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In the 2010s, MoviePass became a cultural phenomenon, but behind the viral success was Stacy Spikes, a Black entrepreneur and visionary who co-founded the company. Then, he was pushed out. But today, he’s back in charge. Stacy joins Bridget to talk about the rise and fall of MoviePass, the power of culture and human creativity, what it was like to be sidelined from his creation, and the rare second chance to take back the company he built from the ground up. Stacy Spikes is an award-winning entrepreneur and inventor who USA Today named one of the 21 most influential Black professionals in technology. He is the co-founder and CEO of the viral phenomenon MoviePass, now the subject of the HBO documentary MoviePass, MovieCrash. He is also the founder of Urbanworld, the largest international festival dedicated to nurturing Women and Diverse filmmakers. Stacy's critically acclaimed memoir: Black Founder, The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider On Reddit, read Stacy's forum: Ask Me Anything If you’re listening on Spotify, you can leave a comment there or email us at hello@tangoti.com Follow Bridget and TANGOTI! instagram.com/bridgetmarieindc/ tiktok.com/@bridgetmarieindc youtube.com/@ThereAreNoGirlsOnTheInternet See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is the rhythm of a voice that knows how to tell a story. Anndi Jinelle Liggett didn't set out to become a filmmaker overnight. She started in the fitting rooms of Banana Republic, sharpened her instincts in the fast-paced world of network television, and ended up at Al Roker's side—not as a spectator, but as a quiet observer of how media moves. Born in Reston, Virginia, and now rooted in Brooklyn, Anndi's journey winds through French lectures at Florida State and serendipitous subway rides in New York City. She didn't knock on Hollywood's door. She cracked it open with heart, hustle, and a sharp eye for what makes us human.In this episode of Visual Intonation, we dive into how Anndi's early storytelling, yes, including a Cat-girl with superpowers, evolved into work that's both personal and piercing. She shares how characters, not just plot, drive her creative compass, and why the best stories aren't necessarily the loudest, but the most honest. Her short 'Clementine' flips the rom-com script on its head, while 'Tender Thoughts', backed by Lena Waithe, is already drawing attention from Tribeca to Urbanworld. When Anndi writes, she's writing with—and for—people who have something to say but maybe haven't yet said it out loud.We talk about France. About solitude. About filmmaking and betting on yourself. But more than that, we talk about voice—finding it, using it, and trusting that it matters. Anndi admits that's still a work in progress. But whether she's on set or scrolling Chani Nicholas for horoscope wisdom, she's learning to take up space, ask the question, raise the idea. Not because she knows it all, but because she knows herself.So pull up a chair. Whether you're a creator, a dreamer, or just someone who once tried to relax in New York and ended up on a whole new life path, this one's for you. Anndi Jinelle Liggett reminds us that storytelling isn't about fame—it's about feeling. And when it's done right, it's unforgettable.Anndi Jinelle Liggett's Website: https://www.anndijl.com/Anndi Jinelle Liggett's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seranndipity/Anndi Jinelle Liggett's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anndijliggettSupport the showVisual Intonation Website: https://www.visualintonations.com/Visual Intonation Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/visualintonation/Vante Gregory's Website: vantegregory.comVante Gregory's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/directedbyvante/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): patreon.com/visualintonations Tiktok: www.tiktok.com/@visualintonation Tiktok: www.tiktok.com/@directedbyvante

The Author Events Series presents Andre Robert Lee | A Conversation with the Documentary Filmmaker and Author REGISTER In Conversation with Cherri Gregg André Robert Lee most recently served as the Executive Producer of Notes From America With Kai Wright. The show is broadcast from WNYC, the largest public radio station in America. André was the driving force behind the show's expansion from 80 NPR stations to over 120 stations. André was tasked with reshaping and redesigning the live radio show. He is also a Film Maker, Keynote Speaker, Consultant, Writer, and Educator. André has committed his entire career to building an army of change agents. His process includes Many Things; New York City Public Schools, The Ford Foundation, Miramax Films, Urbanworld, Film Movement, Diana Ross, BET, Universal, PBS, HBO, Sundance, Picturehouse, and Dreamworks. André directed and produced The Prep School Negro and served as producer on the documentary I'm Not Racist...Am I? André created The Election Effects Project for Paramount TV. André told the story of incarcerated youth in Richmond with the award-winning film Virtually Free. Because you love Author Events, please make a donation when you register for this event to ensure that this series continues to inspire Philadelphians. The views expressed by the authors and moderators are strictly their own and do not represent the opinions of the Free Library of Philadelphia or its employees. (recorded 11/6/2024)

This is a message by Bishop Raphael Green of St. Louis, Missouri, in which he shares on the topic of God's Will in Relationships, offering timely nuggets of wisdom and instruction on how to fulfill God's calling in our relationships with one another as believers. Raphael is an innovative and entrepreneurial urban ministry pioneer devoted to Christ-centered strategic ministry and mature, Godly servant-leadership in the hearts and lives of those who live and / or work primarily in the ever- challenging and constantly evolving Urban World.He is an immensely grateful and highly motivated man supported by his loving wife, Brenda, committed immediate and extended family members, a wise presiding overseer, strategic mentors, a diverse cast of close colleagues, strong supportive leaders, loyal staff, dedicated parishioners, affiliated pastors, the related congregations they lead, and many other ministry constituents and friends.

Humility isn't just deferring to the desires of others. It's also standing up for the weak.  So says Dennis Edwards, vice president for church relations and dean of the seminary at North Park University, on this episode of Being Human. Cuss and Edwards talk about how Edwards's many experiences of being the only Black man in the room have shaped him and his perspective. They talk about thoughtful and biblical approaches to theological education, the modern political landscape, and social media. And Cuss and Edwards consider how, for all of its flaws and challenges, the local church can offer unity in a way entirely its own. Resources mentioned in this episode or recommended by the guest include: RevDrDre.com Humility Illuminated: The Biblical Path Back to Christian Character by Dennis R. Edwards  1 Peter (The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries) by John H. Elliott The Urban Christian: Effective Ministry in Today's Urban World by Ray Bakke Bowen family systems theory Click here for a trial subscription at Christianity Today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Humility isn't just deferring to the desires of others. It's also standing up for the weak.  So says Dennis Edwards, vice president for church relations and dean of the seminary at North Park University, on this episode of Being Human. Cuss and Edwards talk about how Edwards's many experiences of being the only Black man in the room have shaped him and his perspective. They talk about thoughtful and biblical approaches to theological education, the modern political landscape, and social media. And Cuss and Edwards consider how, for all of its flaws and challenges, the local church can offer unity in a way entirely its own. Resources mentioned in this episode or recommended by the guest include: RevDrDre.com Humility Illuminated: The Biblical Path Back to Christian Character by Dennis R. Edwards  1 Peter (The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries) by John H. Elliott The Urban Christian: Effective Ministry in Today's Urban World by Ray Bakke Bowen family systems theory Click here for a trial subscription at Christianity Today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World (Duke UP, 2024), Aslı Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. Drawing on the history and ethnography of the trans communal life in Istanbul, Zengin develops an understanding of cisheteronormative violence that expands beyond sex, gender and sexuality. She shows how cisheteronormativity forms a connective tissue among neoliberal governmentality, biopolitical and necropolitical regimes, nationalist religiosity and authoritarian management of social difference. As much as trans people are shaped by these processes, they also transform them in intimate ways. Transness in Turkey provides an insightful site for developing new perspectives on statecraft, securitization and surveillance, family and kin-making, urban geography, and political life. Zengin offers the concept of violent intimacies to theorize this entangled world of the trans everyday where violence and intimacy are co-constitutive. Violent intimacies emerge from trans people's everyday interactions with the police, religious and medical institutions, street life, family and kinship, and trans femicides and funerals. The dynamic of violent intimacies prompts new understandings of violence and intimacy and the world-making struggles of trans people in a Middle Eastern context. Aslı Zengin is Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. Alize Arıcan is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The City College of New York (CUNY). Her work has been featured in Environment and Planning D, Current Anthropology, and City & Society, among other journals and public-facing platforms. You can find her on Twitter @alizearican. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World (Duke UP, 2024), Aslı Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. Drawing on the history and ethnography of the trans communal life in Istanbul, Zengin develops an understanding of cisheteronormative violence that expands beyond sex, gender and sexuality. She shows how cisheteronormativity forms a connective tissue among neoliberal governmentality, biopolitical and necropolitical regimes, nationalist religiosity and authoritarian management of social difference. As much as trans people are shaped by these processes, they also transform them in intimate ways. Transness in Turkey provides an insightful site for developing new perspectives on statecraft, securitization and surveillance, family and kin-making, urban geography, and political life. Zengin offers the concept of violent intimacies to theorize this entangled world of the trans everyday where violence and intimacy are co-constitutive. Violent intimacies emerge from trans people's everyday interactions with the police, religious and medical institutions, street life, family and kinship, and trans femicides and funerals. The dynamic of violent intimacies prompts new understandings of violence and intimacy and the world-making struggles of trans people in a Middle Eastern context. Aslı Zengin is Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. Alize Arıcan is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The City College of New York (CUNY). Her work has been featured in Environment and Planning D, Current Anthropology, and City & Society, among other journals and public-facing platforms. You can find her on Twitter @alizearican. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

In Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World (Duke UP, 2024), Aslı Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. Drawing on the history and ethnography of the trans communal life in Istanbul, Zengin develops an understanding of cisheteronormative violence that expands beyond sex, gender and sexuality. She shows how cisheteronormativity forms a connective tissue among neoliberal governmentality, biopolitical and necropolitical regimes, nationalist religiosity and authoritarian management of social difference. As much as trans people are shaped by these processes, they also transform them in intimate ways. Transness in Turkey provides an insightful site for developing new perspectives on statecraft, securitization and surveillance, family and kin-making, urban geography, and political life. Zengin offers the concept of violent intimacies to theorize this entangled world of the trans everyday where violence and intimacy are co-constitutive. Violent intimacies emerge from trans people's everyday interactions with the police, religious and medical institutions, street life, family and kinship, and trans femicides and funerals. The dynamic of violent intimacies prompts new understandings of violence and intimacy and the world-making struggles of trans people in a Middle Eastern context. Aslı Zengin is Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. Alize Arıcan is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The City College of New York (CUNY). Her work has been featured in Environment and Planning D, Current Anthropology, and City & Society, among other journals and public-facing platforms. You can find her on Twitter @alizearican. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

In Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World (Duke UP, 2024), Aslı Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. Drawing on the history and ethnography of the trans communal life in Istanbul, Zengin develops an understanding of cisheteronormative violence that expands beyond sex, gender and sexuality. She shows how cisheteronormativity forms a connective tissue among neoliberal governmentality, biopolitical and necropolitical regimes, nationalist religiosity and authoritarian management of social difference. As much as trans people are shaped by these processes, they also transform them in intimate ways. Transness in Turkey provides an insightful site for developing new perspectives on statecraft, securitization and surveillance, family and kin-making, urban geography, and political life. Zengin offers the concept of violent intimacies to theorize this entangled world of the trans everyday where violence and intimacy are co-constitutive. Violent intimacies emerge from trans people's everyday interactions with the police, religious and medical institutions, street life, family and kinship, and trans femicides and funerals. The dynamic of violent intimacies prompts new understandings of violence and intimacy and the world-making struggles of trans people in a Middle Eastern context. Aslı Zengin is Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. Alize Arıcan is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The City College of New York (CUNY). Her work has been featured in Environment and Planning D, Current Anthropology, and City & Society, among other journals and public-facing platforms. You can find her on Twitter @alizearican. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

In Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World (Duke UP, 2024), Aslı Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. Drawing on the history and ethnography of the trans communal life in Istanbul, Zengin develops an understanding of cisheteronormative violence that expands beyond sex, gender and sexuality. She shows how cisheteronormativity forms a connective tissue among neoliberal governmentality, biopolitical and necropolitical regimes, nationalist religiosity and authoritarian management of social difference. As much as trans people are shaped by these processes, they also transform them in intimate ways. Transness in Turkey provides an insightful site for developing new perspectives on statecraft, securitization and surveillance, family and kin-making, urban geography, and political life. Zengin offers the concept of violent intimacies to theorize this entangled world of the trans everyday where violence and intimacy are co-constitutive. Violent intimacies emerge from trans people's everyday interactions with the police, religious and medical institutions, street life, family and kinship, and trans femicides and funerals. The dynamic of violent intimacies prompts new understandings of violence and intimacy and the world-making struggles of trans people in a Middle Eastern context. Aslı Zengin is Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. Alize Arıcan is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The City College of New York (CUNY). Her work has been featured in Environment and Planning D, Current Anthropology, and City & Society, among other journals and public-facing platforms. You can find her on Twitter @alizearican. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/lgbtq-studies

In Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World (Duke UP, 2024), Aslı Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. Drawing on the history and ethnography of the trans communal life in Istanbul, Zengin develops an understanding of cisheteronormative violence that expands beyond sex, gender and sexuality. She shows how cisheteronormativity forms a connective tissue among neoliberal governmentality, biopolitical and necropolitical regimes, nationalist religiosity and authoritarian management of social difference. As much as trans people are shaped by these processes, they also transform them in intimate ways. Transness in Turkey provides an insightful site for developing new perspectives on statecraft, securitization and surveillance, family and kin-making, urban geography, and political life. Zengin offers the concept of violent intimacies to theorize this entangled world of the trans everyday where violence and intimacy are co-constitutive. Violent intimacies emerge from trans people's everyday interactions with the police, religious and medical institutions, street life, family and kinship, and trans femicides and funerals. The dynamic of violent intimacies prompts new understandings of violence and intimacy and the world-making struggles of trans people in a Middle Eastern context. Aslı Zengin is Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. Alize Arıcan is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The City College of New York (CUNY). Her work has been featured in Environment and Planning D, Current Anthropology, and City & Society, among other journals and public-facing platforms. You can find her on Twitter @alizearican. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest is Stacy Spikes, co-founder and CEO of the nation's first theatrical subscription service, Movie Pass. Stacy is also founder of the Urbanworld film festival and author of Black Founder, The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider. Recently named by USA Today as one of the 21 most influential Blacks in technology, Stacy joins me to talk about his background, breaking into the music business, surviving the ebbs and flows of being an entrepreneur. Along the way he has plenty of advice for would be entrepreneurs. Thanks for listening. Don't forget to subscribe.

Today on Casting Confidential the roundtable is joined by special guest Elaine Del Valle. In this unfiltered conversation Elaine and the Casting Confidential Roundtable discuss just how well casting understands the challenges and obstacles actors face in the industry's rabid and ever changing landscape. This episode is a must listen!! Elaine is a native New York, Puerto Rican Casting Director and multi-hyphenate Storyteller. As a bilingual, with a keen eye and her pulse on the Latino community, Elaine was approached to source on-camera talent. Elaine is a member of CSA and has provided casting for high profile brands, agencies, and studios, including for Comedy Central and PBS Kids. Elaine is a recognized leader. She received the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Excellence in Arts award. She was a NY Board of Education Literacy Day Keynote Speaker. Her inspirational journey was featured in the PBS documentary series Beating The Odds and the NYC housing projects, where Elaine grew up named a park bench in her honor, recognizing her outstanding efforts to uplift the community.  ​ Her awards include the HBO Latinx Director award and from many festivals including SXSW, Urbanworld, Catalyst Stories, and Seriesfest.  ​ Elaine's feature film directorial debut is a genre dance-drama-thriller Tubi original, Midnight Hustle. Her second narrative feature, Between Rockaway and Mother Gaston, which she wrote and directed, is currently in post-production. The YA family drama shares Elaine's personal coming-of-age story and was filmed in New York and Puerto Rico. The story is adapted from Elaine's award-winning short film, autobiographical novel and Off-Broadway stage play, Brownsville Bred. Elaine is a WarnerMedia 150 Artist, Sundance Writer & Director Lab alumna, Shondaland Director finalist and two-time Lynn Shelton and Imagen Impact award nominee. Follow ⁠Elaine⁠ & ⁠Del Valle Casting⁠ ⁠Official Site⁠ CASTING CONFIDENTIAL: Join veteran casting director Rose Rosen and her dynamic panel of industry experts in a candid, no-holds-barred virtual round table discussion. Delve into the casting business in each weekly episode of the podcast, where we reveal  insights and stories from the fiercely guarded world of casting. Get ready to laugh, learn, and uncover the secrets behind the scenes that shape the creative content consumed worldwide.  What do casting directors truly wish producers understood? What brings them the greatest joy? And how can actors elevate their craft to stand out? "Casting Confidential" pulls back the curtain on the reality of survival in show business.  Do you have what it takes? Join the conversation and find out for yourself. Join us on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Casting Confidential Podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Rose Rosen, CSA ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@roserosencsa⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Kimberly Skyrme, CSA ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@kimberlyskyrme⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Cheryl Louden-Kubin, CSA ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@loudenkubin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Kimberly Ehrlich, CSA ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@kimberlyehrlich4⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Robin Carus, CSA ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@robincarus⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Paisley Baker, CSA ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@coatcheck3⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Artwork by: Ace Anderson ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@thestripedheart⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Music by: Orville Wright ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@ohyeahbeats⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Produced by: Laura Linda Bradley ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@lauralindabradley⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Hashtags: #castingconfidential #castingconfidentialpodcast #roseknows #actors **The opinions expressed in Casting Confidential podcast reflect only the opinions of each individual casting director. They do not reflect the opinions of any other official group or entity. Additionally, nothing in this show should be construed as an offer of employment.

In this episode, we interview Stacy Spikes, the founder of MoviePass, about his background in the entertainment industry and the journey of building a successful tech company. Spikes shares his experience in the music and film sectors, his motivation for creating MoviePass, and the challenges he faced in the movie industry. He explains how MoviePass works as a subscription-based service that allows moviegoers to save money on tickets and provides insights into the technology behind the platform. Spikes also discusses his passion for supporting underrepresented filmmakers and the impact of MoviePass on the movie industry.   Unlike streaming services that dominate the entertainment industry, MoviePass focuses solely on the physical movie theater experience. By offering a subscription service, MoviePass aims to eliminate the need for studios to constantly reacquire customers through advertising, ultimately doubling the size of the movie industry. The platform provides customers with a virtual card in the app, which they can use to purchase tickets either online or in person. This flexibility allows moviegoers to choose from a wide range of theaters and enjoy significant savings on their movie tickets.   If your company is looking to scale its AI initiatives, head over to Tesoro AI (www.tesoroai.com). We are experts in AI strategy, staff augmentation, and AI product development.    Founder Bio:    Stacy Spikes is an award-winning entrepreneur and inventor who USA Today named one of the 21 most influential Blacks in technology. He holds several technology patents and is the co-founder and CEO of the nation's first theatrical subscription service, MoviePass.  In addition, Spikes is the founder of Urbanworld, the largest international festival dedicated to nurturing Women and BIPOC filmmakers. Spikes is the author of a business memoir titled Black Founder, The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider on Kensington Press.   Time Stamps:    03:00 Introduction and background of Stacy Spikes 04:50 Solving the pain point of movie exposure 06:45 Revolutionizing moviegoing experience with subscription services 09:17 Flexible movie ticket credits with MoviePass 12:15 Building a technology platform: from concept to execution 15:17 Finding the right tech hubs 19:55 The evolution of Dev shops 24:06 Getting the word out and acquiring new customers 26:29 Overcoming barriers to entry in the movie theater industry 28:20 Creating an innovative OTT platform 31:54 Stages of fundraising and how to find demand for your product  34:38 Stacy's new Book: The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider 36:37 What coming new and how to get in contact with the MoviePass team   Resources   Company website: https://www.moviepass.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/moviepass LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/moviepass-inc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moviepass  

Stacy Spikes is an award-winning entrepreneur and inventor who USA Today named one of the 21 Most Influential African-Americans in Technology. He is the co-founder and CEO of the nation's first theatrical subscription service, MoviePass. In addition, Spikes is the founder of Urbanworld, the largest international film festival dedicated to nurturing women and minority filmmakers.Spikes is the author of an empowering business memoir called Black Founder: The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider.Follow To Dine For:Official Website: ToDineForTV.comFacebook: Facebook.com/ToDineForTVInstagram: @ToDineForTVTwitter: @KateSullivanTVEmail: ToDineForTV@gmail.com Thank You to our Sponsors!American National InsuranceTerlato Wine Group Follow Our Guest:Official Site: StacySpikes.comLinkedIn: Stacy SpikesInstagram: @StacySpikes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today we talk to filmmaker, producer, director, Lisa France! We will be discussing the new documentary she produced called The Herricanes, and all it represents.  Directed by Olivia Kuan, The Herricanes will be featured in key fim festivals including Slamdance 2024 this week in Park City, Utah. The Houston Herricanes was a women's professional full-tackle football team. The players found camaraderie and strength as they controversially open a new door in the world of sports. Women playing football and stepping into a terf, not just dominated, but protected for, and only allowed for men. The Houston Herricanes were a part of the first women's full tackle football league in the 1970s. Their unknown story is one of commitment, courage, and strength. Despite adversity and hardship, they fielded a team purely for the love of the game. What they started is a movement that is still in motion today. Lisa France began her film and TV career as a stunt woman . She directed, co-wrote and produced her first feature film, Anne B Real in 2003, which won more than 30 film festival awards and nominations around the world, including two Independent Spirit Award nominations, a Black Reel Award, Urbanworld, Pan African Film Festival and American Black Film Festival. Her first documentary, Roll with Me also garnered numerous awards, and has been acquired by and distributed by ARRAY Releasing. France has directed numerous thrillers and Christmas movies for Lifetime, BounceTV, OWN Hulu and Tubi; directed and produced on Season 5 and 6 of Queen Sugar and more. With co-host Brody Levesque

