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a day ago
21 min

#21 How Product Placement Works in Film Production | Tami Cooper Interview

Tami Cooper, President of Hollywood International Placements, Inc. shares the role that product placement agencies play in film production.

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Jul 30
44 min

#20 How To Sell Your Film | Ross Putman Interview

Ross Putman, producer, sales and finance agent for Verve, he offers advice on how to sell films.

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Jul 23
28 min

#19 The Walking Dead Executive Producer & Director | Greg Nicotero Interview

Greg Nicotero, Producer/Director of The Walking Dead, shares nuts and bolts of the SFX department, including working with CGI & SFX on TWD.

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Jul 20
2 min

10 Ways to Keep Your Crew Safe- Going Back to Production During COVID

10 best practices to implement in order to make your crew and employees feel safe and comfortable on set.

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Jul 16
42 min

#18 Zack Arnold: Work-Life Balance in the Industry

Zack Arnold share’s how he has learned to set boundaries to create a healthy work-life balance in the industry.

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Jul 9
34 min

#17 Matt Hadley – Shooting During COVID

Matt Hadley, gaffer, recently completed work on one of the fifteen SAG-AFTRA approved projects.

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Jul 2
30 min

#16 Jorge Garcia Castro – How To Sell Your Film

Jorge Garcia Castro, Netflix Producer, share’s ways filmmakers can get their projects onto Netflix.

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Jun 25
32 min

#15 Ryan Dixon- Indie Writing vs. Studio Writing

Aiming to be a consistent and dependable writer will serve you just as well if not better than aiming to write for big studios. Ryan Dix...

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Jun 19
19 min

#14 Jennifer Bender- How Working as a Background Extra Can Be Your Ticket Into the Industry

Jennifer Bender, Executive Vice President of Central Casting, talks with Tanya about her role at Central Casting.

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Jun 11
19 min

#13- Cory Maracle - Prop Master for Home & Family

Cory Maracle shares how he found his passion in the art department. He is now the prop master and head of the art department Home & Family.

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Jun 4
30 min

#12- Matt Birch - Senior VP and Co-Head of Physical Production, APA Agency

If you work in production, should you have an agent or manager?

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May 29
3 min

How to Create A Business Plan For Your Film

A business plan will help you map out the process that will get your film from the idea to the actual deliverable film.

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May 28
26 min

#11- Raul Martin Romero - Script Coordinator

Raul Martin Romero takes us into the nuts and bolts of his job, writing for television, and how he worked his way into a writer’s room.

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May 21
29 min

#10 Ralph Winter - Executive Producer

$100M Blockbusters and micro-budget faith-based films—Ralph Winter does them both. He chats with Tanya about the elements needed in both.

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May 14
20 min

#9 Mike Wagner - Below The Line Agent

Mike Wagner, a below-the-line agent, shares how he connects below the line crew to film & TV productions.

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May 7
1 min

#3 Daryl Gungadoo - VR Pioneer

In the 90's when most of us were still using dial-up internet; Daryl was thinking about the future of video.

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May 7
29 min

#8 Jason Roberts - Line Producer/Assistant Director, D.G.A.

Jason Roberts has spent his career adapting scenes to make budget, align crew schedules, and keep projects on time.

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May 5
22 min

#7- Kevin Olusola - Pentatonix

CoLab INC’s Executive Director, Ryan Dye, talks with Kevin Olusola from Pentatonix.

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Apr 30
2 min

4 Things Film Investors Look At On Your Business Plan

Writing a business plan for your film can be one of the most draining tasks of any film project, but also one of the most necessary ones.

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Apr 28
32 min

#6- Film Agency Panel

4/30/20 UPDATE: The PPP loan came through for Leif's production company to cover paychecks for 2.5 months. The SBA loan (originally supp...

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