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In The Violent Kind a motorcycle gang and there girlfriends throw a party in the woods when a retro rockabillies terrorize them . In Extremity a woman who loves horror and has been sexually abused by her father visits an extreme haunt to try to face her fears and lastly To Jennifer , a found footage film about a man who accused his girlfriend of two years and so he gets his cousin to help him shoot a video to confront her about her infidelity. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Is connecting with employees a branch of public relations? How do you drive employee engagement? What are some tips for smaller companies during the employee onboarding process? In this episode, labor and employee expert Jennifer Orechwa discusses how positive employee relations are an essential aspect of your company’s public relations strategy. In this episode of the Social PR Secrets, host Lisa Buyer chats with Projections' COO, Jennifer Orechwa about driving employee engagement with internal communications. Improving positive employee relations is one of the main goals for any company. In the new “normal” of working from home, it is more challenging than ever for employers and employees to connect on a deeper level. Listen to the latest podcast to discover tips on employee communication and team productivity. Tips for Smaller Businesses: Employee Communication According to Jennifer, the key is to communicate authentically and transparently with employees on a regular basis. Employee communication can take various forms, such as video chats, social media channels, podcasts, or a website question forum. Building social media channels for just employees can spur engagement rates. The easiest way to achieve this is by creating a private employee Facebook group. Jennifer further explains how productivity and clear communication stems from great leadership within the company. Jennifer says, “It is important to maintain a steady flow of communication while addressing the needs of employees.” It is evident that two-way Communication and actively listening can help small businesses make their employees feel valued. Ways Human Resources can Boost Public Relations Public relations and human resources can team up to win the best and brightest minds for your company as well as create a brand culture of positivity among employee and employer relations. To Jennifer, human resources can boost public relations by creating employee advocates inside your company. It is not a secret that engaged employees are more dedicated and willing to go the extra mile. Jennifer says, “Knowing who your employee advocates are can help build brand loyalty.” In addition, the engagement of current employees can impact recruitment efforts. Human resources focus on the long-term goal, which is retaining employees for the growth and health of the company. By definition, your most engaged employees are your best public relations strategy! Those committed employees are more willing to leave positive reviews and become your brand advocate. Trends with Employee Communications Jennifer explains the main trend with employee communication focuses on e-learning modules, leadership training, and addressing topics such as diversity and inclusion. There is a greater push to listen and take care of employees. Employers need to connect with their team in creative ways, such as boot camps, memorable videos, or even a healthy internal competition among staff. ProjectHR Podcast Jennifer hosts the

YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE IT TO SEE IT   Jennifer Glass is a business coach on a mission.  To Jennifer, success in business usually begin with a shift in mindset. She coaches her clients to first imagine and then feel their business success, and to hold that vision and emotion in their subconscious. “Believe you have already achieved it,” she says, “and you’re halfway there.”   When first working with a client, Jennifer takes them through a visioning exercise. “See yourself at age 65; at 75; at 85,” she begins. “What have you accomplished?”  And not just in business. “Tell me who you are,” she explains. “You want to create new pathways in your brain, and your brain will start to move you in that direction.”   THE IMPORTANCE OF EXPOSURE AND COMMITMENT   Although work on your inner mind game is vital, you must continue to do the basic blocking and tackling to make your business succeed, Jennifer advises. Let’s take networking and committed involvement.  Jennifer explains why those activities are so important. She is a long-time member of her local Chamber of Commerce, and its Vice President for the last eight years.  