Today we talk to filmmaker, producer, director, Lisa France! We will be discussing the new documentary she produced called The Herricanes, and all it represents.  Directed by Olivia Kuan, The Herricanes will be featured in key fim festivals including Slamdance 2024 this week in Park City, Utah. The Houston Herricanes was a women's professional full-tackle football team. The players found camaraderie and strength as they controversially open a new door in the world of sports. Women playing football and stepping into a terf, not just dominated, but protected for, and only allowed for men. The Houston Herricanes were a part of the first women's full tackle football league in the 1970s. Their unknown story is one of commitment, courage, and strength. Despite adversity and hardship, they fielded a team purely for the love of the game. What they started is a movement that is still in motion today. Lisa France began her film and TV career as a stunt woman . She directed, co-wrote and produced her first feature film, Anne B Real in 2003, which won more than 30 film festival awards and nominations around the world, including two Independent Spirit Award nominations, a Black Reel Award, Urbanworld, Pan African Film Festival and American Black Film Festival. Her first documentary, Roll with Me also garnered numerous awards, and has been acquired by and distributed by ARRAY Releasing. France has directed numerous thrillers and Christmas movies for Lifetime, BounceTV, OWN Hulu and Tubi; directed and produced on Season 5 and 6 of Queen Sugar and more. With co-host Brody Levesque

How cool was it to have Anya von Bremzen in the studio? In this fast-paced episode, we cover Anya's tremendous journalism career, which has brought her multiple James Beard Awards and a handful of reported books that are considered modern classics. These include the memoir Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking and her latest, National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home. We talk about what makes (or doesn't make) a culture's national dish, and how food writing has undergone great change in the past two decades. Also on the show, Aliza and Matt catch up about the new SPAM® flavor, Cardamaro, a visit to the Albanese gummy bear factory store, goat butter ice cream, a great new book Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World, a great new movie Theater Camp, and a really smart sunburn recovery hack. MORE FROM ANYA VON BREMZEN:How Do Certain Foods Become National Dishes? [NYT]The Problem with National Dishes [Saveur]Say Ciao to Roscioli NYC, Direct From Rome [Resy]People Love to Hate the Garlic Press [TASTE]

TTB 220: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban WorldMark Vanhoenacker is a commercial airline pilot and writer. The author of the international best seller Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot and How to Land a Plane, he is also a regular contributor to The New York Times and a columnist for the Financial Times. Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, he trained as a historian and worked in business before starting his flight training in Britain in 2001. He now flies the Boeing 787 Dreamliner from London to cities around the world. The Travelers Blueprint is an indie travel podcast where each week we like to bring you insight from travel authors, adventurers, conservationists, digital nomads, tour guides, and through our own personal experiences.Learn More About Our Guest:Markvanhoenacker.comBuy Imagine a City on AmazonImagine a CitySUPPORT THE PODCAST! Take a moment to rate us! Screenshot your review, email us the screenshot with your name and address and we will send you a FREE travel sticker! TheTravelersBlueprint@gmail.comFREE Travel Cheat Sheet! A Travel Journal or a Travel Video Course!! Find it all at http://thetravelersblueprint.com/products Share the love with some TTB Products: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/36555646?asc=u You can be a major supporter of our time and efforts in producing this podcast. May the travel Gods (old and new) be with you for all your future adventures! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/travblue Follow Us on Social Media: Instagram - Facebook - Twitter - YouTubeThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacyChartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Chris Smaje is a social scientist by training and a small-scale farmer by occupation. For the past 19 years, he has co-worked a small farm in Somerset, in southwest England.  Previously, he was a university-based social scientist, working in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surry and the Dept of Anthropology at Goldsmith's College. HIs focus was aspects of social policy, social identities and the environment. Since switching focus to the practice and politics of agro-ecology, he's written for various publications, such as The Land, Dark Mountain and Permaculture Magazine, as well as academic journals such as Agroecology and Sustainable Food systems. He blogs at Small Farm Futures and has previously been a director of the Ecological Land Co-op.  His latest book, A Small Farm Future, forms the basis of this conversation - in it, he lays out Ten Crises of our times, which, put together, create the Wicked Problem of this moment in history. From there, the remaining three parts of the book explore the ways in which rural localism can offer a way for humanity to see itself through the numerous crises we currently face both in the richer and poorer countries. In the podcast, we take the book as our starting point (really, you should read it) and look less at the why, of rural localism and more at the ways it might happen and how it might work.   We delve into the ways humanity has organised in the past (with deep passing references to Graeber and Wengrow's brilliant book, The Dawn of Everything') and how we might self-organise in the future.  We look at the future of energy, at our conceptions of prosperity, the ways small farms can feed the world - and the absolute insanity of the 'precision fermentation' model of feeding eight billion people while enabling them to flourish free of corporate capture. Chris's blog https://smallfarmfuture.org.uk/Chris's book https://uk.bookshop.org/books/a-small-farm-future-making-the-case-for-a-society-built-around-local-economies-self-provisioning-agricultural-diversity-and-a/9781603589024Chris's response to Monbiot's Regenesis https://smallfarmfuture.org.uk/?p=1978Article on The Land updating the book https://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/commons-and-households-small-farm-futureChris on Twitter https://twitter.com/csmajeGraeber and Wengrow - The Dawn of Everything https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-dawn-of-everything-a-new-history-of-humanity/9780141991061Simon Michaux https://www.simonmichaux.com/Rebecca Solnit - A Paradise Built in Hell http://www.rebeccasolnit.net/book/a-paradise-built-in-hell/What your food Qte https://uk.bookshop.org/books/what-your-food-ate-how-to-heal-our-land-and-reclaim-our-health/9781324004530The Agricultural Dilemma https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-agricultural-dilemma-how-not-to-feed-the-world/9781032260457

I am absolutely delighted to have Sharese Bullock-Bailey, Urbanworld Foundation Inc., Chief Innovation Officer & Founder of Overstand. We talk about how Sharese got her first job for a woman entrepreneur at age 14, and at the same time got to start her first internship at 14. We talk about how important finance can be, and how Sharese has been working to help young and emerging artists and story tellers. She has been working on focusing on getting a good return on impact, instead of only looking for a return on investment. We talk about how Sharese has gotten to where she is now, and got to work again with her first mentor Gabrielle Glore at Urbanworld. Sharese shares about how vital and important it is to help get funding to amazing women and people of color so that their stories can be told. We both bond over how we've had to hack together wifi systems, and Sharese shares an incredible story about hacking together a wifi system with just smartphones for propping up the filmmakers and artists there. Sharese would love for everyone to check out: urbanworld.org, and come visit the festival in New York City, November 1st-5th. "People often forget what you've said, people often forget what you've done, but people always remember they way you've made them feel," -Maya Angelou

Mark Vanhoenacker is a seasoned, long-haul commercial pilot and a brilliant lyrical writer about his journeys as experienced both from the air and on the ground where he chronicles for us some of the planet's great cities. He is also a regular contributor to The New York Times and a columnist for the Financial Times. Born in Pittsfield, in Western Massachusetts, he trained as a historian and worked in business before starting his flight training in Britain in 2001. He now flies the Boeing 787 Dreamliner from London to cities around the world. He is the author of Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot (Alfred Knopf 2015), How to Land a Plane (The Experiment; Illustrated edition, 2019) and Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World.Interview Date: 11/4/2022 Tags: Mark Vanhoenacker, piloting, wonder, awe, Pittsfield MA, Tokyo, Keeler CA, road signs, Philosophy, Travel, Writing

How does a pilot see the cities of the world? Unlike residents, who live there full-time, or tourists, who travel once and perhaps never again, pilots are brief, but regular visitors to the hubs of the world. In Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World (Chatto & Windus / Knopf: 2022), Mark Vanhoenacker helps to give us an answer. In his book, Mark charts his flights all over the world, to cities like Hong Kong, Jeddah, Rio, Cape Town, Sapporo, Delhi, and many more. But the book also regularly returns to his home town: Pittsfield, Mass., near the state border with New York. In this interview, Mark and I talk about his travels around the world, from the (relatively) small town of Pittsfield to the snowy streets of Sapporo. Mark Vanhoenacker is a commercial airline pilot and writer. The author of the international best seller Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot (Knopf: 2015) and How to Land a Plane (The Experiment: 2019), he is also a regular contributor to The New York Times and a columnist for the Financial Times. Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, he trained as a historian and worked in business before starting his flight training in Britain in 2001. He now flies the Boeing 787 Dreamliner from London to cities around the world. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Imagine a City. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

How does a pilot see the cities of the world? Unlike residents, who live there full-time, or tourists, who travel once and perhaps never again, pilots are brief, but regular visitors to the hubs of the world. In Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World (Chatto & Windus / Knopf: 2022), Mark Vanhoenacker helps to give us an answer. In his book, Mark charts his flights all over the world, to cities like Hong Kong, Jeddah, Rio, Cape Town, Sapporo, Delhi, and many more. But the book also regularly returns to his home town: Pittsfield, Mass., near the state border with New York. In this interview, Mark and I talk about his travels around the world, from the (relatively) small town of Pittsfield to the snowy streets of Sapporo. Mark Vanhoenacker is a commercial airline pilot and writer. The author of the international best seller Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot (Knopf: 2015) and How to Land a Plane (The Experiment: 2019), he is also a regular contributor to The New York Times and a columnist for the Financial Times. Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, he trained as a historian and worked in business before starting his flight training in Britain in 2001. He now flies the Boeing 787 Dreamliner from London to cities around the world. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Imagine a City. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

