Filmmaking Conversations Podcast with Damien Swaby

By Damien Swaby

TV & Film

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Filmmaking Conversations with Damien Swaby is a small fraction of the critical conversations currently taking place across the indie film community. The podcast reaches out to the next generation of filmmakers, who continue to look for inspiration and guidance.Proud Member of the IFH Podcast Network (www.ifhpodcastnetwork.com)

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Ep 156: The Microbudget Ind...

05.16.2022

“I’m passionate about two things: creating activism centered films &demystifying; the microbudget production process.”- Zanah ThirusNamed one of Diversity in Cannes' Top 10 Filmmakers of the Decade, Zanah is a filmmaker (producer+ director+ writer) from Chicago, IL. Since launching her ...

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05.16.2022 Ep 156: The Microbudget Indie Film Podcast host Zanah Thirus “I’m passionate about two things: creating activism centered films &demystifying; the microbudget production process.”- Zanah ThirusNamed one of Diversity in Cannes' Top 10 Filmmakers of the Decade, Zanah is a filmmaker (producer+ director+ writer) from Chicago, IL. Since launching her ...
05.10.2022 Ep 155: "Aunt Vivian" from "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" - Daphne Maxwell Reid Everyone remembers Daphne Maxwell Reid as an iconic TV mom of the 1990s, from her three seasons as Aunt Vivian on "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air." And Daphne couldn't be more excited when the cast of "The Fresh Prince ...
04.27.2022 Ep 154: One For The Future! Actress and Filmmaker Suzanne Lenz In her own words"Hi! I'm Suzanne. I'm an actress and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. My first directorial effort, short film Christmas Eve Eve: Or The Things I Can’t Remember (which I also wrote and star in) recently played at ...
04.20.2022 Ep 153: A 'Karen' flees the city after going viral for a racist incident! Who's Afraid? Who's Afraid follows this phenomenon to a cathartic yet heart-pumping conclusion as it answers the question: what would happen if someone had to face a life-or-death situation as a result of jeopardizing someone else's life out of sheer racism? Our ...
04.03.2022 Ep 152: When Crowdfunding Works! Filmmaker ERIN LOVETT Erin has directed and produced documentary television for CNN, HBO, Showtime, National Geographic, PBS, YouTube Premium, OWN, MSNBC, and Investigation Discovery. She's interested in stories that explore social justice, women's rights, environment, health and horror - she loves a good ...
03.26.2022 Ep 151: Actress, Entrepreneur, and Activist! Emily Procter Emily Procter is an actress, entrepreneur, and activist.In 2019 Emily shifted focus from entertainment to community by founding Ground Breakers Inc. Ground Breakers is a nonprofit working to create positive identity opportunities for children, and additionally for adults, in compromised ...
03.06.2022 Ep 150: Before Sunrise with Kim Krizan An American writer and actress best known for originating the story and characters in the "Before Sunrise" trilogy with her writing on Before Sunrise 1995 and Before Sunset 2004 for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best ...
03.05.2022 Ep 150: Before Sunrise with screenwriter Kim Krizan Kim Krizan is a writer and actor who was raised in the Los Angeles area. For a time, Krizan lived in Austin, Texas, where she was active in theater and film; she also taught literature and writing at the college ...
02.26.2022 Ep 149: MARKUS FÖRDERER ASC, BVK, DIRECTOR of PHOTOGRAPHY Selected as one of Variety's 10 Stars behind the Cameras, the German born cinematographer who graduated from University of Television and Film in Munich, has quickly developed an impressive resume of visually unique and critical acclaimed feature films. HELL marked ...
02.12.2022 Ep 148: MAKING A PASSION PROJECT, by Beatriz Browne, 34 Carmine St. Beatriz Browne is a Los Angeles/NYC based, Webby Award winning producer, director, and filmmaker specializing in non-fiction storytelling.Beatriz has worked extensively with clients such as Google, Airbnb, Peerspace, The New York Times, CNN, Square and Fatherly, creating multi-platform original content. ...
01.21.2022 Ep 147: From Acting to Writing, Producing and Editing - Hallie Shepherd Hallie Shepherd is a writer, actress, producer, and editor, and she co-owns Fireshoe Productions with Eric Colley. She’s currently wrapping up post-production on Fireshoe’s fifth feature film, a comedy called Bigfoot Killed My Wife. Shepherd wrote the screenplay and stars ...
