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Sarah Wickliffe was born in New York and raised in New Jersey, the only child of jazz vocalist Roseanna Vitro and record producer/engineer, Paul Wickliffe. She has completed three short animated films; the last of which, Arts Desire, is a 4 minute animation about a character from a Picasso painting in search of a better environment, created with a mix of traditional hand drawn animation, 3d, and A...

Dony Permedi is a character animator from the Los Angeles area. After receiving a BFA (BGSU, Ohio) and MFA (School Of Visual Arts, NYC), both with a focus on Computer Art, he has worked in animation for a variety of commercial, gaming, and corporate clients. His personal projects include a variety of animated heartfelt animated short films Pony and Kiwi! in addition to an upcoming live action shor...

Jonathan Browning is an actor, director, and writer out of Los Angeles, CA. He is a co-founder of the film production company, Screaming Frog Productions . Jonathan Browning has strong background in traditional and alternative theatre. In Chicago, he was an active member of the great improvisational Annoyance Theatre and a variety of other theatre companies. In Los Angeles he has performed in and...

Ben Peters is writer and producer of a 90 second short short story film called Frog Jesus in addition to a variety of other great short short story films from a variety of genres. Frog Jesus has played a number of festivals and debuted in New England at the 2007 MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival . Ben Peters runs a film production company called Kijo in Vancouver, BC as writer/producer a...

Jonpaul Lewis is the "Jack" and master of many trades as an independent filmmaker. He is the writer, editor, director, producer, and lead actor of a three-minute short short story animation/live action character driven horror film called Jack the Ripper featuring a unique mix of 8,000 still photographs and stop motion animation techniques. He has many other plans in the works including an original...

We are joined by Greg Wilcox , director of a short short story documentary called Homage to a Catalonian Christmas , featuring an entertaining look at a featuring the cultural winter holiday traditions of the Tio and the caganer (the crapper) and the need for Catalonia to keep its own culture active. He has also made an experimental political short called Fortunate Son , a music video that shows t...

Raiya Corsiglia is an actor, director, editor, and producer. She has worked on commercials, music videos, shorts, and has a fantasy feature planned as well. Her latest work is a short experimental film which she wrote, starred in, edited, and directed called Blue Dreams Downtown . It is a uniquely shot film about a down on his luck drifter and his relationship with a woman in a photograph. Blue Dr...

Shane McCabe is from Dublin, Ireland and began his artistic career as an actor before later moving to writing and eventually directing. He wrote and directed the short short story film Lucky Escape , about a man, a woman, a restaurant, and being careful about what you wish for. In 2002, he acted in Jerry Bruckheimer’s Veronica Guerin . He has written six features and is working on lucky #7. In 200...

Doug Lantz is director of the inspiring and uplifting marching band documentary From the 50 Yard Line , which had its World Premiere at the 11th annual Rhode Island International Film Festival , where it won the Viola M. Marshall Audience Choice Award Grand Prize. Doug Lantz has worked in television broadcasting for the past 15 years and currently works at Blake House Media , a production company...

Hailing from St. Petersburg, Russia, Writer/Director/Editor, Lidia Sheinin has made her first film Happily Ever After , unique short short story telling a sad romantic tale in four minutes using split screens.  The film was produced by Gary Cohen, who had brief career as a child actor, later working at KROQ-FM in LA, and eventually for Adobe Systems on their Photoshop and Photoshop Elements produc...

Matt Wittmer is a graduate of the Documentary Institute at the University of Florida and a former intern at the documentary production company, Kartemquin Films.  He has recently directed the short documentary film The Regiment , which tells the unusual story of a group of Dominican youth from Providence, Rhode Island who take part in a civil war re-enactment in Olustee, Florida. The 14th Rhode Is...

Nitzan Mager, is the writer and director of the celebrated short film I Am God . She has also appeared as an actress in a number of films and theatre including Nobody Loves Alice and Hag Same’ach! . I Am God is a powerful short film based on a Israeli poem about a man traveling in Israel who has lost himself. He meets a grieving mother, her orthodox neighbor, a soldier, and a young Palestinian in...