How does a pilot see the cities of the world? Unlike residents, who live there full-time, or tourists, who travel once and perhaps never again, pilots are brief, but regular visitors to the hubs of the world. In Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World (Chatto & Windus / Knopf: 2022), Mark Vanhoenacker helps to give us an answer. In his book, Mark charts his flights all over the world, to cities like Hong Kong, Jeddah, Rio, Cape Town, Sapporo, Delhi, and many more. But the book also regularly returns to his home town: Pittsfield, Mass., near the state border with New York. In this interview, Mark and I talk about his travels around the world, from the (relatively) small town of Pittsfield to the snowy streets of Sapporo. Mark Vanhoenacker is a commercial airline pilot and writer. The author of the international best seller Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot (Knopf: 2015) and How to Land a Plane (The Experiment: 2019), he is also a regular contributor to The New York Times and a columnist for the Financial Times. Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, he trained as a historian and worked in business before starting his flight training in Britain in 2001. He now flies the Boeing 787 Dreamliner from London to cities around the world. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Imagine a City. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How does a pilot see the cities of the world? Unlike residents, who live there full-time, or tourists, who travel once and perhaps never again, pilots are brief, but regular visitors to the hubs of the world. In Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World (Chatto & Windus / Knopf: 2022), Mark Vanhoenacker helps to give us an answer. In his book, Mark charts his flights all over the world, to cities like Hong Kong, Jeddah, Rio, Cape Town, Sapporo, Delhi, and many more. But the book also regularly returns to his home town: Pittsfield, Mass., near the state border with New York. In this interview, Mark and I talk about his travels around the world, from the (relatively) small town of Pittsfield to the snowy streets of Sapporo. Mark Vanhoenacker is a commercial airline pilot and writer. The author of the international best seller Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot (Knopf: 2015) and How to Land a Plane (The Experiment: 2019), he is also a regular contributor to The New York Times and a columnist for the Financial Times. Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, he trained as a historian and worked in business before starting his flight training in Britain in 2001. He now flies the Boeing 787 Dreamliner from London to cities around the world. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Imagine a City. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/asian-review

How are demographic and economic shifts increasing the importance of urban centers around the globe? What does this mean for military forces? To what extent do the local politics of a city complicate military operations there—specifically irregular warfare activities? When conflict between an insurgency and government forces enters a city, does the terrain inherently favor one side over the other? This special episode addresses these questions as it brings together two of the Modern War Institute's core areas of focus: urban warfare and irregular warfare. Kyle Atwell and Ben Jebb host the episode. You can also hear this and many more insightful explorations of issues related to irregular warfare on the Irregular Warfare Podcast. And don't miss the exceptional written content produced by the Irregular Warfare Initiative. Their guests are Sergeant Major Charles Ritter, deputy commandant of the US Army's JFK Special Warfare Center and School, and John Spencer, chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute. A leading expert on urban warfare, John also leads the Urban Warfare Project and hosts the Urban Warfare Project Podcast, both of which are outstanding resources on urban warfare and its challenges. Intro music: "Unsilenced" by Ketsa Outro music: "Launch" by Ketsa CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Pastor Jason continues in Acts 18 and explores what standing for God in an Urban World looks like.To learn more or if you have any questions, you can email us at hello@pneuma.life.Join us live for church each Sunday at 10AM 4100 Race Track Rd. (Durbin Creek Elementary)Saint Johns, FL 32259 www.pneumalife.churchFacebook @HelloPneumaLife

The SLC Performance Lab is produced by ContemporaryPerformance.com and the Sarah Lawrence College MFA Theatre Program. During the course, visiting artists to the MFA Theatre Program's Grad Lab are interviewed after leading a workshop with the students. Grad Lab is one of the core components of the program where graduate students work with guest artists and develop group-generated performance experiments. Stephen Winter is interviewed Stephen Winter (SLC 23) Stephen Winter is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and artist. He wrote, produced and directed his 1996 debut feature film Chocolate Babies, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and won Honorable Mention and Audience awards at San Francisco Frameline, SXSW, Urbanworld and OutFest. Stephen's second feature film is Jason and Shirley (2015) co-written and co-starred artist Jack Waters and playwright and journalist Sarah Schulman. Richard Brody in The New Yorker called it “one of the year's finest” films. As producer, Stephen's first film was Jonathan Caouette's landmark “narci-cinema” feature documentary Tarnation. He has worked creatively with Lee Daniels (Precious, Paperboy, The Butler), John Cameron Mitchell (Shortbus), John Krokidas (Kill Your Darlings), David France (How To Survive A Plague) and Xan Cassavetes (Kiss of the Damned). In the podcast space, Stephen is directing the science fiction drama The Space Within for Topic Studios, starring and Executive Produced by Jessica Chastain with Bobby Cannavale, Michael Stahlberg, Sturgill Simpson and Jessica Wu. In 2018, with Tristan Cowen, Stephen co-wrote and directed the pioneering fiction podcast series Adventures in New America, an afro-futuristic political satire for the Night Vale Network, “The Best New Social Thriller is a Podcast,” New York Times, compared the show to Boots Riley and Jordan Peele.

"When it comes to jet lag, there ain't — I report from the window seat of a bustling café in Montreal, hence this paraphrasing of Leonard Cohen — no cure." —Mark VanHoenacker, a Boeing 787 pilot for British Airways and the author of Imagine A City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World  The first time I flew abroad from Oregon to Europe (in my case France), concerns about jet lag were far from my mind; in fact, because I had so many other questions to answer and unknowns dancing in my mind, I didn't think about. I was 20 and planning to study abroad during my junior summer of college in Angers, France. I saved up for the $800 round-trip economy-class ticket (2000) by working three part-time jobs, took the necessary prerequisite courses, conferenced with my professor de Français, and along with not knowing I would need an adapter and converter to at the very least blow-out my hair and curled it, I also didn't think to investigate what jet lag was. Being the first member of my immediate family to travel abroad to Europe, I was figuring it all out for the first time on my own, and jet lag was never a word that popped up in conversations. Fast forward to 2012 and my second trip to France that included England as well. Thankfully I had a close friend who having lived in England for a time and thus traveled back and forth from the west coast to England often, had a few suggestions for combatting jet lag. Nothing worked superbly, but none of the advice hindered my thorough enjoyment of visiting London for the first time, and then returning to Paris. Jet lag persisted, but if it meant I would be able to be in the two countries I loved, it didn't matter a bit. Each trip following the two shared above, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, I have gradually tried to tweak, adjust and determine what works best to mitigate jet lag's effects, and while I have come to the same conclusion as the British Airways pilot above, as he too shares in his recent article in The Financial Times, there are ways to lessen the discomfort and the prolonged effects. But first, it is important to note what jet lag is — any time you travel quickly across two or more time zones and is caused when rapid travel throws off our circadian rhythm - the biological clock that helps control when we wake and fall asleep (source)  The more readers I hear from and fellow travelers I meet, the more I realize that where you are traveling from (home departure city), thus the amount of time difference you are undergoing, makes a difference, and so I decided to write specifically from my experience as a traveler from the west coast of the United States venturing to Western Europe where most of my excursions take me. With that said, as many readers/listeners of TSLL blog/The Simple Sophisticate podcast are Francophiles and/or Anglophiles and our destinations are the same even if our departure city is different, it is my hope that some of the tips shared today may be applicable when tailored to your flying itinerary. ~Note to readers: More details are discussed in the audio version of this episode than are shared below, so be sure to tune in. 1.Depart in the early afternoon When scheduling past trips, excluding my most recent trip in 2022, I selected early morning flights to give myself more time at my desired destination. As well, often earlier flights in the day were a bit less expensive (I have not noticed this to be the case as of late, but in the past). However, when taking the most direct flight possible, leaving in the afternoon on the west coast has the arrival time in France or England in the early evening the following day which lends itself well to having a nice meal before exhaustedly going to sleep in a comfortable bed. As well, leaving in the afternoon gives you time to gradually begin the day, go through your regular routines, partake in a healthy 30-minute or hour-long exercise routine, and generally, prepare to sit for a very long time. When I am able to exercise and not feel rushed, the rest of the day and any unknowns that pop up are easier to navigate, and I can more easily relax since my body has had the opportunity to fully move, stretch and receive what it needs. 2. Arrive in the late evening in Europe If leaving in the early afternoon is not an option, at least try to schedule your arrival time in Europe in the early evening for the reasons shared above. Whether you were able to catch some sleep on the plane or not, your mind as well as your body is tired and after being fed well in your destination city, wants to stretch out and relax. Rather than fight trying to stay awake until night arrives should you arrive in the morning or early afternoon, when you arrive in the evening, you don't have to fight your body and just let it do what it yearns for. 3. The fewer connecting flights the better If at all possible, scheduling-wise and/or budget-wise, choose a direct flight, or the closest thing to it (I have to take a short hop from Redmond to an international airport, typically Seattle, Portland or San Fran, and then my international flight departs to Europe from there). Not only do you save time, but it is less stressful, thus it doesn't exhaust your mind unnecessarily which is already going to be confused when you arrive due to the time change. Mind exhaustion on top of jet lag prolongs your ability to adjust, and the shorter the hop, the less stress incurred. The many farms seen in the countryside in Normandy. 4. Try to sleep on the flight Even if for only a few hours, do your best to find a way to experience real sleep. Real sleep where the hours invisibly whisk by and you wake up feeling somewhat, if not quite a bit, rested and energized. In my experience, the fewer hours I am able to sleep on the trip, the harder/longer jet lag is to recover from on that particular end of the trip. 5. Invest in Business Class if/when possible In episode #329 I shared my experience flying Business Class on British Airways during my recent trip in April 2022 to Britain and France. Needless to say, even if it takes a bit longer to save up for each subsequent trip abroad in order to fly in such comfort, I will do it. It is worth it, largely because of the reduction of stress and my ability to sleep well. And as I shared in #4 above, when you sleep well during the flight, you reduce (not eliminate) jet lag. My flight to Europe in Business Class provided more than 4 hours of sleep, and while I did feel the effects of jet lagged for about two days upon arrival, this was far better than it has been in the past. No doubt my excitement being back in Paris helped to overcome some of the feeling, but as I assessed what else may have contributed to an easing of this expected feeling of exhaustion, confusion, malaise and inability to sleep naturally, the one primary variable that was different was the flight I chose and the amount of sleep and quality of sleep I received. My seat in Business Class on British Airways, bedding products from The White Company 6. Hydrate as much as possible while flying While toasting with sparkling wine as the journey begins is tempting and certainly something I enjoy doing as well, refrain from too much alcohol as it dehydrates you. Instead, seek out as much water as you can, and even the multiple bathroom-runs are good for you as it gets you up and out of your seat which is an activity that sets your circadian rhythm. The more you can do to set your circadian rhythm to knowing when it needs to be awake and when it needs to rest (the reason why airlines dim the cabin light uniformly for everyone and set the meals as they do), the more quickly your mind will be able to settle into the new sleep schedule. 7. Take a hot bath before bed Whether at your travel destination or when you arrive home, just before you want to go to bed, take a hot bath as this helps to relax the body and interestingly enough, drop the body temperature which helps you fall asleep. A deep soak of a bath at The Savoy while staying in London. Take the tour of our stay in this detailed post. 8. Begin to simulate, ever so slightly and gradually, the new time zone before you leave While a subtle shift at home may not seem beneficial, for me, this is actually quite possible as I like to go to bed early, and an excuse to go to bed one hour sooner, wake up one hour earlier is not a detriment. Of course, this will depend on your work and home schedule, but if you can, it may reduce jet lag a bit so it won't last as long when you arrive. 9. Be gentle and patient with yourself, gradually shift into the new time schedule Our brains are wonderful tools, but it takes time to change them, and that includes its sleep schedule. When our sleep schedule becomes disrupted, our mind is confused as to what it is supposed to do, so be gentle and patient with it. When I returned home this past April, it took about 7-10 days to get over my jet lag. Finding myself falling asleep on the sofa at 5pm with eyelids I could not bribe to stay open at any cost, I let myself fall asleep, and pushed myself to stay awake an hour later each night until I was finally back to my regular bedtime routine. With all of that said . . . 10. Understand there are many jet lag remedies, but honor what works for you I won't list the suggestions I have received over the years I haven't found helpful for me, or the beliefs from other travelers about what is most difficult (direction of flight) because what is true for them is true for them. However, sharing what has worked and why I have discovered it does work, had I been able to understand these truths, is something I would have loved to have known earlier in my travels but likely could not have known. Knowing that I needed to, for want of a better phrase, 'feel my way' through jet lag to figure out what happens and how I respond to it gave me the tools to figure out how to reduce its effects that most negatively affected me. Self-awareness not only helps you live a life you love living in a general over-arching way; it also affords you helpful insights in how to work well with jet lag to best fit your needs to ensure the best trip and experience possible. For example, as an HSP, sleep is especially important, whereas for non-HSPs being able to function well on 5-7 hours of sleep may be no problem. Not so in my case, so now that I know the value of sleep for my well-being, I invest in ensuring I receive a good night of sleep when I travel as I want to enjoy my trip as much as possible, and that includes on the flight. When we have the fortunate opportunity to travel abroad and cross many time zones, the price of jet lag is a small price to expense, but being aware of how it affects our minds and physical well-being is helpful so that we don't blame our mental lag on the destination but rather our mind's gradual settling in to the new time zone we have taken it to. Wishing you many wonderful trips and stamps in your passport! Bon Voyage! Petit Plaisir ~Herbed Salmon ~click here for the full recipe. ~Top image: arriving in London, looking out over Kensington, Royal Albert Hall

