Welcome to The Black Box Podcast with Burton Chawla and Savannah Hart where we have conversations with industry leaders in the sports and entertainment world.

In this episode, Burton and Savannah talk with Samir Hernandez, Vice President of Special Projects at SLAM, President of New Guard Consulting and an Academy Award Winning Producer. They discuss his career trajectory from a bank teller to a sports rep to a producer, the importance of building a strong team from the start, learning from his mistakes and winning an Academy Award for "Two Distant Strangers" streaming now on Netflix .

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