The BraveMaker Podcast

Want to learn how to PITCH A TV SHOW? Want to learn how to PITCH LIKE A BAD ASS?  Meet EVETTE VARGAS. Content Creator • TV Writer • Director • Producer | The Writers Room 5050, Founder | NEW HOLLYWOOD Clubhouse, Founder www.writersroom5050.com https://www.instagram.com/theevettevargas/

https://www.ballisballfilm.com/ Meet filmmaker KAYLA ROBINSON https://www.kayla-robinson.com/ and learn about her current film: BALL IS BALL. Inspired  by the life experience of writer/director Kayla Robinson, Ball is Ball  is a narrative short film about the lasting impact and complicated  nuances of sexual assault. The  story follows Robin Coleman, a high school basketball st...

Theresa  has a secret. In the Bay Area where people are flinging open their  closet doors, she’s not sure she’ll be accepted. Help Theresa come  out…….as a Christian. ARTIST  BIOGRAPHY: Theresa Donahoe has performed theater since she was a little  girl, but only recently discovered solo performance starting in 2013.   Her first full length solo show, “Late Bloome...

Nicole Riegel (Writer/Director)was named one of Variety's 10 Directors to  Watch in 2020. She served in the military prior to filmmaking and  graduated from UCLA’s MFA writing program. She was named one of  Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 Faces of Independent Film. She has been  supported by Sundance through their Screenwriter’s Lab and the Skywalker Sound+Music Lab. Follow her: https:...

CROSS-OVER PODCAST ALERT! The creative process always takes some form of investment—usually a bunch of time, potentially some money, but always, a whole lot of effort in the beginning, middle, and end. To bring a project—any project—to life is a creative or otherwise entrepreneurial process, and for many of us who have brought one or more projects to life ("Rare Birds," if you will), bringing crea...

Join us for a live chat with actor CAMERON JAMES MATTHEWS is currently co-starring in the LIONSGATE FILM: Notorious Nick --out on Amazon Prime now.   Watch the TRAILER https://www.instagram.com/cameronjmatthews/ IMDB   imdb.me/cameronjamesmatthews

https://www.instagram.com/theractivist/ Identity, Intersectionality, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. The TherActivist embodies a therapeutic activism approach, while servicing and empowering people of color, LGBTQ+ communities, and marginalized populations. For further details on empowering your “therapeutic activism,” check out: TherActivist: They/Them/Theirs documentary. For more information ab...

Dan  Mirvish is a director, screenwriter, producer and author. He's  currently in post-production on his new feature, 18½, a 70s Watergate  thriller/dark comedy. Prior to that, he directed the award-winning  feature Bernard and Huey, scripted by Oscar/Pulitzer-winner Jules  Feiffer, and starring Oscar-winner Jim Rash and David Koechner which  screened in over 30 film...

NEW  DOCUMENTARY: Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power tells the complex  story of Representative Barbara Lee, a steadfast voice for human rights,  peace and equality in the U.S. Congress for over 2 decades, who raised  two sons as a single mother on food stamps and was the lone vote in  opposition to the broad authorization of military force following the  September...

Watch his film here https://www.feelingthrough.com/ Follow him on IG here: https://www.instagram.com/dougroland/

Angela Harvey. After helping write and produce a hundred episodes of MTV’s Teen Wolf, Angela went on to serve as writer/producer for shows at CBS, ABC, Marvel Television and FX. She’s currently developing shows with 20th Television, Bad Robot, and Disney Plus.  Angela has written & directed three short films including Prom, which premiered at the 2020 Austin Film Festival. She is currentl...

