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• 8/21/24
The Silent Language (with Zoe Kerr)
Meet Zoe Kerr. Actress, director, and writer, whose work has been recognized by several film festivals and whose pilot script for "Prey For Us” won second place in the Pilot Category of the Slamdance Screenplay. She also got some attention on social media for her super-creative pitch video for her Seed & Spark campaign for her short film “A Mother.”
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• 8/14/24
In The Spirit of Respect (with Jamie Flanagan)
Meet Jamie Flanagan. Actor, writer, director and producer, and one of the founders of Respectful Productions, a company committed to making “spirited films, respectfully made.”
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• 8/7/24
The Siren Song of Cinema (with Hannah Fierman)
Meet Hannah Fierman. An actor, director, and producer, who found early success with the film V/H/S and it’s prequel Siren. She’s also appeared in The Vampire Diaries and Dynasty, along with a seemingly endless slew of other movies and TV shows. In the last few years she’s transitioned into directing and producing.
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• 7/31/24
The Way of The Ninja Puppet (with Raymond Carr)
Meet Raymond Carr, puppeteer and filmmaker who got his start in the early days of Atlanta film before Hollywood set up shop in Georgia. Now he works with the Jim Henson company, Apple TV+, and has worked alongside Benedict Cumberbatch in the Netflix series “Eric.”
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• 7/10/24
The Key To The Kingdom (with Gregg Millman)
Meet Gregg MIllan. A creative Director, writer and producer, who creates content with storytelling skills sharpened as a professional screenwriter and an NBC News Producer. He is also the author of the Kandy Kingdom Saga, a children’s book set in a magical world torn apart by war between the silly Sweet Treat candies and the evil Sour Powers.
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• 6/26/24
Feeding The Machine (with Jeremy Ryan Carr)
Meet Jeremy Ryan Carr. An award winning commercial director and documentary filmmaker. Jeremy has directed campaigns for major brands and ad agencies, cut award-winning features and spots, and been recognized by the Emmy Awards, the Cannes Lions, the Webby Awards, and the Telly Awards.
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• 6/19/24
The Question of Identity (with James Kicklighter)
Meet James Kicklighter. An award-winning director and producer of narrative films, documentaries and advertising. His work has been recognized by the world’s press, including The Hollywood Reporter, The Times of India, Film Courage and FilmInk Australia. Though he grew up in the small town of Bellville, Georgia, he has worked across the United States and around the world as well.
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• 6/12/24
Karate Kid Yourself (with Michael Brown)
Meet Michael Brown, an American TV producer and documentary filmmaker, who first become widely known for his series “Haunted State.” Michael took an unconventional path to the world of filmmaking and talks about how he amalgamated the skills he needed through working in various fields.
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• 5/29/24
Speaking Through Film (with Zack Burkett)
Meet Zack Burkett. Writer, Director, Editor and Producer. Starting his career in the Baltimore area, Zack eventually found his way into the Atlanta film community. Having developed a stutter at an early age, Zack would use his skills as a filmmaker to elevate his artistic voice.
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• 5/15/24
The 3-D Actor (with Kevin Saunders)
Meet Kevin Saunders. Actor, producer, and director. Starting as an actor in D.C., Maryland, Virginia (a.k.a. The DMV), Kevin eventually found his way to Atlanta and branched out into producing and directing, which helped his acting along the way.
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• 5/1/24
In Service of The Story (with Greg Cope White)
Meet Greg Cope White. A screenwriter, producer, author, USMC veteran and “inveterate bon vivant.” Greg was a young gay kid who joined the Marines before the age of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." He later went on to become a TV writers and would work for American television titan, Norman Lear. Today, he is producing a series called "The Corps" based on his memoir, "The PInk Marine" about his time in the USMC.
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• 4/17/24
Kindred Quests For Creatives (with Dave Zaboski)
Meet Dave Zaboski. Former animator for Disney, Warner Bros, and Sony and the founder of Laetro: a proprietary, collaborative platform made for creatives by creative. Dave’s journey has taken him from being a hired gun to some of the biggest entertainment companies in the world to being a self-described “freedom fighter for creatives.”
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• 3/20/24
Talk of The Town (with Chuck Thomas)
Meet Chuck Thomas. Screenwriter, novelist, and host of the Atlanta Film Chat podcast. From the early 2000’s, Chuck has been a part of the Atlanta film scene from before the days when Hollywood came to town. Now he uses his platform to highlight local independent filmmakers from in and around the ATL.
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• 2/7/24
The People Industry (with Naomi B. Smith)
Meet Naomi B. Smith. Art director, set decorator, photographer, writer, and director. After years spent in the background of film and tv productions, Naomi stepped forward taking the reins as writer and director on her upcoming short film “I Love You.”
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• 11/29/23
Passion As Propulsion (with Christopher "Chiz" Chisolm)
Meet Christopher “Chiz” Chisolm: Actor, Writer, Producer, and director, who was part of the original launch team that started E! Entertainment Television. Having started his journey in the theater, Chiz would later go into TV & movies, eventually running a brick & mortar studio and watching the technology and business of entertainment evolve over a long career.
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• 9/20/23
Time to Give Up or Double Down (with Jeremy Thao)
Meet Jeremy Thao, a writer and director based out of Atlanta, who is receiving a lot of attention for his short film “Wok Man.” After working on many short films as an assistant director, Jeremy took the reins, and utilized his connections around the Georgia film community to bring his personal story of an Asian immigrant family to life.
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• 8/23/23
New Old Good Bad Monster Movies, A Family Affair (with Christopher R. Mihm)
Meet Christopher R. Mihm, a writer, director and producer of the “Mihmiverse,” a series feature length films that pay homage to 1950’s drive-in cinema. Since 2006, Mihm has churned out a film almost every year creating a vast catalog of movies and a cult following to boot.
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• 8/16/23
Let's Get Absurdly Serious (with Gabriel & Rachel Malasig)
Meet Rachel & Gabriel Malasig, a husband and wife team who make up two thirds of the production company Pranksters Ink. Rachel is a veteran of several big Hollywood productions as well as producing several independent short films. Gabriel is an Air Force veteran who is making his way into the world of screenwriting having already won the screenwriting competition at the 2022 Slamdance Film Festival.
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• 8/9/23
Underwater Filmmaking and Other Ways To Save The Earth (with Shannon Morrall)
Meet Shannon Morrall. A director, writer, and actor (and my former roommate), currently getting her MFA in film production from the University of Southern California. Shannon most recently had the chance to direct her first documentary short about the fight against the invasive lionfish in her home state of Florida. But Shannon aspires to share stories on a more epic scale.
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• 7/19/23
Improvisational Meteorology and Other Assorted Skills (with Marc Isaacs)
Marc Isaacs is a writer, director, actor, and producer who seems to have never met a gig he couldn’t make interesting. Marc joins us to talk about his lengthy resume and the many roads he’s traveled to get to where he is today.