The BraveMaker Podcast

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So much going on right now in our world regarding Covid-19/Corona Virus. We're sad to postpone our March and April events in order to flatten out the virus growing.  This podcast also includes a short response about our February 2020 film screening Burden. It created a lot of conversations which is what we had hoped for, but we never want to increase the hostility and aggression for people of...

As interviewed: Irving Ruan Henry Alford is a humorist and journalist who writes for The New Yorker , the New York Times , and Vanity Fair . His stories have also appeared in Spy magazine, the New York Times Magazine , GQ , Vogue , The Village Voice , McSweeney's , Harper's , the Los Angeles Times , and The Paris Review . He is the author of five books Including How to Live , which won the James T...

Tony met director Andrew Heckler and producer Robbie Brenner (Oscar nominated for Dallas Buyer's club)  at Sundance in 2018. Burden is an award winning film, Audience Award and it is premiering in the Bay Area 2/24/2020 before it rolls out at the end of February and March nationwide.  https://www.instagram.com/burdenmovie/ Andrew's IG https://www.instagram.com/workheck/

If you love theatre, especially Broadway theatre and the genius of Lin-Manuel Miranda, you'll love all of Rick's stories.  Rick Negrón has worked on two of theatre's greatest hits: In the Heights and Hamilton. He was selected to perform both of these shows in Puerto Rico which was quite the full circle experience because he was born and raised in that very place. He plays the role of KING GEO...

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Brandon Armstrong struck gold when he booked a role touring as DONKEY in Shrek the Musical.  Take a listen to how he was hand picked by Lin-Manuel Miranda to perform in Puerto Rico (after many, many auditions). He is now a resident of San Francisco. He plays Hercules Mulligan and James Madison at the Oprpheum Theatre on Market St.  Find him on IG https://w...

I (Tony) met Kathryn connected on Twitter after I saw her at ACT's WAKEY WAKEY co-starring with actor Tony Hale.  Go see it! You have ONE MORE WEEKEND to see it in San Francisco, Valentine's weekend.  act-sf.org Follow her work! She's also on the show DEPUTY on THURSDAY NIGHTS.  https://www.kathrynsmithmcglynn.com/ IG https://www.instagram.com/kathryn_with_a_k_no_e/ Twitter https://...

Underwear for all shapes, sizes + preferences. That's Play Out Apparel. A non-gendered place to get the underwear you've always wanted. (Have you heard about Athleisure? You have now!). What is the story here? Ask Abby Sugar: Entrepreneur, fashionista and LGBTQ+ advocate. From NYC but currently living in the Bay while attending Palo Alto's Founder's Institute. She'll also be at BraveMaker's 2/24/2...

Recorded in Park City, Utah FROM SUNDANCE. Tony and Diane talked about meeting in Chicago at the Blue Whiskey Film Fest , her Oscar/Emmy nominated and Peabody/Sundance winning film MINDING THE GAP as well as her two full length documentaries at South By Southwest this March, 2020--AND ALL THE WORK IT TAKES TO MAKE MOVIES! Follow Diane on Twitter https://twitter.com/dmquon Her short film CLIFF SUPE...

Jim Cummings and Tony Gapastione sat down in a hallway, yes a hallway and just talked. And it's all recorded for our listening pleasure.  Jim is very accessible. Say hi on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/jimmycthatsme Watch his short film THUNDER ROAD: https://vimeo.com/174957219 See his production company here and look up the films BEAST BEAST, THE BETA TEST AND THE WEREWOLF https://vanis...

Another great interview from correspondent IRVING RUAN! @irvingruan   Claire  Friedman is a staff writer on Showtime’s Desus & Mero. Previously  she wrote for Saturday Night Live, in which she won a Peabody award for  as well as an Emmy nomination. Her comedy has been published in the New  Yorker, McSweeney’s, and The Harvard Lampoon. Claire  was born and raised i...

Joy Elizabeth Hoover is MAKING CHANGE +  CUPCAKES IN LAS VEGAS.  From her  INSTAGRAM:  She's a life + mama founder + ceo | @cupcakegirlsorg @localforall podcast | @humanswhogiveashit ambassador | @lululemon social impact coach 👇🏼 joyhoover.com

Interviewed by BraveMaker correspondent IRVING RUAN (listen to his BraveMaker interview ep 20) https://twitter.com/irvingruan https://www.instagram.com/irvingruan/ Caitlin Kunkel is a writer and satirist. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, The New Yorker, McSweeney's, among others, and she's a co-founder of the Satire and Humor Festival as well as The Belladonna Comedy. Along with t...

