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Filmmaking Conversations Podcast with Damien Swaby

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Discover the world of independent film with Filmmaking Conversations with Damien Swaby!

From industry professionals to the next generation of filmmakers, Damien Swaby brings his unique perspectives on indie filmmaking and the conversations that are taking place across the community.
Listeners will find inspiration and guidance from conversations on the podcast and leave armed with the knowledge to make their own indie films.

Tune in to Filmmaking Conversations with Damien Swaby today!


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Episodes

Ep 152: When Crowdfunding Works! Filmmaker ERIN LOVETT

Erin has directed and produced documentary television for CNN, HBO, Showtime, National Geographic, PBS, YouTube Premium, OWN, MSNBC, and Investigation Discovery. She's interested in stories that explore social justice, women's rights, environment, health and horror - she loves a good genre film. In 2011, she produced HOT COFFEE, an HBO feature documentary film that examines the infamous McDonald’s hot coffee case and its role in the decline of the civil justice system. The film premiered at the ...

Apr 03, 202244 min

Ep 151: Actress, Entrepreneur, and Activist! Emily Procter

Emily Procter is an actress, entrepreneur, and activist. In 2019 Emily shifted focus from entertainment to community by founding Ground Breakers Inc. Ground Breakers is a nonprofit working to create positive identity opportunities for children, and additionally for adults, in compromised circumstances. Working to support people, community and equitable infrastructure, Ground Breakers hopes to be a supporter for change and equity for all. gallery_pic15.jpg Procter's nonprofit, The Ground, offers ...

Mar 26, 202243 min

Ep 150: Before Sunrise with Kim Krizan

An American writer and actress best known for originating the story and characters in the "Before Sunrise" trilogy with her writing on Before Sunrise 1995 and Before Sunset 2004 for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and a Writers Guild Award. The trilogy is based on characters she created with Richard Linklater. Before Sunrise is a 1995 romantic drama film directed by Richard Linklater and co-written by Linklater and Kim Krizan. The first installment in the...

Mar 06, 202259 min

Ep 149: MARKUS FÖRDERER ASC, BVK, DIRECTOR of PHOTOGRAPHY

Selected as one of Variety's 10 Stars behind the Cameras, the German born cinematographer who graduated from University of Television and Film in Munich, has quickly developed an impressive resume of visually unique and critical acclaimed feature films. HELL marked his feature film debut, earning him a number of awards, including the 2012 German Camera Award for Best Cinematography, the Best Cinematography Award at the 2011 Sitges Film Festival in Spain, and a nomination for Best Cinematography ...

Feb 26, 202246 min

Ep 148: MAKING A PASSION PROJECT, by Beatriz Browne, 34 Carmine St.

Beatriz Browne is a Los Angeles/NYC based, Webby Award winning producer, director, and filmmaker specializing in non-fiction storytelling. Beatriz has worked extensively with clients such as Google, Airbnb, Peerspace, The New York Times, CNN, Square and Fatherly, creating multi-platform original content. Outside of branded content, Beatriz has directed and produced 34 Carmine St., an award winning short documentary. Born in Brazil but raised in China and the UAE, Beatriz has the ability to work ...

Feb 12, 202247 min

Ep 147: From Acting to Writing, Producing and Editing - Hallie Shepherd

Hallie Shepherd is a writer, actress, producer, and editor, and she co-owns Fireshoe Productions with Eric Colley. She’s currently wrapping up post-production on Fireshoe’s fifth feature film, a comedy called Bigfoot Killed My Wife. Shepherd wrote the screenplay and stars alongside director Colley. Shepherd’s past credits include producing Cuba Gooding Jr.’s directorial debut Bayou Caviar, which stars Gooding Jr., Famke Janssen, Katharine McPhee, and Richard Dreyfuss. The film is available on Hu...

Jan 21, 202246 min

Ep 146: Pete Chatmon - Transitions: A Director’s Journey and Motivational Handbook

Teller Of Stories. Mostly Fiction, Always Real. With a deft ability to balance both half-hour single camera comedies and one-hour dramas, Pete Chatmon has directed episodes of HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant, Insecure, Silicon Valley, and Love Life, Netflix’s You and Atypical, ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, Black-ish, A Million Little Things, Station 19, Mixed-ish and Single Parents, CBS’s All Rise and The Unicorn, Starz’ Blindspotting, FX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, FreeForm’s Grown-ish, TBS’s T...

