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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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David Hirschfelder - Oscar nominated Australian Film Composer - Strictly Ballroom, Shine, Elizabeth, The Interview, Australia, Legend of the Guardians, The Children of Huang Shi, The Water Diviner, The Dressmaker, and A Street Cat Named Bob 04.05.2017

As a musician, David has been a member of Little River Band and the John Farnham Band . David has composed film scores for Strictly Ballroom , Shine , Elizabeth , The Interview , Better Than Sex , Shake Hands with the Devil , and The Children of Huang Shi . David after these has scored: Australia , Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole , The Railway Man , Healing , and The Water Diviner ....

Lachlan Milne - Australian Cinematographer - The Away Game, Uninhabited, Not Suitable for Children, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, and Down Under 27.04.2017

Lachlan has worked on many short films over the years and early on worked on the documentary, The Away Game . Lachlan has also worked on the horror film Uninhabited , the comedy Not Suitable for Children , and the short films Woody and Twisted . More recently, Lachlan has worked on the critically acclaimed Hunt for the Wilderpeople , and the comedy Down Under .

Anthony Gasparro - Production Designer - Gummo, Off the Black, and Certain Women 20.04.2017

Anthony began working in the art department in films like Gummo as Property Master and as and Art Director on projects like the Upright Citizens Brigade series and the feature How to Lose Friends and Alienate People . Anthony has worked on commercials and features films as Production Designer. For feature film projects, he first worked on features Safe Men and Two Ninas . His films over the years...

Nicklas Schmidt - Danish Film and Television Composer - The Theory of Everything, A Conspiracy of Faith, Ronal the Barbarian and Klown Forever 13.04.2017

Nicklas has written the score for a number of feature films, documentaries, video games and TV series, earning international awards, nominations and several world premieres at film festivals such as Berlinale . Nicklas has worked as arranger and orchestrator on the award-winning score for The Theory of Everything written by Johann Johannsson . Nicklas'  award winning scores have included the films...

Love Larson - Swedish Make Effects Artist and Designer - Let the Right One In, Skyfall, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, and A Man Called Ove, and The Giant 06.04.2017

Love is best known for his work on Let the Right One In , Skyfall , and the Oscar nominated The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared , and the more recent Oscar nominated A Man Called Ove , nominated along with partner, Eva von Bahr . Love's other projects over the years include Mammoth , Leo , The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series, Monica Z , Ode to My Father , We Steal Se...

Gary Lionelli - Film and Television Composer - Last Days in Vietnam, LUCK, and O.J.: Made in America 30.03.2017

Gary's evocative sound holds audiences rapt and has bolstered the success of award-winning films and television series. Early on, Gary worked on animated children's series like: Tom & Jerry Kids Show , The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest , and Dexter's Laboratory to moving onto documentary scores like Oswald's Ghost . Gary has worked on unforgettable compositions for director Rory Kennedy's Academy...

Matthieu Laclau - Film Editor and Cinematographer - Fallen City, A Touch of Sin, K, Mountains May Depart, and Dragonfly Eyes 23.03.2017

Matthieu's cinematography work includes the documentary Xiao Jia Going Home for director Damien Ounouri and has worked as both cinematographer and editor on a number of films including the film K and the documentary Fidai , again for director Damien Ounouri . Matthieu's projects as editor include the films Mr. Tree , The First Aggregate , and Longing for the Rain . For director Jia Zhang-ke , Matt...

Torsten Witte - Hair and Makeup Artist - Little Miss Sunshine, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Ruby Sparks, La La Land, and Battle of the Sexes 16.03.2017

Originally from Germany, Torsten worked in high-fashion in Paris, Spain, and New York, before ending up in Los Angeles. Torsten works on projects including celebrity personal appearances and press tours, music videos, film, and editorials, where he can create a vision and look with each client. Torsten's clients include Ryan Gosling , Emma Stone , Matt Damon , Christian Bale , Zooey Deschanel , Ro...

Antony Partos - Australian Film Composer - Soft Fruit, Garage Days, Unfinished Sky, Animal Kingdom, 33 Postcards, Plot for Peace, The Rover, 99 Homes, and Tanna 09.03.2017

Antony's projects over the years include: Praise , Soft Fruit , Garage Days , Walking on Water , The Home Song Stories , Unfinished Sky , Animal Kingdom , and 33 Postcards . Antony's more recent projects include: the documentary Plot for Peace , The Rover , and Ramin Bahrani's acclaimed  99 Homes . Antony  recently scored for the documentary feature Sherpa and the Oscar nominated film, Tanna .

