Stale Popcorn

With less than a week to go before the start of Lake Travis Film Festival 2023, Jon sits down with Bob Schneider Sr. and Valerie Jean to talk about 80 Trips Around the Sun, a documentary about Bob's amazing musical journey. It premieres at LTFF on Saturday, September 16th and will be followed by a Q&A with Bob and a live performance!

Tickets to the Lake Travis Film Festival (September 14-17) are available at LTFF.net/tickets. Book your accommodations now, as they will sell out.

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With less than weeks to go before the start of Lake Travis Film Festival 2023, festival director, Jon Racinskas, sits down with Jameson Pitts and Paolo Bugatto from Sangfroid! to discuss the relationships between festivals and brands, as well as the LTFF rebrand they recently completed.

Tickets to the Lake Travis Film Festival (September 14-17) are available at LTFF.net/tickets. Book your accommodations now, as they will sell out.

Check out Sangfroid's website: sangfroidstudio.com

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With just three weeks to go before the start of Lake Travis Film Festival 2023, festival director, Jon Racinskas, sits down with LTFF programming director and producer extraordinaire, Carrie Cates, to talk about this year's exciting film lineup and how it came to be.

Tickets to the Lake Travis Film Festival (September 14-17) are available at LTFF.net/tickets. Book your accommodations now, as they will sell out.

Check out Carrie's podcast - Scary Movie List Show!

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With six weeks to go until the start of Lake Travis Film Festival 2023, festival director, Jon Racinskas, sits down with Austin's own prop master extraordinaire, Scott Reeder, to talk about how to get into showbiz, plans for acquiring 115 TikTok followers, and how he's involved with this year's festival. Oh yeah, they also go rapid fire with bad dad jokes on an innocent victim.

Our special thanks to Erin Brown @ FUSE Austin for suffering through the Dad Joke-Off.

Tickets to the Lake Travis Film Festival (September 14-17) are available at LTFF.net/tickets. Book your accommodations now, as they will sell out.

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Stale Popcorn provides unique insight into what goes into making a film festival a festival. It is presented by Lake Travis Film Festival, which is returning for its fourth year this September 14-17. Early Bird festival passes have just gone on sale. Get yours at LTFF.net.

The festival is a member-supported 501(c)3 arts organization dedicated to celebrating the craft of filmmaking. If you're interested in learning about all of our amazing member perks, check out ltff.net/membership

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In this episode, we’ll talk about why you might want to venture out on your own and how to know when you’re ready to do so. We’ll also cover some of the biggest challenges facing nascent creative entrepreneurs (little things, like finances), as well as some ways to increase your odds of surviving them (tactics like making clients feel like partners in your venture). Once you have all of the facts, you will know when you’re ready.

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Keep up with Creative Briefs on TikTok and Instagram. You can learn more about Pixelpusher here. Thanks to Emanuel Kassie for the cool artwork and Austin Public for the production support.

AI is becoming more creative every day, but will it ever completely replace Creative Directors in the marketing world? This question is the subject of hot debates on hashtag general Slack channels in agencies all over the world right now. But before we start to panic about how we’re going to afford our Creative Cloud subscriptions without a job, let’s take a look at these new technologies and explore what they could mean for our industry.

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Keep up with Creative Briefs on TikTok and Instagram. You can learn more about Pixelpusher here. Thanks to Emanuel Kassie for the cool artwork and Austin Public for the production support.

There has been quite a lot of debate among the design community about what this move will mean for our industry, but very little has been said about the impact of the resulting unpredictability on design students, who are being asked to invest in their futures by learning one of these tools today. Let’s talk about what Adobe’s acquisition of Figma means for designers preparing to enter the job market in a time of uncertainty around the “tools of the trade” and what we, as design educators, should be saying about it.

Interested in learning design with Springboard? Save $750 by using this link: https://www.springboard.com/invite/5T278

Keep up with Creative Briefs on TikTok and Instagram. You can learn more about Pixelpusher here. Thanks to Emanuel Kassie for the cool artwork and Austin Public for the production support.

When you think about building a successful brand, it’s highly unlikely that your first thought is of little trees in ceramic pots. Why would it? On the surface, bonsai and branding have virtually nothing in common. One is a centuries-old tradition passed down between generations and the other is a consumer-focused product developed on a considerably shorter timeline. But dig a little deeper and the similarities reveal themselves.

You can learn more about us at pixelpushercreative.com

(We used Speechify for recording this episode just for fun.)

In the film industry, a "cold read" is the reading of a script aloud with no preparation, no rehearsal. It's something directors use to see if an actor can think on their feet. 

As a producer, folding over the cover page of a new script is probably the greatest moment of a project because it's pure possibility. This story could be amazing, or it could be total dog shit. For now, it's both awesome and shitty at the same time, kind of like a certain cat in a box.

In an attempt to share the experience of Shrodingarian ecstasy with you, we've created this podcast, where I will be reading a screenplay in its entirety for the first time for you. I've only seen a logline for these, so I know about as much as you do now.

This is Episode One, entitled "A Nightmare on Elm Street: Dream Reunion". Here's the logline from the author, Eric Dickson: Nancy Thompson-Keller, best selling author of Springwood Secrets: The Untold Story of Fred Krueger, self help guru and talk show host Jesse Walsh and earnest guidance counselor Alice Johnson-Spector coach a new generation of dream warriors.   This is an intended sequel reuniting survivors and most popular characters of the original Nightmare on Elm street series.  You can reach Eric at [email protected].

 The authors and I are looking forward to your feedback. Share your thoughts on our Facebook page at facebook.com/coldreadpod or tweet me @jonracinskas. Be sure to subscribe and review at your preferred podcast retailer. 

Are you interested in having your work read on Cold Read? Email the show at [email protected]. Send a logline and a PDF.

This episode features music from Dan Bodan ("Gaia in a Fog"), Aaron Kenny ("Happy Haunts"), and Biz Baz Studio ("Sneaky Business").

(This is part 1 of 2)