Jan 15, 20221 hr 17 min

Ep 145: Breaking the Ice: The Cinematic Journey of Rebecca Eskreis

Rebecca Eskreis is a director, writer and producer whose work has screened at numerous international festivals, including SXSW, TIFF, SIFF, deadCenter, Savannah, Munich, Stockholm and Thessaloniki. Her directorial debut project, WHAT BREAKS THE ICE (Goldcrest Films), received the Sandra Adair/Empowering a Billion Women Grant for promising female filmmakers from the Austin Film Society, and was selected for the Austin Film Society’s Artist Intensive, hosted annually by Richard Linklater. The proj...

Jan 01, 20221 hr 2 min

Ep 144: Lisa Molomot, Documentary Filmmaker - MISSING IN BROOKS

Bio A graduate of the American Film Institute, I am a documentary director, producer and editor whose work has aired on PBS series such as Independent Lens and has been seen at film festivals around the world, including Sundance, SXSW, New Directors, New Films and DOC NYC. My 2013 directing debut THE HILL, about the demolition of an African-American neighborhood in New Haven, CT, premiered on the PBS series America Reframed and won best documentary at Greenpoint Film Festival. My 2014 film SCHOO...

Dec 23, 202138 min

Ep 143: Making films by any means necessary - PRECARIAT

Founded in 2016, we are a film and theater production company based in New York. We aim to disrupt storytelling as usual and make our stuff by any means necessary. We’re makers, not salespeople. We’re outsiders, and we’re inclusive, we’re rigorous, we’re generous, we make our own space and help others make theirs, We’re straight-forward, all-in, We take risks, give no fucks, and never quit. Who we are Co-Founders Isabel Ellison & Ryan Guiterman Managing Members Isabel Ellison, Sam Encarnació...

Dec 18, 202137 min

Ep 142: Scott Leger - Are Filmmakers Living in Pain?

Scott Leger is a Director and Screenwriter whose work has been screened at Cannes Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, SeriesFest, and Palm Springs International Film Festival. Drawn to filmmaking after a horrific mountain biking accident in high school derailed his illustrious Junior Varsity sports career, Scott transferred his manic passion from the field to the frame and hasn't exhaled since. And his collarbone healed up quite nicely, thanks for asking. He would later drop out of Hampshire Co...

Dec 13, 202149 min

Ep 141: Acting with Energy: Creating Brilliance Take After Take - Murisa Harba

An award-winning actor and director, Murisa Harba lives to push boundaries. She is a leading acting coach, author, thought leader, and speaker in Los Angeles, passionate about empowering actors to elevate their truth in storytelling and ultimately unlocking their creative genius. Her fascination with the infinite ways in which our bodies communicate led her to create two custom signature techniques: THE CHAKRA APPROACH® and THE MACRO METHOD. THE CHAKRA APPROACH® taps into the body's natural ener...

Dec 03, 202146 min

Ep 140: An Inspiring Story From Sally Harvey Anderson

Sally grew up all over the Southeastern US and moved to Los Angeles, CA as an adult. While in LA, Sally became an alumni of UCB, one of the best professional improv schools in the country. She returned to “The South” to pursue a Master’s Degree and become an English Professor so that she could support herself while pursuing acting and writing. After graduating with her MA, Sally spent 4 years teaching as an adjunct (part-time) professor at Belmont University. In those same 4 years, Sally got inv...

Nov 21, 202134 min

Ep 139: What the IATSE Agreement Means For Indie Filmmakers

Following the ratification of IATSE’s new film and TV contracts, podcaster and entertainment industry veteran Damien Swaby talks to principal Reena Sehgal (Sehgal Law PC) about their legal implications for Indie Filmmakers. Swaby and Sehgal will discuss the Basic Agreement and the Area Standards Agreement, which were set up to achieve fair conditions (including quality-of-life issues and general job conditions such as meal breaks) for union film crew in television and film. Reena Sehgal, Esq Att...

