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How can you have the best communication with your AD? We dive deep into the AD - Director - Crew relationship in this episode of The Working Director with film & TV director American Young. (Episode 61) Hosted by Director/Producer Jenn Page. If you want to be notified when the next accelerator goes live and other fun events fill out the form on our website at TheWorkingDirector.Pro. You can also go there to join our private FB group for directors so you can attend these live conversations and get your questions answered; as well as, to learn about The Working Director course that helps emerging filmmakers become working directors faster. ABOUT AMERICA YOUNG America Young was awarded the 2020 Humanitarian award by UCSD for her work promoting women in the film industry. America Young is currently working in Film, TV, Animation and Video Games, as a Director, stunt coordinator and stunt woman. To date, she has directed for Network TV, two features, a season of an animated show, a video game and four digital series. She has stunt coordinated on projects for Warner Bros, Netflix, Lifetime and Cannal Plus. And worked on 65 video games. Having stunt coordinated for years, America transitioned to directing seven years ago. While having a solid foundation in action, she is also known for her ability to bring out the best performances in actors, both drama and comedy, while translating subtle and rich story points visually on screen. The projects she has helmed have a wide range from a drag queen comedy to sci-fi action to fantasy action to coming of age drama to exploring domestic violence in a superhero universe. Her first feature, “The Concessionaires Must Die!!” executive produced by Stan Lee, (www.cmdthemovie.com) is now available on Itunes, Amazon and other VOD platforms. Her most recent digital series, “Whatta Lark”, that pairs a quiet, introverted woman with the fiercest and loveliest of Drag Queens can be watched on Amazon. “Protectress”, a Xena-inspired fantasy, winner of several awards including Best Action, Best Director and Best Fantasy on the festival circuit, is being developed into a feature. She has several features she is attached to in deveoplment. She also directed the cinematics for Resident Evil: Shadows of Rose which was name #8 video game of the year by Time Magazine. America was pivotal in the rebranding of Barbie with the Barbie Vlog in 2015 and directed the critically acclaimed season of the Barbie motion capture animated series for Mattel which was featured on VICE, Vogue, Glamour and Newsweek among other publications. It has been viewed on youtube over 150 million times and went from 500k subscribers to nearly 11.6 million in the time she has been working on the Brand. Her second feature, “Back to Lyla” which is Alice in Wonderland meets Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind inspired, was acquired by 1091 and released June 2022. Upon completion of the Warner Bros directing program, she successfully entered the TV world, directing an episode of Blindspot (aired May, 2020) and Legacies (aired 1/23/20) with glowing feedback from both teams. She has now directed 17 episodes of TV since for Netflix, Amazon, Blumhouse, Warner Bros, CBS, BET+ and at the end of 2021 she directed the pilot of Surfside Girls for Apple TV which got a full season order and released in 2022. She is a proud founder of The Chimaera Project, a nonprofit that gives opportunities to women in the film & media arts (www.chimaeraproject.org). When America's not kicking the crap out of Super-Heroes that support the Superhuman Registration Act, jumping off buildings, teaching actors how to fight or setting herself on fire, she enjoys telling stories, sipping herbal tea and sharpening her pair of Sai. https://americayoung.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theworkingdirector/message
THE BEST BOOK CLUB IN THE MULTIVERSE! This is the big one. This week, the Book Club Bois have a GIANT-SIZED discussion on the Marvel Comics event that changed Comic Book Events forever: MARVEL'S CIVIL WAR. Change has come to America. After a tragedy in Stamford, Connecticut, the Superhuman Registration Act becomes law – dividing the superhero community down the middle. With Captain America and his Secret Avengers opposing the new law of the land, it's up to Iron Man and his government-backed team to take down his old friend… by any means necessary. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, one question will be asked… Whose side are YOU on? Covers Marvel's Civil War (2006) #1-7 and New Avengers (2005) #21-25 by Mark Millar, Steve McNiven, Brian Michael Bendis, Howard Chaykin, Leinil Francis Yu, Olivier Coipel, Pasqual Ferry and Jim Cheung Time Stamps: 03:47:24 Mailbag Send us your questions for the Book Club Mailbag! Email: geeksplained@gmail.com Follow us! Twitter: twitter.com/geeksplainedpod?lang=en Instagram: www.instagram.com/geeksplainedpod/?hl=en Music Sampled: "Alive" by Warbly Jets “Fight as One” by Bad City
