Welcome to the inaugural episode of “The Project Plug”! Where members of Blackbird Film Festivals Birdnest get 2 min to plug a project of theirs! Today I have Nicholas Thurkettle, Talking about his podcast “My Dark Path.”

We sat down with acclaimed Actor / Producer / Director/ Singer Daniel David Stewart. Best known for For All Mankind, The Fugitive, Catch-22, and Silk Road. To talk about one of his films, Blow Out, the story of a woman finding a seemingly innocent balloon outside her front door, brings it inside and things get weird.

In our sneak peek episode of season 2 for the Blackbird Film Podcast. We chatted with Executive Director, Sam Avery, to get you all of the juicy details about the upcoming film festival. As well as announce some exciting new things for the podcast.

In this episode, we chatted with director, writer, and producer, Jesse D. Turk. His passion for telling stories from lesser-seen perspectives especially in terms of representing the LGBTQ+ Community in unexpected and dynamic ways is shining a spotlight on relationship challenges/misconceptions within the LGBTQ+ community. His most recent work includes the festival award-winning short "Holding" a dark comedy about two people who are put on hold by a suicide hotline, and a new contender and award-winner currently on the film festival circuit. "The Takeback" a drama about a gay man who steals from his one-night stands to cope with his vulnerability.

In this episode, Jake and Andy review David Fincher's new film, Mank. The tale of Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of "Citizen Kane." 

In this episode, Mitch shares some exciting podcast news. We also sat down with the director of Last Knight Standing, Neil Needleman, to talk about his film and what inspires him to create his films as well as his colorful artwork. 

On a very special episode of The Blackbird Film Podcast we sat down with writer, producer, and director Christina Raia! The recipient of the 2020 Black Feather award. 

The gang gets into the spooky spirit and talks about their favorite horror films. Did your favorites make the list?