Mathew May shares the challenges and benefits of ranching in an urban area and how makes the most of the situation. Listen on your favorite podcast app or right here! Read it: https://www.casualcattleconversations.com/readtheepisodes https://www.casualcattleconversations.com/

ENCORE EPISODE (Replay of Episode 3, April 9, 2019):  Rayka Zehtabchi is an Iranian-American film director based in Los Angeles. Her directorial debut, Madaran, is an Iranian language short film that has screened worldwide at established film festivals, winning jury awards at Hollyshorts, Urbanworld, and Cleveland International. Madaran qualified for the 89th Academy Awards in 2016. Rayka's documentary short, Period. End of Sentence., is about a group of village women in Northern India who start a sanitary pad business in an effort to improve feminine hygiene and de-stigmatize menstruation. Along with the film's release, the Period team co-founded the non-profit “The Pad Project” to fight the stigma of menstruation and improve feminine hygiene worldwide. Period double-qualified for the academy awards in 2018, winning Jury and audience awards at Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival and Cleveland International. The film also took home Jury and audience awards from AFI Fest among many others and won the Oscar in the Documentary Short category of the 91st Academy Awards®. What you'll learn about in this episode: Where Rayka went to film school, and how she was approached to direct her short documentary “Period. End of Sentence.” right out of film school How Rayka's first film festival in high school shaped her interests in filmmaking, and how she found purpose and community in filmmaking Rayka shares the experience of losing her father while she was attending USC film school, and how she felt pulled in different directions Rayka discusses her Iranian-language short film Madaran and why filming it helped her feel connected to her father and her Iranian heritage How Rayka was approached to direct “Period. End of Sentence.” while she was in her senior year at film school, and why the subject matter was a reality check for her Why “Period. End of Sentence.” was a powerful and necessary story to shine a light on an unspoken issue, and how Rayka directed it to be organic and authentic What impact filming “Period. End of Sentence.” had on Rayka personally and emotionally, and how she was inspired by the women she filmed How Rayka and the filmmakers got involved with and launched the Pad Project, and how the film has exploded and created global awareness of this issue How Rayka and her team turned forty hours of raw film footage into a 25-minute short documentary What challenges Rayka faced in getting visibility for her film, and her thoughts on when she realized the film qualified to be submitted to the Academy Awards What it was like accepting her Oscar, and what Rayka has planned for the future going forward

André is a Film Maker, Keynote Speaker, Consultant, Writer, and Educator. He has committed his entire career to building an army of change agents. We can learn so much from André! No matter what career you are in or want to pursue. André discusses what he wish he knew about himself at age 26 and how he pursued his successful career as all of the above. André's process includes Many Things; New York City Public Schools, The Ford Foundation, Miramax Films, Urbanworld, Film Movement, Diana Ross, BET, Universal, PBS, HBO, Sundance, Picturehouse, and Dreamworks. The Mindshare Podcast Series 2 focuses on Careers & Navigating your Professional success. André directed and produced The Prep School Negro and took it on a worldwide tour over the past 12 years. André's served as producer on the documentary I'm Not Racist…Am I? André received a Fellowship in 2013 and was tasked with Directing and Producing the 12-month series Life Cycles of Inequity: A Colorlines Series on Black Men. André created The Election Effects Project for Paramount TV. André's film Virtually Free is the story of incarcerated youth in Richmond, Virginia and has won best short documentary at a few film festivals. André's next film is The Road to Justice which documents the Civil Rights Tours he has led throughout the American South. He is the Executive Producer on this film. André has also been tasked with developing short documentary for Strayer Studies in partnership with Blackhouse (Sundance). André also teaches Filmmaking at the Germantown Friends School. André has also served as a Professor of writing at The Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania. Visit www.andrerobertlee.com Check out André's latest project as director & producer of the finale episode of "This is Life with Lisa Ling" on CNN & then streaming on HBO Max Join the Monumental Me community & co-founders Liana Slater and Michele Mavi. Engage in our programming that pulls from the most essential learnings from the study of Positive Psychology, our experience and learning from amazing people with whom we have worked and collaborated along the way. Created for you. The Programs are available through the Program List and Events at Monumentalme.com and follow us on Instagram @monumentalme.we. Subscribe/Follow/Rate on Apple Podcasts/Share this podcast with your friends.

Escucha una historia real de exorcismos en Yucatán. Con el invitado especial Esteban Mambo, conductor y creador de Urban World, nos adentramos en historias reales de exorcismos y charlatanes de la brujería, además de una pincelada del grupo Bilderberg. Disfruten este episodio en una oscura noche mientras conduzcan en una solitaria carretera. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/paranormal-ufo/message

Mack Wilds is known for a plethora of roles, including his roles as a younger actor in projects such as 'The Wire' and '90210.' With a bevy of projects coming soon including Apple TV+'s 'Swagger,' 'Thoughts of a Colored Man' on Broadway and his own short film premiering at Urbanworld, he chats with us about his career moments both past and present.

On this episode of ActorSpeak, Austin Basis speaks with actor Goya Robles (Get Shorty, POWER Book III: Raising Kanan, 11:55, Brut Force, Rattled!). In Part 1, we talk about Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman, hip hop, Def Jam Poetry, studying with Elizabeth Kemp, the core wound, shadow work playing Raul in Extremities, almost leaving school, using animal work, making urgent choices, the importance of therapy, the Idiot Workshop, working too hard, living his truth, always learning new things, being in the question, the "fuck it" stage, and his epic audition for Get Shorty. A Stamford, CT native, Goya Robles is a Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio and holds an MFA from The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York. A Latino actor of Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian descent, his portrayal of heartbreaking, volatile, vulnerable characters have become a stamp in all of his work. Goya is most recognized for his breakout role as Yago in the critically acclaimed series Get Shorty on EPIX, working alongside Ray Romano and Chris O'Dowd. He has starred in numerous independent films, including a supporting lead role as Teyo in the film 11:55, starring John Leguizamo, David Zayas, and Julia Stiles. He's also executive produced the short film WONDER, which won over 20 national and international film festival awards, including the HBO Shorts Competition at the Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival and the Audience Award at Urbanworld. Most recently, he produced and created the art film Who Am I? - a spoken word piece about race and responsibility. You can see him in the upcoming films Brut Force, Rattled! and High Ceilings, and the TV series POWER Book III: Raising Kanan on Starz. Goya's theater credits include The Actors Studio West production of THE MOTHERF*CKER WITH THE HAT by Stephen Adly Guirgis in LA, EXTREMITIES by William Mastrosimone, and CRYSTAL CLEAR by Phil Young, both at Dance New Amsterdam Theater in NYC. He also starred in the LAByrinth Theater Barn Series of Mark Borkowski's play, VALENTINO'S WING, starring Michael Shannon, Annabella Sciorra, and directed by Ellen Burstyn. Goya is also the creator of Paint The Mic, a performing and visual arts collaboration which brings attention to local organizations whose mission is to support under-served communities. As a spoken word artist himself, Goya created a way for artists of diverse disciplines to use their craft as a way to directly impact communities in need. Goya also taught slam poetry at The Lee Strasberg Institute in West Hollywood and his first compilation of poems was called Spit My Soul and released at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. What strikes me most about Goya's work besides his talent are his heart and authenticity. But it's his artistry that really shines through in everything he does- whether on stage, on screen or as a poet and producer. As both an actor and an advocate he is able to speak the truth, taking his pain and perspective and channeling them into his art. That's what The Actors Studio is all about, and Goya is one of the members that best exemplifies that. WE AUDITION is a video-chat community where actors can audition, self-tape, rehearse, and get expert industry advice. USE promo code: ACTORSPEAK to get 25% off when joining at WeAudition.com

