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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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Ole Birkeland - UK Director of Photography - Peace One Day, Everything, Ruby Blue, Helen, The Arbor, and The Calling 07.02.2011

Ole Birkeland has worked as a director of photography with a wide of variety directors over the years on in various genres and on both features and shorts, including the dramatic short film Lullaby , about a mother meeting her lost child. His work over the years includes the films:  the documentary Peace One Day , Everything , a comedy/drama, featuring Ray Winstone , the horror film, The Devil’s C...

Nicolas Chaudeurge - UK Film Editor - WASP, Red Road, My Enemy's Enemy, and Fish Tank 31.01.2011

Nicolas Chaudeurge , a UK based film editor, has been editing drama and documentary for 14 years in both the UK and France. He has edited over twenty award- winning short films, including the Oscar winning Wasp , directed by Andrea Arnold . Nicolas soon moved on to editing television dramas and feature films, collaborating again with Andrea Arnold on Red Road which won the Cannes Jury Prize . Othe...

Rob Lemkin - UK Documentary Filmmaker - Enemies of the People 24.01.2011

Rob Lemkin a UK documentary filmmaker that has produced and directed over 50 documentaries for BBC , ITV , Sky , The History Channel (US) , and Arts & Entertainment . Rob has won numerous awards in Britain and he has made several films about the history and politics of Asia over the years. Rob's latest film is Enemies of the People , a personal documentary about those involved in the Killing Field...

Jude Farr - UK Set Decorator - Eastern Promises, Ondine, and The King's Speech 17.01.2011

Jude Farr is a UK set decorator with over 25 years in the film and television industry. Jude is based in the UK with experience working in France, Italy, Germany, Hungary, CZ. Republic, Romania, Ireland, Borneo, Morocco, Iceland, Finland, & Sweden. Jude has worked on a variety of films over the years including: Shine , The Red Violin , Hannibal Rising , Bright Young Things , the original Death At...

Sean Kirby - Cinematographer - Police Beat, Zoo, Lovely Still, Against The Current, The Tillman Story 10.01.2011

Cinematographer Sean Kirby shot the surreal film Police Beat , about an African-born bicycle cop encounters strange and mysterious situations on his police beat in urban Seattle. In 2007, he re-teamed with writer/director team Robinson Devor and Charles Mudede and realized the controversial documentary Zoo about the life of an Enumclaw, Washington man who died as a result of an unusual encounter w...

Lisa James Larsson - Pussyfooting, Little Children Big Words - Oscar Shortlisted director in Sweden 02.01.2011

Lisa James Larsson has worked as an editor, director, and writer in television and short film projects. In 2008, Lisa completed her graduation film Pussyfooting , staring Kate Dickie and Terence Beesley . More recently, Lisa completed her short film Little Children, Big Words about a seven year old boy that tells his class mates what he wants to be when he grows up starting an uncomfortable discus...

Thomas Burstyn - Cinematographer and Director in New Zealand - Cloud South Films & This Way of Life 26.12.2010

An Emmy nominated filmmaker, Thomas Burstyn , has over thirty years experience as a cinematographer. Tom trained at the National Film Board of Canada as a documentary filmmaker, before moving into feature films, which include: The Lost Tribe , When Trumpets Fade , City of Industry , Population 436 , and The Boys & Girl From Country Claire . Tom's film company, Cloud South Films is a film company c...

Steve Lynch - Irish Film Composer - Of Best Intentions, Mr. Foley, Crossing Salween 19.12.2010

In 2004, composer Steve Lynch created, Stellarsound , an award winning music company that specializes in commercials and films. Steve's notable work includes Let’s Dance (a David Bowie cover) for Ballygowan , which also won a Gold Shark Award for best use of music.   Steve has composed for countless commercials, short films and documentaries that have been shown both nationally and internationally...

Moritz Mayerhofer - German Animator - Urs - Academy Award Shortlisted 12.12.2010

German animator Moritz Mayerhofer , was accepted into the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Germany, to study animation. After three years, Moritz took up an exchange program at Gobelins, Paris . There he started the visual development and design for 'Urs', which was his thesis-project. He has since graduated with that film at the Institute of Animation at the Filmakademie. Urs , is a touching an...

Shane Sutton - Irish Artist and Filmmaker - Fight or Flight and Fail? 05.12.2010

Shane Sutton , artist and filmmaker, has worked extensively with a variety of media , including illustration and computer-aided design, and his original passion, painting, producing work that is at once highly appreciative of the medium of oil paint, yet informed by the technicality of his graphic work.  Shane co-directed and edited Fight or Flight , a documentary which follows a Dublin man as he...

Adam Taub - La Quinceaera and The Duke of Bachata 28.11.2010

Adam Taub is a documentary film director from Colorado whose films include, Don Angelo , La Quinceañera , and El Duque de la Bachata (The Duke of Bachata) . Don Angelo , is The story of Angelo Chavez, a retired U.S. naval officer who spends his retirement years driving to Tijuana, Mexico to help those in need. La Quinceañera , explores the issues of family, faith, and coming of age, and is a portr...

Clark Hunter - Production Designer - Sling Blade, All the Pretty Horses, The Smell of Success, Carriers 21.11.2010

For over 25 years, Clark Hunter has worked as a production designer on a wide range of films including the Billy Bob Thornton -directed films: Sling Blade , All the Pretty Horses , and Daddy and Them .   Clark has also worked with The Polish Brothers and M. David Mullen, ASC on The Astronaut Farmer , Stay Cool , and The Smell of Success . Clark also has designed films like Carriers , an interestin...