01.15.2022 Ep 146: Pete Chatmon - Transitions: A Director’s Journey and Motivational Handbook Teller Of Stories. Mostly Fiction, Always Real. With a deft ability to balance both half-hour single camera comedies and one-hour dramas, Pete Chatmon has directed episodes of HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant, Insecure, Silicon Valley, and Love Life, Netflix’s You ...
01.01.2022 Ep 145: A Film by Rebecca Eskreis, What Breaks the Ice Rebecca Eskreis is a director, writer and producer whose work has screened at numerous international festivals, including SXSW, TIFF, SIFF, deadCenter, Savannah, Munich, Stockholm and Thessaloniki. Her directorial debut project, WHAT BREAKS THE ICE (Goldcrest Films), received the Sandra Adair/Empowering ...
12.23.2021 Ep 144: Lisa Molomot, Documentary Filmmaker - MISSING IN BROOKS BioA graduate of the American Film Institute, I am a documentary director, producer and editor whose work has aired on PBS series such as Independent Lens and has been seen at film festivals around the world, including Sundance, SXSW, New ...
12.18.2021 Ep 143: Making films by any means necessary - PRECARIAT Founded in 2016, we are a film and theater production company based in New York.We aim to disrupt storytelling as usual and make our stuff by any means necessary.We’re makers, not salespeople.We’re outsiders, and we’re inclusive, we’re rigorous, we’re generous, ...
12.13.2021 Ep 142: Scott Leger - Are Filmmakers Living in Pain? Scott Leger is a Director and Screenwriter whose work has been screened at Cannes Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, SeriesFest, and Palm Springs International Film Festival. Drawn to filmmaking after a horrific mountain biking accident in high school derailed his ...
12.03.2021 Ep 141: Acting with Energy: Creating Brilliance Take After Take - Murisa Harba An award-winning actor and director, Murisa Harba lives to push boundaries. She is a leading acting coach, author, thought leader, and speaker in Los Angeles, passionate about empowering actors to elevate their truth in storytelling and ultimately unlocking their creative ...
11.21.2021 Ep 140: An Inspiring Story From Sally Harvey Anderson Sally grew up all over the Southeastern US and moved to Los Angeles, CA as an adult. While in LA, Sally became an alumni of UCB, one of the best professional improv schools in the country. She returned to “The ...
11.16.2021 Ep 139: What the IATSE Agreement Means For Indie Filmmakers Following the ratification of IATSE’s new film and TV contracts, podcaster and entertainment industry veteran Damien Swaby talks to principal Reena Sehgal (Sehgal Law PC) about their legal implications for Indie Filmmakers. Swaby and Sehgal will discuss the Basic Agreement ...
11.15.2021 Ep 138: From Acting to Producing - Stephanie O'Neill Stephanie is an artist and producer originally from the Bay Area, CA. She received her BFA in Theatre from UC Santa Barbara before moving to Los Angeles. As a producer, Stephanie has worked on a variety of short films, music ...
11.03.2021 Ep 137: A Rising Star In Entertainment Law - Reena Sehgal Reena Sehgal, EsqAttorney-at-Law TransactionsReena Sehgal is from Bend, Oregon, and attended Portland State University, where she earned her Bachelor of Science in General Science.After graduating, Reena moved to San Diego, California to pursue a legal career. She graduated Cum Laude ...
10.24.2021 Ep 136: Sheila Houlahan - Innovative hybrid feature film on Twitch! Sheila Houlahan is an Indian-American actor, singer, producer and writer. Houlahan can be seen in supporting role Paige Callahan in Warner Bros. feature film “The Little Things”, written and directed by John Lee Hancock and starring Denzel Washington, Rami Malek ...
10.20.2021 Ep 135: Greg Poole - Working with Idris Elba, UK Grime and James Cohan! FILMMAKER:Director \| Producer Editor \| Camera \| SoundWorking in television at MTV Networks by day while DJing in downtown New York clubs by night, it was music that sparked Greg's interest in filmmaking when he began to follow London’s burgeoning ...
10.18.2021 Ep 134: Dan Attias Author of Directing Great Television: Inside TV’s New Golden Age Biography for Dan AttiasAuthor of Directing Great Television: Inside TV’s New Golden AgeDan Attias has worked as a director in the film and television industry since 1984. As a director of series television, he has received the Directors Guild of ...