On this episode of ActorSpeak, Austin Basis continues to speak with actor Goya Robles (Get Shorty, POWER Book III: Raising Kanan, 11:55, Brut Force, Rattled!) In Part 2, we discuss the crossroads of abuse and trauma, his mentor Ellen Burstyn, not being killed off on Get Shorty, working with director Adam Arkin, his self-critical nature, rehearsing more to reduce the "noise," working with Javier Molina, chemistry as a willingness to receive, experiencing truth, going towards the uncomfortable, LatinX buying power and representation, humanizing "villains," feeding his acting compulsion, and his dream of opening an acting school for inner city youth. A Stamford, CT native, Goya Robles is a Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio and holds an MFA from The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York. A Latino actor of Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian descent, his portrayal of heartbreaking, volatile, vulnerable characters have become a stamp in all of his work. Goya is most recognized for his breakout role as Yago in the critically acclaimed series Get Shorty on EPIX, working alongside Ray Romano and Chris O'Dowd. He has starred in numerous independent films, including a supporting lead role as Teyo in the film 11:55, starring John Leguizamo, David Zayas, and Julia Stiles. He's also executive produced the short film WONDER, which won over 20 national and international film festival awards, including the HBO Shorts Competition at the Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival and the Audience Award at Urbanworld. Most recently, he produced and created the art film Who Am I? - a spoken word piece about race and responsibility. You can see him in the upcoming films Brut Force, Rattled! and High Ceilings, and the TV series POWER Book III: Raising Kanan on Starz. Goya's theater credits include The Actors Studio West production of THE MOTHERF*CKER WITH THE HAT by Stephen Adly Guirgis in LA, EXTREMITIES by William Mastrosimone, and CRYSTAL CLEAR by Phil Young, both at Dance New Amsterdam Theater in NYC. He also starred in the LAByrinth Theater Barn Series of Mark Borkowski's play, VALENTINO'S WING, starring Michael Shannon, Annabella Sciorra, and directed by Ellen Burstyn. Goya is also the creator of Paint The Mic, a performing and visual arts collaboration which brings attention to local organizations whose mission is to support under-served communities. As a spoken word artist himself, Goya created a way for artists of diverse disciplines to use their craft as a way to directly impact communities in need. Goya also taught slam poetry at The Lee Strasberg Institute in West Hollywood and his first compilation of poems was called Spit My Soul and released at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. What strikes me most about Goya's work besides his talent are his heart and authenticity. But it's his artistry that really shines through in everything he does- whether on stage, on screen or as a poet and producer. As both an actor and an advocate he is able to speak the truth, taking his pain and perspective and channeling them into his art. That's what The Actors Studio is all about, and Goya is one of the members that best exemplifies that. WE AUDITION is a video-chat community where actors can audition, self-tape, rehearse, and get expert industry advice. USE promo code: ACTORSPEAK to get 25% off when joining at WeAudition.com

Director/ Writer /Producer.  Danae made her first world wide directorial debut with release of [Re]Defined. [Re]Defined premiered at the two Oscar qualifying festivals; Urban World Film Festival in 2016, and at the L.A. Pan African Film Festival in 2017. Since Danae has followed up with short film titled 'Unspoken' is an adaptation based on 'The Bed head' by Jennifer Grahame.which she premiered domestically and internationally at Urban World film festival (2018), Martha's Vineyard Film festival, Black Star International Film festival, Pan African, Trinidad & Tobago Film festival, Beverly Hills and more. Now in-development with her feature screenplay for Unspoken. via IMDb This episode is sponsored by Thelma Rose Thrift Store. Located on Athens Highway, Loganville GA, right next to Papa John's Pizza. Check out their website at thelmarosetreasureboutique.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/actorsmasterclass/message

En nuestro programa "El fantástico antro del gato" entrevistamos al director Manuel del Valle, sobre sus cortometrajes "El Triste", y todo "Nahjum", el cual tiene la consideración para el Ariel 2021, y ganó en los festivales Shorts México, Urban World y Feratum el año pasado.

Felicia Pride is a writer and an award-winning filmmaker. She was a writer on Ava DuVernay’s “Queen Sugar” for two seasons and is currently a writer on ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy.” She developed a drama pilot, a book adaptation, with NBCUniversal and sold a pilot to 20th Century FOX. She sold the erotic romance Deeper to Universal Pictures and is the co-writer and executive producer of the 2020 feature film Really Love, starring Kofi Siriboe alongside Naturi Naughton and Emmy-winner Uzo Aduba. More recently, Felicia is known for her directorial debut, tender. In 2020, tender screened at over 20+ film festivals including Reel Sistas, ABFF, Urbanworld, Frameline44, and the Seattle Black Film Festival where Pride won Best Director and won a Lionsgate / STARZ award at the BlackStar Film Festival. Pride eventually became an author herself in 2008, penning six books, including the young adult novel, PATTERSON HEIGHTS, recognized by the American Library Association. She was tapped by Simon & Schuster to pen two books in their EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS book series based on the hit show. In this episode, we talk about: • Working on my favorite show "Grey's Anatomy" after working on 2 seasons of "Queen Sugar," including how she started working on both and the transition from one to the other • Her thoughts on Fellowships and being a Screenwriting Fellow for Film Independent and an NBC Writer on the Verge with NBC Universal Media • Her directorial debut tender which screened at over 20+ film festivals and how she approached that particular film • Tips to maximize a film's release regarding the marketing, engagement and distribution of your Indie film that she learned as Director of Independent Films at Tugg Inc. • What Transmedia Storytelling is and how it has influenced her storytelling today • Writing for VIBE, The Root, Baltimore Sun, and other publications and then becoming a published author in 2008 with 6 books including the YA Novel “Patterson Heights” while working series of jobs as Production Coordinator, Writer, and Producer at various places including Washington Jewish Film Festival, Participant Media, and Twin Cities Public Television. Wikipedia Website Twitter IMDB Instagram tender Host: Instagram: @MentorsontheMic @MichelleSimoneMiller Twitter: @MentorsontheMic @MichelleSimoneM Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/mentorsonthemic Website: www.michellesimonemiller.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/24mmichelle

Liz is a NYC based casting director and award winning indie film producer/director credited on projects which have screened at hundreds of film festivals such as Sundance, BAM Cinemafest, Toronto, Brooklyn, Palm Springs, HBO Latino, and Urban World among others. Projects have aired on CBS, HBO, Showtime, Lifetime Movies and Cinemax. Casting and producing highlights include: Advantageous (Sundance premiere and a top selection on Netflix); Lost Revolution (HBO Latino); Zombie Honeymoon(Showtime cult classic); Barrio Boy (currently in post-production);And... Seen (writer/producer/director) a feature documentary. Liz cast the U.S. premiere of the experiential stage production Prurience commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum, she recently cast a pilot for a multi-cultural animated series entitled Mine for JoLu Productions, casting consultant for series My Sweet Life and is attached as producer and casting director for the feature film Become American, currently in development. TIME STAMPS [00: Links Liz’s  Links http://www.iaintplayinfilms.com/ (www.IAintPlayinFilms.com) http://iaintplayin.wix.com/AndSeen (http://iaintplayin.wix.com/AndSeen) IMDB Liz https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1709910/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1709910/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1) Actors connection https://www.actorsconnection.com/ (https://www.actorsconnection.com) One on One https://www.oneononenyc.com/ (https://www.oneononenyc.com) Links to Russ on YouTube and his Websites https://linktr.ee/russcamarda (https://linktr.ee/russcamarda) Russ Movies https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2137381/ (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2137381/) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2414886/ (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2414886/) http://www.russcamarda.com/ (http://www.russcamarda.com) http://tagstudiony.com/ (http://tagstudiony.com) Production partners https://idunleashed.com/ (https://idunleashed.com) Support this podcast

Dans cet épisode, nous accueillons la chercheuse Anne-Marie Veillette, dont les recherches portent sur les modes de résistances des femmes dans les favelas à Rio de Janeiro au Brésil. Anne-Marie Veillette partage avec nous ses lectures, ses expériences de recherche sur le terrain et ses réflexions actuelles. La première partie du balado porte sur l'androcentrisme et l'eurocentrisme de certaines catégories analytiques. Elle revient ensuite sur le concept de “féminisme populaire racialisé ”, qu'elle emploie dans son travail sur les résistances des femmes face aux violences policières dans les favelas. Nous vous souhaitons une excellente écoute.Les références citées dans ce balado (par ordre d'écoute):hooks, bell. 2003. "Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness." Dans The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader. Sous la direction de Sandra Harding, 153-159. New York/London: Routledge.---. 2017 [1984]. De la marge au centre: théorie féministe. Paris: Éditions Cambourakis. Le passage de bell hooks cité : « À vivre comme nous le faisions – en périphérie, sur les bords, sur le fil – nous avons développé une manière particulière de voir la réalité. Nous la regardions à la fois de l'extérieur et de l'intérieur. Nous concentrions notre attention aussi bien sur le centre que sur la marge. Nous comprenions les deux. Cette façon de voir les choses nous rappelait l'existence d'un univers entier, d'un corps principal constitué à la fois d'une marge et d'un centre. Notre survie dépendait de notre conscience ostensible permanente de la séparation entre la marge et le centre, et notre conviction individuelle profonde que nous étions une part vitale et nécessaire de cet ensemble. (2017 [1984], 59) »Gilroy, Paul. 1993. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness. Londres/New York: Verso.Alvarez, Sonia E. 2014. "Enacting a Translocal Feminist Politics of Translation." Dans Translocalities/Translocalidades : Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Américas. Sous la direction de Sonia E. Alvarez, Claudia de Lima Costa, Verónica Feliu, Rebecca J. Hester, Norma Klahn et Thayer Millie, 1-18. Durham/Londres: Duke University Press.Boudreau, Julie‐Anne, Nathalie Boucher et Marilena Liguori. 2009. "Taking the Bus Daily and Demonstrating on Sunday: Reflections on the Formation of Political Subjectivity in an Urban World." City 13 (2-3): 336-346.Di Marco, Graciela 2017 “Social Movement Demands in Argentina and the Constitution of a ‘'Feminist People'',” pp. 122–140 in Sonia E. Alvarez, Jeffrey W.  Rubin, Millie Thayer, Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Agustín Laó-Montes (eds.), Beyond Civil Society: Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America. Durham/London: Duke University Press. ​Co-animation : Zainab El-Guerrab et Fella Hadj Kaddour.Réalisation : Fella Hadj KaddourMusique : Gilles Ganassa et Lucie Ganassa

The UN Secretary General’s Policy Brief on COVID-19 in an Urban World reckons that urban areas are at the epicentre of the pandemic, accounting for an estimated 90 per cent of cases. Overcrowding and urban areas with poor infrastructure and housing or weak local governance leads to higher virus transmission.Solutions start at the local level which is why cities and local communities are uniquely placed to protect and support displaced people. The Global Compact on Refugees recognizes the crucial role mayors and local authorities play as first responders, a role even more critical now when we are all faced with the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. Providing shelter, health care, food and assistance are how a number of cities in South Africa are helping those forcibly displaced to cope through the pandemic.On 20 November 2020, we organized a conversation between UCLG Africa, UNHCR, a refugee representative, and city authorities to discuss the commitment to create inclusive cities despite the challenges that COVID-19 presentsFor more information, go to https://phap.org/20nov2020

In this concluding episode of the series "Urban World, Urban Church" we look at several odd things about the urban church.The first is how nationalism is increasingly disparaged in Christian circles today, while urban church people want us to strongly identify with our city. How many sermons or articles have warned about making an idol out of the city vs. making one of your nation? They seem to be encouraging us to transfer our allegiance from our country to our city.The second is how the urban church world is very focused on starting new churches, while rarely trying to renew old ones. This is very odd in light of how they often explicitly transform an entire city. Can you transform a city of you can't transform a church? The Catholic Church is an exception in this regard, having successfully transformed many parishes as neighborhood demographics changed.The third is how tribal these urban church groups seem to be. At the elite levels, they seem to have virtually nothing to do with each other (e.g., Redeemer NYC and Hillsong NYC) and avoid even commenting on each other.  They argue against nationalism by saying that our identity as fellow Christians should trump other loyalties, yet they seem to not even be in active fellowship with the church down the street.

