MergingArts Productions
Spoiler Alert Radio
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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Chad Hartigan - Director and Writer - Luke And Brie Are On A First Date and This Is Martin Bonner (Independent Spirit Award nominee now on DVD) 24.12.2013 29:01
Since graduating North Carolina School of the Arts , Chad has pursued all aspects of film. Chad was actor in the award winning feature Dance Party USA , he co-wrote an animated short nominated for the Student Academy Award , and he as behind-the-scenes videographer for David Arquette’s directorial debut, The Tripper , along with making short films, like Surprise . Chad wrote and directe...
William Arnold - Production Designer - Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, In Good Company, Shopgirl, American Dreamz, Last Holiday, Little Fockers, Crazy, Stupid, Love., and Lovelace 17.12.2013 29:01
William moved through the ranks in the art department prior to being a Production Designer starting with work as a Set Designer to Art Director work and then Supervising Art Director on projects like Pleasantville and Snow Falling on Cedars . William's Production Designer credits over the years include: Magnolia , Punch-Drunk Love , In Good Company , Shopgirl , Last Holiday , American Dreamz , Cir...
Patrice Vermette - Canadian Production Designer - C.R.A.Z.Y., The Young Victoria, 1981, City of Shadows, Cafe De Flore, Prisoners, and the upcoming Enemy 10.12.2013 29:01
Patrice has won three awards for his work on C.R.A.Z.Y. , including the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design and a Jutra Award for Best Art Direction. Patrice's other work includes: 1981 , City of Shadows , La Banda Picasso , Café de Flore , and The Young Victoria . Patrice was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Art Direction for his work in the film Th...
Magnus Joenck - Danish Cinematographer - AFR, The Experiment, R, A Hijacking, and Northwest 03.12.2013 29:01
Magnus graduated as Cinematographer from the National Film School of Denmark in 2005. Magnus has filmed a number of feature and documentary films, including the documentaries, Solange on Love and Tankograd , and the narrative features, AFR , The Experiment , Empire North , and Out of Bounds , and the television series, The Killing , Those Who Kill , and Borgen . Magnus has worked with on project...
Lars Skree - Danish Director of Photography - One Hand Clapping, Max Pinlig, The Swenkas, Armadillo, and Putin's Kiss 26.11.2013 29:01
Lars graduated as Director of Photography from the National Film School of Denmark in 1997. Lars has filmed a number of feature and documentary films, including One Hand Clapping , the documentary, The Swenkas , and the Max Pinlig series of films. Lars has received awards for his cinematography on documentaries, including News & Documentary Emmy Awards and the Bodil Award for Armadillo and he won...
Rob Simonsen - Film Composer - Moneyball and Life of Pi with Mychael Danna, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Girl Most Likely, The Spectacular Now and The Way, Way Back 19.11.2013 29:01
Rob's first break into film composing was through the independent feature Westender in 2003 along followed by the Canadian award winning Eve and the Fire Horse . In 2004, Rob teamed up with Mychael Danna and has provided additional music and arrangements on Surf's Up , Fracture , Moneyball and the Oscar -winning Life of Pi . The two have co-composed the film (500) Days of Summer , and the televis...
Lol Crawley - British Director of Photography - Ballast, Four Lions, Here, On The Ice, Hyde Park on Hudson, and Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom 12.11.2013 29:01
Lol's first feature credit was on an American independent film for Lance Hammer on Ballast and also the feature, Better Things , which world-premiered at the Cannes Film Festival . Lol also worked on the acclaimed satire Four Lions , the Armenian road movie romance Here , and the Alaskan thriller On the Ice . He also worked on the acclaimed BBC miniseries The Crimson Petal and the Whit...
Beth Mickle - Production Designer - Half Nelson, Sugar, Cold Souls, An Englishman in New York, Drive, It's A Kind of Funny Story, Arbitrage, Thanks for Sharing, How to Catch A Monster, and Only God Forgives (Now on DVD) 05.11.2013 29:01
Beth gained a BAFTA nomination for her work on An Englishman in New York starring John Hurt . Beth designed It’s Kind of a Funny Story starring Zach Galifianakis and the box office hit Drive , starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan , that premiered in competition at Cannes . Named as one of the Hollywood Reporter's "Production Designers To Watch," Beth has worked on a number...