10.10.2021 Ep 133: Filmmaking in the age of COVID - Jeffrey Davis! Jeffrey Delano Davis–Director Jeffrey spent his college years studying drama and literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, before marching forth to New York City with $70. After an extended couch surfing period,he settled into the East Village, managed a ...
10.01.2021 Ep 132: A Filmmaking Community - CenterFrame Links to CenterFrame W: https://centerframe.com/Y: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyPIpHt7lcQbmHW9kNMCg2g/videosF: https://www.facebook.com/CenterFrameClubLike to have a ASC cinematographer as a mentor?Have you thought of upgrading your cinematography game? Would you like to have an ASC Cinematographer mentor you for free? Join veteran cinematographer Suki Medencevic, A.S.C. ...
09.18.2021 Ep 131: Madison Hatfield - Abortion, Filmmaking and Acting! Madison Hatfield is a writer, performer, and filmmaker born, raised, and based in Atlanta, GA. With her creative partner Jono Mitchell, she works to celebrate underrepresented perspectives with a focus on unexpected joy, as in Pageant Material (an official selection ...
09.05.2021 Ep 130: African American Cinema with The Micheaux Mission Together, the Men of Micheaux hope to find the perfect wine to compliment Pam Grier's 'Coffy', the five movies since 1985 in which Samuel L. Jackson does not appear and someone who agrees with Len that The Last Dragon is ...
08.28.2021 Ep 129: The importance of a good lookbook! With David Volino and Adam Lowder Wayward Kin Lookbook https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NPShtA9m_LvXz_ZoImfVT3iGFeEQn5f3/viewDavid Volinohttps://www.davidjosephvolino.comAdam Lowder https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4897241/Like to have a ASC cinematographer as a mentor?Have you thought of upgrading your cinematography game? Would you like to have an ASC Cinematographer mentor you for free? Join veteran cinematographer Suki Medencevic, A.S.C. ...
08.16.2021 Ep 128: David Volino and Adam Lowder, an Independent Family Drama THE FILM:Facing an impossible court case, the volatile Caleb Dodgens must overcome the hatred he has for his lawyer, his estranged brother of the last twelve years, in order to win custody of his daughter. Adam Lowder will be directing ...
07.29.2021 Ep 127: Lucy King! Senior Video Journalist at The New York Times Lucy King "I’m a film and video producer, with a focus on documentary and current affairs but with experience in commercial and narrative. I have produced films for the BBC, Vice, Discovery, Channel 4, ITV and A&E;, ranging in length ...
07.20.2021 Ep 126: Why Networking Matters! Mark & Anna Casadei Mark & Anna Casadei are filmmakers from Nashville, Tennessee. Together, they have written numerous award-winning screenplays and short films. They are currently contracted on two romantic comedies with MPCA and recently developed a thriller/horror project that is starring Malcolm McDowell.They ...
07.09.2021 Ep125: Hungarian Film and Theatre Artist Dora Endre Dora is a New York based Hungarian film and theatre artist with an extensive educational background (media, international communications, filmmaking, acting, editing). For the past four years she was lucky enough to collaborate with other creatives on a number of ...
06.26.2021 Ep 124: Talking Cinematography with STEPHEN SZMED In his own words"I’m a cinematographer based in Brooklyn, New York.Growing up in Kansas, I picked up my family video camera at 13, started making films with his friends, then never really stopped.I aim to tell evocative stories and bring ...
06.12.2021 Ep 123: "What I create is not who I am" Rease Cassity, ACTRESS, CREATOR, and EMPOWERER Rease Cassity is a New York-based actor, filmmaker and writer who loves 90s R & B, hates that glitter isn’t a recognized color, and dreams of a day when being over a size four in Hollywood isn’t a capital offense. ...
06.04.2021 Ep 122: Writer /Director Tyrone Breaux Jr. Tyrone Breaux, Jr. was born and raised in Bakersfield, CA. He joined the U.S Air Force after graduating high school and served for six years. After an honorable discharge in 2010, Tyrone attended the New York Film Academy. He graduated ...
05.28.2021 Ep 121: Filmmaker, and Assistant Professor in Cinema and Television - Missy Hernandez Missy Hernandez is a Writer and Filmmaker based in Chicago. Missy's pilot script, FAMILY MEDICINE, was a finalist for the 2020 Script Pipeline TV Writing Competition. Her feature script, I DON'T DREAM IN SPANISH ANYMORE, was a participant in the ...
