The Producers Lounge

Joelle began her writing career as an advertising copywriter, creating award-winning campaigns for brands like In-N-Out Burger, Kleenex and Lexus. Since making the jump to screenwriting, she's written several romantic comedy and family telefilms including Hallmark Channel's Paris, Wine and Romance. An experienced animation writer, Joelle's series credits include Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Ben 10: Omniverse, DC Super Hero Girls and LEGO Friends. She also created the adult animated series Superslackers for 420TV.

She is also a graduate of the Warner Bros. Sitcom Writers Workshop and Best Screenplay winner at the La Femme Film Festival.

Check out Joelle's latest movie, Saving Christmas Spirit.  

Check out Joelle's latest graphic novel, Werewoofs.

Credits Include...

Saving Christmas Spirit starring Ashley Newbrough

The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes starring Dawn Olivieri

Teen Titans starring Judge Reinhold

Jackie Chan Adventures starring Jackie Chan

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Music is Julianne (The Night We Met) by Evan Hodges.

Episode still image is from DC Superhero Girls, a production of DC Comics, and Warner Brothers.

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Award-winning filmmaker Paul J Salamoff has been working for over 30 years in Film, TV, Video Games and Commercials as a Writer, Producer, Director, Executive, Comic Creator, Storyboard Artist and Make-Up FX Artist. 

Salamoff is the author of ON THE SET: The Hidden Rules of Movie Making Etiquette (Now in its 4th Edition) and the graphic novels Discord, Tales of Discord, Hired Guns, Logan’s Run and issues of Vincent Price Presents. His short stories and essays have been included in acclaimed anthologies including MIDIAN UNMADE: Tales From Clive Barker’s Nightbreed and THE CYBERPUNK NEXUS: Exploring The Blade Runner Universe and he is a two-time Bram Stoker Award Nominee. 

Salamoff teaches screenwriting at THE NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY and made his feature-film directorial debut with ENCOUNTER, a multi award-winning Sci-Fi/Drama based on his original screenplay that stars Luke Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Cheryl Texiera and Tom Atkins. ENCOUNTER won “Best Independent Film” at The 46th Annual SATURN Awards.

Official Website: www.paulsalamoff.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/paul.salamoff

Twitter: @PaulSalamoff

Mastodon: @PaulSalamoff

Credits Include...

Encounter starring Luke Hemsworth

Cemetery Gates starring Greg Nicotero

The Last Breath... starring Sandra Ha

Ultraman starring Bill Mumy

EXECUTIVE

V.P. of Production (BOLD Films) - Legion, Bobby, Starship Troopers: Marauder

V.P. of Production (David Lancaster Prod.) - Wes Craven’s The Breed, Hollow Man 2

WRITER

Encounter

Alien Siege

The St. Francisville Experiment

SPECIAL MAKE-UP FX

Secondhand Lions

Scary Movie 2

Me, Myself & Irene

There’s Something About Mary

Batman & Robin

Ed Wood

Critters 3 & 4

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Music is Snowbound by Dennis Mitcheltree

Episode still image is from the movie Encounter, starring Luke Hemsworth, cinematographer Denton Adkinson, and EPK producer Cody Taft.

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Producer John Heinsen focuses on the development of TV, film and multi-platform projects through his company Bunnygraph. He sits on the Executive Committee of the Producers Peer Group of the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the Influencer Advisory Board of Sparks & Honey (Omnicom). Previously John served as Vice President, New Media for the Producers Guild of America (PGA) and was founding Co-Chair of the Guild's VR Task Force and Mobile Committee. Originally from Chicago, he is a Graduate of the American Film Institute (AFI) Conservatory and the University of Arizona.

Check out John’s work at:

https://manabu.eu/

https://www.amuletstudio.eu/

Credits Include...

Return to Le Cateau 1917 (Documentary)

The Annual Academy Awards starring Billy Crystal, Ellen DeGeneres, and Seth MacFarlane

Lone Hunter starring Tom Choi

The Mongolian Connection starring Kaiwi Lyman

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Music is Snowbound by Dennis Mitcheltree

Episode still image is from Manabu.eu.

