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Spoiler Alert Radio

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Spoiler Alert Radio features conversations on the craft of film making. We discuss film making with some of the most engaging and talented cinematographers, production designers, editors, composers, sound designers, and more. Both entertaining and informative, Spoiler Alert Radio gives you a sneak peek behind the scenes in the world of film. It is aired on Pacifica Radio Network affiliates throughout the country. Please note that due to terrestrial radio syndication, there is a 3-4 week delay in publishing podcast episodes.

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Jun 19, 2026

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Andrew Baseman - Set Decorator - Kinsey, The Nanny Diaries, The Normal Heart, Gotham, Mindhunter, Crazy Rich Asians, The Trial of the Chicago 7, In the Heights 11.09.2020

For over 20 years, Andrew Baseman has worked as a designer and set decorator on diverse film and television projects including: Kinsey ,  The Nanny Diaries , The Americans , The Normal Heart , Gotham , and Mindhunter . More recent projects from Andrew include: Crazy Rich Asians , for which he won an Art Directors Guild Award , The Trial of the Chicago 7 , and the upcoming movie musical In the Heig...

Nelson Coates - Production Designer - Flight, On the Basis of Sex, Crazy Rich Asians, Home Before Dark, In The Heights 04.09.2020

Nelson's work includes such films as Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead , Antwone Fisher , On the Basis Of Sex , and Flight , for which he received an Art Directors Guild (ADG) Nomination for Best Contemporary Feature Design.   More recently, Nelson won the ADG Excellence in Production Design Award for his work on Jon M. Chu's Crazy Rich Asians . Nelson's latest projects include the series Ho...

Ellen Brill - Set Decorator - Nip/Tuck, American Horror Story, The House With A Clock In Its Walls, Bombshell 28.08.2020

After graduating the UCLA Interior Design Program , Ellen has worked for thirty years in feature film and television and has earned eight Emmy nominations.   Ellen has been the Set Decorator for four seasons of American Horror Story including: Murder House, Asylum, Coven and Hotel and the Nip/Tuck series.  More recently, Ellen was Set Decorator for the acclaimed films The House With A Clock In Its...

Leslie Rollins - Set Decorator - Get Shorty, A Beautiful Mind, The Departed, The Good Shepherd, The Night Of, and the upcoming Ava and Free Guy 21.08.2020

Leslie started his career in theater and prop management, working in NYC and owning his own prop shop.  Early on in his career, he won a CableACE Award on In Search Of Dr. Seuss . Since 1983, Leslie has worked as a Set Decorator for feature film. His many notable film projects include Get Shorty , The Thomas Crown Affair , Analyze This , A Beautiful Mind , The Departed , The Good Shepherd , as an...

Susan Benjamin - Set Decorator - Frost/Nixon, The Blind Side, Saving Mr. Banks, The Founder, The Highwaymen, Why Women Kill 14.08.2020

Susan has been decorating and designing film, television, and interiors for 30 years and has been nominated for an Emmy award and received a service award from the Set Decorators of America . Some of Susan's television work includes the Emmy -nominated The Stand , Roswell , The Guardian , and Why Women Kill . Her film projects include: Frost/Nixon , The Blind Side , Saving Mr. Banks , The Founder...

Damian Volpe - Sound Designer, Supervisor, and Re-Recording Mixer - Happiness, Winter's Bone, Little Men, It Comes At Night, Mudbound, A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, and The Lighthouse 07.08.2020

Based in Brooklyn, Damian is a founding member of HARBOR's sound division, and is a working partner of ((Audience)) , a non-profit group dedicated to presenting music and sound art in new contexts, including the use of movie theaters as concert halls. Damian's feature film work films includes: Happiness , Winter's Bone , It Comes At Night , Little Men , Mudbound , Leave No Trace , The Lighthouse ,...

Piotr Sobocinski Jr. - Polish Cinematographer - Bogowie/Gods, Wolyn, Silent Night, Corpus Christi 31.07.2020

Cinematography runs in Piotr's blood. He is the son of the late great Piotr Sobocinski and the grandson of Witold Sobocinski . Piotr studied film at Lodz Film School before starting his career. Piotr's work has garnered him several awards and nominations, including Polish Film Awards for his work on the films: Wolyn , Bogowie/Gods , and Silent Night . One of Piotr's more recent projects is the Osc...

