One Good Take

My guest today is Wesley Ambrecht, a writer/producer originally from Bellmore New York now based in LA.

He currently heads up Development & Production at Foundation Film. 

Wes gives a candid account of his ups and downs in Hollywood, peppered with some amusing anecdotes and insights on the way the industry operates and how it’s evolving. 

Here’s this take. 

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This is the trailer for Episode 19 when I was talking to Wesley Ambrecht, writer/producer and VP of Foundation Film in LA . 

If you'd like a candid account of an insider's experiences working in Hollywood, peppered with som amusing anecdotes and insights on the way the industry operatees, check out the full episode from here or any of your favourite podcast platforms. 

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In this episode of One Good Take, I chat with CJ Walley, the founder of the free script hosting website Script Revolution.  

As a spec scriptwriter, he loves to create pulpy thrillers with female leads. He got his first major breakthrough as a screenwriter when American director Shane Stanley came across one of his film blogs. 

When he’s not liaising with his American counterparts, he’s working flat out on Script Revolution. 

If you’re a screenwriter, and especially if you’re a screenwriter based outside of Hollywood, I’m sure you’ll find this conversation inspirational. 

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This is the trailer for Episode 17 — my conversation with writer/producer/director Rob Cosnahan. 

In the run up to Covid Christmas 2020, when we got together, Rob was in pre-production for his feature film directorial debut—a caper-comedy about internet scammers in which everything the viewer sees happens on a computer, tablet, or smartphone screen. 

Listen to the full episode later today on One Good Take.       

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In the run-up to Covid Christmas 2020, I got together with writer/producer/director Rob Cosnahan.   Rob was in pre-production for his feature film directorial debut—a caper-comedy about internet scammers in which everything the viewer sees happens on a computer, tablet, or smartphone screen — so of course a lot of our conversation went into detail on script, development and related ideas for that project. 
 
If you're a fan of innovative ways of story-telling for the big screen, a fan perhaps of films like Searching, directed by Aneesh Chaganty, I think you'll find Rob's take on the 'found footage' movie really inetresting. 

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In Episode 16 I got together with writer/producer/director Boman Modine.

The son of Hollywood actor Matthew Modine, Boman started his professional life wanting to be a teacher and, somewhat by chance, stumbled upon filmmaking while majoring in History and Comparitive Religion at college.  He now has a slate of projects on the go and a growing interest in animation, not least because it avoids so many of the problems Covid imposes on filmmakers who want to make live action films.

This was a lively conversation peppered with amusing anecdotes and insight on what's happening in the world of film and TV today. 

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This is the trailer to Episode 16 with Boman Modine talking to me about filmmaking in the time of covid. 

The son of Hollywood actor Matthew Modine, Boman started his professional life wanting to be a teacher and, somewhat by chance, stumbled upon filmmaking while majoring in History and Comparitive Religion at college . 

Join us for the full episode to find out what Boman believes is the least problematic area of making films while the pandemic rages on.  

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In Episode 15 of One Good Take,  I got together with Alexia Melocchi of Little Studio Films. 

Alexia is something of a polymath – she started out as a sales agent, making use of her language skills – she only speaks 5 languages, by the way – then turning her hand to producing independent films. 

Over the years, she’s added to those roles, becoming a manager of the talent she works with, as well as consulting and packaging for a whole range of projects in TV and film. She has a tendency, she says, to want to look after stray cats – by which, she means people and projects that need a home. Well, I think we can all warm to that.  

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This is a clip from Episode 15 of One Good Take, when I was talking with Alexia Melocchi of Little Studio Films. 

Alexia is something of a polymath – she started out as a sales agent, making use of her language skills – she only speaks 5 languages, by the way – then turning her hand to producing independent films. 

Over the years, she’s added to those roles, becoming a manager of the talent she works with, as well as consulting and packaging for a whole range of projects in TV and film. She has a tendency, she says, to want to look after stray cats – by which, she means people and projects that need a home. Well, I think we can all warm to that. Listen to the full episode when it’s published later today.  

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This is the trailer to episode 14 when I got together with Producer/Director Ian Bonhote.

We talked about the making and aesthetic behind his two big documentaries, McQueen and Rising Phoenix, his early beginnings as a director of music videos and commercials, and the making of his first feature film, Alleycats. 

Listen to the full episode out later today or from any of the links to my podcast, One Good Take. 

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