In this episode she explains the benefits of being actively engaged with an organization or organizations such as the Chamber, and the benefits of showing up on a regular basis.    Would you like some actual guidance on how to maximize the benefits of your networking and make worthwhile connections? Then you’ll want to listen to Jennifer’s step-by-step process for getting the most out of your time and effort.   WHAT WORKED THEN, MIGHT NOT WORK NOW   Jennifer believes that if you are not moving, you are not growing. “My clients want to grow their revenue,” she says.  “But frequently they get stuck in their old ways of doing business.” In this episode she shares how she helps her clients to think outside the box, and why this is so important.   Need a new strategy to find more prospects?  Jennifer shares one that has worked for many of her clients.  It’s so simple, but so few do it.   SO, YOU WANT TO START A BUSINESS   Whether you are a Millennial or reinventing yourself mid-career, Jennifer’s advice is the same: “You have to love what you do,” she says. “Don’t just take an opportunity because it fell in your lap.” Let’s say you are offered a position in sales where sincerity is so important.  “If you don’t love it and believe in what you are offering,” Jennifer advises, “it will come through, and you won’t be able to build trust with your prospects and clients.”  “You won’t succeed.”    What else should you consider?  “Consider your buyer,” Jennifer explains.  “Is there a real market for what you are offering?” This is where some thoughtful research and pre-planning can save a lot of time and angst.   ABOUT JENNIFER   Jennifer Glass is the founder and president of Business Growth Strategies International, or BGSI. She is passionate about helping small businesses grow and thrive.  She frequently speaks on business-growth related topics, including, “3 Secrets to Getting More Customers,” “The 9-Point Sales Process to Getting More Revenue,” and her keynote address, “Does Success Equate to Happiness.”    JENNIFER’S OFFER TO YOU   If you would like to chat with Jennifer about your business and how she might be able to help you, find her at www.bgsicoaching.com.     If you would like 30 days of free access to Jennifer’s BGSI Academy, and all the business tools and templates available there, go to www.bgsiacademy.com to sign up. Just enter the code: FELICIA for your free 30-day trial.  Be sure to move quickly; Jennifer’s offer expires March 31, 2020.

On today’s episode of ​Beautiful Game by WeaselsFC,​ Tony Nicalo speaks with Jennifer Klein, Head Coach of the University of Michigan women’s soccer program. They discuss the challenges and tactics to develop players while winning at a collegiate level. Jennifer's coaching ambitions began when she was team captain at Arizona University. From there, she became the assistant coach of U​niversity of Nevada​, L​as Vegas​, and then graduated to head coach. Jennifer recognized her need to learn and grow at a Power Five institution. She went back to being an assistant coach, and she won her first national championship. She credits her resilience and growth to the people around her. Jennifer believes in a slow and patient process. Jennifer and Tony discuss how training sessions help players learn from failure. Letting your players learn and adapt is important to their development. Jennifer understands decision making is one of the hardest tactics to teach, especially since coaches are trying to make it second nature. This year, the University of Michigan’s Motto, “Make it Michigan”​ ​, was an inspiration to her coaching. She shares two winning experiences on the field, where she saw this motto in action. However, Jennifer also trains her players to look at losses as an opportunity for growth. Jennifers believes in changing the culture of athletics and using Michigan traditions to do so. No matter the amount of time on the field, she wants her players to be impactful with the minutes they are given. She empowered players to believe in their value and embrace their role. She discusses the recruitment of soccer players and how to find the right fit for the team. She looks for competitive problem solvers, as well as players with great character. She also seeks development and growth potential while recruiting. While coaching, Jennifer builds her players into athletes, as well as strong adults. She grows and leads students in their desired career paths, whether that is to become a professional soccer player or not. To Jennifer, acquiring skill sets on the field are just as valuable off the field. Subscribe, rate and review the podcast!   

