Rex Sikes' Movie Beat

Peter Marshall Pt 11 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

Brent Roske, Emmy nominated director d received a Commemorative Emmy for producing.  For 9 years Roske was a Creative Director at NBC Universal, creating and directing hundreds of campaigns for brands such as Coke, uni-ball, and the Olympics to name a few and TV specials including Hard Rock Café presents, Al Roker’s Together For Care and Eco-Hollywood.  Other projects include Lonestar Trixie with Richard Dreyfuss, Playground Girls which screened at MOCA during the national tour of Basquiat, African Chelsea co-starring Sally Kirkland, the trailer for the best-seller ‘Cold Hit’ starring author Stephen J. Cannell, Last Day Foundation with Ken Davitian and Jon Lovitz and a documentary short for UNESCO and Lucasfilm starring producer Frank Marshall.  Roske has won 42 Telly Awards, 2 Reggies and an Environmental Media Marketing Award. Sally Kirkland trained under Lee Strasberg in the 1960s. Movies and TV she appeared in: The Sting, The Kansas City Massacre, Breakheart Pass, Private Benjamin.Fatal Games, Paint It Black and High Stakes with Kathy Bates. Best of the Best with Eric Roberts and James Earl Jones. General Hospital and Falcon Crest. Sally garnered an Oscar nomination for her role in Anna. The Haunted with Jeffrey DeMunn and Cassie Yates. In The Heat of Passion with Jsu Garcia. She teamed with Andrew Stevens in Double Threat, JFK. Murder She Wrote, The Nanny, Felicity. Days of Our Lives, Excess Baggage, Edtv and with Peter Gallager in a TV adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Audit, The Rose Technique, Mango Kiss and Coffee Date Night of the Wolf. She has made over 120 film appearances. Stay tuned to Rex Sikes Movie Beat for other great archived interviews, cast and crew listings, events, festivals, premieres, and more at rexsikes.com

Andrea Shreeman Gregor Collins co-wrote and are currently packaging the feature film It's a Good Day to Die. Andrea began acting at age 15 in summer stock theater. She was a founding member of No Time, a sketch troupe still performing on the campus of George Washington University (now under the name Recess). She made over 75 appearances as various characters with The Standard Deviants, an educational comedy team still airing on PBS. Andrea has written and performed 7 one-person shows including Bambi’s Box which received glowing media notice and a win at 15 Minutes of Fem. She appeared on the second run of Comedy Central’s Make Me Laugh alongside comedians Scott Larose and Rick Overton. In 2008 she served as Director of Fundraising on the Sundance Award-Winning Documentary, Fuel. She holds an MFA in Acting from USC, has studied extensively with acting coach Larry Moss and is a Writers Boot Camp graduate.

Jane Espenson, writer producer PT 2. Her early work was primarily in comedy and included stints at Dinosaurs and Ellen.  She later moved to the hour-long format where she wrote episodes for shows including Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, The O.C., Gilmore Girls, The Inside, Dollhouse, Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, A Game of Thrones, Torchwood: Miracle Day, and co-created Syfy's Warehouse 13.  Science fiction and fantasy are well represented among these titles, cementing her reputation as a genre writer. She also co-wrote and executive-produced the Emmy-nominated Battlestar webisodes, The Face of the Enemy, and has written comic books, short stories and edited books of essays.  She is currently proud be Consulting Producer on ABC's upcoming Once Upon a Time, and has executive produced (along with co-writer Brad Bell and director Jeff Greenstein) her own web series called Husbands, a marriage equality comedy.Stay tuned to Rex Sikes Movie Beat for other great archived interviews, cast and crew listings, events, festivals, premieres, and more at rexsikes.com

Christopher Hadley's (stunt perfromer)  The first Stunt Coordinator Chris worked with is John DePasquale, who got him a job as a  precision driver on "Fair Game".  Chris had a great time simulating traffic and watching stunt performers like Grady Bishop, Bob Brown, Chick Bernhardt, Jeff Cadiente, Jim Churchman, John Zimmerman,Chuck and Steven Picerni and stunt legends Glen Wilder and Debbie Evans. At this point he knew that this was his passion and that he was going to pursue stunts as a career.  He then did a couple films at Full Sail and UCF which led into a situation where he got to choreographed a fight scene. Christopher assisted DePasquale on a German Film with Marine and Stunt Coordinating. Chris met Grady Bishop and ended up going through the Extreme Stunt and Precision Driving clinic, where he was awarded best overall driver by the other drivers and started to get put to work more and more through Grady and other Stunt Coordinators and Professionals including Dave Kramer and Chief Craig Clarke. Christopher has been a stuntman and actor for close to 17 years now.