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Summer grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado where she fell in love with showbiz performing theatre. She then moved to Los Angeles to attend the University of Southern California. Go Trojans!  She’s written numerous screenplays and is a member of the Producers Guild of America.

Follow her on Instagram @thesummerofhappiness

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Her website is www.SumSmiles.com

Credits Include...

Pandemic Pillow Talk starring Eric Roberts, Brian Gross, and Eliza Roberts

The Warning starring Pleasant Wayne

As In Kevin starring Kasia Szarek

Content Warning; Discussion of Sexual Assault in this episode.  

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Music is Menilmontant by Latché Swing.

Episode still image is by Ricardo Tomasz on Greater & Grander.

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Emily Coupe is an Australian born Eurasian actress turned producer, who has worked consistently in both Australia and Los Angeles.
 
She has recently been cast in feature films The New Hands, Lilith, Home Bound, Dark Haven, The Locket, and Wicked Wifi Workout.
 
Emily recently completed film The Crossroads in AZ in which she played the lead, & is also co-writing + producing the music.

Credits Include...

The Crossroads starring Nick Ballard

The New Hands starring Felissa Rose

Lilith starring Vernon Wells

Website: www.emilycoupe.com

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Facebook: https://m2.facebook.com/emilymeicoupe

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/emilycoupe

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Music is “Julianne (The Night We Met)” by Evan Hodges.

Episode still image is by Ricardo Tomasz on Greater and Grander.

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Jeremy Daniel Davis is an actor, writer and producer. He was born in Phoenix, Arizona on April 2nd. Most recently he produced a film called, Willy's Wonderland starring Nicolas Cage, Emily Tosta, and Beth Grant.

Check out Jeremy’s YouTube channel, with Behind The Scenes footage from the movie: https://www.youtube.com/user/standalonejd 

Credits Include...

Willy’s Wonderland starring Nicolas Cage

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Music is Sweet Georgia Brown by Latché Swing.

Episode still image credit goes to Screen Media, from Willy’s Wonderland, still photographer Nick Romanelli, and cinematographer David Newbert.

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Ladies and gentleman, by an overwhelming demand, The Producers Lounge podcast, Season 2 is coming back and coming back strong.

The second cycle of Season 2 will be released on Greater And Grander dot com starting Thursday, December 1st, 2022, and we’ll have producers of films with Nicolas Cage, Danny Glover, Luke Hemsworth, and many more.  

You can also follow us on the youtube channel for Greater & Grander to hear some of our promotional clips, or follow us on any of the social media links down below, in the description.  

Go directly to GreaterAndGrander.com to find out more.

We are your one-stop shop for producing tips and tricks as well as war stories from the front lines of filmmaking.  

Join us on GreaterAndGrander.com to find out more or search for the Producers Lounge Podcast anywhere that fine podcast episodes are released.

Join us Thursday, December 1st, 2022, and every Thursday thereafter, for more cocktails and questions, and until then, keep producing dreams.  

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Tony Lund (producer on Through The Wormhole) sits down to talk about his trials and tribulations in Hollywood, and how he found the most pivotal show of his career by attending the Playboy Mansion. 

Credits Include...

Through The Wormhole starring Morgan Freeman

Fun Size Horror: Volume One starring Guy Perry and Lance Reddick

Breakthrough starring Jason Bateman and Adrien Brody

The Story of God with Morgan Freeman starring Morgan Freeman

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Elijah Senn sits down to talk about old projects they worked on together, and also talks about his DIT work on the side in order to make a living. Like us on Facebook.

Credits Include...

Educated starring Alex Weber

500 Feet starring Jake Bucher

Fade Away starring Cat Del Re

Lonely City starring Jennifer Bouchard

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 Andy Dunn (Executive Producer in interactive media) sits down to talk about how he developed projects for Apple, Steven Spielberg, the California Science Center, and other major studios around Hollywood. 

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