From being a 12-year-old fatherless child, To owning ‘’Here’s how’’, the glamorous bar in downtown Oakland. Jen shares the story of her life with us. She tells about her highs and lows and everything in between. Her childhood, her baby steps towards craftsmanship, and her extraordinary success story, everything feels like a movie script when written down.   After the death of her father, Jen rebelled against education. She stopped studying, despite her advanced placement, which consequently led to poor grades.   It was her history teacher who recognized her faltering potential.   One day, Jen’s history teacher took her to lunch. As Jen sat with her books and copies, ready to get a typical ‘’ motivation session’’ from her teacher, she was shocked when nothing of that sort happened. Her teacher treated 14-year-old Jen like an adult. She asked Jen about her life, how’s everything going and had a very cathartic conversation with Jen. They didn’t talk about homework, she didn’t bring up anything related to class or Jen’s poor grades. She basically showed up for Jen in a way that no other adult was. All she got previously were lectures from her teachers about how important it is to study and do well in life. But they could never really convince her. It was a pivotal moment that changed Jen's relationship with education and history forever and the trajectory of her life.   Jen still doesn’t like history but what it did to her was, it made ‘’cocktail history’’ relevant to her.   She finds it weird how she remembers so much cocktail history.   Creativity was ALWAYS ingrained in her. She looked for challenges from a very young age. When it was very normal for kids of her age to buy candies, she used to MAKE them herself. Not because of any other reason, but for the sheer pleasure of being able to make something. She used to make a lot of candies when she was young.   Imagine a small kid, 12 years old, going to the drugstore to buy glycerine for making salt water taffy. Making cocktails, developing bars conceptually, making furniture, making candy, making syrup, all of it fills the same CREATIVE NEED. Making anything creative keeps her happy. It doesn’t matter what it is, as long as it’s creative and has a purpose, it feeds her needs.   Coming back to her knowledge of cocktail history, she explains how Lachlan Rose, a man in the mid-nineteenth century used sulfur to create a non-alcoholic citrus juice to protect the British Royal Navy from scurvy while also providing refreshments. This is why modern-day lime has a kind of funkiness to it.   Lachlan Rose’s creation gave birth to preserved lime. Bottled lime juice isn't supposed to ‘’taste fresh’’. This is exactly why when you go to a bar and ask for a gimlet, what you're going to get is a gin akori. It's gin fresh lime juice and simple syrup. An absolutely delicious drink.   But that's not a gimlet, says Jen. Gimlet is made with a kind of cooked lime flavor and from the oils of the lime peels. The drink is royal. Jen’s team uses Navy strength gin. They use limes, lime zest, lime juice,  and lime sugar. They combine it in a couple of different ways and then they filter it. It takes a couple of days to get the combination to separate.   It’s a slow, tedious process.   They don’t use any advanced equipment. Jen’s team just runs it through coffee filters, takes the time that’s needed and then puts them in bottles.   And when you order a gimlet from Here’s how, they stir the bottled drink down to 25 degrees. Specifically because that drink doesn't have any added water due to the way they batch it out so it needs extra dilution. It's strong, it's sweet, and it's rich in the bottle.   As you can guess by now, Jennifer is not secretive about her recipes and cooking processes.   In fact, Jen offers to write down her recipes for you, if you want them from her!   ‘’Why?’’ You may ask. A good chef never gives away his secret recipes, a magician never reveals his secrets, then why does Jen give her recipes away so altruistically?   The answer is simple. To Jennifer, the magic of bartending is not in the recipes, not in the cocktails only. Jen believes that the magic of bartending is in the hospitality, the service that she and her team provides. Helping people have a good time, giving away recipes to people so that the customers always get something extra from her bar, that’s what she finds happiness in.   The respect that Jen has for the bartending industry goes beyond just good drinks.   Jen believes wholeheartedly that making good drinks isn’t that hard. She can sit and come up with interesting things to put together. She can step behind the bar and make a couple of versions of the drink, tweak the proportions and VOILA! It’s that easy for her. She doesn’t find it THAT interesting. The gimlet that you can get from Here’s how, is only made of three ingredients and it’s one of the best drinks that Jen has ever produced.   Jen has always been this creative. When she first started ‘’small-hand foods’’, she also taught woodwork at the crucible. In her words, you can’t buy lumber for how much it would cost you to buy a Finnish table at Ikea.  It always costs more to make a piece of furniture for yourself. But it gives Jennifer peace.    