The BraveMaker Podcast

LIVE CHAT with actor/writer/director Josh Ruben who debuted his first feature film at Sundance 2020. https://www.instagram.com/joshruben/ He is now gearing up for a release on Thursday October 1st, 2020 via https://www.shudder.com/ (which you can try out for FREE for seven days). Just in time for Halloween. #ScareMe http://joshsmindhouse.com/

Irving Ruan is a Chinese American writer, actor, comedian, playwright, and software engineer. His work has been published in The New Yorker , McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency , Funny Or Die, CollegeHumor, and elsewhere. He is a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto . He  graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a degree in  Computer Sci...

https://theprisonwithin.org/ The  Prison Within is narrated by Hill Harper (The Good Doctor, Homeland,  CSI:NY, Covert Affairs) and author of Letters to an Incarcerated  Brother, which speaks to the current mass incarceration crisis. Director  Katherin Hervey, a former Los Angeles Public Defender and volunteer  prison college instructor, is the first filmmaker to gain acce...

Episode 74 is hosted by Krystina Jackson + Tony Gapastione http://d4darious.com/ Darious Britt is a Director, producer, screenwriter and actor. He attended film school at the University of Arizona and graduated in May of 2012 with a bachelors in Media production. He  toured his short film “Seafood Tester” to four international film  festivals including the oscar qualifying Aspen Shorts f...

Watch the BBC film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ptvmahVE-s&feature=emb_logo It’s  been 30 years since the World Health Organization declassified  homosexuality as a psychological disorder - being gay is no longer  considered something that can be ‘cured’. 'Gay conversion therapy'  attempts to change sexual orientation through psychological, spiritual  and som...

Live Chat with Hollywood Teen Actresses Izabella Alvarez + Talia Jackson hosted by Tony Gapastione  Most  recently Izabella can be heard voicing the lead spunky character,  'Ronnie Anne Santiago,' in Nickelodeon's "The Casagrandes." The animated  series tells the story of 11-year- old Ronnie Anne after she moves to  the city with her older brother Bobby and her mom, where...

***Follow BraveMaker's correspondent IRVING on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/irvingruan/ INFO ON OUR FEATURED GUEST:  Charles  Yu is the author of four books, including the novel How to Live Safely  in a Science Fictional Universe, which was a New York Times Notable Book  and named one of the best books of the year by Time magazine. He  received the National Book Fo...

Kyra Jones is a queer Black multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in Chicago, IL. Kyra received her degree in Theatre and Gender Studies from Northwestern University. As an actor, she's appeared on Empire (Fox), Chicago Justice (NBC), Kappa Force (Revry), Seeds (OTV) and more. She's the co-creator, executive producer, and star of the award-winning web series,The Right Swipe (OTV). She's cur...

Teen singer/actor Becky Alex is on the show to talk about her song and music video. https://www.instagram.com/becky.alex/ Watch her video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUu5nwcIXUg Behind the scenes here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63thue_JELo

https://www.legerecreative.com/ Légère Creative was founded by Minna Rogers to fill the need of rest and introspection in our culture and daily lives. Busy schedules, routines, and living on auto-pilot often causes us to lose sight of ourselves and our creative energies. Each person is gifted with a desire to create and thrive, and we want to honor, nurture, and cultivate that at Légère. Through o...

Our last film selection for our VIRTUAL FILM FEST was: THE LOST, a short film written and directed by Vincent Cortez.  In this interview Tony and Krystina interview the very talented CORTEZ FAMILY who produced and acted in the film.  Find more about the film here: https://www.mitchellstreetpictures.com/

Meet the filmmakers of WONDER on HBO Gabriel Furman and Javier Molina WEBSITE: http://www.realtalkfilms.com/wonder INSTAGRAM: @wondertheshort / @therealtalkfilms / @gabriel_furman / @everydayisamondayproductions FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/wondertheshort/ / https://www.facebook.com/therealtalkfilms  / TWITTER: @wondertheshort TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5T8kjFG8wc Special...