Frank van den Eeden - Dutch Belgian Based Cinematographer - Someone Else's Happiness, It's All So Quiet, Het Vonnis, Zurich, Full Contact, Home, Past Imperfect, Cobain, Girl, Patrick 24.07.2020

Born in the Netherlands and living in Antwerp, Belgium, Frank  works in film, television, and commercials, with a continued presence at festivals like  Cannes ,  Venice ,  Toronto , and  Berlin . Frank's  film work includes  Someone Else's Happiness ,  It's All So Quiet ,  Het Vonnis ,  Zurich ,  Full Contact ,  The Invader ,  Home ,  Waldstille , Past Imperfect , and Cobain . Frank's more recent...

Michal Jacaszek - Polish Film Composer - Walking Under Water, The Bad Kids, Memories of Summer, November, He Dreams of Giants, The Whale from Lorino, The Hater 17.07.2020

Michal creates electro-acoustic music combining electronically prepared sounds with acoustic instruments and is a member of the  Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music . His narrative feature film scores include  Suicide Room ,  Memories Of Summer , and the acclaimed November , for which he won best score at the  Minsk International Film Festival . Michal  has also scored several documentaries,...

Alfonso de Vilallonga - Spanish Film Composer - My Life Without Me, Transsiberian, Blancanieves, Abracadabra, The Bookshop, Viva el Palndromo 12.07.2020

Alfonso  was born in Barcelona studied music writing at the  Berklee College of Music  in Boston.  He created the music for several films over the years by  Isabel Coixet  including  Things I Have Never Told You ,  My Life Without Me , and  Yesterday Never Ends . Alfonso's  other film scores include  Hours of Light ,  Princesas ,  Transsiberian ,  Blancanieves , and Abracadabra . Alfonso more rece...

Zhanna Bekmambetova - Russian Animator - Past Womanimation! Winner and Award Creator 10.07.2020

Zhanna  was born in Uzbekistan and moved to Moscow with her parents when she was 6 years old. In 2009, she graduated from  Vgik (University of Cinematography) . Her major was Concept design for animation film. She lived and studied in Los Angeles from 2010 to 2013. Since 2013, she lives and works in Moscow, on commercial and creative projects. She created the acclaimed 3D animated short Tweet-twee...

Indra Sproge - Womanimation! 11 Revisited - Animator of Intro to Epilogue, Awesome Beetles Colors, Where Is The Key? 03.07.2020

Indra's  animations include instructional films like  Joka pec Alfabets , teaching children the Latvian alphabet, and Awesome Beetles Colors, teaching the English Alphabet. Other projects with her company,  Infinity Box , include:  Seven Wonders ,  Strength of a Woman , and  My Garden of Roses . Indra  created the award-winning stop-motion animated short,  Intro to Epilogue , a colorful, allegoric...

Garrett Brown - Inventor of the Oscar-winning Steadicam - Revisited - Rocky, The Shining, Philadelphia, Bulworth, La Traviata, The Forgotten 19.06.2020

Garrett  used the  Oscar -winning  Steadicam  which he invented to shoot nearly 100 movies beginning with  Bound for Glory . Other films he has shot with the  Steadicam  include  Rocky ,  The Shining ,  Return of the Jedi ,  Philadelphia ,  Casino ,  Bulworth ,  La Traviata , and  The Forgotten . Garrett  holds 60 patents for camera devices, including  Skycam ,  Mobycam , and  Divecam , which purs...

Larkin Seiple - Cinematographer - Swiss Army Man, Bleed For This, I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore, This Is America, Kin, Luce, and Everything, Everywhere, All at Once 12.06.2020

Larkin has worked in feature films, including such projects as the Daniels Swiss Army Man , Bleed For This , I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore , and Kin , along with award winning music videos like such as This Is America . Larkin's most recent film was the acclaimed feature Luce , which premiered at Sundance . He again worked with the Daniels on their upcoming feature Everything, Everywh...

Sturla Brandth Grovlen - Cinematographer - Victoria, Rams, Before The Frost, Wendy, Shirley 05.06.2020

Sturla was born in Trondheim, Norway, and attended the Bergen Academy of Art and Design in Norway and then The National Film School of Denmark in Copenhagen, where he lives and works. Sturla's most notable past projects include the single-take thriller Victoria , for which he received the Silver Bear at Berlinale along with winning the Silver Frog at Camerimage for Rams , a film stylistically oppo...

Meredith Lippincott - Production Designer - Patti Cake$, Bull, Dreamland, Bad Education, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, The Rental 29.05.2020

Meredith's Production Design credits include the feature films Patti Cake$ , Bull , and Dreamland . More recently, Meredith worked on Bad Education and Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always . Meredith's upcoming projects include: The Rental and Mariama Diallo's feature, Master .

