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In this episode, we have a conversation with Entertainment Publicist Amy Prenner. Chris and Amy talk about her documentary ‘Have You Heard About Greg’, her fascination with news as a child, how Zoom helped her have the most successful year of her career, why media training is so important, her work with Ellen DeGeneres, how she would help Alec Balwin and Will Smith, and much more. Enjoy!

 

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Veteran publicity executive Amy Prenner is the founder of TPG where she oversees publicity on behalf of the agency. The Prenner Group has been in business since 2007. With offices in Los Angeles and New York, The Prenner Group helps you develop and implement marketing communications strategies by providing expertise in media, trends, and business expertise.

 

Prenner, who has over 20 years of experience, develops and executes marketing communications strategies that will help launch and grow your business. She is a leading entertainment publicist in Los Angeles. Services include public relations, communications strategy, and market evaluation.  We specialize in taking entertainment campaigns and getting media attention.

 

She is currently representing Acast Studios, as their official agency of record for their original podcasts. She also is working with fast channels Swerve Sports, DistroTV, and Best Ever Channels. In 2021, Prenner handled unit publicity on behalf of the indie film “Chocolate Lizards,” starring Carrie Ann Moss, Bruce Dern, and Thomas Hayden Church as well as the feature “The Baby Pact,” starring Haylie Duff. On the streaming side, she launched several series on behalf of her client RadicalMedia including “The Me You Can’t See,” on Apple+ featuring Prince Harry & Oprah as well as “Crime Scene,” on Netflix, “Sons of Sam,” on Netflix and “Confronting A Serial Killer,” for Starz. She also launched Lula Rich on behalf of The Cinemart on Amazon.

 

Amy has created memorable PR campaigns and secured national and local placements for all of the agency's clients.  She is currently the chair of TPEC and is based in Los Angeles where she lives with her husband and son.

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Have you Heard About Greg? (HYHAG) is a documentary that introduces Greg O’Brien, an investigative reporter, best-selling author, and public speaker. Greg takes us into his world where he has survived cancer and now is battling an incurable disease-- Alzheimer’s.   This disease has taken out Greg’s family members; his father and mother, grandfather, and uncles. Now Alzheimer's has come for him. Greg faces the journey with authenticity, humor, and a ferocious courageousness that has rarely been captured on camera until now.

 

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In this edition of Mistakes In The Making, we hear from Writer, Actor, Author, and Musician Korby Lenker. Korby opens up about a time in his career when he was forced to slow down, take a 9-to-5 job, and rethink his creative path. Enjoy! 

 

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In this episode, we have a conversation with Whistleblower, Documentarian, and Author Michael McCray. We talk about the upcoming Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival, the art of pitching, the film industry’s role in Whistleblowing, social media building user’s psyches, the 30 data points rule, MK Ultra, Whistleblower protection laws, Julian Assange, Elon Musk’s bid to acquire Twitter, and much more! Enjoy!

 

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Race, Power & Politics (Acorn 8) book

Acorn 8 Race, Power & Politics by Michael McCray (book)

Acorn 8 website

 

 

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Shownotes:

The Great Hack (film)

The Social Network (film)

Minority Report (film)

WeCrashed (tv mini series)

The Dropout (tv mini series)

Daniel Ellsberg (anti-war activist)

The Fifth Estate (film)

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Office of the Whistleblower (Congress)

House Whistleblower Protection Caucus

Government Accountability Project

National Whistleblower Center

The Corporate Whistleblower’s Survival Guide by Tom Devine (book)

The New Whistleblower’s Handbook by Stephen Martin Kohn (book)

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In this episode, we hear from a brilliant panel of female filmmakers and creatives - Kd Amond (AZIF Productions), Elisabeth Donaldson (Rattled, 2020), Tammy Hyler (Smashville Entertainment), Vicki Yates (News Channel 5), and Sarah Zanotti (Faye, 2021, AZIF Productions). We learn about the Bechdel Test, why it matters and why it's becoming easier to pass, the empowerment movement for women in film, the age of consent, and overcoming your fear as a female creative. Enjoy!

 

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Shownotes:

Five Women in the End (film)

Rattled (film)

Steel Magnolias (film)

Thelma and Louise (film)

Terms of Endearment (film)

Beaches (film)

Imitation of Life (film)

Shelley Duvall (actress)

Ellen Burstyn (actress)

Martin Scorsese (producer)

Writer Duet screenwriting software

Mean Girls (film)

The Exorcist (film)

Shirley MacLaine (actress)

Booksmart (film)

Paddington 2 (film)

9 to 5 (film)

Jerry Maguire (film)

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In this edition of Indie Talk, Chris and Nick review this week in podcast guests, discuss the usefulness of the DISC profile, take on the constant media dog whistles designed to indoctrinate us, and tackle the idea of being yourself at the expense of doing great work or being a good person. Enjoy!

 

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Shownotes:

“Hello” by Lionel Richie (music video)

Chris Haley (author, filmmaker)

Chris St. Croix (writer, dir)

DISC personality profile

Camrus Johnson (actor)

Joker (film)

Reese Witherspoon (actress)

Legally Blonde (film)

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In this episode, Chris joins the Creative Director of the Nashville Film Festival, Lauren Ponto, and Filmmaker Ava Leigh Stewart on a panel to discuss the best practices and pitfalls of deploying your film across festivals nationwide. We talk about the role of Film Freeway, what an “Oscar qualifying” festival actually means, how Creative Directors program festivals, the role of alternate film festivals, the value of in-person festival attendance compared to virtual, and why you should use pitch contests as practice for your big studio pitch, and much more. Enjoy!

