Episodes (31)
Sep 17, 2008
My Date With Drew's Brian Herzlinger is now directing the upcoming "Baby on Board" starring Heather Graham, Jerry O'Connell and Lara Flynn Boyle. We talk about the process and the journey in this fun, inspirational interview.
Oct 15, 2008
Leonard Morpurgo, the Vice President at Murray Weissman and Associates, a top Hollywood publicist, gave a great presentation on film pr.
Oct 29, 2008
AFI Film Festival Associate Director of Programming Shaz Bennett talked about the upcoming schedule of films slated for this year's festival. Bennett broke down some of the different categories they have as well as the selection process for AFI. She further talked about some of the panel discussions they have, other ways the festival tries to help filmmakers and other general tips.
Nov 05, 2008
Phil Alberstat is the CEO of 49 North Media. The company is involved in the financing and production of film, television and web content. Prior to the North Media, Phil was an agent with the William Morris Agency in the independent film division. There he was involved in the packaging, financing and selling of such films as "Thank You For Smoking", "Away From Her", "Factory Girl", and "Bobby". He won an Emmy in 2004 for "The Incredible Mrs Ritchie". He has also written the book: The Insider's Guide to Film Finance".
Nov 19, 2008
Leslie Zemeckis came on too talk about her project "Staar: She'd Rather Be a Mistress", a comedy/mocumentary in which Zemeckis wrote, starred and produced. The piece had many hilarious moments and is based on her one woman show and the exploits of a burlesque dancer.
Dec 03, 2008
Robert Davi, whose credits include: Stargate: Atlantis, Die Hard, License to Kill, The Goonies, Profiler and far too many others to list, makes his directorial debut in the indie film "The Dukes," in which he also co-writes and stars in. The Dukes is a heartfelt comedy filled with great humor and Doo-Wop music.
Dec 10, 2008
Don Most, best known as Ralph Malph on Happy Days talked about three great projects. Two features he directed, "Moola" and "The Last Best Sunday". In addition, we talked about his pilot Take2 in which he co-stars with fellow Happy Days alum, Anson Williams (Potsie). Lastly, directing in general, his appearance in Star Trek Voyager and of course we talked a little Happy Days.
Dec 17, 2008
Founder of theStream.tv, 1st A.D and executive producer of Filmnut, Brian Gramo sits down for an in depth interview about thestream.tv and his work as a 1st.
Jan 07, 2009
Producer Scott M. Rosenfelt credits include: Home Alone, Mystic Pizza, Teen Wolf, Kids In America, Smoke Signals, and Extremities. Rosenfelt talked about the role of a producer in films. He emphasized the importance of pre-production and discussed the difference in how he approaches a project that he helps develop from the outset versus being brought on as a hired gun.
Jan 21, 2009
Having worked with Oscar winning actors Larry Moss is considered to be an acting coach that is a legend in his own time. Synthesizing the work of the great coaches that have come before him, Meisner, Addler, Hagan and more, Moss adapts his style to the needs of actor he is working with. A big believer in script analysis, we covered a lot in this interview.
Jan 28, 2009
Writer/ Director James Gunn (Slither, Dawn of the Dead) was the perfect guest to celebrate the two year anniversary of Filmnut with. Like my first interview with James, he was fun and informative. Making the most of new media opportunities he has a variety of new projects going on that we covered.
Feb 04, 2009
John D'aquino shared some great technical sound knowledge with us tonight. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts with a degree in a film, John currently has a his own company, Childhood Dreams, in which he produces his own work and provides production sound services for both studio and indie films...Good questions from viewers, good tips from John and few links for more information as well.
Feb 25, 2009
Fans around the world tuned in to Xena: Warrior Princess star Renee O'Connor and they were not disappointed. O'Connor is a passionate, sincere, fun loving artist sharing her filmmaking and life experiences. We covered her just completed dramatic short, "Words Unspoken" in which O'Connor acts, writes and directs. This is a heartfelt piece about a man fulfilling his father's dying wish that makes you think and inspires debate. In addition we touched on an upcoming web series "Ark" in which she stars. Lots more covered including many viewer questions.