Nov 16, 202128 min

Ep 138: From Acting to Producing - Stephanie O'Neill

Stephanie is an artist and producer originally from the Bay Area, CA. She received her BFA in Theatre from UC Santa Barbara before moving to Los Angeles. As a producer, Stephanie has worked on a variety of short films, music videos, features and live theatrical productions. The short films BOYS, (le) REBOUND, HAPA and MONOGAMISH have had successful runs in the festival circuit appearing in AspenShorts, Palm Springs International ShortsFest, LA Film Festival, Viennale, Outfest, and Hollyshorts to...

Nov 15, 202151 min

Ep 137: A Rising Star In Entertainment Law - Reena Sehgal

Reena Sehgal, Esq Attorney-at-Law Transactions Reena Sehgal is from Bend, Oregon, and attended Portland State University, where she earned her Bachelor of Science in General Science. After graduating, Reena moved to San Diego, California to pursue a legal career. She graduated Cum Laude from Thomas Jefferson School of Law with a focus in Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law. Reena has always loved business, creativity, and the arts, and in law school she discovered how to use her skills, ...

Nov 03, 202147 min

Ep 136: Sheila Houlahan - Innovative hybrid feature film on Twitch!

Sheila Houlahan is an Indian-American actor, singer, producer and writer. Houlahan can be seen in supporting role Paige Callahan in Warner Bros. feature film “The Little Things”, written and directed by John Lee Hancock and starring Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto. The film premiered on HBO Max January 29th, 2021. She is available for interview regarding the project. Sheila Houlahan is the executive producer and showrunner for a new hybrid feature film adaptation of Marsha Norman’s ...

Oct 24, 202142 min

Ep 135: Greg Poole - Working with Idris Elba, UK Grime and James Cohan!

FILMMAKER: Director | Producer Editor | Camera | Sound Working in television at MTV Networks by day while DJing in downtown New York clubs by night, it was music that sparked Greg's interest in filmmaking when he began to follow London’s burgeoning Grime scene, a musical movement created by kids in the city’s public housing complexes. Inspired to capture Grime’s DIY, working-class stories on camera he relocated to London in 2006. There he documented Grime artists and created content for MTV UK. ...

Oct 20, 202144 min

Ep 134: Dan Attias Author of Directing Great Television: Inside TV’s New Golden Age

Biography for Dan Attias Author of Directing Great Television: Inside TV’s New Golden Age Dan Attias has worked as a director in the film and television industry since 1984. As a director of series television, he has received the Directors Guild of America award for outstanding direction of dramatic television for The Wire and has been nominated for episodes of The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Homeland, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. He has received Emmy Award nominations for his comedy direction o...

Oct 18, 20211 hr 28 min

Ep 133: Filmmaking in the age of COVID - Jeffrey Davis!

Jeffrey Delano Davis–Director Jeffrey spent his college years studying drama and literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, before marching forth to New York City with $70. After an extended couch surfing period,he settled into the East Village, managed a coffee shop, and performed in Shakespeare plays in a parking lot at night. Ironically, the coffee shop offered as much artistic insight as performing did. Conversations he had with artists, filmmakers, and actors shaped his underst...

Oct 10, 202136 min

Ep 132: A Filmmaking Community - CenterFrame

Links to CenterFrame W: https://centerframe.com/ Y: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyPIpHt7lcQbmHW9kNMCg2g/videos F: https://www.facebook.com/CenterFrameClub Like to have a ASC cinematographer as a mentor? Have you thought of upgrading your cinematography game? Would you like to have an ASC Cinematographer mentor you for free? Join veteran cinematographer Suki Medencevic, A.S.C. (Disney, Pixar, FX Networks, Netflix, American Horror Story). He teaches you how to create beautiful images using th...

Oct 01, 202152 min

Ep 131: Madison Hatfield - Abortion, Filmmaking and Acting!

Madison Hatfield is a writer, performer, and filmmaker born, raised, and based in Atlanta, GA. With her creative partner Jono Mitchell, she works to celebrate underrepresented perspectives with a focus on unexpected joy, as in Pageant Material (an official selection of the 2019 Atlanta Film Festival), the award-winning short Jenna Gets An Abortion, upcoming features Miles from Nowhere and Courtney Gets Possessed, and the short films Making a Scene, Thirty Candles, and Post-Citrus (all out in 202...