Marcelo Zarvos - Brazilian Pianist & Composer - Kissing Jessica Stein, The Good Shepherd, Sin Nombre, Please Give, The Beaver, The Bay, Won't Back Down, Enough Said 29.10.2013 29:01
Marcelo has written for virtually every medium, from film and television to concert stage, dance, and theater. Marcelo started his classical music studies as a teenager in São Paulo, Brazil, and studied at Berklee College of Music and California Institute of the Arts , where he received his BFA, and Hunter College where received a Master's Degree in Music. Marcelo’s work includes composing for b...
Abel Korzeniowski - Film Composer - Big Animal, Metropolis, PU-239, A Single Man, W.E., Romeo and Juliet, Escape From Tomorrow 22.10.2013 29:01
Born in Krakow, Poland, Abel studied classical composition under Krzysztof Penderecki . In 2006, he moved to Los Angeles, where he currently resides. Abel's scores have received tremendous critical enthusiasm and numerous awards, most notably two Golden Globe nominations, and three World Soundtrack Awards . His lush, stirring, highly original music for Tom Ford's feature A Single Man , starring C...
Mike Munn - Canadian Fillm Editor - Roadkill, Owning Mahowny, Past Perfect, Wilby Wonderful, Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage, Stories We Tell 15.10.2013 29:01
Mike has worked with several notable Canadian independent film directors, including Bruce McDonald on the film Roadkill , Daniel MacIvor on Past Perfect and Wilby Wonderful , and Peter Mettler on Tectonic Plates and Picture of Light . Mike has also worked on several rock documentaries with Sam Dunn , including Metal: A Headbanger's Journey , Iron Maiden: Flight 666 , and the award-winning Rush: B...
Darrin Navarro - Film Editor - Bug, Momma's Man, Terri, Killer Joe, and The Spectacular Now 08.10.2013 29:01
Darrin's decade-long relationship with William Friedkin evolved in 2005 when he edited his acclaimed psychological thriller, Bug . Since then, Darrin has escaped the confines of genre and storytelling styles, bringing his rigorous eye and narrative sense to Azazel Jacobs' offbeat comedies, Momma'S Man and Terri , Paul Solet's dramatic horror film, Grace , and Alison Bagnall's The Dish & The Spoon...
Tyler B. Robinson - Production Designer - The River Why, The FP, Portlandia, and The Kings of Summer 01.10.2013 29:01
Tyler adapts and applies 3 years of honorable Army service as a squad leader and weapons specialist to all of his projects. As the Production Designer of IFC's series Portlandia , Tyler moves fast, thinking on his feet and creates sets and props on the fly. In a television show that at its heart is an improv sketch show, Tyler constantly solves on-the-fly requests as fast as they come in. Tyler...
Jeff Beal - Film Composer - Pollock, Appaloosa, Protagonist, Queen of Versailles, House of Cards, and Blackfish 24.09.2013 29:01
Jeff has been awarded several Emmys and nominations for his television scores. Some of his projects have included the series: Rome , Monk , The Company , and Nightmares and Dreamscapes . Jeff collaborated with Ed Harris on the Oscar winning biopic Pollock and his western Appaloosa . Jeff scored several of Jessica Yu's films, including: In the Realms of the Unreal , Protagonist , Ping Pong Play...
Selma Vilhunen, Alexandra Naoum, and Jen Taher - MANHATTAN SHORT 2013 Finalists 17.09.2013 29:01
Finnish writer and director, Selma Vilhunen (director of Do I Have to Take Care of Everything? ), French actress and director, Alexandra Naoum (director and actress in No Comment ), and American actress and Producer, and Jen Taher (producer and actress in I Am A Big Ball Of Sadness ) are finalists in the 2013 MANHATTAN SHORT . The MANHATTAN SHORT screens between September 27 and October 6th, i...
Adley Gartenstein - President of Film Movement 10.09.2013 29:01
Prior to joining Film Movement in 2003, Adley practiced law at the firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore , where he focused on mergers and acquisitions. Film Movement is a full-service North American distributor of independent and foreign films. They have released films from 25 countries, including top prize winners from Sundance , Cannes , Venice , Toronto , Berlin , Tribeca and many other prestigious...
