Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods

For those who are blessed to call Helen Ahn Cutler friend, the four words that come to mind are heart, soul, mind and strength. Because Helen is all heart, all soul, all brilliance and so powerful in all the best ways. All the time! We discuss her work as an Editor and Creative Director at some great shops like Ant Farm, JAX and her stint at Paramount Vantage. But any introduction of Helen has to...

Co-host Brandi Seymour, 10 year entertainment advertising industry veteran, and Corey discuss some great pieces of work from the last several weeks. Lily Lasuzzo, SVP Global Creative Advertising at LionsGate, makes a special appearance to discuss the fabulous  Barb & Star.  Here's what's on the docket: Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar  Teaser ; LionsGate, Trailer Park The United States Vs. Billie H...

Dave Yocum and Kelly Yocum are both great trailer editors. And, yes, they're related - Dave is Kelly's dad. Dave is a legendary editor, producer, creative director at Create Advertising Group. He's responsible for some of the most admired trailers of all time including the 300 Trailer and the Bohemian Rhapsody Teaser. He's also known for creating most of the Harry Potter trailers as well as campai...

Tom Grane, Co-founder and CEO of Mob Scene, arguably the pre-eminent creative agency for strategic content, such as Behind-the-Scenes and what's called "EPKs" Electronic Press Kits, in the entertainment industry. Mob Scene also has a widely respected trailer division along with social/digital, brand work and original productions. Tom shares his experience navigating family and the company through...

Today's guest is the first of what we'll be doing a lot more of in 2021: Bringing in folks who are in the trenches now. Louis Plamondon, Trailer Editor at Zealot, who some might know as "Sleepy Skunk," is helping to shape the trailer industry of today. He's perhaps best known for those incredible trailer mashups he's been doing since 2010. But he's also a pretty killer editor on major campaigns su...

How may people on the planet can say they've been involved in 2,500 major motion picture campaigns? Tony Seiniger can! His work includes some of the most iconic movie posters of all time such as Jaws, Rocky Horror Picture Show, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 9 to 5, Breakfast Club, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Poltergeist, Moonstruck, Private Benjamin, Schindler's List  and on and on. Joined...

Charlotte "Charlie" Honess, a groundbreaking trailer editor and producer who's known for so many great pieces from the original The Fast and the Furious teaser to The Devil Wears Prada, from True Detective to The Glorias and so many more, has won multiple awards, leading the way and influencing so many other prominent women as well as everyone in the trailer industry. Plus, Charlie discusses the i...

Steve Panama was not only the CEO and Creative Director of Kaleidoscope, which established the standard for what a modern trailer shop could be before there really was such a thing as trailer companies; he is also the trailblazer who was the first in the industry to transition from film to non-linear computer editing systems, as well as the first to bring fiber into the process as a way for creati...

Joel Wayne, long-time EVP of Crea Adv at Warner Bros and living legend in the trailer industry, started in the late 1950's among the real-life Mad Men of Madison Ave. Joel came to Warner Bros in 1980 and spearheaded campaigns for Chariots of Fire, Road Warrior, The World According to Garp, Outsiders, Risky Business, The Color Purple, Beetlejuice, Driving Miss Daisy, Goodfellas, New Jack City, X, Y...

Angel Mendoza, the Director of Music at AV Squad, is arguably the soul of some of the greatest collaborations in the history of the trailer business. Check out some great pieces such as the  No Country for Old Men  red band trailer, the  42  trailer with  Brooklyn We Go Hard,  all the  Fast & Furious  campaigns of recent years, or  Creed, John Wick 3, The Witch, Hereditary, Climax  and  Free Guy  ...

The great summit of Nerds & Geeks! Today's episode is with 2 of the hosts of the Nerd On! podcast "...where ALL LEVELS OF NERD (and geek) ARE WELCOME!" It is a weekly comedy, pop-culture podcast, in which a group of nerds in LA hangout, joke, analyze, discuss, and laugh about all things nerd! From comic books to film and everything in between, the Nerd On crew tackles it all. Two of the hosts Josh...

Michael Kahane is one of the original rock star editors of the modern trailer industry and went on to co-found Mojo which he ran for about 12 years before starting Carve with Markus Wernig in 2012. Some of his greatest hits include To Live and Die in L.A., Driving Miss Daisy, Field of Dreams, Glory, Jerry Maguire, Saving Private Ryan, Almost Famous, Terminal, W, Precious, and The Hunger Games amon...

Originally a "theatre geek" Destiny Esposito has carved out a career in entertainment marketing as an editor, producer, creative director and now EVP Creative Advertising at Paramount. Des has a 20+ year track record of designing and executing successful motion picture, television, online content, home entertainment, and Broadway creative marketing efforts. SpongeBob, Crawl, Incredibles 2, Coco, M...