Jennifer tends to make big things. This one time, she got annoyed by her pillows falling off from her bed. So, she built a headboard! She was also a cabinet maker for a good period of time.    Jen is very detail oriented. She keeps emphasising on the fact that bartending is not only about remembering cocktail recipes. You need to draw a mental map. You need to know what needs to be done next.   How is she different from other bar owners? She takes in green people and nurtures them to become amazing at what they do. She never lets any of her workers do something that she’d never do.   She started off pretty slowly. When she first started making orgeat, she’d get whiskey bottles in return!   She gathered vast knowledge about this industry by reading books and researching online. Jen can also be termed as a bibliophile. The number of bookshelves in her house keeps  increasing very frequently.   She’s a learner. She knows all about the chemistry that works behind the scenes of syrup and cocktail making. Jen has a decent amount of knowledge which helps her know what ingredients to use, what the proportions should be, how to mix them and whatnot!   Jen did not have to wait for long to find her passion. Once she gathered enough knowledge, researched enough about cocktails, and combined these with her memory of all the historical cocktail tales, she knew that it was the right industry for her to step in.   It happened two years after she started small-hand foods. She just made a decision and hung on to it.   You’re never going to know if your decision is the right decision.   Jennifer knew she had a passion for making things. She wasn’t sure if it was the right thing to do. But she did it anyway. Only because it gave her happiness.  She went to CCA (California College of the Arts). As she was going through the furniture program there, she realized how important it was to keep her audience’s preferences in mind. She learned the idea of ‘’concept’’. She took away something very important from her course there. If an artist or a sculptor decides to make a piece of art or furniture or painting, he needs to think about what his audience will feel when they interact with his piece.   If your audience doesn’t feel the way you want them to feel, then you have failed at your job as an artist.   This is how commerce comes into play with art. There’s a lot of people who hate this idea. People say that their art is all about themselves and they don’t need their work to be loved by others. But that’s just pure B.S. Jen says that if you want someone to pay you for your work, then you have to take that ‘’someone’’ into consideration. He needs to be fed what he wants. That does not make your work artless, neither does it make the art corrupt. It just means that you, as an artist, are having a relationship with the person who is giving you money for your art.   People who make art just for themselves are just jerking off. The best art considers its audience.   This is how Jennifer approaches her business, her bar. She doesn’t think about how she wants to make a drink or how she wants her place to look. The primary concern in her head is always about her audience. How are the guests going to interact with her bar or her drinks? How are they going to interact with Jen if she’s hand curving ice? These are the things that go through Jen’s mind whenever she thinks of approaching something.   When you step into ‘’Here’s how’’, you can literally see everything that’s happening behind the scenes, starting from cutting the ice, to making the drink. Jen wants you to witness all the magic that’s happening.   She wants her audience to feel like a part of her family.   She doesn’t like the approach that most of the bars have nowadays towards their guests. Bartenders tend to think of their drinks as the main attraction. But, in reality, that’s not the thing.   People go to bars for the experience.   But that doesn’t mean that you can’t make good drinks.   This is another thing she learned from CCA. California College of the Arts was formerly known as California College of Arts and Crafts. They changed the name to CCA while she was already studying there. When the college dropped the word ‘’Crafts’’ from their name, it gave rise to a lot of debate. Mainly because, it had been there for so long and the people in and around the Oakland campus were so good at crafts. The Oakland campus mainly featured all the crafty things like sculpture, textile, and printmaking. The problem with the word craft was that by that point it couldn’t get away from its connotations. It was like this very solitary thing that had to do with the maker and not about the receiver, not about the audience.   The ‘’craft’’ was already implied. People were being taught about long grain to long grain gluing surface. But the connotations to ‘’craft’’ wasn’t necessary.   The same thing applies in the bartending industry. In the case of bars, you’re obviously going to make good drinks, that’s implied. There’s plenty of knowledge out there on how to make good drinks. You need to step up and do something that makes your guests feel good about coming to your bar. This is what Jennifer took away from this incident.   You need to know that people have different taste pallets and different needs. You need to train yourself enough to make sure that your drinks are balanced, says Jen.   