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John Jeffcoat is a writer, director, and editor based out of Seattle, WA. John's debut as a documentary director was the 1999's Bingo! The Documentary distributed by Seventh Art Releasing . His feature-length directorial debut, Outsourced , is a narrative about the outsourcing experience in India, he co-wrote with George Wing and stars Josh Hamilton and Ayesha Dharker . Outsourced is available on...

Michael Kang is a Korean American writer and director. His feature film directorial debut The Motel was produced by indie veteran director Miguel Arteta (known for Star Maps , Chuck & Buck , and The Good Girl ) and premiered internationally at the Pusan Film Festival and was also awarded the Sundance/NHK International Filmmaker's Award .  The Motel is currently available on DVD . Michael's  latest...

Asaf Hanuka is an Israeli illustrator and comic book artist, notable for his collaborations with his identical twin brother Tomer and his work with Etgar Keret in both Hebrew and English. Asaf and Tomer co-created Bipolar , an experimental comic book series which gained them nominations for the Eisner , Harvey , and Ignatz awards. Asaf and Tomer were artists on Ari Folman’s haunting animated docum...

Karen Aqua has created animated films exploring the themes of ritual, journeys, transformation, and the human spirit since 1976 with her 1st animated short, Penetralia . Much of her work reflects an interest in symbols, mythology, and prehistoric and tribal cultures, and includes elements of rhythm, dance, and music. Her award-winning films have been screened nationally and internationally, at fil...

Terrance Zdunich is a writer, illustrator, composer, and performer from Los Angeles, CA. He has worked on a diverse set of projects including: storyboard illustration on Sean Penn's film Into the Wild , stage acting, and the illustrated book God and The Box . Terrance's most recent project is the film Repo! The Genetic Opera , which he co-wrote and co-composed with Darren Smith , which Terrance al...

Michael Langan grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, where he began his artistic career as a professional stage actor. He returned to his New England birthplace in 2003 to attend the animation program at Rhode Island School of Design , completing Doxology as his thesis film. Doxology has since won 12 awards and screened at over 50 film festivals worldwide including the Ottawa International Animation Fes...

Nate Wragg is an renowned artist, illustrator, and animator. He left home after high school to study character animation at Cal Arts .  Nate received an animation internship at James Baxter Animation Studios after his 3rd year of school, followed by an internship at Pixar Animation Studios in the art department on Ratatouille leaving school early. He has designed, developed and art directed the en...

Producer and animator Timothy Schultz and John Grigsby joined us for this week's episode. Tim Schultz went to college to study film and journalism at the University of Colorado before starting Bullhead Entertainment, LLC in 2005. Bullhead recently produced The Cave: An Adaptation of Plato's Allegory in Clay and is currently in production on the feature-length documentary Chasing the Shadows , whic...

Scott Bunt has written for newspapers, magazines and standup comics, penned radio and television shows, worked in the music industry as a songwriter, producer and musician.  His recent feature film, Sea of Dust , is based on the real life villain Prester John , and his vengeful master plan to sacrifice “the psychologically vulnerable” on the altar of evil.

Richard McGuire , musician, artist, and animator, joined us on this episode. Richard is the founder and bass player of the band Liquid Liquid . He is a regularly contributing artist to the The New Yorker magazine. Richard has also created comics, written and illustrated four children's books and has created award winning animation design for television for PBS Kids .   He has designed and directed...

We were fortunate to catch a glimpse into the world of renowned animator Bill Plympton . Bill Plympton started out as an illustrator and cartoonist whose work has appeared in such magazines as The Village Voice , Vogue , and Rolling Stone . His first animated film was a film of Jules Feiffer's song, Boomtown .  By 1987, he had garnered an Oscar nomination for his short film Your Face . His feature...

Mason Daring is a talented film composer, musician, and record label head. As a musician with a law degree, Mason was legal counsel to director John Sayles for his first film The Return of the Secaucus Seven . Daring ended up composing the score to that film, as well as John Sayles’ other films up to and including Honeydripper , a story of blues musicians in 1950s Alabama. Mason has done televisio...