Gaute Storaas - Norwegian Film Composer - Elias and The Treasure of the Sea, The Last Sentence, Victoria, The Last King, and A Man Called Ove 02.03.2017

Gaute began his career as a rock and jazz bassist before attending Berklee College of Music in Boston. Over the years, Gaute has been involved in arranging for recording artists, writing for video games, commercials, short films, and theater productions. Some of Gaute's notable feature film projects have included Elias and The Treasure of the Sea , The Last Sentence , Victoria , and the documentar...

Stephanie Anne Weber Biron - Montreal based Cinematographer - I Killed My Mother, Blackbird, The Forbidden Room, The Saver 23.02.2017

Stephanie founded her Montreal based production company daDA with which she has taken on the roles of producer, director and cinematographer for a dozen of short films and music. Stephanie's award-winning cinematography for Xavier Dolan's feature films, I Killed My Mother and Heartbeats , which has put her at the forefront of Canadian and world cinema. More recently, Stephanie has shot Blackbird ,...

Lesley Barber - Canadian Film Composer - When Night Is Falling, Mansfield Park, You Can Count On Me, Hysterical Blindness, Marion Bridge, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, Manchester by the Sea, and The Apology 16.02.2017

Lesley is an active member of the Alliance for Women Film Composers and a 2016 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences initiate. Lesley's earlier film projects include When Night Is Falling , the Oscar  winning You Can Count On Me and Mira Nair's Golden Globe winning Hysterical Blindness . Some of Lesley's other film credits include Los Locos , Yo-Yo Ma: Six Gestures , Mansfield Park , A Price...

Wynn Thomas - First African American Production Designer - Do The Right Thing, Malcolm X, Mars Attacks, Cinderella Man, and Hidden Figures 09.02.2017

Wynn  is the first African American Production Designer in the history of films.   As assistant art director, he worked with Production Designer  Richard Sylbert  on  The Cotton Club . He also art directed or assisted like  Beat Street ,  The Money Pit , and  Brighton Beach Memoirs .  Wynn has a long-term relationship with Spike Lee and has designed over ten films for him including  She's Gotta Ha...

Dave Whitehead - New Zealand Sound Designer and Composer - Lord of the Rings, The World's Fastest Indian, Out of the Blue, Eagle Vs Shark, District 9, Snowpiercer, Chappie, and Arrival 01.02.2017

Dave has been nominated for a BAFTA and CAS award and has won a Golden Reel  from the MPSE for the films District 9 and The Adventures of Tin Tin . Dave has worked on several international projects over the years including: The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Out of the Blue , The World's Fastest Indian , Eagle vs Shark , The Water Horse , District 9 , The Lovely Bones , and The Hobbit . Some of Dave's...

Kayla Emter - Film Editor - I'm Still Here, May In the Summer, The Immigrant, The Meddler, Miles Ahead, and the upcoming, What's The Point? 25.01.2017

Kayla's earlier work began on a variety of short films and part of an editing team on independent features like Lovely, Still for Nicholas Fackler and Casey Affleck's I'm Still Here . Kayla has worked on a mix of film genres as an editor including Gone , May In the Summer , and The Immigrant . More recently, Kayla has edited on Miles Ahead , The Meddler , and the upcoming comedy, What's The Point?...

Hughes Winborne - Oscar winning Film Editor - Sling Blade, Crash, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Great Debaters, The Help, Fences, and All I See Is You 18.01.2017

Hughes has edited more than twenty films over the years, including Crash , for which he won an Oscar for film editing. Hughes is an elected member of the American Cinema Editors . Hughes has over the years edited Sling Blade , A Slipping-Down Life , The Pursuit of Happyness , The Great Debaters , Seven Pounds , Teen Patti , The Help , and  Pixels . More recently, Hughes  edited the acclaimed Oscar...

Joan Sobel - Film Editor - The Accountant, A Single Man, Being Flynn, and Nocturnal Animals 11.01.2017

Joan learned feature storytelling as first assistant editor with writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson and editor Dylan Tichenor on Boogie Nights and as first assistant editor with writer/director Quentin Tarantino and editor Sally Menke on both Kill Bill  movies. Joan edited Being Flynn , starring Robert DeNiro and Paul Dano , for Paul Weitz . She also edited Tom Ford's multi-award-winning A Singl...

