Silver Screen Social

On this episode, I spoke to three wonderful creatives from the Mary & George team, including makeup and hair designer Paul Gooch, production designer Helen Scott and costume designer Annie Symons.

Gooch is an Oscar nominee for Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, a BAFTA Award winner Alice in Wonderland, an Emmy nominee, and a Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award winner.

Scott is a BAFTA Television Craft Award winner for Small Axe, a Royal Television Society Craft & Design Award nominee for The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies, and a British Independent Film Award winner for Living.

Symons is a BAFTA TV Award winner for Worried About the Boy, a British Independent Film Award nominee for Benediction, an Emmy winner for Great Expectations (nominee for Mary & George!), and a 3x winner of the Royal Television Society Craft & Design Award.

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MORE ABOUT MARY & GEORGE:

Mary & George is inspired by the unbelievable true story of Mary Villiers (Julianne Moore), who moulded her beautiful and charismatic son, George (Nicholas Galitzine), to seduce King James I (Tony Curran) and become his all-powerful lover. Through outrageous scheming, the pair rose from humble beginnings to become the richest, most titled and influential players the English court had ever seen, and the King’s most trusted advisors. And with England’s place on the world stage under threat from outside forces and rioters taking to the streets to denounce the King, the stakes could not have been higher.

Prepared to stop at nothing and armed with her ruthless political steel, Mary married her way up the ranks, bribed politicians, colluded with criminals and clawed her way into the heart of the Establishment, making it her own. Mary & George is a dangerously daring historical psychodrama about an outrageous mother and son who schemed, seduced and killed to conquer the court of England and the bed of King James I.

The series was nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy Award.

On this episode, I spoke to four wonderful creatives from the Fellow Travelers team, including editors Christopher Donaldson, ACE, Wendy Hallam Martin, ACE and Lara Johnston. After that chat, I spoke to makeup department head Jordan Samuel.

Donaldson and I spoke back on an earlier episode of the podcast about his work on Sarah Polley’s Women Talking. He is a Canadian Cinema Editors Award winner and a 2x Directors Guild of Canada Craft Award winner.

Hallam Martin is also a past guest, being on of the first five on this podcast. She is an Emmy and ACE Eddie Award winner, as well as a 6x Directors Guild of Canada Craft Award winner and a 3x Canadian Cinema Editors Award winner.

Johnston is a first time guest on the podcast. She is a Directors Guild of Canada Craft Award and a Canadian Cinema Editors Award winner.

Samuel is also a first time guest on the podcast. He is a 2x BAFTA Award nominee, an Emmy Award winner, and a Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award winner.

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MORE ABOUT FELLOW TRAVELERS:

FELLOW TRAVELERS is created for television by Oscar® nominee Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia, HOMELAND) and stars Matt Bomer (The Normal Heart, The Boys in the Band), Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton), Jelani Alladin (The Walking Dead World Beyond), Allison Williams (Get Out, Girls) and Noah J. Ricketts (American Gods).

The series was nominated for 3 Primetime Emmy Awards.

On this episode, I spoke to directors Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat about their work on Sugarcane. 

The film premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where the film won the Directing Award in the U.S. Documentary category. The film has since gone on to multiple festivals and won awards at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Seattle International Film Festival and the Sarasota Film Festival. Just to name a few, and surely not the last.  

The film is now open in select theaters. 

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MORE ABOUT SUGARCANE:

A stunning tribute to the resilience of Native people and their way of life - SUGARCANE, the debut feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie - is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning. Set amidst a ground-breaking investigation into abuse and death at an Indian residential school, the film empowers participants to break cycles of intergenerational trauma by bearing witness to painful, long-ignored truths – and the love that endures within their families despite the revelation of genocide. 

In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves near an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada sparked a national outcry about the forced separation, assimilation, and abuse many children experienced at this network of segregated boarding schools designed to slowly destroy the culture and social fabric of Indigenous communities. When Kassie- a journalist and filmmaker- asked her old friend and colleague, NoiseCat, to direct a film documenting the Williams Lake First Nation investigation of St Joseph’s Mission, she never imagined just how close this story was to his own family. As the investigation continued, Emily and Julian traveled back to the rivers, forests and mountains of his homelands to hear the myriad stories of survivors. During production, Julian’s own story became an integral part of this beautiful multi-stranded portrait of a community. By offering space, time, and profound empathy the directors unearthed what was hidden. Kassie and NoiseCat encountered both the extraordinary pain these individuals had to suppress as a tool for survival and the unique beauty of a group of people finding the strength to persevere.

