THE HOLLYWOOD PODCAST

Emmy- and DGA-winning director/writer Walter Hill returns to his Western roots with the new film DEAD FOR A DOLLAR, starring Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe, Benjamin Bratt, Rachel Brosnahan, and Warren Burke. The film is about a veteran bounty hunter named Max Borlund who is deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens – a sworn enemy he sent to prison years before. Max is on a mission to find and return Rachel Kidd, the wife of a wealthy businessman, who as the story is told to Max, has been abducted by Buffalo Soldier Elijah Jones. Max is ultimately faced with a showdown to save honor.

The Youth Governor centers on California's long-standing Youth in Government program where, in the halls of the state's capitol building, 4,000 teenagers run a fully functioning government complete with legislators, party bosses, and elections. Over four months, three candidates emerge in the race for the 72nd Youth Governor. With their peers watching their every word, these young candidates put together the unique mix of ambition, confidence, shamelessness, and pure motivation it takes to win.

Participants of the program themselves in their adolescence, directors Jaron and Matthew Halmy are an Emmy- and PGA-winning brother team. In tandem, they have experience in documentary filmmaking, commercial, and non-fiction filmmaking.

The face of a new generation of aspirational adventurers and natural history filmmakers, 29-year-old National Geographic Explorer Bertie Gregory takes viewers on epic and nail-biting journeys that push into the most spectacular and secretive corners of our wild world! Armed with leading-edge film technology, the Disney+ original series EPIC ADVENTURES WITH BERTIE GREGORY, from National Geographic, breaks the mold of the traditional natural history program by telling extraordinary, real-life animal stories and taking viewers with him for every beat of the action. For weeks at a time, the BAFTA Award-winning cinematographer immerses himself into the animals’ lives to capture the untold stories of iconic creatures living in some of the harshest environments on our planet. This season, we see Bertie braving the icy worlds of Antarctica in search of the biggest gathering of whales ever filmed and coming face-to-face with specialist buffalo-hunting lions in Zambia. In this multipart adventure series, he will take audiences on an ambitious odyssey across the globe, showcasing the natural world at a time when it faces its greatest challenges.

Bertie Gregory, a wildlife filmmaker and photographer in his twenties, channeled his childhood obsession with wildlife into photography. Early in his career, photos from this obsession earned him recognition, including being named a National Geographic Young Explorer, Youth Outdoor Photographer of the Year, and Zenith Scientific Exploration Society Explorer. He began assisting legendary big cat photographer Steve Winter on assignment for National Geographic after graduating with a zoology degree from the University of Bristol in 2014. Bertie has since shot documentaries for Nat Geo WILD (Mumbai's urban leopards and caiman hunting jaguars) and BBC Planet Earth. Gregory's first solo assignment for National Geographic, tracking and filming the elusive coastal wolf on Vancouver Island's west coast, became the basis for Nat Geo WILD's first digital series, wildlife. Bertie has recently completed work on a new National Geographic digital series set in South Georgia.

Nicole Galovski is the showrunner, executive producer, and a director of the new Disney+ hybrid docuseries "Growing Up". Created by Brie Larson and Galovski's company Culture House, “Growing Up” explores the challenges, triumphs, and complexities of adolescence through ten compelling coming-of-age stories. The series uses narrative, experimental, and documentary filmmaking to follow one young person each episode, ages 18-22, as they tell their story. They represent a wide range of lived experiences, giving audiences emotionally powerful narratives that offer an engaging look at teenage-hood and the diverse social, familial, and internal obstacles young people face on their path to self-discovery and acceptance.

Along with serving as a showrunner on "Growing Up" under the Culture House banner, Galovski is also producing a Netflix docuseries about race and gender in America, and is the producer of 2022 Tribeca premiere “Of Medicine and Miracles” about Dr. Carl June's ground-breaking cure for childhood leukemia. Feature film credits include NYTimes critic pick “All Creatures Here Below” (Samuel Goldwyn) and Tribeca premiere “Poor Boy” (Indican Pictures). Credits also include Showtime Documentary “Tough Guys,” and Jon Stewart’s Emmy Nominated HBO special “Night of Too Many Stars.”