Jason Park, a second-generation Korean-American born and raised from the city of Chicago, started making films when he would take his dad’s camera and reenact his favorite movies with his friends that were truly a horrific sight to behold. He somehow decided to study Theology, History, and Secondary Education in college, and spent a year as a teacher/missionary on the island of Palau in the South...

https://www.instagram.com/krystinawrayjackson/ https://www.instagram.com/tonygapastione/

Greg Russo has worked as a professional screenwriter for more than a  decade. His first produced feature “Mortal Kombat” was released in 2021  from Warner Bros and New Line Cinema. The film broke pandemic box office  records and was the most-streamed film release in HBO Max history. Greg  has sold multiple specs, pitches, and TV pilots and written films for  Universal, Par...

www.lydiareneedarling.com Lydia-Renee  Darling dropped some gems in this episode. She is an actor-scriptwriter from Madison, Wisconsin and  self-described "quadruple M"... a mixed, multi-hyphenate media maven!  Lydia is a BFA Musical Theatre grad from the Webster Conservatory class  of 2020 and will earn her MA in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media at  the Royal Central...

https://www.instagram.com/mihoko_on_insta/ As an English-Japanese interpreter, As an English-Japanese interpreter,  Mihoko Imai has for the past 12 years specialized in film and  entertainment, servicing content distributors, film festivals,  photographers, filmmakers, actors, and producers. She has interpreted  for press events and interviews with people of note including: FIL...

https://www.instagram.com/beastbeastmovie/ Sundance and SXSW selected film BEAST BEAST's writer/director Danny Madden with actor Jose Angeles. https://www.instagram.com/thespindojo/ In Select Theaters and On-Demand May 2021. https://vanishingangle.com/beast-beast-film

https://www.instagram.com/morethanmiyagi/ KELLY JACKSON is one of the producers on the award winning feature documentary  More than MIyagi: The Pat Morita Story released on Feb. 5th 2021. Kelly  and Oscar Alvarez, another producer on the documentary, first met each  other when their daughters played on-screen daughters on the Diablo Cody  ABC pilot “Raised by Wolves”. Their fam...

https://www.instagram.com/ifanything_film/ Discussion with the OSCAR NOMINATED filmmakers of Netflix's IF ANYTHING HAPPENS I LOVE YOU. Will  McCormack & Michael Govier (Directors) are making their directorial debut with,  “If Anything Happens I Love You.” McCormack and Govier are producers,  writers, actors and directors. McCormack wrote “Toy Story 4” and  “Celeste and Jess...

https://www.instagram.com/woo_hwang/ You may have seen him on seasons 28 + 31 of CBS' Survivor. He's a fan favorite, but more than that, he's an all around great guy. We'll  talk about life after Survivor and building his acting/fitness/martial  arts/modeling career in LA. We'll also talk about the impact of being an  Asian American working in Hollywood and the need to speak out aga...

https://www.christopherhibma.com/ In  his most recent role as the Director of Sundance Institute’s Theatre  Program, Christopher Hibma built one of the world’s leading  brands and  most diverse rosters of artist activities. In his role, he  worked to  expand the Program’s cultural impact outside the American context, with  an emphasis on storytelling that incorpo...

 Watch the SUNDANCE SELECTED short film here: https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000007247238/tears-teacher.html TEARS TEACHER "Yoshida is a self-proclaimed 'tears teacher': he makes people weep." The documentary “Tears Teacher” screened at Sundance and Hot Docs, and was acquired by the New York Times. It was featured on The Japan Times, Thrillist, etc and has already played in more tha...

https://www.accentcoachjack.com/ Accent  Coach Jack Wallace is a professional dialect coach from England,  currently based in Los Angeles who specializes in authentic accent  preparation for actors and presenters. Jack  is an in-demand accents expert for news outlets such as CNN,  Entertainment Tonight!, Insider and Buzzfeed.  (His appearances with  Buzzfeed have...

Co-writers  and producing partners Jeremy Valdez and Tony Gapastione will discuss  the ins and outs of their creative partnership. They have written a  feature together and two television projects, one that has currently  been picked up by a production company with a proof of concept in  post-production. https://www.instagram.com/tonygapastione/ https://www.instagram.com/j...

Marquette  Jones is a filmmaker and screenwriter. Her work focuses on the interior  lives of women in multiple genres such as comedy and science fiction.  Her films, Ghosted, Forgiving Chris Brown, Round on Both Sides, Streets 2  Suites, and Tunk have screened at film festivals around the world and  been featured on Showtime, PBS, Amazon Prime and KweliTV, et. al. Prior &n...