Jen always makes sure that she knows who on her staff is a supertaster, a normaltaster or an undertaster. She is nowhere near being judgemental. Jen does this just to create a sense of understanding within her team.   Jennifer is a supertaster herself. 10 different versions of martinis with different proportions of gins and vermouths sounds fascinating to her. But, that’s not a cocktail for everyone. And it’s very normal. Just because she likes it herself, doesn’t mean others will love it too.   Different people, different opinions (and taste pallets!)   For Jennifer, that’s the difference between her being a solitary artist and a conceptual artist. Jennifer is a conceptual artist. She takes her audience into account.   This is what she enjoys. To her, this is the magic of the bartending industry. Interacting with guests, keeping them happy, the comradery amongst co-workers- this what the bartending industry is supposed to be.   As a bartender, the rule of thumb is to make good drinks. Of course you’re supposed to make good drinks! That’s like the first brick of the platform. You’re not even supposed to open up a bar without crafting good drinks. Yet, many bars think this is what the whole game is about.   They couldn’t be more wrong. This industry is about crafting people’s experiences. Making good drinks is just the first step. Once you have your drinks ready, you need to be entertaining. You need to give your audience a purpose, an incentive to keep coming to your bar over and over again.   Personality and Persona can overcome a lot of things. Jen wishes that more people paid more attention to the experience of the guests, and not their experience as bartenders.   What brings people back is good service mixed along with good food.   Jennifer brings in green people to work for her. She teaches what it really means to be a great bartender. Her way of teaching is very simple and easy going. She says that she always used flashcards to remember drink recipes, but she also understands that flashcards don’t always work for everyone. She figures out a way to make her staff function properly within their own comfort zone.   What’s important for Jennifer is that her workers know how to make the drinks, And that they are really nice while making them. Other than that, she is ALSO in a book club with some of her staff.   Jen owns a syrup company. Consequently, she has been tapped to make non-alcoholic drinks for a lot of events. She has written a lot of mocktail chapters and articles for different books and publications.  Fun fact- Jennifer doesn’t drink much.    Not that she doesn’t drink at all. It’s just not a daily activity of hers. When she drinks, she either goes for tequila or wine.    Jennifer believes that one does not have to drink to have an enjoyable experience in a bar.  Jennifer talks at and goes to a lot of seminars. She has to deal with different audience every now and then.  When she goes to seminars that are for the bartending industry, she has to go with one approach. On the other hand, when she goes to seminars that are for home enthusiasts, she has to keep a different approach.    In seminars, she talks about real deep profitability spreadsheets, conceptual development, empirical dilution, ecology. She always meets people who ask for a conversation with her.  Naturally, it’s mostly women who want to know more from Jen and she’s also more inclined towards women. She wants to help people in every way she can.   Although it was never the intention, Jen ends up being many green people’s mentor. She feels like anyone can do what she’s doing. But she knows that women look at her as being a very successful and ideal woman in a male dominated field. She has made things easier for up and coming young women in this industry.  What Jennifer finds hard to accept is the bartending industry being insular. For four years, Jennifer was the only female night bartender.    People say that they’re just hiring the best applicant, doesn’t matter if it’s male or female. Jennifer disagrees with this and she feels like these people are having a very narrow definition of what best means. And there's a lot of things that are awesome about people who aren't like these sexist and racist bunch that affect their customer base in ways that they don't even know.   One of Jennifer’s friends who runs a bar did not realize how white her customer base was until she hired a black bar manager. She immediately noticed diverse her customer base turned into. How good it felt to have people of all castes and creeds in her bar.  All in all, Jennifer is an amazing employer, an altruistic bartender, and an innovative soul. She loves challenges. She loves helping her staff and being friendly with them. But most importantly, She loves and enjoys doing what she does.       If you’re in the Oakland area across the Fox Theater, you MUST stop by and pay a visit to ‘’Here’s how’’ and watch the magic happen right in front of your eyes. She has a totally open backspace where you can see them using centrifuges, cutting ice, and making these amazing drinks for you! If you’re interested in the bartending industry or if you’re wondering how Jennifer is living the life that almost EVERYONE wants to live, then -   HIT PLAY!     And hear all about her crazy journey!