Bastien Dubois (Faces from Places) and Jacob Sillman (The Pale of Settlement) - MANHATTAN SHORT 2013 Finalists 03.09.2013 29:01
French animator and director, Bastien Dubois (director of Faces From Places ) and American director Jacob Sillman (director of The Pale of Settlement ) are finalists in the 2013 MANHATTAN SHORT . The MANHATTAN SHORT screens between September 27 and October 6th, in over 300 around the world, with audience members selecting their favorite film with the winner announced in New York City on Octo...
Tony Donoghue (Irish Folk Furniture) and Timothy Wilde (#30) - MANHATTAN SHORT 2013 Finalists 27.08.2013 29:01
Irish director, Tony Donoghue (director of Irish Folk Furniture ) and Australian director Timothy Wilde (director of #30 ) are finalists in the 2013 MANHATTAN SHORT . The MANHATTAN SHORT screens between September 27 and October 6th, in over 300 around the world, with audience members selecting their favorite film with the winner announced in New York City on October 6th. Irish Folk Furni...
Heikki Kossi - Finnish Foley Artist - Berberian Sound Studio, Letters to Father Jacob, Rare Exports, FILTH 20.08.2013 29:01
H5 Film Sound was founded by Heikki in 2000. Heikki has worked as a foley artist and foley supervisor on feature films, shorts, TV-drama, documentaries and animation films. As a sound designer, Heikki has been involved in feature length documentaries and animation. Since 2004, Heikki has been working as a full time foley artist and a supervisor, mainly for fiction films and documentary work...
Charlotte Bruus Christensen - Cinematographer from Denmark - Submarino, My Good Enemy, Hunky Dory, The Hunt 13.08.2013 29:01
Charlotte began working with Thomas Vinterberg with his dramatic feature, Submarino , after working on a number of award winning short films, like Between Us which she also wrote and co-directed, Charlotte followed this up with the drama My Good Enemy and dramatic musical feature, Hunky Dory . Charlotte recently teamed again with Thomas Vinterberg on the acclaimed film, The Hunt , for which...
Adam Clark - New Zealand Cinematographer - River Queen, Eagle vs Shark, and Boy (Now on DVD) 06.08.2013 29:01
Adam Clark has worked on a variety of projects, from commercial work for such clients as Kia and Subaru , to television work on the acclaimed series Insiders Guide to Happiness to a number of short and feature films. Adam's projects have included earlier films of Peter Jackson and the film River Queen for cinematographer Alun Bollinger , but he is best known as the lensman for director...
Davy Rothbart - Magazine Editor, Author, Radio Producer, and Filmmaker 30.07.2013 29:01
Davy is the creator and editor of FOUND Magazine , author of My Heart Is An Idiot , a book of personal essays, and The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas , a collection of stories, and he is a frequent contributor to public radio’s This American Life . Davy’s work also appears in GQ , The New Yorker , The New York Times , and Grantland . Davy’s directed two documentaries about the punk rock band Ri...
Bill Pankow - Film Editor - The Untouchables, Casualties of War, Parents, Drumline, The Black Dahlia, Mesrine: Public Enemy #1, Greetings From Tim Buckley, The East, and The Harvest 23.07.2013 29:01
Bill has edited nine films for director Brian De Palma, including: The Untouchables , Casualties of War , Carlito's Way , and The Black Dahlia . Some of Bill’s other film credits over the years include: Parents , The Comfort of Strangers , Drumline , and Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 . Bill has worked in television as well and was supervising editor on the Emmy Award winning HBO miniseries The Corne...
Jay Hunter - Director of Photography - Dollhouse, Paper Heart, Kitchen Nightmares, and Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing 16.07.2013 29:01
Jay relocated to Los Angeles and worked on numerous independent films, commercials and documentaries as a Camera Operator and eventually as a Director of Photography. Jay worked alongside Joss Whedon as the 2nd Unit Director of Photography of Joss’ television show Dollhouse . After many years in the trenches, Jay photographed the critically acclaimed film Paper Heart and he worked steadily in...
Pierre Gill - Canadian Cinematographer - Lost and Delirious, The Art of War, The Rocket, Polytechnique, Starbuck, Upside Down, and The Colony 09.07.2013 29:01
Pierre is a Canadian cinematographer who has won and been nominated for multiple awards for his work, including Genie and Jutra Awards . Pierre has worked on such films as: Eldorado , Lost and Delirious , The Art of War , The Covenant , The Rocket , and Polytechnique . Pierre has also directed the television series Charlie Jade and the TV movie The Last Casino . Pierre has more re...
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