Tina Hsu and Casmir Jordan of Rogue Planet break down what it’s like working as POC women in the industry. Listen to them chat about rhythmic cutting styles, their breakthrough franchise finishes such as MORTAL KOMBAT and BUMBLEBEE, as well as a special conversation about unicorns . Featuring special guest Helen Ahn Cutler!
Tommy "Pitt" Malatesta, Editor/Producer at AV Squad, is doing some of the most ground-breaking work being done today. You'll notice he's very quick to talk about all the other incredibly creative people that are part of the collaborations that result in all of his work including the most renowned pieces he's known for such as The Witch trailer , Hereditary trailer and The Green Knight teaser among so many others....
Craig Murray started out writing copy for Disneyworld in the mid 70s before working for Disney's film studio as a writer in creative advertising. Then in 1986, Craig got an opportunity to work on trailers from concept to completion - thus the beginning of Craig Murray Productions, aka CMP, and later Mocean which has gone on to earn Entertainment Agency of the Year 3 times over.
Chad Misner, is well known and well loved as one of the most respected editors and creative directors of the entire trailer industry. Most recently Chad was the SVP of Creative Advertising at Focus Features and, prior to that was responsible for 2 of the greatest trailers of all time Little Children and The Social Network , among dozens, if not hundreds of other brilliant contributions. Some other favs: https://vimeo.com/82565290 https://vimeo.com/57498175 https://vimeo.com/57433705...
Mike Ferman, editor/producer from Buddha Jones is absolutely prolific conquering theatrical, broadcast and streaming, working on campaigns for major studios and mini-majors, for domestic and international, for action, drama, horror and even documentaries: We’re talking about A Good Day to Die Hard | The recent McCartney 3 piece | The Walking Dead | Fearless | Birds of Prey | Glass | Ready Player One | Baby Driver | Hobbs & Shaw and on and on. Along with our dynamic co-host, Helen Ahn Cutler,...
Aimee Pitta is an award-winning writer/producer and marketing exec who’s created successful campaigns for almost every major studio from the early days of New Line, with top agencies like Trailer Park, and as a consultant with Paramount, Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions. Aimee is also a published author (having just won TaleFlick’s writers award first place for The Theory of Invisibility) , the writer of a couple shows from Reel One Entertainment ( Love’s Second Chance just premiered on the W ...
Eugene Fillios is the founder and creative director of Creature Street, a trailer company that’s worked on campaigns such as Halloween , Candyman , Minions , The Hunt , The Invisible Man and many more . Something that’s also unique about Creature Street is that they’re based in Portland, Oregon. On this pod, we discuss everything from Eugene's days as a professional musician, starting over in the trailer industry and coming up the ranks before starting his own company. We also get pretty deep in...
Kevin Abernathy started out making, as he would say, “really bad YouTube videos” with his friends until one day he randomly followed his passion for “previews” and moved to L.A. to pursue his dream. Game Grumps brought him unexpected fame in the world of video games. But his heart has always been in trailers, aka coming attractions. On this episode, along with our dynamo co-host Helen Ahn Cutler, we explore Kevin’s journey thus far from rock star in the eyes of gamers everywhere to making his wa...
Many in our industry know Samantha Hart from her time as a Creative Executive at Gramercy, Searchlight and Universal where her creative marketing campaigns brought prominence and Academy Awards to films such as Fargo, Dead Man Walking and Boys Don't Cry while earning cult status for indie features Dazed and Confused, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Sam later transitioned to build Foundation Content a shop that uniquely did both creative production and post-producti...
For those who are blessed to call Helen Ahn Cutler friend, the four words that come to mind are heart, soul, mind and strength. Because Helen is all heart, all soul, all brilliance and so powerful in all the best ways. All the time! We discuss her work as an Editor and Creative Director at some great shops like Ant Farm, JAX and her stint at Paramount Vantage. But any introduction of Helen has to include her contribution to the people of this industry as a friend, a mentor, a champion of so many...
Co-host Brandi Seymour, 10 year entertainment advertising industry veteran, and Corey discuss some great pieces of work from the last several weeks. Lily Lasuzzo, SVP Global Creative Advertising at LionsGate, makes a special appearance to discuss the fabulous Barb & Star. Here's what's on the docket: Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar Teaser ; LionsGate, Trailer Park The United States Vs. Billie Holiday Poster ; Paramount, Hulu, BLT Cherry Trailer ; Apple TV+, Rogue Planet Boogie Poster ; F...