Trevor Gates - Sound Designer and Supervising Sound Editor - Chernobyl Diaries, The Man with the Iron Fists, The Sessions, Evil Dead, The Liberator, The Meddler, and Don't Breathe 04.01.2017

Trevor's earlier work in the sound department included working as Sound Effects Editor on Chernobyl Diaries , as Sound Editor and Foley Mixer on The Man with the Iron Fists , and as Sound Effects Editor on The Sessions . Trevor has continued working on projects like Evil Dead , As I Lay Dying , The Liberator , and That Awkward Moment . More recently, Trevor has worked in Sound Designer and Supervi...

Craig Shilowich - Screenwriter and Producer - Frozen River, Dark Horse, Shanghai Calling, Joe, and Christine 28.12.2016

Craig earlier on was the location manager and assistant producer on the acclaimed feature, Frozen River . Craig continued in production roles over the years on feature films like Snow Flower and the Secret Fan , Dark Horse , Shanghai Calling , and Stand Clear of the Closing Doors . More recently, Craig was a production supervisor on David Gordon Green's film,  Joe , a producer on Creative Control...

Merideth Boswell - Set Decorator and Production Designer - Natural Born Killers, Apollo 13, Three Burials, The Homesman, I Saw The Light 21.12.2016

Early on Merideth worked as Set Decorator on the television series, Eerie, Indiana , He Said, She Said , and The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag . Merideth continued to work on acclaimed projects over the years including: Natural Born Killers , Apollo 13 , Nixon , That Thing You Do! , and U Turn . As Set Decorator, Merideth has worked in varied genres from family films like Mighty Joe Young and How the...

Joe Anderson - Cinematographer - Simon Killer, Fishtail, Don't Think Twice, and Christine 14.12.2016

As a long time alum of the Sundance Film Festival , Joe's first short appeared there at age 16. Joe has since collaborated on over 14 films premiering at Sundance , including three best director winners. Joe's work over the years has included the feature films: Simon Killer , Fishtail , and Don't Think Twice . His latest project is Antonio Campos' acclaimed feature film, Christine , about Christin...

Joseph Krings - Film Editor - Supermensch, The Mend, Captain Fantastic, and Rebel In The Rye 07.12.2016

Joseph has cut several shorts and music videos and his work on the music video for Kid Cudi on Pursuit of Happiness helped the video get nominated for a VMA award. Joseph recently cut two fast and funny pop culture documentaries Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead about National Lampoon Magazine , and Supermensch directed by Mike Myers . Joseph also cut indie comedy The Mend starring Josh Lucas for Josh M...

Robert Mackenzie - Australian Sound Designer and Editor - Ashes of Time, Hero, Kung Fu Hustle, Curse of the Golden Flower, The Grandmaster, Hacksaw Ridge, and Lion 30.11.2016

Since working within the Australian film community in 1994, Robert has completed feature films soundtracks for some of the worlds most influential directors, such as John Woo on Red Cliff , Stephen Chow on Kung Fu Hustle and CJ7 , Yimou Zhang on The Road Home , Hero , Curse of the Golden Flower , and The Flowers of War , and Wong Kar Wai on Ashes of Time , The Grandmaster , and the upcoming See Yo...

Eduardo Serrano - Brazilian Film Editor - Housemaids, August Winds, Elephant's Dream, Neon Bull, and Aquarius 23.11.2016

Eduardo has a Master's Degree in Editing from the National Film School in England . His first feature film, Eles Voltam known as They Will Return for Marcelo Lordello premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival . For Gabriel Mascaro , Eduardo edited Housemaids and August Winds , and the more recently Neon Bull with Fernando Epstein . He also worked at the documentaries The Perfect Belgian and  Elepha...

Nicholas Britell - Pianist, Composer, and Producer - Gimme The Loot, 12 Years A Slave, Whiplash, The Big Short, A Tale Of Love And Darkness, The Seventh Fire, and Moonlight 16.11.2016

Nicholas was involved as a producer for both the short and feature film version of the acclaimed film Whiplash , for which he also wrote and produced pieces for the soundtrack. In addition to his film work,  Nicholas is a Founding Member of L.A. Dance Project  and is a Board member of the New York-based ensemble Decoda , and the multimedia production company and artists collective The Amoveo Compa...

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