Wicked Horror Show Presents Karate Kill Interview with Katarina Leigh Waters, Kirk Geiger, director Kurando MitsutakePOWERED BY THE DORKENING PODCAST NETWORKWatch us LIVE EVERY Sunday | Tuesday | Thursday Streaming LIVE on Facebook - Youtube - Periscope - Twitch Dorkening Apparel NOW AVAILABLE on Amazon! We talk LIVE with the crew behind the Horror movie Circus Kane! We talk with Tim Abell, Christopher Ray and James Cullen BressackFollow our guests https://twitter.com/TABELL1648 https://www.facebook.com/tim.abell1 https://www.instagram.com/timabell/ https://twitter.com/JamesCullenB https://www.facebook.com/chris.o.ray https://www.facebook.com/jamescullen.bressack.9https://www.facebook.com/CircusKane/ https://twitter.com/CircusKaneMovie https://twitter.com/deinstitutionalChristopher Ray was born on July 30, 1977 in Florida, Missouri, USA. He is a producer and assistant director, known for Mercenaries (2014), A House Is Not a Home (2015) and 2-Headed Shark Attack (2012).Tim Abell Tim Abell is an actor, host and producer, living in Los Angeles, Ca. An avid outdoorsman who host's Dorsey Pictures' outstanding television series,"Grateful Nation", honoring our returning wounded veterans on the Outdoor Channel. He starred as former US Marine Benny Ray Riddle, in producer Jerry Bruckheimers' TV series "Soldier of Fortune inc., and many other film and TV projects such as,"We Were Soldiers....", "NCIS", "CSI:NY", "CSI:Miami","Sons of Anarchy"......He was the 2012 Chairman of the Board, of, " GallantFew.org", and continues to serve on the board. He also serves on the celebrity board of American Soldiers Network in Los Angeles. Tim, is proud to have served as a US Army Ranger w/ 2/75 Ranger Bn. and the 3rd US Inf., (The Old Guard) Caisson Plt. He was honored to be inducted in 2014 as a Distinguished Member of the 3rd US Infantry Regiment. (DMOR)Tim is a Lifetime member of the U.S. Army Ranger Association. Sua Sponte!James Cullen Bressack Bursting upon the indie horror scene at the age of eighteen with his first feature My Pure Joy, James Cullen Bressack has been called "horror's new hope" (StudioCity Patch - Mike Szymanski) and "a talent to watch out for." (H.S.T.- Ben John Smith) as well as garnering rave reviews on almost every horror web site. Released by Media Blasters on their Fresh Meat Shriek Show label in 2012, the film quickly rose to the top of the best sellers list on Amazon.com in the horror category. His second feature, a real shocker, Hate Crime, was a festival favorite and garnered many awards. Bressack then made history with his next feature, To Jennifer, which was the first feature film shot entirely on an Iphone 5. The prolific filmmaker then made Pernicious, filmed in Thailand and due to be released later this year. His film, 13-13-13 followed and his most recent feature, Blood Lake, which aired on Animal Planet, was a top ratings getter. A winner of multiple Best Picture and Best director awards on the film festival circuit, James has become one of the few indie filmmakers Verified on twitter, where he has 70,000 + loyal fans.The notorious and disgraced circus master, Balthazar Kane, invites an unsuspecting group of social media stars to the revival of his CIRCUS KANE by promising $250,000 to any of them who can make it through the night. Kane’s true plan quickly proves to be far more sinister as the contestants realize more than money is on the line. The group must fight for their lives to escape Kane’s demented house of horrors.Jonathan Lipnicki (Jerry Maguire) and Mark Christopher Lawrence (Cooties) head up the cast of Christopher Douglas-Olen Ray’s fantastic frighthouse Circus Kane, on VOD this September.A reclusive circus master invites a group of social media stars to his house of haunts. Anyone who can make it out before being scared into submission will earn $250,000 - but the stars soon learn they are not only competing for money, but also fighting for their lives.James Cullen Bressack and Zack Ward scripted, based on a story by Sean Sellars. Gerald Webb, Christopher Ray and James Cullen Bressack produce.Studio: Uncork'd Entertainment Director: Christopher Douglas-Olen Ray Cast : Jonathan Lipnicki, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Nicole Fox, Jonathan Nation, Mike Jerome Putnam, Scott Thomas Reynolds, Bill VoorheesCircus Kane premiering on VOD 9/8.Director: Christopher Ray Writers: James Cullen Bressack, Sean Sellars (story by) |1 more credit » Stars: Jonathan Lipnicki, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Tim Abell | Subscribe to The Dorkening on YoutubeFollow The Dorkening Facebook - Twitter - Instagram - Join our mailing list!The Dorkening: Leo Pond @TheDorkening Kevin Crook @Aknuckle Regular co-hosts: Wolfie @The13thWOlfman Tony @TonyHas9Fingers James @LongTimeStorm YoYo @BoyMeetsPhone Vlad @NECCReviews Cee Pee @WILIreviewsFind out more at https://wicked-horror-show.pinecast.coSend us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/wicked-horror-show/a32e6802-48ac-4839-85e7-c823b7de3f10

This week Boss and Michael review a fun film shot entirely on an iPhone 5! it is a film by director James Cullen Bressack called To Jennifer. Michael also brings a news tidbit about a film seeking funding called Down, and talks about his plans for a new Horror only crowdfunding site! This week’s Movie … →

Bursting upon the indie horror scene at the age of eighteen with his first feature My Pure Joy, James Cullen Bressack has been called "horror's new hope" (StudioCity Patch - Mike Szymanski) and "a talent to watch out for." (H.S.T.- Ben John Smith) as well as garnering rave reviews on almost every horror web site. Released by Media Blasters on their Fresh Meat Shriek Show label in 2012, the film quickly rose to the top of the best sellers list on Amazon.com in the horror category. His second feature, a real shocker, Hate Crime, was a festival favorite and garnered many awards.  Bressack then made history with his next feature, To Jennifer, which was the first feature film shot entirely on an Iphone 5. The prolific filmmaker then made Pernicious, filmed in Thailand and due to be released later this year. His film, 13-13-13 followed and his most recent feature, Blood Lake, which aired on Animal Planet, was a top ratings getter. A winner of multiple Best Picture and Best director awards on the film festival circuit, James has become one of the few indie filmmakers Verified on twitter, where he has 70,000 + loyal fans.