 

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Shownotes:

Toronto International Film Festival

SXSW Film Festival

Venice International Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival

Nashville Film Festival

Heartland International Film Festival

Chicago Film Festival

Palm Springs Film Festival

New Orleans Film Festival

Hot Docs Film Festival

DOC NYC Festival

Film Freeway

Defy Film Festival

Dycee Wildman (filmmaker)

Fetish (short film)

The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (documentary)

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (film)

Willem Dafoe (actor)

Armageddon (film)

Deep Impact (film)

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In this conversant episode, we have a conversation with Director Chris St. Croix. We talk about his films 'In The Dark,' 'Shattered,' and 'Final,' the details behind the streaming wars, working with Quentin Tarantino, how to transition from one creative dream to another, overcoming demons, self-doubt, lack of education, and addiction, the realities of Indie Film distribution, and much more. Enjoy! 

 

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In the Dark (film)

 

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Born in New York to a Brooklyn business professor and a former nun from Pennsylvania. Raised in New Jersey, Europe, Boston, L.A., and now Nashville, TN. As a teen, I was hell-bent on filmmaking until music took over, landing me in Hollywood as a long-haired heavy metal singer. A storyteller, just louder. I paid the bills by working as an extra on sets with everyone from Tarantino to Zemeckis and soaked it all in. When music shot me back across the country to Nashville, by day I worked my way up the crew ladder to Assistant Director. When the rekindling of my childhood passion couldn't be ignored any longer, I wrote and directed the short comedy "Rocco & Vinnie." Since then, I've written, directed, and released, through Gravitas Ventures, two features and directed shorts, commercials, and music videos. My period supernatural thriller, "Final," is my latest short supernatural thriller. I have multiple finished screenplays and pilots ready to produce and am always looking for collaborators to make that happen.

 

Chris' Films:

 

• Final (short thriller)

 

• Midnight (short supernatural)

 

• In The Dark (feature horror)

 

• Dirty Little Secret 3D (short thriller)

 

• Shattered (feature drama/thriller)

 

• Rocco & Vinnie (short comedy)

 

Commercials:

 

Vizio, Nutrisystem, Oakley, Wall Street Journal

 

Shownotes:

Ozark (tv series)

Black Mirror (tv series)

Stranger Things (tv series)

CODA (film)

WeCrashed (tv mini series)

Ryan Reynolds (actor)

George Clooney (actor)

Eddie Murphy (actor)

Pluto TV

Star Wars: A New Hope (film)

Quentin Tarantino (writer)

Pulp Fiction (film)

Forrest Gump (film)

Speed (film)

Lethal Weapon (film)

Melrose Place (tv series)

In Living Color (tv series)

Full House (tv series)

Quantum Leap (tv series)

Arnold Schwarzenegger (actor)

Total Recall (film)

Robert Mitchum (actor)

Tony Scott (screenwriter)

Steven Soderbergh (producer)

Gravitas Ventures film distributor

American Cinematographer

IMDb Pro

Steven Spielberg (director)

Script Notes podcast

The Movie Crypt podcast

 

Albums & Movies Chris would take on an island:

Shout at the Devil by Mötley Crüe

Alive! By Kiss

Listen Without Prejudice by George Michael

Rock & Rule (film)

Tony Scott (screenwriter)

The Last Boy Scout (film)

All the President’s Men (film)

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In this special Juneteenth, Pride Month, and Father’s Day episode, we have a conversation with Author & Actor Chris Haley. We talk about his #1 Amazon Best-Selling book of poetry, ‘Fists & Rainbows: WIth One Fist In The Air and Holla!’, the current state of American society and fairness, how he defends his uncle Alex Haley’s legacy, reparations, how he manages his anxiety, tips on how to audition and remember lines, and how self-sabotage and self-doubt cost him work with Wayne Brady. Enjoy!

 

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FaceBook

LinkedIn

 

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Shownotes:

Jim Crow of the North (film)

Alex Haley (author)

Hamilton (musical)

Lin-Manuel Miranda (actor)

Rainer Maria Rilke (poet)

Langston Hughes (poet)

Kendrick Lamar (musician)

Paul Laurence Dunbar (poet)

Frederick Douglass (author, activist)

Arsenio Hall (producer)

James Patterson apologizes for saying white male authors face ‘racism’ (news)

What is CRISPR? (article)

Barbara Streisand (actress)

Donny Osmond (actor)

Drive My Car (film)

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In this Indie Talk episode, Chris and Nick coin the term, “Non-Priority To-Do List,” they address the ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ lawsuit, share opinions on Matthew McConaughey’s White House speech and discuss Quinta Brunson’s (Abbott Elementary) response to her Twitter critics on refusing to produce a school shooting episode. Enjoy!

 

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Shownotes:

Conversation with Janlatae’ Mullins

Top Gun: Maverick

Calgary International Film Festival

Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

Matthew McConaughey remarks at the White House (video)

Abbott Elementary (tv series)

Quinta Brunson (actress, writer)

1, 2, 3, All Eyes on Me (short film)

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In this edition of Industry Insights, Nick details the sentiments of Director Nick Frangione about getting to the core of the message in your film. Enjoy!

 

Our conversation with Nick

 

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