This episode begins a series called "Urban World, Urban Church" looking at the trends in global urbanization and the church's response to them. This first installment looks at the great shift underway from a planet that was almost entirely rural a century ago to one that will be overwhelming urban at the end of this century. As cities and megacities growth, this will require a complete shift in the way that the church approaches evangelization and missions.

Deborah Lee Fong Plays Lead Role as Part of the Urban World Film Festival Live Screenplay Readings Veteran Actor/Dancer in Theater and on Television Brought Her Unique Talents to the Heart of New York for Special Performances at the 23rd Annual Festival  (New York, NY) -- Renowned Actress and Dancer Deborah Lee Fong recently appeared as Agnes in the production of “Secret Santa” during the Live Screenplay Readings as part of this year’s Urban World Film Festival. The event was presented by BET in partnership with the Writers Guild of America East. Known for her starring and supporting roles in “Footsteps” and “Footsteps 2” on PBS, the film “You and Your Decisions”, and countless national Theater productions, the energetic bilingual Panamanian American performer has been acting and dancing in theater/television for over 30 years. Versatile and engaging, she can seemingly play any character and also specializes in Salsa and pole dancing. Deborah was thrilled to be involved in this year’s festival as Agnes in “Secret Santa”. The Urbanworld Film Festival, founded in 1997 by Stacy Spikes, is one of the largest internationally competitive festivals of its kind. Each year, they curate a slate of films representing the broadest lens of diversity across stories, characters, themes, and cultures. Urbanworld is a five-day festival, anchored in film, showcasing narrative and documentary features, short films, spotlight screenings and conversations, and live staged screenplay readings.  For More on Deborah Lee Fong, contact her Manager: Mrs. T. Theresa Bastien ttbtalent5@gmail.com

Carl Seaton, born in Chicago, grew up with a strong affinity for movies and television shows. The meteoric rise of the VCR turned his affinity for movies in to a full-blown addiction. Carl's addiction led him to Columbia College Film School where he studied the crafts of Directing and Screenwriting. The creative environment at Columbia allowed Carl to flourish where he graduated with Honors. Carl's first feature film, One Week, was a drama about a heterosexual man that has to wait a week for the results of an HIV test as he prepares for his wedding. The ultra-low budget filmscreened all over the world in prestigious festivals like the Toronto International Film Festival, and Fespaco. One Week also garnered awards at several film festivals including the American Black Film Festival, Urbanworld, and the Chicago International Film Festival. Following the success of One Week, Carl co-wrote a screenplay, Step In The Name Of Love, that was acquired by MGM. In 2016, Carl premiered his latest film, a Movie of the Week for the TvOne Network, Bad Dad Rehab, starring Malik Yoba, the film is about four men that go to a rehab program that helps them become better fathers. The film garnered Carl a NAACP Image Award nomination. Carl's career in episodic directing began when he was hired by John Singleton to direct two episodes of the TV show Rebel. Since then, Carl has gone on to direct a wide range of shows like The CW's, The Originals, Batowman, Dynasty, and Supergirl, Dick Wolf's Chicago PD, Fire, Med, and FBI, the CBS drama Bull, and Showtime's The Chi. In February, Carl was nominated for a NAACP Image award for his work on directing the show , Snowfall, created by his mentor, the late John Singleton. Carl is currently gearing up to direct more shows in this next era of filmmaking - post pandemic, while developing a miniseries that will be based in Chicago. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theactorslounge/support

On this week's episode, Frank returns to the podcast after shooting a short film at the Jersey Shore, Bago and Jaime reunite with Jose Reyes at the Mets game, and Carmen Mendoza (filling in for Rachel) breaks down the most recent Democratic debate. On “Bochinche Bites”, Jaime dishes on Bang Bros trying to rename a sports arena, a woman getting a little "too excited" at a Broadway show, Popeyes telling their customers to bring their own buns, and Tinder making their own TV series. On this week’s “Frank-spiracy News”, Frank educates us on food additives and what they are made of. The crew interviews director Alain Alfaro and independent producer/festival programmer Juan Caceres about working with Jaime and Bago on the web series Henry, this year's Urban World film festival and Juan's favorite movies being shown at the festival, Alain's latest short film "Message Erased" (which is also screening at Urban World), and the state of Latino films in general.  This week's Que Lo Que Quickie is with actor Santiago Rosas who chats with us about his lead role as Benny in the Web series The North Pole, what to expect for season 2 of the show, and working with producer Rosario Dawson on the series. You can check out here at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTL_XyeFtPIaUGN1aR9YD0Q or on the site: http://www.thenorthpoleshow.com/ GET YOUR FUCHILA FRESHENERS LATINO POP CULTURE LINE OF MOBILE SCENTED ART! https://www.fuchilafresheners.com/ Enter LOL for a 10% discount   Visit our Website! Join our newsletter ----> http://eepurl.com/gxaU_f IG/FB @wearelatinosoutloud @alain_alfaro  @thenorthpoleshow/ TWITTER @LocaYBago @Alain_Alfaro @North_Pole_Show Rachel’s shows Pop Show hosted by Ziwe Sat, Sep 21 Doors 7 Show 7:30PM Union Hall- 702 Union Street Brooklyn, NY Tickets- www.unionhallny.com  Scrapped/ A Show for Writers Wed, Sep 25 Showtime-8 PM Peoples Improv Theatre 123 E. 24th Street NYC Tickets-https://thepit-nyc.secure.force.com/ticket/#sections_a0F1I00000A2gkKUAR Alain Alfaro’s short https://www.urbanworld.org/2019/message-erased Urban World Website https://www.urbanworld.org/

Rayka Zehtabchi is an Iranian-American film director based in Los Angeles. Her directorial debut, Madaran, is an Iranian language short film that has screened worldwide at established film festivals, winning jury awards at Hollyshorts, Urbanworld, and Cleveland International. Madaran qualified for the 89th Academy Awards in 2016. Rayka's short documentary, Period. End of Sentence., is about a group of village women in Northern India who start a sanitary pad business in an effort to improve feminine hygiene and de-stigmatize menstruation. Along with the film's release, the Period team co-founded the non-profit "The Pad Project" to fight the stigma of menstruation and improve feminine hygiene worldwide. Period double-qualified for the academy awards in 2018, winning Jury and audience awards at Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival and Cleveland International. The film also took home Jury and audience awards from AFI Fest among many others and won the Oscar in the Documentary Short category of the 91st Academy Awards®. What you’ll learn about in this episode: Where Rayka went to film school, and how she was approached to direct her short documentary "Period. End of Sentence." right out of film school How Rayka's first film festival in high school shaped her interests in filmmaking, and how she found purpose and community in filmmaking Rayka shares the experience of losing her father while she was attending USC film school, and how she felt pulled in different directions Rayka discusses her Iranian-language short film Madaran and why filming it helped her feel connected to her father and her Iranian heritage How Rayka was approached to direct "Period. End of Sentence." while she was in her senior year at film school, and why the subject matter was a reality check for her Why "Period. End of Sentence." was a powerful and necessary story to shine a light on an unspoken issue, and how Rayka directed it to be organic and authentic What impact filming "Period. End of Sentence." had on Rayka personally and emotionally, and how she was inspired by the women she filmed How Rayka and the filmmakers got involved with and launched the Pad Project, and how the film has exploded and created global awareness of this issue How Rayka and her team turned forty hours of raw film footage into a 25-minute short documentary What challenges Rayka faced in getting visibility for her film, and her thoughts on when she realized the film qualified to be submitted to the Academy Awards What it was like accepting her Oscar, and what Rayka has planned for the future going forward

Michele Baldwin is an American born Multi-medium Artist, Creator, Entrepreneur, Teaching Artist and Philanthropist. She has always been drawn to the arts in some capacity and strongly believes she came out of the womb performing and storytelling! As you can find Michele on IMDB or on various platforms; www.michelebaldwin.com (IG-Twitter-FB Imichelebaldwin), here are a few personal things about her. 1 of 7 children, Michele is a realist, witty, fun and possess a truly inspirational spirit. She loves working with and educating children, meeting new and interesting people and she loves all kinds of animals. Michele truly enjoys infusing her artistic abilities wherever she can and loves to paint, write scripts, inspirational/life poetry and quotes, and overall spending time enjoying life. Though as a lover of it, she is still working on the balance wheel of the business and her personal life, then again aren't we all. She additionally loves empowering and inspiring others in their journey, sharing knowledge and the fact that she still has so much to learn. Michele is driven and highly focused on living her dreams and goals, and although she works very hard and is dedicated to the outcome, she knows how to have fun and find joy in the process. Michele has over a decade of experience in executing strategy for independent films, stage plays, television productions and client-based digital media. Her experience encompasses all aspects of the Entertainment field: Film, TV, Theater and New Media. AS CEO of Michele Baldwin Enterprises, she works with many other collaborators and partners. Michele is very passionate about her work and feels amazingly blessed for the gifts and talents God has given her. Just as the character's she writes, Michele enjoys portraying generally strong, opinionated, witty and inspiring women and additionally feels the industry needs to truly embrace more women of varying shades, in viable roles not just in front of the camera but behind and in executive roles as well. Producing for the past ten years, Michele has earned considerable IMDB credits, helping to bring a varying array of independent films, commercials and theater projects to the forefront. Her projects have been in several popular film festivals; Urbanworld, Dances with Films, Jersey City International Film Festival, Bronzelens and Black Star Film Festival to name a few, with one having been a NAACP Image Award request. Michele is a student of the Einhorn School of Performing Arts and is a Member of: SAG-AFTRA, NYWIFT, IFP, WSA, Flobel Foundation- Advisor, Off-Broadway Alliance, The Newark Business Hub, TRU Nyc, Cast and Crew of Color and the Frank Silvera Writer's Workshop. She donates her time to the Giulio Gari Foundation, the Flobel Foundation and the Sounds of Tomorrow organization.

