren’t to fix anyone. Just relate. To be present. Podcasting is still extremely early in its march forward. To say that you’re looking for a particular audience truly cuts your attempt at reaching out to a hit or miss. It reminds me of the conversation I had with Laurens Grant. She’s the creator of the documentary Black in Space. It’s about the first African American astronauts. She could’ve easily said I only want to focus on a certain demographic. She chose to make it wide open for all to learn something then turn it into a teaching tool for tomorrow’s space travelers. Three weeks ago I got hooked in to listening to the podcast Slow Burn. I’m a Marc Maron and Joe Rogan follower. To participate with the history of Watergate. Ronan Farrow got me seriously hooked on documentary style storytelling. Journalism has hit a new high and its paying off. I have a feeling though they weren’t sitting around a large table thinking, “Who is this for? Can we land high numbers in the male 50 to 65 year bracket? He has to have long dark hair, drive a Ford pickup, loves his dog, nature and must be able to learn from so much lost information. So what’s the moral of the story? Stop wasting precious time trying to figure out who your targeted audience is. In a few moments I’m gonna be talking with Daryl Hall from Hall and Oates. He has a story. My goal is to share it with every demographic including the 9 year olds in the back of the car listening to a podcast their parents happened to log into.Here’s why I do what I do. Russ from the early 70’s Rock band The Association said these very words, “I had to write this book. Everything that’s ever been written about me has been wrong!”

Today on a very special edition of the Legendary Nerd-O-Roundtable we welcome acclaimed filmmaker Laurens Grant for an in-depth discussion of her latest film airing on the Smithsonian Channel – “Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier”; which explores the Cold War, the Space Race, the Civil Rights movement and the legacy of the first African American Astronauts!

This Black History Month, a New Documentary Celebrates the Legacy of the World’s First Black Astronauts BLACK IN SPACE: BREAKING THE COLOR BARRIER, Premiering Monday February 24th at 8pm ET/PT only on Smithsonian Channel Ric Speaks with the Emmy-Winning Director of African American Documentaries, Laurens Grant During the Cold War Space Race, the U.S. not only had to defeat the Soviet Union in a competition over rocketry and technological feats. It also needed to overcome its own racial prejudice. In the fall of 1957, the Soviet Union exploited America’s raging civil rights battle, claiming that the supposed land of opportunity couldn’t provide equal rights for its citizens in their own country, let alone in space. Determined to regroup on both fronts, President Kennedy ordered the Pentagon to find a black astronaut. Smithsonian Channel’s BLACK IN SPACE: BREAKING THE COLOR BARRIER reflects on the long journey it took to achieve diversity in the skies and recounts the civil rights movement’s reaction to the Space Race. The special also studies the legacy of the world’s first black astronauts – men that led the way for more diversity and inclusion in future NASA classes and space programs around the world. The film was directed by Emmy-winning filmmaker Laurens Grant, who received worldwide acclaim for her documentaries that explore African American themes (e.g., Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement; The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution; Jesse Owens; Freedom Riders; and Slavery and the Making of America: Seeds of Destruction.) For more info, visit: https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/ http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/blackinspace.mp3

Bill and Jamal celebrate the movie release of "Race" by speaking with the film's star Stephan James and filmmaker Laurens Grant to discuss the life and times of Jesse Owens. James, who played John Lewis in the film Selma, talks about portraying Owens while Grant, whose documentary on Owens won an Emmy, talks about fact vs. fiction in historic portrayals. This and more on another Episode of Bill Rhoden on Sports.

For the first time on public television, Independent Lens presents The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, a dynamic film about the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party that has garnered reviews as divided as the organization itself. Find out why as host Deborah Holt Noel sits down with the film’s award-winning producer Laurens Grant on the campus of Winston-Salem State University.

For the first time on public television, Independent Lens presents The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, a dynamic film about the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party that has garnered reviews as divided as the organization itself. Find out why as host Deborah Holt Noel sits down with the film’s award-winning producer Laurens Grant on the campus of Winston-Salem State University.

      INTERVIEW W/ DIRECTOR, WRITER & PRODUCER LAURENS GRANT Our next conversation / interview is with Emmy-winning documentary of Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens, and producer of the Emmy and Peabody award-winning "Freedom Riders. The acclaimed filmmaker Laurens Grant, whose decades-long career will give us some great advice. Recent Films: Laurens Grant, who produced the upcoming Sundance documentary 'The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.'   Thank You for checking out Hollywood Breakthrough Show! This podcast main purpose is to serve up positive information without shade. 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. Screenwriters, directors, producers and entertainment industry professionals share inside perspective on writing, filmmaking, breaking into Hollywood and navigating SHOW BUSINESS, along with stories of their journey to success! HELP SPREAD THE WORD PLEASE! SCREENWRITERS, DIRECTORS, AUTHORS, we would love to help spread the word about your Film, Book, Crowdfunding, etc., Contact us! (EMAIL: Info@hollywoodbreakthrough.com ) See Videos of all interviews at Hollywood Breakthrough Please subscribe in iTunes and write us a review! Follow us on  Social Media Sites |  Twitter @TheBreakThur|  Facebook: facebook.com/HollywoodBreakthroughPodcast Please, Subscribe! Also, Please contact us for Interviews or Sponsorship of an episode!  Hollywood Breakthrough Show Website (EMAIL: Info@hollywoodbreakthrough.com ) View Apps Sponsor: Hollywood Hero Agent Fenix Hill Pro Scottie The Baby Dino