Act One Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 25 - Interview with Director D.J. Caruso and Producer Simon Swart of the new film, REDEEMING LOVE . Based on the bestselling novel by Francine Rivers, REDEEMING LOVE is a powerful story of relentless love and perseverance as a young couple’s relationship clashes with the harsh realities of the California Gold Rush of 1850. It is a life- changing story of...

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 24 - Interview with Director, Andrew Erwin. Andrew and his brother Jon are the filmmaking team known by most as the Erwin Brothers. The Alabama born brothers grew up around college football and entertainment. Their father, a local news anchor introduced them to the television industry at a young age. As teenagers they began their career in sports televisi...

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 23 - Interview with Filmmaker, Kirby Atkins. Kirby Atkins has written feature film scripts for Robert De Niro, MIRAMAX, and 20th CENTURY FOX. He has worked with some of the most recognizable names in cinema across animation and visual effects such as Sony Animation, Weta Digital, and Steven Spielberg. His short film "Mutt" won BEST ANIMATED SHOR...

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 22 - Interview with Film Producer, Howard Kazanjian. Over his 50 year career in Hollywood, Howard Kazanjian has made films with some of the most important filmmakers of all time such as Robert Wise, Billy Wilder, Paul Newman, Sam Peckinpah, Clint Eastwood, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Alfred Hitchcock just to name a few. Some o...

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 21 - Interview with Actor Max McLean and Director Norman Stone of the new film, THE MOST RELUCTANT CONVERT. THE MOST RELUCTANT CONVERT features award-winning actor Max McLean as the older Lewis and Nicholas Ralph – breakout star of PBS Masterpiece’s All Creatures Great and Small – as young Lewis. Beautifully filmed in and around Oxford this engaging biopi...

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 20 - Interview with Author, Houston Howard. Houston is an entrepreneur, creator, producer, professor, author, speaker and thought-leader in the space of multiplatform, transmediated entertainment — or what he simply calls, Super Story. Driven by a passion and desire to build generational IP that leverages both narrative velocity and brand scalability, Hou...

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 19 - Interview with Screenwriter and Director, Scott Teems. Scott is an Act One alumni and a Georgia-born filmmaker whose upcoming projects include the Universal/Blumhouse releases HALLOWEEN KILLS, which he co-wrote with David Gordon Green and Danny McBride, THE EXORCIST, another collaboration with Green and McBride, and Stephen King’s FIRESTARTER, which...

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 18 - Interview with Screenwriter, James Cary. James Cary is the co-creator and co-writer of the BBC comedy BLUESTONE 42 . His other TV credits include MIRANDA , MY HERO and MY FAMILY as well as co-writing several series with comedian, Milton Jones. James has also script-edited and written for a number of other British comedy series including CONCRETE COW,...

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 17 - Interview with Filmmaker Brent Gudgel of the new documentary film, FREE BURMA RANGERS. For the past 20 years Brent has been a busy documentary director. His credits include the acclaimed documentary Free Burma Rangers, Dear Francis (Showtime television), and Lovin’ Lakin for Hulu (featuring Kristen Bell, Seth McFarlin, Jamie Lee Curtis). He has also...

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 16 - Special Episode featuring the Act One TV Showrunner Roundtable Discussion with Saladin K. Patterson (ABC's THE WONDER YEARS), Monica Macer (CBS' MACGVYER), Sheryl J. Anderson (Netflix's SWEET MAGNOLIAS), and Brian Bird (Hallmark's WHEN CALLS THE HEART). Recorded on Thursday, February 11th, 2021, this roundtable offers a fascinatin...

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 15 - Interview with Producer Darren Moorman of the new Netflix film, Blue Miracle. Darren Moorman is a seasoned producer and the head of Reserve Entertainment. He has worked with studios that include MGM, Lionsgate, and Paramount Pictures. His latest film, Blue Miracle , starring Dennis Quaid, premiered on Netflix on May 27th, 2021. Darren’s debut film wa...

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 14 - Interview with Director Roman White and Producer Gabriel Vasquez of the new Netflix film, A Week Away. An accomplished director, White has worked with some of the biggest names in entertainment including Taylor Swift, Blake Shelton, Justin Bieber, Kelly Clarkson, Colbie Caillat, Josh Groban, Reba, and Shakira. Also an animator and FX artist, White ha...