Directed by:

Julian Brave NoiseCat

Emily Kassie

Produced by:

Emily Kassie

Kellen Quinn

Cinematography:

Christopher LaMarca

Emily Kassie

Edited by: 

Nathan Punwar

Maya Daisy Hawke

Music by:

On this episode, I spoke to writer and director Michael Sarnoski about his work on A Quiet Place: Day One. 

Sarnoski is a DGA Award nominee (Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Feature Film for Pig), a Gotham Independent Film Award nominee (Best Feature for Pig), an Independent Spirit Award winner (Best First Screenplay for Pig) and a National Board of Review Award winner (Best Directorial Debut for Pig). 

On this episode, we have a two-parter. First up, we have cinematographer Jac Fitzgerald to talk about her work on “Masters of the Air.” After that, we will have our conversation with production designer Chris Seagers about his work on “Masters of the Air.” 

On this episode, I spoke to Grammy, Emmy and SCL Award-winning composer Carlos Rafael Rivera about his work on Lessons in Chemistry. 

Rivera is a 2x Emmy winner for Godless (Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music) and The Queen's Gambit (Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special (Original Dramatic Score). He is also a Grammy winner for The Queen's Gambit (Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media). Finally, he is an SCL Award winner for Lessons in Chemistry (Outstanding Original Title Sequence for a Television Production) and The Queen's Gambit (Outstanding Original Score for a Television or Streaming Production).

On this episode, I spoke to editors Joshua Raymond Lee and David O. Rogers about their work on Ripley. 

David O. Rogers has worked in film and television post production for over 25 years, learning the business as an assistant editor on projects large and small - Men In Black, Chinese Coffee, Garden State, The Stepford Wives, The Night Of.  After writing and directing (and editing) some successful short films, including the award-winning The Light of Eons, he has stepped into the editor’s role in films and episodic shows, including Halston (as additional editor), the indie feature No Name Restaurant, and Ripley.

Born in Los Angeles, Joshua Raymond Lee began his career in film as the Editorial PA on the vampire romance Twilight. Over the last fifteen years he's worked in post-production on numerous Hollywood films and independent productions including Steve Jobs, Molly's Game and most recently the David Simon series, We Own This City, for HBO. In 2019 he was a fellow at the Sundance Institute's Editing Residency. He is currently based in New York City.

On this episode, I spoke to editors Simon Brasse and Daniel Greenway about their work on The Crown. 

Brasse is known for Pachinko and Black Doves. 

Greenway, a Royal Television Society Award and BAFTA Television Craft Award nominee, is known for Merkel, The Terror and Humans.

On this episode, I spoke to Oscar and Emmy nominated costume designer Danny Glicker about his work on The Sympathizer. 

Glicker is an… 

-Oscar nominee for Milk in the Best Achievement in Costume Design category

-CDG Award winner for Transamerica in the Excellence in Contemporary Film category and a 2x nominee for Up in the Air and Milk

-Primetime Emmy nominee for Angelyne in the Outstanding Period Costumes category

On this episode, I spoke to supervising sound editor and sound designer Dane A. Davis, dialogue editor and re-recording mixer Matt Vowles and sound effects editor and re-recording mixer Lisle Engle about their work on Expats.

Dane A Davis is an… 

-Oscar winner for The Matrix

-BAFTA Film Award winner for The Matrix

-2x Emmy Award nominee

-Motion Picture Sound Editors Career Achievement Award winner

-4x Golden Reel Award winner for Gotti, The Matrix, Treasure Planet and Return to House on Haunted Hill

Matt Vowles is a… 

-Golden Reel Award nominee for War Pigs

Lisle Engle is an… 

-Emmy Award nominee for Live from Baghdad

-2x Golden Reel Award winner for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Young Hercules