Michele Baldwin is an American born Multi-medium Artist, Creator, Entrepreneur, Teaching Artist and Philanthropist. She has always been drawn to the arts in some capacity and strongly believes she came out of the womb performing and storytelling! As you can find Michele on IMDB or on various platforms; www.michelebaldwin.com (IG-Twitter-FB Imichelebaldwin), here are a few personal things about her. 1 of 7 children, Michele is a realist, witty, fun and possess a truly inspirational spirit. She loves working with and educating children, meeting new and interesting people and she loves all kinds of animals. Michele truly enjoys infusing her artistic abilities wherever she can and loves to paint, write scripts, inspirational/life poetry and quotes, and overall spending time enjoying life. Though as a lover of it, she is still working on the balance wheel of the business and her personal life, then again aren't we all. She additionally loves empowering and inspiring others in their journey, sharing knowledge and the fact that she still has so much to learn. Michele is driven and highly focused on living her dreams and goals, and although she works very hard and is dedicated to the outcome, she knows how to have fun and find joy in the process. Michele has over a decade of experience in executing strategy for independent films, stage plays, television productions and client-based digital media. Her experience encompasses all aspects of the Entertainment field: Film, TV, Theater and New Media. AS CEO of Michele Baldwin Enterprises, she works with many other collaborators and partners. Michele is very passionate about her work and feels amazingly blessed for the gifts and talents God has given her. Just as the character's she writes, Michele enjoys portraying generally strong, opinionated, witty and inspiring women and additionally feels the industry needs to truly embrace more women of varying shades, in viable roles not just in front of the camera but behind and in executive roles as well. Producing for the past ten years, Michele has earned considerable IMDB credits, helping to bring a varying array of independent films, commercials and theater projects to the forefront. Her projects have been in several popular film festivals; Urbanworld, Dances with Films, Jersey City International Film Festival, Bronzelens and Black Star Film Festival to name a few, with one having been a NAACP Image Award request. Michele is a student of the Einhorn School of Performing Arts and is a Member of: SAG-AFTRA, NYWIFT, IFP, WSA, Flobel Foundation- Advisor, Off-Broadway Alliance, The Newark Business Hub, TRU Nyc, Cast and Crew of Color and the Frank Silvera Writer's Workshop. She donates her time to the Giulio Gari Foundation, the Flobel Foundation and the Sounds of Tomorrow organization.

Just is a Director from New York City.  His film 8 Million Miles From Hintahood screened at the BlackStar and Urbanworld film festivals.    

Hans and Menelek are back.  We discuss the Urbanworld Film Festival.  1 Angry Black Man won Honorable Mention in the best Narrative Feature category.  We will be at the Baltimore International Black Film Fest on October 6th at 2:30.    

We recorded this breakdown of white on white rap crime before Urbanworld.  We will give the breakdown of Urbanworld next week. The film Screens at the Baltimore International Black Film Festival on October 6th at 2:30pm.  

movie news Tournamment round 3 Urban world Film Fest 2018   

"1 Angry Black Man" will screen on September 22nd at 5:45 pm at the Urbanworld Film Festival in New York City.  You can watch the trailer and buy tickets here..... https://www.urbanworld.org/2018/1-angry-black-man GET YOUR TICKETS!

Whether it’s flying into New York City and seeing that iconic skyline, or cycling around Amsterdam, all cities have a certain mystique to them; and like it or not, from the chaotic crosswalks of Tokyo to the density of Delhi, cities are the future for the majority of humanity.  Currently, over fifty percent of our […]

Wow, listeners! Since there’s so much going on in the world of Film/TV, the Critic and the Referee have a lot to discuss (and keep up with). In this episode, they give you their takes on what they’ve seen, so far, at the New York Film Festival. (The festival’s public screenings begin Friday, September 30.) They also give you the highlights from the Urbanworld Film Festival, which just ended. But that’s not all. Two major films are in wide release Friday, so they just had to review them. The first film review is of “Deepwater Horizon,” which stars Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Gina Rodriguez, and Kate Hudson. The second is of “Queen of Katwe,” which screened at Urbanworld and stars Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo. (“Queen of Katwe” is already in limited release in selected cities.) But, even that isn’t all. What about Fall TV? New TV shows get the Why Watch That treatment. Plus, of course, there are a “Did You Know?” and a “Pick of the Week” that you don’t want to miss. Dig in! For complete info, visit whywatchthat.com! For our website, click here!

Wow, listeners! Since there’s so much going on in the world of Film/TV, the Critic and the Referee have a lot to discuss (and keep up with). In this episode, they give you their takes on what they’ve seen, so far, at the New York Film Festival. (The festival’s public screenings begin Friday, September 30.) They also give you the highlights from the Urbanworld Film Festival, which just ended. But that’s not all. Two major films are in wide release Friday, so they just had to review them. The first film review is of “Deepwater Horizon,” which stars Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Gina Rodriguez, and Kate Hudson. The second is of “Queen of Katwe,” which screened at Urbanworld and stars Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo. (“Queen of Katwe” is already in limited release in selected cities.) But, even that isn’t all. What about Fall TV? New TV shows get the Why Watch That treatment. Plus, of course, there are a “Did You Know?” and a “Pick of the Week” that you don’t want to miss. Dig in! For complete info and more, click here! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In what may be their most Brooklyn-centric interview yet, Haele & Maura talk about how they first met before being joined by filmmaker Raafi Rivero, who escorts them on an unforgettable night-ride along Eastern Parkway, the set of his debut feature film, '72 Hours: A Brooklyn Love Story'. For all you native New Yorkers, don't miss the NYC premiere of Raafi's film THIS WEEKEND, 9/24/16, at Urbanworld Festival. Links below! Links: Tickets to Urbanworld: http://www.urbanworld.org/2016/72-hours-a-brooklyn-love-story Raafi: http://raafirivero.com/film/ Twitter - @raffirivero The Film - http://abrooklynlovestory.com/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/HandfulofWheel/ Patreon: www.patreon.com/Handfulofwheel Twitter: @handful_wheel Instagram: @handfulofwheel Tumblr: handfulofwheelpc.tumblr.com/ Theme: brokeforfree.com/ Feel Good - Broke For Free Music: 1. Believe- Roger Singh Kahlon 2. Forever - Roger Singh Kahlon

Actors Connection President Tony Nation talks diverity issues in casting & how to get into indie films with Liz Ortiz-Mackes, one of the most actor-friendly CD's in town. Liz casts for film, theater, television, industrials and digital media.  As a casting director and indie film producer credited on projects which have screened at hundreds of US and International film festivals including: Sundance, Toronto, Palm Springs, HBO Latino, Urban World, Slam Dance, Berlin, Hamptons, South Africa, Costa Rica, Martha's Vineyard, Hamptons, Famous Monsters of Film Land among others, and have aired on HBO, Showtime and Cinemax; casting/producing highlights include: "Lost Revolution," with Oscar winner Melissa Leo and Aaron Stanton (Mad Men, The Nanny Diaries), Short film: "Pop Foul", "Crazy Beats Strong Every Time" & "The Bravest, The Boldest" by acclaimed director Moon Molson (Sundance), TV: Six Episodes of "Monsters Inside Me" for Animal Planet, "Garabatos" a pilot for Sinamaica Productions, "Soul Dancer" a PSA for the Wildlife Foundation directed by Oscar winner Igor Martinovic.     Liz was a SAG and Equity franchised talent agent on both coasts; Author of the highly acclaimed book "Ace Your Acting Audition," published by S.O.M.E. productions; was on the faculty of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts; New York Film Academy, and is an instructor and private coach for the Performing Option and conducts monthly workshops for the SAG/AFTRA Foundation. 

On the latest episode of the BIG show, we welcome three-time Black Reel Award-winning writer/director Gina Prince-Bythewood (Disappearing Acts, Love & Basketball and The Secret Lives of Bees) who will stop by to discuss her latest film, Beyond the Lights (the opening night film of the 18th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival). Plus, we'll kick off the festival season by previewing Urbanworld which gets underway this weekend in New York. We'll also have entertainment news and reviews of the latest films, including This Is Where I Leave You, The Maze Runner, Take Me to the River, and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby all on Episode 263 of Keeping It Reel with FilmGordon.

On the latest episode of the BIG show, we welcome three-time Black Reel Award-winning writer/director Gina Prince-Bythewood (Disappearing Acts, Love & Basketball and The Secret Lives of Bees) who will stop by to discuss her latest film, Beyond the Lights (the opening night film of the 18th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival). Plus, we'll kick off the festival season by previewing Urbanworld which gets underway this weekend in New York. We'll also have entertainment news and reviews of the latest films, including This Is Where I Leave You, The Maze Runner, Take Me to the River, and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby all on Episode 263 of Keeping It Reel with FilmGordon.

On the latest episode of the BIG show, we welcome three-time Black Reel Award winning writer/director Gina Prince-Bythewood (Disappearing Acts, Love & Basketball and The Secret Lives of Bees) who will stop by to discuss her latest film, Beyond the Lights (the opening night film of the 18th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival). Plus, we'll kick off the festival season by previewing Urbanworld which gets underway this weekend in New York. We'll also have entertainment news and reviews of the latest films, including This Is Where I Leave You, The Maze Runner, Take Me to the River and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby all on Episode 263 of Keeping It Reel with FilmGordon.

New Teaching Series, The Third Part of our Look at the Book of Acts, In this series we will look at the importance of Cities in spreading the Gospel

André's resume includes the New York City Public Schools, The Ford Foundation, Miramax Films, Urbanworld, Film Movement, Universal, HBO, Picturehouse, and Dreamworks. His production credits include the 2007 BET Awards Post Show and “Starrbooty”, his project with RuPaul, a festival hit during the summer of 2007. He managed product placement & clearances for “Rocket Science” and his feature “Dirty Laundry” received the NAACP Image Award & GLAAD Media Award nominations. André directed and produced “The Prep School Negro”. He started touring with the educational version in 2009 visiting nearly 200 high schools, colleges, universities and conferences with workshops booked through 2013. Now living in New York City, the Philadelphia native serves as a consultant and advisor for Connecticut College's Mellon Undergraduate Research Program in the Arts and Humanities, as a member of the Advisory Board for Ready Willing and Able: The Doe Fund, Inc., on the Jury for the Academy Awards Student competition, the Blacksoil Film Festival and has served as a Reader for The Gates Millennium Scholars Program as well as a speaker at The Gates Millennium Scholars Program Leadership Conferences. André also serves on the Alumni Board of Directors of Connecticut College from where he received his BA. He also received his Master's in the Art of Teaching from Tufts University.

Every Week Mix 014 - Urban World Compiling, Mixing & Editing By Petko Turner Please don't forget that those tracks are only a way to promote our world as DJs. Songs mixed on this set is to discover music. If you're an artist or copyright holder and if you want remove something because you don't want to be a part of it send an e-mail. If you're happy that we don't forget you, send an e-mail too! Download for free on The Artist Union

Date: 13 May 2007 (Evening)Title: Following Christ in an urban worldPreacher: David Smith