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By BraveMaker MediaTV & Film
The BraveMaker Podcast episodes
- 206: Filmmaker Ran Li, Til Love Do Us Part (feature film)
Ran Li is a BA Law graduate of Tsinghua University and MA Film Directing graduate of Prague Film School! Her previous short films were selected in more than 60 international film festivals and won over 20 awards worldwide, including SXSW and Shanghai International Film Festival! Her debut feature film Till Love Do Us Part was world premiered in Warsaw
Film Festival 2022 and was nominated Best Film and had it's United States Premiere at Cinequest 2023..
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Hosted by: @tonygapastione
Produced by Amy Cohen
Edited by Barnell Amos of Speak Media Services
Social Media Managed by Kerri Alley
Intern Jessica Cohen
51 min - 205: All improv feature film with director Chelsea Bo & actor Ava Acres
*THIS FILM IS NOT CONNECTED TO ANY STRUCK COMPANY*
Meet: Chelsea Bo, the writer/director/actor of NO RIGHT WAY. She has a theater and improv background and graduated from Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film & Television and was selected for both Film Independent’s Incubator Lab and Village Roadshow’s Emerging Talent Program. Chelsea co-founded the production company Paxeros with her husband/producing partner Sean Drummond, and together they have produced
three feature films, including Joshua Leonard’s Fully Realized Humans(Tribeca, 2020) and Sarah Adina Smith’s The Drop (Tribeca, 2022). NoRight Way is her feature directorial debut.Meet: Ava Acres star of NO RIGHT WAY. Ava is one of Hollywood's most
versatile young actors. She played "Madeline" in AMERICAN HORROR STORY:HOTEL, young "Queen Regina" in ABC's ONCE UPON A TIME, and recurred asyoung "Rebecca" in CW's award winning musical comedy CRAZY EXGIRLFRIEND. Ava's recent credits include a recurring role on RyanMurphy's 9-1-1 (Fox), HANDSOME: A NETFLIX MURDER MYSTERY, and WET HOTAMERICAN SUMMER: TEN YEARS LATER. Ava can also be seen as the evilsupervillain Katya in MARVEL's AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D., and appeared inseason 7 of MAD MEN as Susie. Ava played a young Shailene Woodley inWHITE BIRD IN A BLIZZARD (Gregg Araki, dir.), and Daniel Bruhl'sdaughter in the feature film FACE OF AN ANGEL (Michael Winterbottom,dir.) She starred in Ron Howard produced short film EVERMORE, playedNaya Rivera's daughter in the thriller AT THE DEVIL'S DOOR (NicholasMcCarthy, dir.), and played the lead role in a short directed by DemiMoore for Lifetime's FIVE - an anthology of short films exploring theimpact of breast cancer. In one of her earliest film roles, Ava sharedthe screen with Academy Award winner Anna Paquin in the feature FREERIDE (Shana Betz, dir.). Other television work includes a TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE pilot for CBS, a series regular role on the Fox comedy pilot OUTNUMBERED, roles on WEEDS, HARRY'S LAW, CRIMINAL MINDS, and more. Ava enjoys singing, piano, ukulele, dance (jazz, hip hop), and is an avid writer.TAGLINE:Different moms, same baggage.
LOGLINE:A pair of half-sisters try to make each other whole when calamity strikes.
SYNOPSIS:Georgie,
a brazen 13-year-old, has her life uprooted when she’s thrust into theguardianship of her half-sister Harper and torn away from her life inVegas. Harper sees this turbulent time as a window of opportunity topave a brighter future for her half-sister, but Harper’s self-righteousattempts to protect Georgie only lead to exposing their paralleledchildhood wounds.FILM FESTIVALS:Cinequest Film Festival 2023 (World Premiere)Woodstock Film Festival 2023Richmond Film Festival 2023 (Grand Jury Nominee)Twin Cities Film Festivals 2023
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1 hr 5 min - 204: All the odds were against actor Phillip Andre Botello
Phillip Botello was told NOT TO EVEN TRY to become an actor. He beat the odds. He braved his way and his acting credits are growing.