Geoff Thompson is a BAFTA winning writer, teacher, and martial artist. Geoff Thompson has worked through a plethora of menial jobs, from glass collector to floor sweeper; he even spent a decade working as a nightclub bouncer . Geoff decided to become a martial arts instructor and then followed this by living out his dream of becoming a writer. He is now the author of over thirty books, a stage pla...

William Donaruma has years of production experience having worked for Universal Studios as well as a variety of production companies and major television networks. Returning to Notre Dame to teach production courses, he has won the Kaneb Teaching Award and was granted a fellowship at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences . He is currently worked on a documentary about the Bengal Bouts impact...

Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Justine Simei-Barton has worked in film, television, and theater, as director, writer, producer, and instructor. She heads her own film production company, Tala Pasifika Productions . Justine has won a number of awards including the Senior Pacific Artists’ Award , a Rockefeller Foundation Grant , and a QE II Arts Council Travel Grant . Her recent film The Trophy , p...

We spoke with members of the Toronto film collective team, Flemish Beauty , behind a number of films including the 1 minute animated short, The Inquisitive Snail . The Inquisitive Snail is the story of Luke, an average, everyday nosy neighbor and his newly acquired pet, an inquisitive snail. When the inquisitive snail is dispatched by Luke to spy on the inhabitants of a small town, the snail soon...

Ryan Gielen was born and raised in Columbia, MD .  Ryan attended Washington and Lee University , where he majored in Journalism. He taught himself editing by sneaking into the editing suites after the Broadcast Journalism students left for the night. Following graduation, Ryan Gielen started his own production company we have creates, training and promotional videos for clients like Johns Hopkins...

Marlyn Mason has been an acting professional from the age of 9. By the mid 1960s, she was playing a recurring role of Sally Welden on TV's Ben Casey . In 1967, she starred as Carrie Pipperidge in a television version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel and in 1969, she made her big-screen debut opposite Elvis Presley in The Trouble With Girls and as Nikki Bel in the 1970s series Longstreet . Aft...

Trey Gunn , based in Seattle by way of Texas, has an impressive list of credits as a musician, most memorably with the seminal progressive rock band King Crimson , as well as with other artists such as David Sylvian , Brian Eno and the band Tool .  As a solo artist, he has released seven CDs. He has moved into the world of film and television scoring, and with Joe Mendelson has developed Quodia co...

This was recorded from the 12th year of RIIFF , which over the years has brought in talented visiting filmmakers from across the globe. We spoke with creators of the short films: Invulnerable , My Inventions , Behind My Eyes , Hugo , and Eclipse .  

This was recorded from the 12th year of the Rhode Island International Film Festival , or RIIFF , bringing in talented visiting filmmakers from across the globe. We spoke with creators of the short films: Hakim , Under My Garden , Gone Fishing , Hold On , and Ikigai . 

Dominic Musacchio is a producer at Northern Light Productions in Boston, MA and who has co-produced the powerful documentary, Killer Poet . Killer Poet is about Norman Porter , a controversial Massachusetts prisoner with 2 life sentences who spent 25 years in prison, escaped and lived in Chicago for 20 years as a poet/intellectual under a fake name, and then was caught in 2005 by the Mass State Po...

The Rauch Brothers , Mike and Tim Rauch , are independent animators out of Brooklyn, NY. In 2007, they formed Rauch Brothers Animation , a studio that collaborates with visionaries in literature, music, performance, and other creative arts through character design, animation, and visual storytelling. The Rauch Brothers have recently teamed with David Isay , five time Peabody Award -winning radio d...

Simon Rouby is a French animator who completed his studies at Gobelins L' Ecole de L'Image in partnership with the California Institute of the Arts . Simon's films include the animated shorts Blind Spot and Le Presage/The Omen . His films have screened in many film festivals including: Animafest , Cannes , Imagina .  His films have one several festival awards and Blind Spot was selected for Mike J...

Documentary filmmaker Renee Brown tells great visual stories through her work.  She has made several short documentary films that have been featured in a variety of film festivals nationally and internationally including: The New Beijing International Movie Festival , The Nashville International Film Festival , The Dingle International Film Festival in Ireland, and the Short Shorts Film Festival A...