Oscar Nominated WALK RUN CHA CHA BY LAURA NIX WATCH THE FILM HERE: https://vimeo.com/380740144 Paul  and Millie Cao reunited in California after the Vietnam War. Forty  years later, they are rediscovering themselves on the dance floor. Directed by -Laura Nix Laura  Nix is a director, writer and producer working in non-fiction and  fiction. Her most recent work, a short film tit...

https://tja.agency/ Tiauna Jackson is a Talent and Literary Agent for The Jackson Agency. Ms. Jackson built her agency from the ground up within the entertainment industry’s most competitive market, Los Angeles. Anchored on Avenue of the Stars in Century City, California, Ms. Jackson built her agency from the ground up within the entertainment industry’s most competitive market, Los Angeles. Ancho...

Want to know what it's like to be in VOICEOVER? Michael Schwalbé gave us the goods! https://michaelschwal.be Thanks to MDT Agency for sponsoring our work!

Update on our ORG! + #BlackLivesMatter

Writer/Director: Spencer Folmar in conversation with Timothy Mcmahan King and licensed social worker Aimee Noel. https://www.heroinfilm.com/ https://www.mcmahanking.com/ https://www.instagram.com/spencerfolmar/

Filmmaker Jason Hanasik documents a story of childhood trauma. When Nick Hurndon was six years old he and his two older brothers were set on fire by their stepfather in their San Francisco home. Now in his early forties, Nick is a retired Marine and is raising two sons that are about the same age he was when he was set ablaze. This is a film the effects that abuse had on Nick's sense of self worth...

You just need to listen.  https://www.beyoncemass.com/ Thank you to Reverend Yolanda for her creative force. He has curated and music and life's work of Beyoncé into life changing, culture impacting expression of humanity and empowerment for black women.  Rev. Yolanda M. Norton is the H. Eugene Farlough Chair of Black Church Studies at San Francisco Theological Seminary. Her womanist sch...

Mia Mercado is a humor writer based in Kansas City. Her work has been featured in  places like The New Yorker, the New York Times, Washington Posts’s The  Lily, New York Magazine’s The Cut, Bustle, McSweeney’s, and Hallmark  Cards. Her debut collection of funny non-fiction essays Weird but Normal  explores the contradictions of being a person, sharing the awkward,  uncomfo...

https://www.instagram.com/kerensouth/ https://www.facebook.com/keren.southall Find our episode : Jedi Douche http://www.doucheaholics.com/ Meet Markus Robinson https://moviesmarkus.com/

TV showrunner and show creator JEFF LIEBER. Originally from Chicago, now in LA, Jeff co-created LOST and his most recent credits include episodes of Charmed, Lucifer, The Originals, Impulse and NCIS: New Orleans... to name a few.  Follow him on Twitter if you want to write TV!  He's always sharing tips and once we get out of shelter in place he's gonna come up to the Bay to be with us! h...

Hope you are all staying well during SHELTER IN PLACE and taking care of yourself.  Enjoy Ragiv's story and meet him online live: April 7th or 8th, 2020.  To sign up go to BraveMaker. Org and subscribe to our email list. Follow him: IG https://www.instagram.com/rajivgoshah/ Twitter https://twitter.com/rajivgoshah IMDB https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1974915/

Krystina is a force.  https://www.instagram.com/krystinawrayjackson/ More on Lisa Keating , Bay Area photographer:  http://www.lisakeatingphotography.com/ MDT Talent Agency http://mdtagencysf.com/

Episode 53 is up! We had to postpone our film screening with these two--but we get them on our podcast. Great guys who have lots to share.  Recorded on ZOOM via NYC + LA.  Find them online:  Danish on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/danishrenzu/ Their movie: THE ILLEGAL https://www.instagram.com/theillegalmovie/ Suraj on Twitter https://twitter.com/imsurajsharma If you liked the...