Four time Emmy-nominated cinematographer Mark Doering-Powell discusses his work on the Freeform series Grown-ish. Nominated for Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series (Half-Hour) at this year's Emmys, Doering-Powell was also nominated for his work in Grown-ish last year - the series' first-even Emmy nomination! Doering-Powell also shares what it was like reuniting with Grown-ish creator Kenya Barris on the upcoming Netflix film You People, starring Eddie Murphy, Jonah Hill, Nia Long, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, David Duchovny, Rhea Pearlman, Molly Gordon, Deon Cole, La La Anthony, Bryan Greenberg and many more.

He was also previously nominated twice for his cinematography on Paramount+'s Everybody Hates Chris. Some of his other credits include Workaholics, Growing Up Fisher; Jane by Design; My Boys; Glory Daze; Hindsight; the Kenan Thompson pilot, directed by Chris Rock, as well as 4 seasons of Just Add Magic for Amazon Prime.

Emmy-winning television director, writer and producer Greg Garcia is behind some of network television's most successful shows. From My Name is Earl to Raising Hope, Garcia has been on staple of network comedy series. Now, he is out with his latest comedy series Sprung, now streaming on Freevee. 

Sprung tells the story of Jack (Garret Dillahunt) who, after spending nearly three decades in prison, is released and has to figure out where to live now. His determination not to reenter a life of crime is challenged when his former cellmate Rooster (Phillip Garcia) offers a room at his mother Barb's (Martha Plimpton) house, with the stipulation that Jack join their criminal enterprise.

Coming to the end of it's nearly year-long North American tour, the Broadway show "The Prom" is now in Los Angeles performing at the Ahmanson Theatre until September 11! 

Emily Borromeo, who plays Angie Dickinson, has previously performed on Broadway and as part of the National Tour of School of Rock. TV credits include serving as host of Sunny Side Up, a preschool series (Emmy nom.; Sprout/NBCUniversal), Tell Me a Story (CBS), Sneaky Pete (Amazon), The Jim Gaffigan Show (TV Land), and The Sing-Off (NBC).

Bud Weber, who plays Trent Oliver, has previously performed in shows such as The Book of Mormon (Broadway, 1st National Tour, New Zealand), Something Rotten! (Broadway), Aladdin (Broadway), Wicked (Broadway, 1st National Tour).

Cinematographer Anka Malatynska discusses her latest project, the newest spin-off series of the Pretty Little Liars franchise titled Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, now streaming on HBOMax. In this interview, Malatynska shared how she created a different visual language for this series compared to the original series, how her previous work on I Know What You Did Last Summer helped inform her work on this show, and an upcoming project she just finished working on.

Malatynska's previous credits include Hulu's Monsterland, OWN's Delilah, Amazon Prime's I Know What You Did Last Summer and the upcoming Steve Buscemi directorial feature The Listener starring Tessa Thompson.

THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES is a breathtakingly expansive, six-part portrait written and directed by Andrew Rossi which chronicles the life of Andy Warhol from the intimate vantage point of the artist’s own posthumously published diaries. Beginning with his childhood in Pittsburgh, the series traces Warhol’s almost unbelievably diverse journey, fluidly moving between mediums and through eras as an artist —both revered and reviled — director, publisher, TV producer, scene maker, celebrity and much more. While he was a larger than life figure, Warhol was intensely private regarding his personal life. This series reveals much about the very complex man through his own words — and in his own voice through the use of cutting-edge AI techniques— and those who worked, created, and played alongside him from the subversive to the mainstream, from John Waters to Rob Lowe.

Rossi has received three Primetime Emmy nominations for his work on THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES: Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program; Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program; and Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series

Claudia Castello is the editor of Hulu's new original film PREY which serves as a prequel to the popular PREDATOR franchise. A frequent collaborator with director Ryan Coogler, Castello's past credits include FRUITVALE STATION, CREED, and BLACK PANTHER.