We speak with the creators of the animated short film Voodoo Bayou . Javier Gutierrez is the film’s writer and director and Susana Jacques is the executive producer of the film. They have used their artist’s eye from the world of advertising at Ciber Films to develop a dark and enchanting tale of a Voodoo doll that comes to life and tries to escape from his nemesis, the witch-doctor. This short re...

Filmmaker Stacy Dymalski and actress Billie Harsh speak with us about the comedic short film The Write Stuff which satirizes the hypocrisy of critics. A stand-up comic and writer, Stacy is the founder of the independent video production company Saffire Systems . A member of the Writers Guild of America (WGA), she’s also written, directed and produced several successful commercials and short films....

Chris Burgard is the director of the provocative documentary Border , which gives viewers a front row seat along the United States Border with Mexico.  Chris has quite a varied background which includes having worked as a ballet dancer, stunt double, and actor - both on television roles in Tour of Duty and Growing Pains , and in numerous films including Pirates of the Caribbean and The Last Samura...

On this episode, we talk with Marcin Glowacki, director of the short film The Stewardess (Die Flugbegleiterin). Born in Poland and living in Germany, Marcin is both an actor and director, as well as the founder of Jim Pansen Production , a Berlin-based film and television production company which focuses on the medical field. The Stewardess is a black comedy short film which investigates over cons...

Paula Christensen was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina before relocating with her parents to New York and eventually attending Amherst (MA) College studying Theater and Anthropology. Her first full-length play In Vitro received a workshop reading at the Public Theater in New York in 2004 and has been optioned; she is transferring the story from stage to screen. She has several other projects in the...

On this episode, we talk with Kristian Söderström, director and writer of the short film Darkness Of Truth . The film is a surreal psychological thriller about the secrets of a middle-aged actress and former ballet dancer in Berlin and her tenant, a young, attractive female student. They choose to communicate their anger via the former actress’ diary.

Todd Robinson is a surgeon in Memphis, TN, who was inspired to document his mother’s "miracle" with his first forays into filmmaking, the feature-length Hidden Treasure and the short Sounds of A Miracle , both based on his mother’s story. His mother, Earnestine Rodgers Robinson, received no formal music training, and with her faith and family, she rose from humble southern roots to become composer...

On this episode, we speak with Emmanuel Jespers , writer and director of the short film Personal Spectator . Emmanuel Jespers is an Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD) graduate and has been directing and films and commercials for over ten years. His films include the short film The Last Dream (2000) which won many awards including Un Certain Regard in the Cannes Film Festival, A Night to Remember...

Phil Allocco is the writer and director of the short film Joseph Henry . Allocco began his career as a musician in the bands Law and Order and Dogma . From there, he joined the company Media Jelly, producing and designing projects including Goosebumps , The Magic School Bus , and Fox’s Dr. Dolittle 2 . Allocco was also the creator of several original animated series including The Vanderfuls and Br...

Christopher Martini, writer/director/producer of the film The Stone Child , joins us on this episode. He has worked behind the scenes in production in a variety of films including editing The Chris Isaac Show and the documentary Gulf War Syndrome: Killing Our Own . The Stone Child is about an 11-year-old boy, half Lakota Native-American and half caucasian, in rural South Dakota, and his relationsh...

JD Kelleher is an actor making his directorial debut with the short film One Last Drink Before Morning . JD studied English at University College Cork and has an extensive acting background in both film and television throughout the UK. His television and film credits include: Batman Begins , The Art of Flirting (an homage to Buster Keaton), and the BBC productions Little Britain , Murphy’s Law ,...

Ursula Burton is a Yale alumna who studied Theater and English Literature. Having done extensive theater work, she has more recently worked in television and film including The Office , The War at Home , and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya-Sisterhood . She founded Five Sisters Productions with her four other sisters. Together, they have produced three feature films in which she has also appeared: Just...

Our guest is filmmaker Yoav Segal, director of The Battle Of Cable Street. In 1936, Oswald Mosley and his army of fascist Blackshirts planned to march through the East End. However, Segal's grandfather, Ubby Cowan, and a host of others, including Jews, Irish, and dockworkers succeeded in stopping the march. This was a seminal event in British history as it loudly declared Britains refusal to accep...