The great summit of Nerds & Geeks! Today’s episode is with 2 of the hosts of the Nerd On! podcast “...where ALL LEVELS OF NERD (and geek) ARE WELCOME!” It is a weekly comedy, pop-culture podcast, in which a group of nerds in LA hangout, joke, analyze, discuss, and laugh about all things nerd! From comic books to film and everything in between, the Nerd On crew tackles it all. Two of the hosts Joshua Manley and Tom Petborisooth join us. Joshua is an audio mixer who’s worked at a couple shops in the trailer industry Trailer Park and Buddha Jones and Tom is an Award winning director. We start by getting to know these interesting, crazy cats and then we switch gears and have Tom & Joshua put on their host hats with me as their guest on Nerd On!

Michael Kahane is one of the original rock star editors of the modern trailer industry and went on to co-found Mojo which he ran for about 12 years before starting Carve with Markus Wernig in 2012. Some of his greatest hits include To Live and Die in L.A., Driving Miss Daisy, Field of Dreams, Glory, Jerry Maguire, Saving Private Ryan, Almost Famous, Terminal, W, Precious, and The Hunger Games among many others.

Originally a “theatre geek” Destiny Esposito has carved out a career in entertainment marketing as an editor, producer, creative director and now EVP Creative Advertising at Paramount. Des has a 20+ year track record of designing and executing successful motion picture, television, online content, home entertainment, and Broadway creative marketing efforts. SpongeBob, Crawl, Incredibles 2, Coco, Moana, Zootopia, Inside Out, Frozen, Brave, Tangled, and Shrek are just a few of her many successful campaigns.

Mike Southerly is an award winning creative executive and creative director with over 20 years in the industry working on both sides of the marketing world, most recently a long stint as EVP Creative Advertising at Fox and Creative Director at Concept Arts. Dumb and Dumber, Austin Powers, Not Another Teen Movie, The Simpsons Movie, Marley and Me and Percy Jackson are just a few of the many campaigns Mike’s worked on.

Michele Bell, SVP W’wide Creative Services for Paramount Home Entertainment, leads creative adv. for DVD package + menu design + print, broadcast, VOD + Internet advertising. Prior to Para., Michele was VP Crea. Services Home Ent. at Universal. Before that, she rose through the ranks at New Line to VP Crea. Adv. Home Ent. Just a few highlight campaigns incl Dumb & Dumber, Se7en, Scarface, E.T. 20th Anniversary, Iron Man, Transformers, Mission: Impossible, several Dreamworks Animation movies and many more.  

Matt Brubaker, Trailer Park’s President of Film and active member of the Academy,  is considered one of the top theatrical marketers in the industry, having worked on award-winning campaigns such as DUNKIRK, BABY DRIVER, INTERSTELLAR, MAD MAX, SUICIDE SQUAD, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, THE GREAT GATSBY, GODZILLA, and OCEAN’S ELEVEN. Previously he was a creative exec at New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Matt also led Trailer Park as it received Clio’s inaugural Agency of the Year Award.  

Phil Daccord, long time Creative Director of Giaronomo and Managing Partner of Giaronomo LA, is the VP of AV and Creative Director at Ignition Creative, well known in the trailer industry as a legend of the craft having finished dozens of top trailers and teasers including such absolute trailer gems such as The Matrix, Panic Room, V for Vendetta, Scorsese’s classic The Departed, Steve Jobs for Danny Boyle, Rogue One for Disney/Lucasfilm and so many more.

Dana Flowers, EVP of Crea. Adv. at Sony Pics + a member of the Academy, has worked on award-winning campaigns in the theatrical, home entertainment and Broadway space incl. Acrimony, Insecure, Deep Water Horizon, Gemini Man, Anchorman 2, Frozen, Monsters University + many more. At Sony, Dana oversees the studio’s movie campaigns including trailers, media spots as well as in-theater and outdoor advertising and proudly serves on the Sony Action Council, the studio’s racial equity and inclusion initiative.

Bill Neil, editor/producer at Buddha Jones, is often regarded as one of the leading trailer editors of all time, in particular for his work in horror, but really across multiple genres and in trailers as an artform. Two of his trailers, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Dawn of the Dead, are often cited among the top trailers of all time. His other work includes Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, It, It Chapter 2, The Wolf of Wall Street, Amityville Horror, Split, Glass, Mother!, 10 Cloverfield Lane and many more. 

Skip Chaisson, one of the greatest trailer editors of all time from his days at Kaleidoscope Films, is founder of Skip Film + Chief Creative Officer of El Rey Network. At Skip Film, in addition to trailers, his team’s done brilliant work in broadcast, main titles, original content, commercials + more. Skip’s trailer work includes Mission: Impossible, Space Jam, Titanic, The Lost World, Gone In 60 Seconds, Shaft, Man on Fire, I Am Legend, Machete, Prometheus, Gravity, Wolverine, Sin City 2 + many more.