The BraveMaker Podcast

https://www.jenmcgowan.com/

Jen McGowan is a director based in Los Angeles.

Her most recent feature film, the survival thriller, RUST CREEK, was  released in theaters January 2019 by IFC Midnight and hailed as “the  feminist thriller Hollywood needs right now” by Harpers Bazaar.

She just finished directing her first episode of television, The Purge for Blumhouse.

McGowan's first feature KELLY & CAL (Juliette Lewis & Cybill  Shepherd) premiered at SXSW where she won the Gamechanger Award. The  film was released theatrically by IFC Films to rave reviews. She got her  start with award-winning short films, CONFESSIONS OF A LATE BLOOMER and  TOUCH, which played at over a hundred festivals worldwide winning the  majority.

In partnership with Level Forward, she is the creator of Glass  Elevator, an international skill-sharing, networking & jobs resource  for professional women in film & television. With nearly 4,000  members, Glass Elevator was named Best in LA by LA Weekly, is part of  the Sundance Women’s Initiative Resource and was featured in Forbes.

Co-created with her partner Eliza Lee, their TV series, Angelica, about  the last remaining abortion clinic in a small American town is being  produced by Shaun Reddick (GET OUT, BLACKkKLANSMAN) and Yvette Yates of  Impossible Dream Entertainment.

ME  YOU US, is the next feature she is set to direct.  A teen rom com  update to HITCH it is being produced by John & Catherine Davis at  Davis Entertainment.

Take  the Lead Foundation identified McGowan one of 50 Women Who Will Change  the World in Media & Entertainment and WeForShe selected her for the  2019 DirectHer program. A Film Independent Fellow, finalist for the  Clint Eastwood Filmmakers Award, recipient of the AWD Breakout Award for  Excellence in Directing she was named one of Vulture’s Women Directors  Hollywood Should Be Hiring.

Follow her on Twitter

https://twitter.com/IAmJenMcG

Craig Sim Webb, a widely-traveled speaker-singer-songwriter who  sometimes enjoys wearing other hats such as "author", "dream  analyst-researcher", "inventor," and "friendly frisbee fanatic". 

He is a  McGill University physics graduate and had the good fortune to be part  of the pioneering research team at Stanford University that brought  lucid dreaming to the mainstream a few decades ago. Craig has designed  personal growth and educational tools distributed worldwide, yet his TV  remote often still confuses him. His book The Dreams Behind the Music  reveals little-known dreams that inspired tremendous success for over  100 top artists, and highlights principles anyone can use to harvest  their own dreams for significant breakthroughs.  

  To learn more, visit:

  http://www.dreamsbehindthemusic.com/ 

 https://www.instagram.com/lucidheartist/  

http://applieddreaming.com

What are you doing to get your projects started, made and completed? 

Weekly SHORT THOUGHTS ON BIG IDEAS.

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

https://www.instagram.com/bravemakerorg/

Our January screenwriting class starts January 6th 5pm PT/8pm ET

https://www.bravemaker.com/classes

Richard  J. Bosner, also known as Rick, produced the politically-charged true story Fruitvale Station  starring  Octavia Spencer and Michael B. Jordan which received the  Sundance Film  Festival U.S. Grand Jury Prize in the Dramatic category  and the Sundance  Audience Award, U.S. Dramatic, presented by Acura  along with 44  nominations/wins during the 2013 Awards Season.

Bosner  also produced Nick Sandow’s The Wannabe  starring Patricia Arquette,  with Executive Producers, Dean Devlin and  Martin Scorsese.  In the  summer of 2015 he executive produced Other People starring Molly Shannon  and Jesse Plemons which was the opening night film at the 2016 Sundance  Film Festival.

Bosner  was honored as one of the LATINX 2019 Trail-Blazing producers. He is  currently in post-production on Axelle Carolyn’s horror feature Crones  with Blumhouse TV and Amazon Studios. He also Produced the dramatic  thriller, BlackBear, starring Aubrey Plaza and directed by Lawrence  Michael Levin which premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2020.

Follow him on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/rickbosner/

Check out his production company:

https://bluecreekpictures.com/

Brave Faves from our live chat with producer Richard J. Bosner were impossible burgers, @krystinawrayjackson faved Marvel 616, and the movie Antebellum and @TonyGapastione faved the book: No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings, founder of @netflix.

https://www.instagram.com/kirinstagram/

Kirin  Bhatty is a celebrity makeup artist that has achieved many steps in the  industry. She has made many artists shine like Zoe Kazan, Tessa  Thompson, Jenny Slate, and others. Bhatty was born in a family of  immigrants from Pakistan.

Los   Angeles native and UC Berkeley graduate Kirin Bhatty became a   professional makeup artist after a brief stint in publishing. Inspired   by beauty images in the magazine she worked for, Kirin began assisting   on-set, contributing in any way she could to build a career in makeup.   Today, with her characteristic emphasis on glowing skin, Kirin   collaborates with top photographers on fashion editorials and   advertising, as well as creating memorable looks for red carpet events.   Kirin’s editorial clients include Vanity Fair, V Magazine, CR Fashion  Book, Teen Vogue, ELLE, Marie Claire and Vs.  Her celebrity clients  include Tessa Thompson, Freida Pinto, Kaya  Scodelario, Kate Upton,  Florence Welch, Jenny Slate, Rosario Dawson, and  Zoe Kazan.

Kirin will be chatting live from New York.

