Rex Sikes' Movie Beat

Adam Levenberg, screenwriter consultant. Adam is one of Hollywood's most in demand screenwriting consultants and turned his experience working with unrepresented screenwriters into his book “The Starter Screenplay”. As a reader for USA Films, Adam recommended scripts such as “Hollywoodland” and “Sylvia”, which were both produced by the studio. After working as a Creative Executive for Intuition Productions (“The Stepford Wives”, “Passengers”) Adam moved on to One Race Films (“XXX”, “The Pacifier”,

Peter Marshall Pt 21 The Director's Series - The nuts & bolts of directing film and television with Peter Marshall. Peter has had a 35-year career and has worked as a PA, dolly grip, electrician, assistant cameraman, commercial production manager, first assistant director, TV series creative consultant, television producer and director. He has worked on industrial films, documentaries; television commercials, music videos; Emmy Award nominated TV series and features. Peter has directed over 30 TV episodes and written, directed or produced over 50 hours of documentary educational programs. His works have won, or been nominated for 14 International awards. He's worked for directors such as Zack Snyder, John Woo, Ed Wick, Phillip Noyce, John Balham, Roger Adam, Anne Wheeler, Bobby Roth & Kim Manners. He has worked with actors including Michelle Pfeiffer, Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, John Travolta, Mel Gibson, Kathy Bates, Adam Sandler and Peter O'Toole. Other credits inclurde scores of television series as 1st Ad & as a director. Stay tuned to Rex Sikes Movie Beat for other great archived interviews, cast and crew listings, events, festivals, premieres, and more at rexsikes.com

Daniel Veluzat, PT 2 producer, movie set ranch owner, is an entrepreneur like no other. He started off in the entertainment business over 30 years ago. As a young boy Daniel grew up on movie/TV sets such as 1941 starring John Belushi, Baba Black Sheep starring Robert Conrad, McMillian and Wife starring Rock Hudson, and Maverick - The Lazy Ace starring James Garner. Daniel pportunities visiting "Fantasy Island",  "Gilligan's Island", and cruising the streets of Hazzard County in his family owned General Lee's from "Duke's of Hazzard". His family built many vehicles for TV and movies. He rode in General Lee's, Army tanks, Kit from "Knight Rider" and even the "A-Team" van. Today, he owns and helps run The Veluzat Motion Picture Ranch and Melody Ranch Studios located in the Santa Clarita Valley area. Both ranches have been the backdrop where countless movies, TV shows, commercials and music videos have been filmed. Daniel has worked on the ranches as a location liaison on many television shows. Daniel fronted his own Heavy Metal band "Untaymd" and he has been able to continue being around music and work on music videos for many artists. Daniel has worked on some of Hollywood's biggest films. He has been a part of over 150 film and television productions and has also had the privilege to work alongside many of Hollywood's most famous people. He has worked as a Executive and Co Executive producer, Director, Actor, location liaison, studio manager, Stage Manager, stunt man, production designer, art director, set dresser and more! Daniel has also provided equipment to the industry such as motion picture vehicles, water trucks, production trailers, props and set dressing. Stay tuned to Rex Sikes' Movie Beat for other great archived interviews, cast and crew listings, events, festivals, premieres, and more at http://www.rexsikes.com

Paul Rachman, director producer, began his film career making underground punk films and music videos for bands such as the Bad Brains, Gang Green and Mission of Burma in the 1980’s.  He became one of the of the industry's top music video directors at Propaganda Films in L A where he worked with Alice in Chains, Roger Waters, Kiss, Joan Jett, Pantera, The Replacements and the Pearl Jam / Soundgarden collaboration Temple of the Dog.  By 1995 he had directed several award winning short films, Drive Baby Drive and a series of collaborations with NPR storyteller Joe Frank for CBS television and Cinemax (Memories, The Hitchhiker, The Perfect Woman, Jilted Lover).  Paul made his feature directorial debut in 2000 with Four Dogs Playing Poker starring Forrest Whittaker, Balthazar Getty, Tim Curry and Olivia Williams, the film was released by Showtime and Warner Home Video.  In 2006 his punk documentary American Hardcore premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released by Sony Pictures Classics.  His second feature documentary Lost Rockers will be finished in 2013.  On the side his Zoe Lund Project is part of a documentary series of short films about the late actress / writer Zoe Tamerlis Lund (Bad Lieutenant, Ms.45), the short films Zoe Rising and Zoe XO are the first two installments of the series in which her life and work is explored through the memories of her family and closest friends. Paul will soon return to narrative feature film directing with the feature films Hell Gate and Seahorse co-written with New York novelist Arthur Nersesian (The Up, Chinese Takeout).  Paul is also one of the founders of the Slamdance Film Festival. He is based in New York City. Stay tuned to Rex Sikes' Movie Beat for other great archived interviews, cast and crew listings, events, festivals, premieres, and more at http://www.rexsikes.com

Rubin Whtimore ll, director, has lectured on media’s impact on society and his music videos experiences at numerous universities. He is a veteran filmmaker with close to one hundred film projects, from documentaries to music videos. Rubin has amassed over fifteen gold, platinum and multi-platinum plaques for producing and directing music videos and currently directs music videos under the pseudonym Ali Baba. He was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and by the age of 13 he had created a bunch of video shorts in various genres from suspense to westerns and sci-fi. Rubin is pursuing his masters of fine art in Digital Cinema and master’s in English at National University in California. His bachelor’s in Radio/TV/Film is from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, where he was nominated outstanding young alumni and was part of the team that won a student academy award during his undergraduate years. While at UW-O he created their first music video television show, the second longest running television program on Titan TV at fifteen years. Rubin was recently accepted to the United Nation’s sanctioned masters of arts in media, conflict and peace studies program at the University of Peace in Costa Rica.  He was nominated for the Rockefeller Foundation and Ford Foundation funded Media Arts Fellowship program through the Renew Media organization. He was led to teaching Media Literacy and English courses on a high school level after being selected as an Urban Education Fellow in Milwaukee. He is in production on "420" his first feature film and is in various stages of post-production on several short films along with production of a documentary on Homeless Scholars slated for the festival circuit, public television and video release. Stay tuned to Rex Sikes' Movie Beat for other great archived interviews, cast and crew listings, events, festivals, premieres, and more at http://www.rexsikes.com