@phillipandrebotelloPhillip is best known for his role in THE ART
OF DEFENSE, opposite Jesse Eisenberg, SUNSET ON THE RIVER STYX, and PLEDGE. He recently won an award for Best Actor for the films TWENTY NINE and FREE PASS!! He recently premiered his third film as an actor at San Jose's CINEQUEST film fest: FALLEN DRIVE🔴 Subscribe and watch LIVE here: https://www.youtube.com/bravemakerorg
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Hosted by: @tonygapastione
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Social Media Managed by Kerri Alley
Intern Jessica Cohen
56 min - 203: Shelley Dennis : from modeling to stand-up comedy to screenwriting
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Writer Shelley Dennis was born into a family of Choctaw storytellers in small-town Oklahoma. She’s toured alongside Wayne Brady doing standup and improv. In 2020 she was one of four selected for the Native American Showrunner program. She worked on the Netflix show, SPIRIT RANGERS, and just completed her second season as a Story Editor on ABC’s @theconnersabc!!
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44 min - 202: Producer Yolanda T. Cochran is on HBO's Project Greenlight Season 5
Yolanda T. Cochran (@yolandatcochran) has experience as a producer
which spans across multiple studios including Disney, Viacom, Warner Bros and Universal. She’s produced films such as; THE BLIND SIDE, SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS 2, THE BOOK OF ELI, and more! She's currently on season 5 of PROJECT GREENLIGHT led by Issa Rae..
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Hosted by: @tonygapastione
Produced by Amy Cohen
Edited by Barnell Amos of Speak Media Services
Social Media Managed by Kerri Alley
Intern Jessica Cohen
53 min - 201: 5TH Annual Film Fest Recap
BraveMaker Film Fest Recap with Tony Gapastione, Lodric Collins, Amrit Hansra, Emily Alpren and Priscilla Lam.
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57 min - 200: Episode 200 RECORDED LIVE at our 5th annual film fest
Special guests ABOUND in this episode. Recorded live at our 5th annual film fest in Redwood City, Ca---co-hosted by Tony Gapastione and Priscilla Lam this conversation includes a look back at BraveMaker as well as a peak into the future with interviews and conversation with the following industry professionals from Los Angeles
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52 min - 199: Director Theo Brown and actor/director Yen Dinh
Director Theo Brown (@awesomertheo) and actor/filmmaker Yen Dinh (@yen.money.dinh)!! Theo
directed AN ELECTRIC SLEEP, a psychological sci-go thriller, and is inpre-production for IVORY & GOLD. Yen co-wrote and co-directed theshort film LUV, ME, a queer comedy centering around two nerdy roommates...
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Hosted by: @tonygapastione
Produced by Amy Cohen
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Social Media Managed by Kerri Alley
Intern Jessica Cohen
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39 min - 198: Filmmakers Emily Alpren + Abby Wathen of TRYING
Join us as we converse with three filmmakers!! The pod features
Abby Wathen (@abbywathen), and Emily Alpren (@nicebirdhouse) as they join usfrom the short film TRYING with a special short conversation with AmberHenry who joins us from her short film TRUST FALL who all had their short films in our 5th anniversary film fest..
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52 min - 197: Director Alison O'Daniel has something to say about film CAPTIONS
Alison O’Daniel, a filmmaker and visual artist, is the director of The Tuba Thieves, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023. O’Daniel
is d/Deaf and builds a visual, aural, and haptic vocabulary in her workthat reveals (or proposes) a politics of sound that exceeds the ear.She is a United States Artist Disability Futures Fellow and a GuggenheimFellow. Her work has been exhibited at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles;Argos Center for Audiovisual Arts, Brussels; Centro Centro, Madrid;Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Centre Pompidou, Paris, andmany other international museums and galleries. She is represented byCommonwealth and Council in Los Angeles and is an Associate Professor inthe Film Program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.STANDBY FOR A TRANSCRIPT OF THIS PODCAST : LINK TBA
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About The BraveMaker Podcast
From the publisher's feed
Stories, scripts and conversations with creators.
This is a podcast WITH AND FOR filmmakers, writers, actors and brave makers of all kinds.
You'll hear from directors, actors and makers of all kinds and get back stories behind why and how brave movers and shakers create culture shaping work.
It's all about the brave stories behind brave making.
Hosted by filmmaker/actor Tony Gapastione with featured co-hosts and correspondents.
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