Founder of FilmBizarro.com and Swedish-based filmmaker Ronny Carlsson joins the show to discuss film reviewing, independent releasing, and underground filmmaking abroad.

Old friends and creative collaborators Jake Emanuel and Willie Block join the podcast to talk about their recent success in screenwriting in Hollywood, detailing their signing with CAA and being hired to write the big budget Hunchback of Notre Dame remake.

Visual Effects artist and colorist Paul Santagada joins the show to discuss his industry work, both past and present, and offers advice to aspiring effects artists.

This week Frankie talks to old classmate and current script doctor for Norwegian film producers, Karen Rae Kaltenborn Nothstein. We visit Karen’s past, her wide-eyed wonderment for American film school, and her current status in the Norwegian film industry.

Long time friend and collaborator Jon Hunt joins Discount Film School to review, in detail, Frankie’s very initial filmmaking inclinations, including a story about going to Montreal to learn video editing from a stranger on the Internet. The stories lead up to Frankie’s meeting Jon, and how that enabled all art that followed.

Frankie talks to Gregory Hanson, low budget horror director and the exhibitor behind the Spectacle Theater’s monthly screening series “InFEST Underground.” To submit to InFEST, visit www.grethproductions.com, or e-mail [email protected].

Neil Murphy takes his experience submitting and being accepted to film festivals and attempts to impart the lessons he’s learned.

Fellow filmmaker Neil Murphy discusses his early filmmaking life, the pitfalls of amateur short films, and his vast festival experience.

Frankie talks with former professor and current friend/collaborator C.E. Courtney. C.E. discusses early photography, his family life and MFA thesis, his time at the AFI, teaching, and current projects.

We talk to Stefan Popescu, director, founder, and programmer of the Sydney Underground Film Festival. Stefan discusses his own low budget filmmaking pursuits, the questionable moral of the Australian government as it relates to film, and one of the more rogue film festivals in Australia.