05.22.2021 Ep 120: Scoring television since 1992 - RON WASSERMAN RON WASSERMANToday on Filmmaking Conversations, I'll be speaking to Ron Wasserman. He has been scoring television since 1992. His first hit shows were X-Men, Power Rangers, and Dragon Ball Z. That was the beginning of a career now totaling over ...
05.14.2021 Ep 119: Beverly Hills, 90210 and the Warner Brothers TV Directors Workshop - BETHANY ROONEY BETHANY ROONEY has directed over 220 episodes of prime time network television over the past thirty years and is still amazingly enthusiastic about the creative process and the craft! She has expanded her visibility in the business, moving from freelance ...
05.10.2021 Ep 118: Dutch/Macedonian contemporary artist - Nathalie Basoski Nathalie Basoski is a Dutch/Macedonian contemporary artist focusing in still and motion picture. Currently based in Brooklyn New York Nathalie explores the thin line between fashion and fine arts and thrives in street photography as an anthropological study of the ...
05.08.2021 Ep 117: Frasier Emmy Award winning screenwriter - Joe Keenan Keenan was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts into an Irish American Catholic family. He has a twin brother, John, and two other siblings Ronald and Geraldine. He grew up in the blue collar neighborhood of Cambridgeport. Keenan attended Boston College High ...
05.04.2021 EP 116: The Nutshell Technique - Jill Chamberlain About Jill ChamberlainJill Chamberlain has helped thousands of writers, producers, and studios find and refine their stories. As a longtime script consultant, Jill knows the pitfalls that are common in screenwriting and how to avoid them. That experience and the ...
04.30.2021 Ep 115: Music & Film Composition with Emmy Award Winners Pop Sound Inc! Urban Dictionary defines 'pop' as "the derivative of crackle, which is the derivative of snap, which is the derivative of jerk, which is the derivative of acceleration, which is the derivative of velocity, which is the derivative of distance...." Which ...
04.27.2021 Ep 114: Editing, Crowdfunding, and Film School with Megan Arnold Megan Arnold, director, editor, and writer.BA (May '21) in Digital Media/Video Production + Public Relationships/Strategic CommunicationsPassions include video editing, graphic + print media design, social media management, product advertisements, and website design. Strongest assets include full capability of the Adobe ...
04.23.2021 Ep 113: TONI JANNOTTA, Documentary Filmmaker and Jazz Musician! "Jannotta crafts an original, new jazz work that keeps things moving forward and interesting."- Chris Spector"Her writing offers an interesting perspective."- Sarah Ellen HughesThank you for dropping by my website. I hope you will take a look around and check ...
04.19.2021 Ep 112: Actress Reagan Pasternak, discusses her new book Griffin's Heart Reagan Pasternak is a Canadian born actress from Toronto, Canada. She's the youngest of four siblings, with two sisters and one brother. She began singing at age seven and soon after fell in love with theater, training in The Meisner ...
04.16.2021 Ep 111: The Reykjavik Talent Lab - Filmmaker Mylissa Fitzsimmons Mylissa spent her early years in Moab, Utah then as a teenager in Oregon. In high school she took to skateboarding and photography, photographing bands and making super 8 skate videos. It was during her last year of school she ...
04.12.2021 Ep 110: 19 year old writer sells her first feature film screenplay! Jordan-Paige Sudduth Jordan-Paige Sudduth is a 19 year old writer, actor, director, filmmaker, daily vlogger, and author. Born on April 13, 2001, she was born and raised in Georgia, left the state for a bit of time to attend college, and is ...
04.09.2021 Ep 109: Edd Benda, CEO at BTP Media \| Filmmaker & Video Producer In his own words"I am the Co-founder and CEO of Beyond the Porch (BTP), a full-service video production company that we launched six years ago, shortly after graduating from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. Through our subsidiary, BTP Media, we ...
04.04.2021 Ep 108: Little Boxes award-winning writer and director - Rob Meyer Rob Meyer is an award-winning writer and director who works in features, documentaries, television, and commercials. His films, including A Birder’s Guide to Everything (Ben Kingsley, Kodi Smit-McPhee), Little Boxes (Melanie Lynskey, Nelsan Ellis, Christine Taylor), and Aquarium (Jeremy Allen ...

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