We did it! 100 Episodes! And we're celebrating by smashing headfirst into the greatest fight to nearly tear the Fantastic Four apart - CIVIL WAR! Iron Man and Captain America are punching each other in the streets as Reed Richards and Sue Richards fall on opposite sides of the Superhuman Registration Act. With murderous Thor clones and Negative Zone prisons between them, how can this happily married couple ever hope to remain together? And, frankly, should they? Our third episode exploring Reed and Sue as a couple hits DEFCON-4. To help us sort through the catastrophe, we turn to Gretchen Rubin and her self-help book, The Four Tendencies. Who's an Upholder? Who's an Obliger? Can they keep it together when their values fly in the face of each other? We get into it. As an added 100 Episode Bonus, this week, we're also including a segment from our radical conversation with writers Josh Stafford and Howard Wong discussing their new kinda-sorta zombie series, Damned, Cursed Children. We frickin love this comic and we want all of you to love it too. Please seek it out via Source Point Press. And before you hit play on this momentous episode, be sure to send some extra special love to Josh Cornillon, the brilliant artist who crafted our 100th Episode's show poster. Visit their website HERE. Follow them on Twitter HERE. Follow them on Instagram HERE. The issue covered in this episode: Fantastic Four 538 - 543, written by J. Michael Straczynski and Dwayne McDuffie, penciled by Mike McKone, inked by Andy Lanning, Kris Justice, and Cam Smith, colored by Paul Mounts, lettered by Rus Wooten, and featuring covers by Adi Granov of Iron Man: Extremis fame. Be sure to follow the podcast on Instagram and Twitter @CBCCPodcast, and you can follow hosts Brad Gullickson @MouthDork & Lisa Gullickson @sidewalksiren. SUPPORT THE PODCAST BY JOINING OUR PATREON COMMUNITY. Podcast logo by Aaron Prescott @acoolhandfluke, podcast banner art by @Karen_XmenFan.
This week, we talk about the drastically-different-from-the-movie comic story arc of Captain America: Civil War, and the cost of forced government registration.Would a Mutant Registration Act really be enforcable? Are there real-life precedents?We cover all that and more in this latest episode from Guardians of Legality!For more, hit us up at guardiansoflegality.comReferences:Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)United States v. Carolene Products Company, 304 U.S. 144 (1938) X-Men (issue #183)Days of Future PastUncanny X-MenClaremont X-Men
This week, we talk about the drastically-different-from-the-movie comic story arc of Captain America: Civil War, and the cost of forced government registration.Would a Mutant Registration Act really be enforcable? Are there real-life precedents?We cover all that and more in this latest episode from Guardians of Legality!For more, hit us up at guardiansoflegality.comReferences:Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)United States v. Carolene Products Company, 304 U.S. 144 (1938) X-Men (issue #183)Days of Future PastUncanny X-MenClaremont X-Men
In this week's ball-snikting episode, Magnus concludes the Brother Fights Brother miniseries, a three-part miniseries all about Marvel's Civil War. Do you wonder why Magnus chose right now to look back at Civil War rather than six months ago or six months from now? Gee... This week's adventure finds Magnus saluting Civil War- X-Men, which shows the team reacting to the Superhuman Registration Act being signed into law. Also, there's the Wolverine 'Vendetta' storyline, which unmasks the true villain responsible for the destruction in Stamford. As Magnus is a complete neophyte when it comes to the X-Men, the mutant perspective on all these matters is completely new and absolutely fascinating! For those determined to ruin the Internet for everyone else by perpetuating click-bait on Facebook, "You won't believe which tragedy Magnus compares the Stamford explosion to!" Due to the avalanche of ass-kickery, unfortunately there was just no time for listener feedback this week. Something will need to be done about the backlog of feedback. But don't worry, loyal subjects, your leader has a few ideas. But in the meantime, don't let the lack of feedback this time get you down! You can still offer your feeble effort at tribute! You humble serfs are always welcome to kiss your benevolent leader's ring. Corrupt DiManzocorp interns are ready, willing, able and eager to accept your bribe to present your meager missives to your wise emperor. The email address to use is trentusmagnus@gmail.com as the other seems to be having technical problems. In an another sublime act of truly unprecedented charity, your emperor permits you lowly rabble to suggest topics for a future episode. Thus, petitions may be sent to trentusmagnus@gmail.com for DiManzocorp interns to review, whereupon your leader might consider thinking about the possibility of potentially discussing whatever you have in mind some day. And that's a promise!