Sep 18, 202144 min

Ep 130: African American Cinema with The Micheaux Mission

Together, the Men of Micheaux hope to find the perfect wine to compliment Pam Grier's 'Coffy', the five movies since 1985 in which Samuel L. Jackson does not appear and someone who agrees with Len that The Last Dragon is a bad movie. “Media magic happened when the two men connected to create one podcast that reviews every Black film ever made.” — The Philadelphia Tribune “They’re funny and friendly and inclusive, and if you haven’t seen a lot of these films before, well all the better!” — Radio ...

Sep 05, 20211 hr 11 min

Ep 129: The importance of a good lookbook! With David Volino and Adam Lowder

Wayward Kin Lookbook https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NPShtA9m_LvXz_ZoImfVT3iGFeEQn5f3/view David Volino https://www.davidjosephvolino.com Adam Lowder https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4897241/ Like to have a ASC cinematographer as a mentor? Have you thought of upgrading your cinematography game? Would you like to have an ASC Cinematographer mentor you for free? Join veteran cinematographer Suki Medencevic, A.S.C. (Disney, Pixar, FX Networks, Netflix, American Horror Story). He teaches you how to crea...

Aug 28, 202135 min

Ep 128: David Volino and Adam Lowder, an Independent Family Drama

THE FILM: Facing an impossible court case, the volatile Caleb Dodgens must overcome the hatred he has for his lawyer, his estranged brother of the last twelve years, in order to win custody of his daughter. Adam Lowder will be directing the film as well as playing Joshua opposite his co-writer and producer David Volino who will play Caleb. Production is slated to shoot for 2-3 weeks in late August/early September of this year in Texas with a budget of $75,000. All donations received here will go...

Aug 16, 202142 min

Ep 127: Lucy King! Senior Video Journalist at The New York Times

Lucy King "I’m a film and video producer, with a focus on documentary and current affairs but with experience in commercial and narrative. I have produced films for the BBC, Vice, Discovery, Channel 4, ITV and A&E, ranging in length from 5 minutes to feature length. I’ve produced shoots with large crews internationally, including Malawi, Jamaica, Germany, Holland, Canada and many states of the US, building a good trusted global network of local producers and crew. I’ve often worked on sensit...

Jul 29, 202135 min

Ep 126: Why Networking Matters! Mark & Anna Casadei

Mark & Anna Casadei are filmmakers from Nashville, Tennessee. Together, they have written numerous award-winning screenplays and short films. They are currently contracted on two romantic comedies with MPCA and recently developed a thriller/horror project that is starring Malcolm McDowell. They are diverse in their writing styles, from sci-fi and comedies to women-in-peril thrillers to horror and family-friendly films. They draw from their diverse life backgrounds from the military, space pr...

Jul 20, 202140 min

Ep125: Hungarian Film and Theatre Artist Dora Endre

Dora is a New York based Hungarian film and theatre artist with an extensive educational background (media, international communications, filmmaking, acting, editing). For the past four years she was lucky enough to collaborate with other creatives on a number of short movies, commercials, music videos, musicals, dance and off-Broadway shows. She loves to wear many hats but primarily works as a director. She also loves guacamole. W: https://www.doraendre.com Like to have a ASC cinematographer as...

Jul 09, 202137 min

Ep 124: Talking Cinematography with STEPHEN SZMED

In his own words "I’m a cinematographer based in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up in Kansas, I picked up my family video camera at 13, started making films with his friends, then never really stopped. I aim to tell evocative stories and bring talented people from all walks of life to create thoughtful projects My cinematography reel featuring narrative, corporate, documentary, and commercial projects. Thank you to all the crew, producers, and clients that made these projects possible, let's make s...

Jun 26, 202141 min

Ep 123: "What I create is not who I am" Rease Cassity, ACTRESS, CREATOR, and EMPOWERER

Rease Cassity is a New York-based actor, filmmaker and writer who loves 90s R & B, hates that glitter isn’t a recognized color, and dreams of a day when being over a size four in Hollywood isn’t a capital offense. She grew up in Southeast Texas, studied the music industry in college, and was recruited by a major label marketing department to create grassroots campaigns for millennials. While working what for many was a dream job, she realized it wasn’t hers and committed to her dreams of act...

Jun 12, 20211 hr 11 min
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