Mar 04, 2009
How real is reality TV? We got into that and much more with editor Marina Catala who edits for NBC's The Biggest Loser. Catala's other credits include: The Amazing Race, Beauty and the Geek, A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila, Big Brother, Pros Versus Joes, Madden Nation and many more.
Mar 18, 2009
Producer Kerry David talked about her current projects "Like Dandelion Dust" to be released by 20th Century Fox in September starring Mira Sorvino and "College Sucks" which begins shooting next month. She also talked about how she broke into the business via a temp job for Paramount and then being a personal assistant for Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.
Apr 01, 2009
Chuck & Star Trek (TV) Visual Effects Supervisor Dan Curry was informative and entertaining using visual aids from Star Trek in some cases to demonstrate what he does. In this episode we talked about the skills it takes to be a visual effects supervisor, working with different departments on a film set and geek-ed out a little bit on Chuck & Star Trek.
Apr 22, 2009
Todd Lindgren from FilmL.A. Inc. talks about the film permit process.
Apr 22, 2009
Dov S-S Simens, who includes Quentin Tarantino, and Chris Nolan among his many famous past students, talks and entertains us tonight about his 2 day film school including everything a first time filmmaker would want to know. Dov is funny yet very sincere as he talks about many different aspects of the process. Directing, lighting, negotiating with vendors, shooting ratio, budgets, marketing, getting that great script, and more. Whatever we don't get to in the show he gets to in his two day seminar.
Apr 29, 2009
Tino Struckmann talks about his work in personal protection to the stars to service in the military and his transition to acting and Filmmaking.
May 06, 2009
Producer Andrew Paquin talks about his projects, Blue State, starring Anna Paquin, New In Town, starring Renee Zellweger and more.
May 13, 2009
Gary Goldman is a the 1st A.D./ Associate Producer of Entourage. He talks about the process of shooting an episode, working with the director, the actors, the crew and more.
May 20, 2009
Sreen Actors Guild national board member Seymour Cassel came on to talk about the proposed agreement between SAG and the Alliance of Motion Pictures ad Television Producers (AMPTP).
Jun 09, 2009
Hollywood Screen Actors Guild board member Ned Vaughn announced the results of the SAG vote on the proposed agreement with the AMPTP.
Jun 10, 2009
In addition to a lot of laughs, a lot of material is covered, Chuck related and otherwise with Josh Gomez.
Jun 17, 2009
Storyboard Artist Robbie Consing came on to talk about his work on such films as: Batman Forever, Terminator 3, The Rock, Armageddon, Jumper, X2, Bad Boys II, Mission Impossible II and more.
Jun 24, 2009
Award winning Actor/Producer Paul J. Alessi came on to talk about his romantic comedy Knuckle Draggers.
Jul 01, 2009
Script Consultant Pilar Alessandra discusses the craft of writing. Her background includes: Script reader for Amblin Entertainment. With the formation of DreamWorks, she became Senior Story Analyst and a reader liaison between the studio and Robert Zemeckis's company, ImageMovers.
Jul 22, 2009
Gary Valentine, best known for his role as Danny Heffernan on King of Queens, comes on to talk about his hilarious new web series, Dusty Peacock, the old days on King of Queens and a lot more.
Jul 29, 2009
Vik Sahay, Lester Patel, from the NBC show Chuck, talked about his character, Chuck, Jeffster's live performance at Comic-Con, his work in the Genie award winning film Amal and much more.
Aug 05, 2009
David Maples, Creator, writer, executive producer of the USA Network show "In Plain Sight" came on to talk about the show and the craft of writing.
Aug 05, 2009
Jonathan Bennett came on to talk about a recently released film he is starring in, Van Wilder: Freshman Year. We also talk about Mean Girls, Dukes Of Hazzard, Smallville, why Jonathan repeatedly reads Michael Caine's acting book and much more.
About
Filmnut Season 3 (2008) is released on Sep 17, 2008 and the latest season 5 of Filmnut is released in 2011. Watch Filmnut online - the English Talk-Show TV series from United States. Filmnut is directed by Brian Gramo,Hogan Carter,Jared Greenhouse and created by Jeff Schubert with Jeff Schubert and Brian Gramo.