Dave Yocum and Kelly Yocum are both great trailer editors. And, yes, they're related - Dave is Kelly's dad. Dave is a legendary editor, producer, creative director at Create Advertising Group. He’s responsible for some of the most admired trailers of all time including the 300 Trailer and the Bohemian Rhapsody Teaser. He’s also known for creating most of the Harry Potter trailers as well as campaigns for films like Benjamin Button, the Matrix and A Beautiful Mind. Kelly Yocum is a rising star ed...
Tom Grane, Co-founder and CEO of Mob Scene, arguably the pre-eminent creative agency for strategic content, such as Behind-the-Scenes and what’s called “EPKs” Electronic Press Kits, in the entertainment industry. Mob Scene also has a widely respected trailer division along with social/digital, brand work and original productions. Tom shares his experience navigating family and the company through the many challenges of the last year. He also has great stories about the many huge films he's worke...
Today’s guest is the first of what we’ll be doing a lot more of in 2021: Bringing in folks who are in the trenches now. Louis Plamondon, Trailer Editor at Zealot, who some might know as “Sleepy Skunk,” is helping to shape the trailer industry of today. He’s perhaps best known for those incredible trailer mashups he’s been doing since 2010. But he’s also a pretty killer editor on major campaigns such as the redband teaser for Possessor he did with Zealot last year....
How may people on the planet can say they've been involved in 2,500 major motion picture campaigns? Tony Seiniger can! His work includes some of the most iconic movie posters of all time such as Jaws, Rocky Horror Picture Show, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 9 to 5, Breakfast Club, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Poltergeist, Moonstruck, Private Benjamin, Schindler's List and on and on. Joined for this wide ranging conversation by Dawn Baillie, one of Tony's many proteges, who's in the midst o...
Charlotte “Charlie” Honess, a groundbreaking trailer editor and producer who’s known for so many great pieces from the original The Fast and the Furious teaser to The Devil Wears Prada, from True Detective to The Glorias and so many more, has won multiple awards, leading the way and influencing so many other prominent women as well as everyone in the trailer industry. Plus, Charlie discusses the influence her father, renowned editor Peter Honess, has had on her craft....
Steve Panama was not only the CEO and Creative Director of Kaleidoscope, which established the standard for what a modern trailer shop could be before there really was such a thing as trailer companies; he is also the trailblazer who was the first in the industry to transition from film to non-linear computer editing systems, as well as the first to bring fiber into the process as a way for creative execs at the studios to collaborate in real time with their creative partners on the agency side....
Joel Wayne, long-time EVP of Crea Adv at Warner Bros and living legend in the trailer industry, started in the late 1950’s among the real-life Mad Men of Madison Ave. Joel came to Warner Bros in 1980 and spearheaded campaigns for Chariots of Fire, Road Warrior, The World According to Garp, Outsiders, Risky Business, The Color Purple, Beetlejuice, Driving Miss Daisy, Goodfellas, New Jack City, X, You’ve Got Mail, The Matrix and many others. Joined by special co-host Seth Gaven, Founder and Prez o...
Angel Mendoza, the Director of Music at AV Squad, is arguably the soul of some of the greatest collaborations in the history of the trailer business. Check out some great pieces such as the No Country for Old Men red band trailer, the 42 trailer with Brooklyn We Go Hard, all the Fast & Furious campaigns of recent years, or Creed, John Wick 3, The Witch, Hereditary, Climax and Free Guy and soak in how the music and sound help shape the whole experience....
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ini...
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 m...
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...
Jennie Wilkes - Director, Global Crea. Mktg. @ Netflix + part of the team named Ad Age’s Top Marketer of 2016, has worked on campaigns for Marvel properties Jessica Jones + Daredevil, with Shawn Levy on Stranger Things + I Am Not Ok With This, with Ryan Murphy on Hollywood + Politician + many more. *This was recorded in early May at the onset of Corona Virus but before the murder of George Floyd. So we wouldn’t want to communicate anything other than the utmost support for Black Lives Matter + t...