Mike Southerly is an award winning creative executive and creative director with over 20 years in the industry working on both sides of the marketing world, most recently a long stint as EVP Creative Advertising at Fox and Creative Director at Concept Arts. Dumb and Dumber, Austin Powers, Not Another Teen Movie, The Simpsons Movie, Marley and Me and Percy Jackson are just a few of the many campaig...

Michele Bell, SVP W'wide Creative Services for Paramount Home Entertainment, leads creative adv. for DVD package + menu design + print, broadcast, VOD + Internet advertising. Prior to Para., Michele was VP Crea. Services Home Ent. at Universal. Before that, she rose through the ranks at New Line to VP Crea. Adv. Home Ent. Just a few highlight campaigns incl Dumb & Dumber, Se7en, Scarface, E.T. 20t...

Matt Brubaker, Trailer Park's President of Film and active member of the Academy,  is considered one of the top theatrical marketers in the industry, having worked on award-winning campaigns such as DUNKIRK, BABY DRIVER, INTERSTELLAR, MAD MAX, SUICIDE SQUAD, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, THE GREAT GATSBY, GODZILLA, and OCEAN'S ELEVEN. Previously he was a creative exec at New Line Cinema and Warner Bros....

Phil Daccord, long time Creative Director of Giaronomo and Managing Partner of Giaronomo LA, is the VP of AV and Creative Director at Ignition Creative, well known in the trailer industry as a legend of the craft having finished dozens of top trailers and teasers including such absolute trailer gems such as The Matrix, Panic Room, V for Vendetta, Scorsese's classic The Departed, Steve Jobs for Dan...

Dana Flowers, EVP of Crea. Adv. at Sony Pics + a member of the Academy, has worked on award-winning campaigns in the theatrical, home entertainment and Broadway space incl. Acrimony, Insecure, Deep Water Horizon, Gemini Man, Anchorman 2, Frozen, Monsters University + many more . At Sony, Dana oversees the studio's movie campaigns including trailers, media spots as well as in-theater and outdoor ad...

Bill Neil, editor/producer at Buddha Jones, is often regarded as one of the leading trailer editors of all time, in particular for his work in horror, but really across multiple genres and in trailers as an artform. Two of his trailers, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Dawn of the Dead , are often cited among the top trailers of all time. His other work includes Once Upon a Time in Hollywood , It, It C...

Skip Chaisson, one of the greatest trailer editors of all time from his days at Kaleidoscope Films, is founder of Skip Film + Chief Creative Officer of El Rey Network. At Skip Film, in addition to trailers, his team's done brilliant work in broadcast, main titles, original content, commercials + more. Skip's trailer work includes Mission: Impossible, Space Jam, Titanic, The Lost World, Gone In 60...

Jennie Wilkes - Director, Global Crea. Mktg. @ Netflix + part of the team named Ad Age's Top Marketer of 2016, has worked on campaigns for Marvel properties Jessica Jones + Daredevil, with Shawn Levy on Stranger Things + I Am Not Ok With This, with Ryan Murphy on Hollywood + Politician + many more. *This was recorded in early May at the onset of Corona Virus but before the murder of George Floyd....

Founded in 1979, Intralink was a force in entertainment advertising for over 30 years contributing to the marketing of such films as  E.T.,  The Color Purple,  Rain Man,  Thelma & Louise,  The Da Vinci Code, the Batman movies and many more. It is also where some of the greatest contributors to the industry got their start.  Anthony's and Intralink's impact on the art and the industry as a whole is...

Founded in 1979, Intralink was a force in entertainment advertising for over 30 years contributing to the marketing of such films as E.T. , The Color Purple , Rain Man , Thelma & Louise, The Da Vinci Code , the Batman movies and many more. It is also where some of the greatest contributors to the industry got their start. Anthony's and Intralink's impact on the art and the industry as a whole is i...

Stephanie Allen started in NYC at Rolling Stone Mag. as Assoc. Photo Editor. She went on to Tri-Star as Dir. of Advertising, and then promoted to VP of Creative Adv. In her career, she also worked at Seiniger Advertising, Orion and Digital Pulp. In 2000, Stephanie relocated to L.A. to join Fox Searchlight as the SVP Crea. Adv. and New Media, having worked on Slumdog Millionaire, Sideways, Juno, Li...

Wayne Watson, Creative Dir. and President of Ignition Creative, initially wrote a long winded 6 paragraph bio overusing words like "passion" and "inspiration".  Remembering his humble beginnings as a trailer editor, he realized he needed to get it down to "time" and wrote a simple paragraph… For over 15 years, he's worked across the entertainment spectrum in every genre, platform and style. He lov...