Amy Weber - Radish Creative and Annabelle & Bear 14.11.2010

Amy Weber , advertising director and filmmaker has also developed numerous award winning television and film projects with her company Radish Creative Group and her first feature film directorial debut, Annabelle & Bear .  Annabelle & Bear is the product of a 100% Michigan cast, crew and soundtrack.  Amy showcased the local film community, featuring the talent in Michigan during tough economic tim...

Mark White - Production Designer on Please Give and Winter's Bone - Now on DVD 07.11.2010

Mark White , an American production designer, began his career as a Toy Designer before moving into Theatre Design. He shifted gears into film as Set Designer on Twenty-Nine Palms and then as Art Director on Boiler Room .  As Production Designer, Mark’s credits include: Wet Hot American Summer , The Baxter , The Ten , Tully and the Comedy Central  series, Stella .  He also was production designer...

Alex Heffes - UK Composer/Conductor for Touching the Void, The Last King of Scotland, and State of Play 31.10.2010

UK film composer, Alex Heffes , has created film scores that include many of award-winning films for director Kevin Macdonald such as One Day in September , Touching the Void , and The Last King of Scotland . Alex has proved successful in a variety of genres including the comedy The Parole Officer , the action film Out of Reach and Kevin Macdonald's political espionage thriller State of Play . Ale...

Sam Green - The Weather Underground, The Rainbow Man/John 3:16, Utopia in Four Movements 24.10.2010

Sam Green is a San Francisco-based documentary filmmaker whose feature film, The Weather Underground , was nominated for an Academy Award and broadcast nationally on PBS .  Sam’s other award-winning documentaries include Lot 3, Grave C , Pie Fight ’69 , N-Judah 5:30 , and The Rainbow Man/John 3:16 .  Sam also teaches at the University of San Francisco and the San Francisco Art Institute . Recently...

Nico Mensinga - Screenwriter of Watching and Titus 17.10.2010

Nico Mensinga is the screenwriter for the short film, Watching , an edge-of-your-seat thriller about the ability to spot where truth lies, and lies begin with 2 main characters, Josh and Carrick, portrayed by Ian Hart and Charlie Cattrall .  Watching took home a number of awards around the world and won best screenplay and the Silver Medal audience award and in the prestigious Manhattan Short Film...

Mairi Cameron - Milk and Push Bike - Manhattan Short Film Fest Finalist 10.10.2010

Australian filmmaker, Mairi Cameron’s graduate film, Milk , screened at Cannes and garnered many awards.  Milk is about an old man that  lives on his own, and doesn't go out except to buy milk that has a daily ritual visit and request for milk from the downstairs Woman. Over the years, Mairi has had commercial work including music videos for the Aussie band Washington and the mockumentary series (...

Greig Fraser - Cinematographer - Out of the Blue, The Boys Are Back, Bright Star, Let Me In 03.10.2010

Greig Fraser is an award winning cinematographer originally from Melbourne, Australia now based in Los Angeles. In 2002 Greig shot Glendyn Ivin’s acclaimed short film Crackerbag .   In 2005, he won an Australian Film Industry Award for Best Cinematography for his work on the film Jewboy . In 2006 he shot the feature film Out of the Blue , based on the Aramoana Massacre in New Zealand.  Greig has w...

Danielle Fillios - French Film Editor based in Chile 26.09.2010

Danielle Fillios has edited more than 40 films, a wide mix of narrative and documentary features and some short films, some of them nominated and awarded for highest honors. Mi Mejor Enemigo , a heartfelt film about the war between Chile and Argentina in the 1970s, and Johnny One Hundred Pesos were both nominated for the Goya .  Also, B-Happy which picked up 2 awards at Berlinale .  Danielle won t...

Magnus Von Horn - Radek and Echo 26.09.2010

In Stockholm, Magnus Von Horn worked on distributing a variety of films for Sonet and as an assistant script reader and as a light and camera assistant. Magnus then left the Swedish film industry to pursue his film directing dreams at the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School . He has produced several short films in Poland including the documentary short Radek about 25 years old, ex-...

Chris Gill - UK Film Editor - 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Brideshead Revisited, The Invention of Lying, Locked In 19.09.2010

Chris Gill started out as an editor for television, winning Royal Television Society Best Editing awards for the programs Touching Evil and Crime and Punishment .  He has admitted to being seduced by the art of editing. Chris made his debut as a feature film editor with Danny Boyle’s film, 28 Days Later .  Chris has since worked on other films for Danny including Millions and Sunshine . Chris’ edi...

Kimberly Reed - Prodigal Sons 05.09.2010

Kimberly Reed started her career working as a commercial editor and traveled the world directing and producing travel documentaries.  Kimberly became an early expert in the field of digital filmmaking and post-production. After transitioning genders, she moved into the world of publishing, as editor-in-chief of DV Magazine . Kim's first feature-length documentary film, Prodigal Sons , tells the st...

Ruba Nadda - Cairo Time and Sabah: A Love Story 29.08.2010

Critically and internationally acclaimed Canadian writer and director, Ruba Nadda has written and directed over a dozen shorts, including Aadan , Unsettled , and Do Nothing .  Ruba's films have been shown over 500 times in film festivals around the world with over 30 retrospectives of her work. In 2005, Ruba wrote and directed her first feature film, Sabah , which had Atom Egoyan as an executive p...

Michael Lavelle - Irish Cinematographer, Writer, and Director - His & Hers to Mother's Little Helper 22.08.2010

Michael Lavelle , cinematographer, writer, and director from Ireland, has written and directed the awarding winning short films, Out of the Blue and I Hate Musicals! The Musical .  He has worked as cinematographer with director Ken Wardrop on five short films, and on Ken’s debut feature documentary, His & Hers .  His & Hers explores women’s relationships with men through the eyes of seventy partic...

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