For  her future, she wants to keep working with amazing women and make them  feel beautiful. She states: “At the end of the day, I’m a makeup artist  because I like to make people feel good.”

https://www.a-frameagency.com/

Brave Faves:

Tony faved chocolate covered expresso bean from @traderjoes Kristina faved @majorlazer f@kirinstagram faving NYC’s @mahzedahrbakery

New LIVE CHAT monthly with LA film school student Tobey Lynn. 

What's it like to go to film school? 

 https://www.instagram.com/tobey.lynn/

Brave Faves this week: 

Tony Gapastione: LSTN Headphones

https://lstnsound.com/

Krystina Jackson: Amazon Book

Gray Matters

https://www.amazon.com/Gray-Matters-Dolores-Arden/dp/1642471968

Tobey Reyes: New Girl on Netflix

https://www.instagram.com/zoeylytle/

Join  us for our monthly chat with actress/dancer/singer Zoey Lytle who moved  to NYC this year to pursue her dreams and goals on Broadway.

https://www.zoeylytle.com/

https://www.instagram.com/nextlevelscreenwriting/

Cody  Smart is an L.A.-based independent writer and script doctor from Chile.  She holds degrees in English Literature & Linguistics,  Screenwriting, Development and Producing. She worked as a script analyst  for Sony, she’s a judge for multiple script and film competitions,  she’s written some award winning shorts, she’s head of the coverage  department at Story Data, she's the face of the vlog The Helpful  Reviewer with tips on Screenwriting, and she teaches Script Doctoring at  UCLA Extension.

https://www.storydata.io/

She takes pride in helping writers take their work to the next level.

https://www.hollismorrissette.com/

Hollis  Morrissette was born and raised in Lansing, MI (Capital to the state)  and home to Michigan State University. Growing up, Hollis has always  been interested and involved in arts and entertainment. At the age of  eight, Hollis got his start with his first theatre role which inducted  him officially into the arts and entertainment industry. It was then he  discovered his love for not only acting, but singing as well. In  elementary school, he joined the choir serving as the lead singer  touring the city for Christmas concerts. Moving on to high school,  Hollis continued great academic achievements such as class vice  president, and continuing his musical journey in orchestra where his  parents put him at the age of nine. While Hollis loved acting, he took a  break from it in high school, and found his love for modeling where he  was scouted and worked for Hollister and Co.

In  college, Hollis transitioned from modeling back into acting where he  served as lead roles in theatre and small PSA commercials. After  graduating with his degree in theatre and psychology, he moved to Los  Angeles to pursue his career in entertainment.

At the age of 20, he got his start on television as a guest star on HBO’s hit show Vice

Principals.  From then, he’s starred in a number of short films, television shows  and voiceover work to name a few. In 2020, Hollis won his state title as  Mr. Michigan United States, making history competing in a pageant  during a pandemic, walking away as Mr. United States 2nd runner up,  Gentleman of the year honoree, and winning an academic achievement  award. During Hollis’ 19-year career, he not only has acted, modeled,  and found success in his pageant, but he also

owns  his own online boutique clothing store, has written and released music,  started his YouTube channel, and is currently writing his third book.  Hollis Morrissette is a powerhouse that sees and shows no signs of  stopping or slowing down in the future.

https://www.instagram.com/thehollismorrissette/

https://www.benduffypresents.com/

Ben Duffy has bled filmmaking for the past 17 years of his life. He started off making skate videos with his best friends on driveways, and now is a filmmaker with 10 documentaries under his belt, 4 of which are features. In the humble opinion of this writer, Ben Duffy has redefined the meaning of micro budget filmmaking. If money fell from trees, Ben grabbed the pennies while others got to the bills first, and always finished the film with the pretty penny. We Are Skateboarders, Bens most acclaimed published film, was made from him riding on bus’s with expired weekly bus passes to get to the shoots, holding two skateboarders, a big ass tripod, and a heavy loaded camera bag…and lets not forget about the food stamp grocery bill for when the shoot was over. Ben transformed digital video tapes to an hour and 50 minute, 2nd highest viewed feature length skateboard documentary for the price of what could have cost the average production nearly 900,000 dollars. That was just the beginning of this humanitarian’s career. While Ben could have used his existing success as a skateboard documentarian, he chose to diversify and tap into the world of the underdogs, the community of people who are never fully seen; fully heard. Using only crowdfunding campaigns as a financial source to carry him through, Benjamin created Amazon Prime featured documentaries on autism and the world of disabled people as professional athletes. When I talked to Ben he told me that after his what would much later be his most financial successful film, Tin Soldiers, featuring 4 time Paralympic gold medalist, Alana Nichols, he was fucking over filmmaking. It wasn’t until 6 months later a quadriplegic man spoon fed Ben a new idea to document love and sexuality in the disabled community, did he find himself crying on his friends couch that he was living on and said, “I have to believe that this this going to work, because I have nothing left to lose”, Ben raised in total 55 thousand dollars to turn what was a caterpillar of an idea to a beautiful butterfly that will fly this November. Ben also said, or should I say, boldly states, that Take A Look At This Heart is the film he wants to be remembered by because it the only film he’s made that no one else can touch - it is truly a 1 of a kind unique demonstration of passion and pulling something from with in you that you didn’t know you had in order to find the love for yourself that’s been missing for so long. Maybe it is that you need a heart of gold in order to be successful while running on empty. Or maybe Ben has showed the world with his films that in order to fill the emptiness with gold, you just can’t stop running. This website shows Bens endless search for the little miracles that remind us we are human, and it all started with a camera 5 times the size of your new iphone.

https://www.instagram.com/runseahorserun/

Watch some of Ben’s work here:

Here is Episode 1: HOPE

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i4vFQ_eXGDY

Here is episode 2: “Love and Suicide”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FRP6R2o5XrA