You might know him from playing YOUNG/TEEN RANDALL PEARSON on NBC's "This is Us" But he also stars in the new film directed by R.J. Daniel Hannah called:  Miss Virginia starring UZO ADUBA (out now).  https://www.missvirginiamovie.com/ Follow him on IG https://www.instagram.com/nilesfitch/ This guy is a rising start. Catch him on a new film March 2020 on Disney+. Listen to find out more.&...

His film starring Uzo Aduba + Niles Fitch + Matthew Modine is coming to BraveMaker 12/5/19! Get tix: bravemissvirginia.eventbrite.com Follow him on IG https://www.instagram.com/rjdanielhanna/ Twitter https://twitter.com/rjdanielhanna

Tony met Gianmarco in NYC! Follow this funny guy with a great ITALIAN name: IG: https://www.instagram.com/gianmarcosoresi/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GianmarcoSoresi

And he won a SAG AWARD for BEST STUNTS.  Cool story. Never give up. Wakanda forever.  Mark is also a TARGET MODEL + RECENTLY was seen playing Basketball in a scene on SHAMELESS.  Find him on IG: https://www.instagram.com/marquillis33/ Twitter https://twitter.com/marquillis33

Currently  (as of Nov 2019) Sullivan is in NYC in SLAVE PLAY but he's originally from the Bay Area! You can also find him on: Wu Tang: An American Saga. Follow him on the Socials:  Twitter https://twitter.com/_SullyJones   + https://twitter.com/SlavePlayBway Instagram https://www.instagram.com/_sullivanjones_/   + https://www.instagram.com/slaveplaybway/

Friendly, witty and British--this is: Adam Campbell.  You might have seen him on a show called GREAT NEWS playing Greg, the young executive producer of the cable news show "The Breakdown. "  It did two seasons on NBC and now can be streamed on Netflix.  Or you might have seen him in an episode of Drunk History.  Or you might have met him at the SAG AWARDS (That was me, Tony). &...

From LOS ANGELES-- Tony and Loretta have worked together before on 1440 and Counting and Neighbor (Tony's two short films available on Amazon Prime). While on set recording voice-over for a new animated project called PICCOLO, they sat down and chatted about Loretta's career from four years on Broadway in Dream Girls, to winning in an Emmy for Grey's Anatomy as well her live performance in Los Ang...

Actress Izabella Alvarez is a rising Latina star (according to the LA Times).  She's had roles in: Shameless.  Westworld. Splitting Up Together (and more)... AND had a leading role in one of BraveMaker's favorite feature films: COLLISIONS! Now she's voicing the lead character RONNIE ANNE SANTIAGO in Nickelodeon's THE CASAGRANDES. (and she's only 15 years old!).  Congratulations to t...

Liz Manashil is straight up filmmaker GOLD.  Podcast co-host of MAKING MOVIES IS HARD + writer/director of two feature films: Bread and Butter and now Speed of Life (screening Thursday November 14th in Redwood City)--(and new mom of baby boy)--- Liz Keeps it real. Take a listen to her process of making micro-budget films, casting diverse body shapes, and creating a canon of 5-6 films she's pr...

Producer of the now released film: JINN + upcoming HOSEA http://www.azuspeak.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/azuspeak/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/azuspeak

They say write what you know. I (Tony) know the church world. I've had this unique perspective being both an ordained pastor and filmmaker. I love it and I often roll my eyes at it. I have to poke fun at myself and the institution that I have been a part of for most of my life. It formed me and messed me up. We have good hearts, but we are also ridiculously stubborn, privileged, irrelevant, offens...

From BraveMaker correspondent Irving Ruan: I had a super energizing interview with Jeremy. We talked about his  experience at art school, how much he struggled to make ends meet as an  artist when he first moved to New York (e.g. sitting on top of a milk  crate and using a table left on the sidewalk for his studio), and his  beginnings submitting cartoons to The New Yorker maga...