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Accent  Coach Jack Wallace is a professional dialect coach from England,  currently based in Los Angeles who specializes in authentic accent  preparation for actors and presenters.

Jack  is an in-demand accents expert for news outlets such as CNN,  Entertainment Tonight!, Insider and Buzzfeed.  (His appearances with  Buzzfeed have garnered over 8.5 million views.)

Jack’s  clients have appeared in: Never Have I Ever, 13 Reasons Why, The  Mandalorian, Westworld, Derry Girls, Young Sheldon, Queen Sugar,  The  Walking Dead, Little America, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Big  Little Lies and many others.

His voiceover clients can be heard in: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,  Boss Baby, Where’s Waldo, Thundercats Roar!, Call of Duty Modern  Warfare, Cyberpunk 2077, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and in many  national advertising campaigns.

Formally  trained at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in Professional Voice  Practice, Jack draws from a strong technical knowledge of voice and  speech and combines this with easy to follow steps that can help any  actor arrive on set with a fully integrated, authentic accent perfect  for their role.

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Co-writers  and producing partners Jeremy Valdez and Tony Gapastione will discuss  the ins and outs of their creative partnership. They have written a  feature together and two television projects, one that has currently  been picked up by a production company with a proof of concept in  post-production.

https://www.instagram.com/tonygapastione/

https://www.instagram.com/jeremyrayvaldez/

Marquette  Jones is a filmmaker and screenwriter. Her work focuses on the interior  lives of women in multiple genres such as comedy and science fiction.  Her films, Ghosted, Forgiving Chris Brown, Round on Both Sides, Streets 2  Suites, and Tunk have screened at film festivals around the world and  been featured on Showtime, PBS, Amazon Prime and KweliTV, et. al. Prior  to becoming a filmmaker, Marquette was a public interest attorney in  Oakland, California and currently hosts and produces the women in the  entertainment industry focused Directing Magic podcast. She earned her  MFA from New York University’s graduate film program and currently  teaches digital filmmaking at Santa Clara University.

https://www.scu.edu/.../communic.../faculty/marquette-jones/

http://www.directingmagic.com/

Lodric Collins is currently on BET's The Oval and will be soon seen as Smokey Robinson in RESPECT, the Aretha Franklin story starring Jennifer Hudson. 

https://www.instagram.com/lodricdcollins/

A U.S. Marine, frat boy, and Extreme Sports Enthusiast: This country boy  from SW Louisiana (Cajun Country), discovered his love for acting at a  very early age. Beginning in his elementary school years, when he would  trek to the nearest community theatre for the opportunity to audition  and perform. After college Lodric skipped out on Law School and moved to  NYC where he honed his craft studying and working on any Broadway,  Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway stage that allowed him the opportunity to  show his talent. Most notably know for his classical work in roles such  as 'General Hannibal Barca' (Massanissa) and 'Berowne' (Loves Labors  Lost) where he received rave reviews.

Here are the 6 questions that were submitted: 

1. Did you ever consider being a screenwriter (or any type of writer) when you were younger?

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Meet this triple threat currently casting and producing both live shows and films in the Bay Area and elevating justice, diversity and inclusion in his work.   

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Our guests on episode 101 are both artists and advocates. 

Nicole  Evans is an actress, writer and disability rights and inclusion  activist who was born and raised in the Los Angeles area. Born with  Osteogenesis Imperfecta, Nicole is a full time wheelchair user.

https://www.instagram.com/lifeisshort_/

Most  recently, Nicole was selected as one of the TOP 20 Actors from  Historically Underrepresented Communities in 2020 by the Casting Society  of America. She can currently be seen in her recurring roles on GOOD  TROUBLE (season 2, freeform), SUPERSTORE (NBC), and SPECIAL (season 2,  Netflix - coming soon!).

In  2019, Nicole won BEST ACTOR at the Easterseals Disability Film  Challenge for her role as Dr. Hubbert in HUMAN HELPER (Directed by  Shaina Ghuraya).

Nicole is also a proud graduate of The Academy Gold Program (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences).

Shaina Ghuraya jokes that she is a triple threat - she’s a wheelchair-user,  Punjabi, and a woman. She is a writer/director for quirky and bold  comedies that embrace diversity and explore intersectionality

A  graduate of USC's Film and Television production program, Shaina's  films have gone on to screen at ReelAbilities, Hollyshorts, and  Slamdance. Most recently, Shaina graduated from Academy Gold and  received the SF Film Rainin Grant for her feature film script. Her work  can be found at :

https://www.instagram.com/disabled_desi/

shainaghuraya.com.

BraveFaves of the week with @krystinawrayjackson faving Finding Joe, @tonygapastione faving Oliver Stone autobiography, Chasing The Light, and our guests @lifeisshort_ and @disabled_desi faving Crip Camp, Captain Andrea Hall signing and speaking the pledge  of allegiance on Inauguration Day and Cosmic Thing’s Love Shack.

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Steal like an Artist by https://austinkleon.com/

https://www.findingyingying.com/

Yingying  Zhang, a 26-year-old Chinese student, comes to the U.S. to study. In  her detailed and beautiful diaries, the aspiring young scientist and  teacher is full of optimism, hoping to also be married and a mother  someday. Within weeks of her arrival, Yingying disappears from the  campus. Through exclusive access to Yingying’s family and boyfriend,  Finding Yingying closely follows their journey as they search to unravel  the mystery of her disappearance and seek justice for their daughter  while navigating a strange, foreign country. But most of all, Finding  Yingying is the story of who Yingying was: a talented young woman loved  by her family and friends.

Producer Diane Quon

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Director Jenny Shi

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Brave Faves

Pixar's Soul

NBC's Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist

Panda Express, I am not Your Negro (Documentary)

Meet our resident film critic Markus.

https://moviesmarkus.com/author/moviesmarkus/

Follow him on his IG:

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Brave Faves

Small Axe and Upload on Amazon Prime

Black is King on Disney+

Currently  living in Paris, France, Christopher is a multi-talented  writer-director-actor who has worked on over 150 films, theatrical  productions, VR, video games, and immersive entertainments on three  continents. His feature film ‘The Bellwether’ was released in 2019. He  has written and directed 360 films as well. He has been commissioned for  multiple feature length screenplays, television pilots, and plays  alike. He recently added “Narrative Designer” as he wrote for the  videogame “Ary and the Secret of the Seasons”. His VR branching  narrative “The Werewolf Experience” is currently in production. Cirque  du Soleil called him “A huge asset to the creative process.”

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