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• 8/28/24
Small Town Empire (with Chris Mitchell)
Meet Chris Mitchell. Musician, educator, and entrepreneur. Chris started out in the small town of Hagan, GA and after attending Georgia Southern University would go on to establish music related businesses based in Statesboro, GA. Among these are Pladd Dot Music where Chris teaches others and sells his own brand of guitars and amplifiers.
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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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• 7/17/24
Music: The Great Connector (with Tiffany Goode)
Meet Tiffany Goode, musician, composer, ethnomusicoligist and actress. Tiffany started playing the trumpet at an early age but spent many years working in television, both on the operational and corporate side before returning to music full time.
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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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• 6/5/24
Managing The Messy Middle (with Elizabeth Gordon)
Meet Elizabeth Gordon. Writer, Creator, and Entrepreneur. Elizabeth started out as an actress and producer in theatre & film but would later transition into the world of writing and wellness.
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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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Geek of All Trades (with Jon Erwin)
Meet Jon Erwin, an Award-winning producer, director and writer behind such series as Ancient Recipes with Shola and Ancient Workouts with Omar, both for the History channel. Jon has also worked extensively with the Syfy network helping to significantly increase their engagement on social media.
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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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• 4/10/24
Playing The Game (with Stephen Scott)
Meet Stephen Scott, musician, audio engineer and CEO of BigMouth Audio. A company based out of Glasgow, Scotland. Stephen’s journey took him from running studios for musicians to doing audio for businesses to doing sound design for video games and trailers.
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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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• 3/13/24
Wrestling With It All (with Frances Chang)
Meet Frances Chang. Writer, producer, director, graphic designer, who has also done extensive work in the realm of marketing and public relations. Her experience in arts and entertainment has careened from puppetry and professional wrestling to film and theatre.
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• 2/28/24
Waxing Comical (with Val Bodurtha)
Meet Val Bodurtha. Comedian and writer, who published a novel at 17 and won a Young Writer's Publication Contest and a Silver Benjamin Franklin Medal. Having caught the comedy bug at a young age, Val did some training in Chicago, and eventually returned to New York where she began to help set up shows for other comedians.
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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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Drano For The Brain (with A.W. Miller)
Meet A.W. Miller. An actor, voice actor, audiobook narrator, teacher, and podcaster who says his most important roles are father and husband. As he nears the end of his career as an educator, A.W. produces a podcast called Alabaster Flats with his son, and his wife learned to edit audio to help him make audiobooks.
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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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• 11/1/23
Audio Drama in America's Icebox (with Jeff Adams)
Meet Jeff Adams, founder of the Icebox Radio Theater, which creates podcasts and live radio theater shows in America’s icebox, International Falls, MN. Twenty years after he first envisioned starting a community theater company, Jeff has produced several ongoing series, such as the Scoop Sisters Mysteries, Frozen Frights, Funny in a Small Town, and Rum Runner Sue…bringing stories of America’s northland to the world.
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• 10/18/23
Hope In A Time Of Zombies (with the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company)
Meet David Benedict, Diana Lancaster and Kayla Pierre-Louis: three members of the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company which is best known for its podcast Mercury: A Broadcast of Hope. Since 1984, the ARTC has set out to create quality audio-drama with their flagship project crystalizing in the form of a faux-radio show set in the zombie apocalypse.
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• 9/13/23
F*ck You, Universe! (with Julie Shaer)
Meet Julie Shaer, an actor, director and producer, who found her way back to the creative world after getting lost for a time in corporate America.
Julie has fought her way back to the stage with the help of a group called Sketchworks Comedy, which had to win a lawsuit to show their play “Vape; The Musical” which is a parody of Grease..
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• 9/6/23
Money Ruins Everything (with Chris Burke)
Meet Chris Burke, creator of the Mandible Judy: a sci-fi horror podcast that has spawned 2 spinoffs, Under Dead Water and Becalmed. Over a long career, Chris has journeyed from music to sound design all the way to writing, directing, and producing his own podcast series.
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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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• 7/26/23
The Best Kind of Punishment (with Eric Robinson)
Eric Robinson is the CFO of Face Off Unlimited and one of the creators of Batsu, a live, improvised Japanese-style game show. The show has become a staple in New York and expanded to Chicago.
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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.
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• 7/2/23
Meet Your Hosts: Billie Jo Konze | SCRATCH CLAW PUSH
Meet Billie Jo Konze, co-host of the Scratch Claw Push podcast.
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• 7/2/23
Meet Your Hosts: Brandon Duke | SCRATCH CLAW PUSH
Meet Brandon Duke, co-host of the Scratch Claw Push podcast.