Mitchell Travers - Costume Designer - The Strange Ones, Eighth Grade, Late Night, Hustlers, Home Before Dark, and the upcoming In the Heights and The Eyes of Tammy Faye 22.05.2020

A graduate of UConn with degrees in Costume Design and Puppetry, Mitchell's costuming work often explores specific groups of people not previously portrayed in film. His work as costume designer includes The Strange Ones , Eighth Grade , Late Night , and Hustlers , which earned him a Costume Designers Guild Award nomination. Mitchell's more recent projects include Home Before Dark , the upcoming m...

Merissa Lombardo - Set Decorator - The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Fault in our Stars, The Magnificent Seven, Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing Missouri, Suspiria, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, and the upcoming, Hillbilly Elegy 15.05.2020

Originally from Vermont, Merissa currently splits her time between New York and North Carolina when not on location. Her past projects included: The Perks of Being a Wallflower , Out Of The Furnace , The Fault in our Stars , Southpaw , and Antoine Fuqua's The Magnificent Seven . Some of Merissa's recent Set Decoration credits include Ron Howard's Hillbilly Elegy , Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria , Mart...

Ole Birkeland - UK-Based Norwegian Cinematographer - The Arbor, The Little Stranger, American Animals, Utopia, The Crown, National Treasure, Judy, Tales from the Loop, Minyan 08.05.2020

Ole's film work includes The Arbor , Listen to Me Marlon , The Little Stranger , and American Animals . His television work includes: Utopia , National Treasure , and The Crown . Ole's recently worked the Oscar-winning Judy , the acclaimed Amazon series Tales from the Loop , and upcoming film, Minyan .

Alice Searby - Casting Director - Invictus, Frank, Brooklyn, The Light Between Oceans, Mary and Martha, Last Christmas, Judy, Brassic 01.05.2020

Alice's work as Associate includes Invictus , J. Edgar , Frank , An Education , and Brooklyn . As Casting Director she has also worked on The Light Between Oceans , and Mary and Martha . Alice's most recent projects include: the film Last Christmas , the Oscar-winning Judy , and the television series Brassic .

Marc Vives - Film Editor - Putty Hill, Museum Hours, Little Boxes, Sollers Point, The Kindergarten Teacher, Blow the Man Down 24.04.2020

Marc's narrative feature editing includes the films Putty Hill , Museum Hours , Little Boxes , Sollers Point , The Kindergarten Teacher , and Blow the Man Down . Marc's documentary feature work includes The Painter Sam Francis , The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye , and Walk Away Renee . Recently, Marc has edited episodes of the documentary series Dirty Money and The Innocence Files .

Robert Ireland - Sound Designer - Mr. Turner, Peterloo, On Chesil Beach, The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind, Judy, A Suitable Boy 17.04.2020

Robert worked on several films on roles including Sound Editor, ADR Editor, and Sound Effects Editor before moving primarily into Sound Design since 2012, including the acclaimed feature, Belle . His sound design projects include Mike Leigh's , Mr. Turner and Peterloo , with Dominic Cookes on On Chesil Beach and Ironbark , and on Chiwetel Ejiofor's The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind . Other recent fil...

Tom Ozanich - Sound Designer and Re-recording Mixer - Sicario, American Sniper, Sully, A Star Is Born, Joker, and The High Note 10.04.2020

Some of Tom's film credits include American Beauty , Spy Kids , 2 Fast 2 Furious , and 300: Rise of an Empire . Tom has worked for several notable directors, including Denis Villeneuve on Prisoners and Sicario , and Clint Eastwood on American Sniper , Sully , and Richard Jewell . Tom's recent projects include: Godzilla: King of the Monsters , Dolemite is My Name , A Star Is Born , Joker , and The...

Nicki Ledermann - Makeup Designer - Sex and the City, The Knick, Boardwalk Empire, The Greatest Showman, The Irishman, and Joker 03.04.2020

Born and raised in Germany, Nicki relocated to New York and started in the thriving independent movie scene of the 1990s. Nicki's television work includes Sex and the City , Steven Soderbergh's The Knick , and Martin Scorsese's VINYL . She won an Emmy for the pilot of Martin Scorsese's Boardwalk Empire . Some of Nicki's past feature film projects include: The Devil Wears Prada , which earned her a...

Ainara Vera - Spanish Writer, Director, and Editor - Demonstration, Varicella, See You Tomorrow God Willing, Aquarela, Gunda, Polaris 27.03.2020

Ainara's early work includes her short documentary, Sertres and Demonstration , working with 32 students under the direction of Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky . Ainara's first feature was film See You Tomorrow, God Willing about a group of Franciscan nuns which she wrote, shot, directed and edited. Her relationship with Victor Kossakovsky continued by working as First Assistant Director on h...

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