In this week's ball-snikting episode, Magnus concludes the Brother Fights Brother miniseries, a three-part miniseries all about Marvel's Civil War. Do you wonder why Magnus chose right now to look back at Civil War rather than six months ago or six months from now? Gee... This week's adventure finds Magnus saluting Civil War- X-Men, which shows the team reacting to the Superhuman Registration Act being signed into law. Also, there's the Wolverine 'Vendetta' storyline, which unmasks the true villain responsible for the destruction in Stamford. As Magnus is a complete neophyte when it comes to the X-Men, the mutant perspective on all these matters is completely new and absolutely fascinating! For those determined to ruin the Internet for everyone else by perpetuating click-bait on Facebook, "You won't believe which tragedy Magnus compares the Stamford explosion to!" Due to the avalanche of ass-kickery, unfortunately there was just no time for listener feedback this week. Something will need to be done about the backlog of feedback. But don't worry, loyal subjects, your leader has a few ideas. But in the meantime, don't let the lack of feedback this time get you down! You can still offer your feeble effort at tribute! You humble serfs are always welcome to kiss your benevolent leader's ring. Corrupt DiManzocorp interns are ready, willing, able and eager to accept your bribe to present your meager missives to your wise emperor. The email address to use is trentusmagnus@gmail.com as the other seems to be having technical problems. In an another sublime act of truly unprecedented charity, your emperor permits you lowly rabble to suggest topics for a future episode. Thus, petitions may be sent to trentusmagnus@gmail.com for DiManzocorp interns to review, whereupon your leader might consider thinking about the possibility of potentially discussing whatever you have in mind some day. And that's a promise!
In which our heroes make a list, check it twice, then put everyone in the negative zone if they keep superhero-ing while asking how would you deal with the Superhuman Registration Act? It's a controversial time as we decide to just punish Bruce Banner, make vigilanteism double illegal and just can't stop Captain America from Nomad-ing. Zammit is still pro-registration, Jackson is still pro-mutant extermination and Duscher is still anti-establishment. After all our changes, whose side are you on? It doesn't matter, cos they're both still bad and by the way we're all Skrulls now too. Or Hydra. Or Hyrda-Skrulls. Good. Want to help fund an even better superhero task force than last week? Head to http://www.patreon.com/sanspantsradio and for as little as $1 a month, we'll try and ensure everyone maintains their civil liberties, but harder this time. Hankering for some sweet geeky loot every month? Do us a favour and go to http://www.geekfuel.com/sanspants and sign up to receive your (possible) Val Kilmer today! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
THE ROAD TO CIVIL WAR BEGINS! Steve is gone so Kevin got to mess around with the editing this week. We cover Amazing Spider-Man 529-531 as the Marvel Universe sets the stage for CIVIL WAR! Spidey gets himself a new suit, and goes to Washington to argue with politician! We also address lots of naked Mary Jane, whether or not Kevin is Captain America (spoiler alert, he's not), and discuss the Superhuman Registration Act, which is the inciting incident for the defining event of Marvel in the 2000s: CIVIL WAR! We also cover New Avengers: Illuminati, in which some of the most powerful heroes discuss the fate of the Marvel Universe! Don't miss this one!
STUNT WOMAN | ACTRESS | PRODUCER | WRITER - This week our guest's are APRIL WADE and AMERICA YOUNG. April Wade and America Young both star on the hit Internet sensation, "Damsels and Dragons." This is a fun look at LARPing which means "Live Action Role Play." Check out April Wades's movie, "Junction" which is now available on DVD at Amazon and Netflix and on the TVN website. Early in 2010, April will be shooting an untitled heist dramedy pilot from creator Chris Osbrink. In March 2010, she will be in production "B4" a sci-fi, horror, psychological drama feature film from the director of "Thing in the Corner" by Matt Steadman. AMERICA YOUNG - America has really been stinking her teeth into the webseries world having worked on not only her show "Groupidity" but also the animated "Orlando’s Joint," "The Romantic Foibles of Esteban," "Nurse's Who Kill," "General Elevator" (directed by Jerry Zucker) and Felicia Day and Kim Evey’s "The Guild." She has done mocap in the video games Conan 2009 (A'kana the warrior queen), Marvel Ultimate Aliiance 2, Uncharted 2, Quantum of Solace (Vesper and M) and Guitar Hero III to name a few. Some of the characters she has voiced has voiced are Wendy Darling in "TinkerBell" and Betty Cooper in "Archies Weird Mysteries." When she's not seducing the Barbarian King, kicking the crap out of Super-Heroes that support the Superhuman Registration Act, talking to fairies or head banging to Nirvana, she enjoys sipping herbal tea and sharpening her pair of Sai.