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 13 - Interview with Screenwriter and Comic Book Writer, Jim Krueger. Jim is an American comic book writer, novelist, and filmmaker. He is considered one of the top-rated writers currently working in American comics. In addition to creating his own comics properties such as The High Cost of Happily Ever After and The Runner , his projects include the prest...

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 12 - Interview with Screenwriter, Clare Sera. Clare Sera has written both live action and animated films for Disney, Warner Bros., Sony, Paramount, Universal and more. A few even got made including BLENDED with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, and the Warner Bros. animated film, SMALLFOOT. When she isn’t writing movies, she helps to empower inner city gal...

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 11 - Interview with Assistant Executive Director of the WGA West, Charles Slocum. Charles Slocum is an Assistant Executive Director at the Writer’s Guild of America, West, and previously worked at Paramount Pictures as a financial analyst, NBC as a game show judge, and ABC as a Nielsen Ratings analyst. He has a BA from the Newhouse School at Syracuse Univ...

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 10 - Interview with music journalist and poet, Steve Turner. Steve Turner is an English music journalist, biographer, and poet, who has spent his career chronicling and interviewing people from the worlds of music, film, television, fashion, art, and literature. He regularly contributes to newspapers such as The Mail on Sunday and The Times and his many b...

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 09 - Interview with author, Carrie Arcos. Carrie Arcos was born in Albany, NY. She studied English and Philosophy at Gordon College and received her teaching credential through Chapman University and her MA in Creative Writing from California State University Los Angeles. A teacher of high school and college students for years, she finally had the courage...

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 08 - Interview with producer, Justin Bell. Justin Bell is a feature film, TV, and branded entertainment producer based in Los Angeles. His latest project, the horror-comedy “Summoned” for Disney/20th Digital, is currently airing on Hulu, FX and Freeform. He is also in post-production on a 1970’s style superhero heist movie – The Hyperions (2020) , starrin...

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 07 - Interview with filmmaker and director of the new comedy film, Faith Based, Vince Masciale. Vincent Masciale is a director, producer, and co-founder of Lone Suspect, a production company based in Los Angeles. He has directed two feature films, television pilots, a digital series and comedy sketches for Funny or Die, and spent 10 years as an editor for...

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 06 - Interview with television screenwriter, Jeremy Howe. Born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Jeremy moved to Los Angeles in 2002 for an internship at “The Young and The Restless.” After three long years in the CBS mail room, he was fortunate enough to get a Production Assistant job on the short- lived CBS sitcom “Out of Practice.” Following a season...

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 05 - Interview with illusionist and author, Harris III. Harris III (“the third”) has almost 30 years of experimentation as a creative entrepreneur. Harris began his career at a young age, traveling the world as an award-winning, professional illusionist. He has performed for and spoken live to more than two million people in more than 30 countries on five...

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 04 - Interview with filmmaker, Craig Detweiler. Filmmaker, author, and exec Craig Detweiler, Ph. D., wrote the screenplays for The Duke , the comedic road trip, Extreme Days and directed the award-winning documentary Remand , narrated by Angela Bassett.  His acclaimed books include iGods: How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives (2013) Selfies...

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 03 - Interview with screenwriter, Scott Reynolds.  Reynolds is a television writer who has worked on the Marvel and Netflix television series' Jessica Jones and Iron Fist and Marvel's Inhumans as a writer and executive producer. He was a consulting producer on the Fox series The Following, and was a supervising producer on Showtime's Dexter...

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 02 - Interview with screenwriter, Todd Komarnicki.  Komarnicki is a prolific writer, producer and director of film and television as well as an acclaimed novelist. His screenplays include "Sully," directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Tom Hanks in the title role. Perfect Stranger, starring Bruce Willis and Halle Berry, and The Professor and th...

Send us Fan Mail Act One Podcast - Episode 01 - Interview with film producer, Ralph Winter. Ralph Winter is an American film producer who has helped to produce blockbuster movies such as the X-Men , Fantastic Four and Star Trek series as well as I, Robot and Planet of the Apes . His films have grossed collectively over $2 billion (USD). Winter is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the...