You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge as four white boys from the UK discuss N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton on this week's Failed Critics Podcast. Joining crazy mother-flipper Steve Norman and another crazy arsed bad mother-flipper Owen Hughes on our latest episode is Andrew Brooker, a dangerous mother-flipper raising hell, and controlling the automatic is Mike Shawcross. We're not entirely as gangster as you might expect, believe it or not, as we kick off the podcast with a quiz and a short tribute to Wes Craven. We manage to express ourselves in a more dignified manner befitting four dudes sat around in their pants on Skype, late on a Tuesday night, during reviews of video-game adaptation Hitman: Agent 47, Nic Cage thriller Joe and James Cullen Bressack's indie-horror To Jennifer. On top of all that, we have a round-up of the good, the bad and the ugly that came out of this year's Film4 FrightFest. Get your notepad and pen ready as Mike reveals everything you should be... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A native of Birmingham, AL, Jennifer graduated from Samford University in 1996 with a degree in Journalism and Mass Communications. For 13 years, her career progressed as an advertising executive developing campaigns for major global brands such as Citigroup, MasterCard and Chase. This work took her from Atlanta to New York City, where she also spent time working in theater, independent film, commercials and playwriting. Intrigued by the power of story to increase human empathy, and the dynamic effect of popular culture and personal narrative on political persuasion, faith practices and ideological identity, Jennifer left her business career to attend Union Theological Seminary in New York City. At Union, she studied inter-religious dialogue, Christian ethics and feminist theology, and immersed in faith-based social justice initiatives. She graduated in 2011 with a Master of Divinity. Jennifer has since applied her mix of skills and interests in non-profit executive positions at the nation’s largest inter-religious media company, Odyssey Networks, and the inter-faith dialogue and advocacy organization Intersections International. She is also Vice President for Strategic Partnerships at the Int’l Center for Religion and Diplomacy in Washington DC where she serves as liaison to the United Nations. She writes regularly for Patheos and Huffington Post as Femmevangelical: The Modern Girl’s Guide to the Good News, and hosts a monthly radio show segment about women, faith and politics on national Fairness Radio. She speaks charitably of a term Jesus used most commonly translated as the ‘kingdom of god” but she calls it “the realm of God” perhaps because, like so many biblical terms, the old vernacular carries too much baggage. I imagine “kingdom” sounds too much like dominionism, and she also reclaims the word repentance. To Jennifer, it’s simply a changing of the mind, a newly informed world view that is often a complete 180 from previous assumptions. It represents being teachable, staying in the room with difference, and actually listening and learning new perspectives.  Jennifer is a Christian reforming from within. Something I was not able to do. I have a special appreciation for those who are helping the church regain relevance and Jennifer is one of those. She holds on to a lot of scriptures, but especially the radical Jesus. Unfortunately I didn’t get to the more dogmatic questions as to where she stands on some doctrinal issues This conversation was taped on June 27th, the day of after the SCOTUS ruling on marriage equality. Bob was out of town at the time so I invited my friend Chrissy Miller to co-host with me. Credits: "Towering Mountain of Ignorance" intro by Hank Green https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3v3S82TuxU Intro bumper "Never Know" by Jack Johnson All other music written and performed by Cass Midgley