Sunday, January 28, 2018
We have a special episode today, in which we begin by meeting and discussing filmmaking opportunities for women with Iyabo Boyd and Senain Kheshgi. We then moved on to discuss the film Last Race with director Michael Dweck. We finish by speaking with part of the hilarious and talented team behind the episodic Halfway There, including director Rick Rosenthal, writer Nick Morton, and actors Matthew Lillard and Sara Shahi.
Saturday, January 27, 2018
Ever needed funding for a project that you were super assionate about but didn’t know how to go about it? Well, on today’s episode we have Elise McCave from Kickstarter to discuss how to crowdfund for your passion projects and more. We also have the director of Kusama, Heather Lenz to speak about her film. We move on to discuss the film Game Changers with Louie Psihoyos, Joseph Pace, and James Wilks. We finish with the team behind Science Fair, Cristina Costantini, Darren Foster, Kashfia, Robbie, and Dr. McCalla.
Friday, January 26, 2018
Today’s episode will be covering the films Roll with Me, Zion, and Nancy as well as have a discussion with a few AAPI directors about their respective films. We begin by speaking with two diverse AAPI directors, Bing Liu and Cecilia Hsu. We then discuss Roll with Me with Lisa Frances, Jorja Fox, and Gabriel Cordell. Next, we speak with director of Zion, Floyd Russ, and one of the short film’s producers. We finish with director Christina Choe discusses her psychological drama called Nancy.
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Today we have Chloe Zhao, director of The Rider, on planning a film with budget restrictions. Co-directors of Genesis 2.0, Christian Frei and Maxim Arbugaev, talk about filming in the heart of Siberia. And we welcome female shorts directors, Anna Margaret Hollyman, of Maude, and Emily Anne Hoffman, of Nevada.
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Our Hot Topics Roundtable features Sean Means, longtime movie critic at the Salt Lake Tribune and Maria Smith, executive creative director of M&C Saatchi LA. We’re joined by Slamdance co-founder Dan Mirvish, also director of Slamdance closing-night film Bernard and Huey, from a long-neglected Jules Feiffer script. Director Charlie Bims and actress Julie Sokolowski joins us to talk about their Slamdance feature Human Affairs.
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Today’s episode starts with a hot-topics roundtable discussion with Joshua Rothkopf, Jim Brunzell And Andrew Fish. Our second panel covers Akicita: The Battle for Standing Rock, with documentarians Gingger Shankar and Cody Lucich, as well as a figure who was onsite at Standing Rock. We conclude with Quiet Heroes‘ Jared Ruga and Amanda Stoddard.
Monday, January 22, 2018
Episode 4 covers a variety of interesting and pertinent topics for any audience members invested in furthering their own film careers. We start off by speaking with Carrie Lozano and Simon Tilburry of the IDA, International Documentary Association. They mention that their organization has many grants and a membership that has helped many independent film makers over time. We then speak with the director of Fake Tattoos, Pascal Plante and end with the director and cast of Funny Story ft Michael Gallagher, Matthew Glave, Jana Wintimitz, Emily Bett Rickards.
Sunday, January 21, 2018
Day Three ranges across film genres and guests. We start off with the Russo brothers who are here at the Sundance film festival to receive the Founders Award from Slamdance, along with Peter Baxter from Slamdance. We move on to speak with Rainbow Experiment director Christina Kallas and Isaiah Blake, a part of the cast. Closing the podcast: the We the Animals feature team.
Saturday, January 20, 2018
Day 2 of Sundance 2018 is up and running, and filled to the brim with snow! Today’s episode starts with City Weekly’s Scott Renshaw, a juror for Slamdance film competitions. We also have Anote Tong and Matthieu Rytz of the film Anote’s Ark discussing the literal sinking of the island of Kiribati and raising awareness around climate change, and ends with a moving feature film White Rabbit with director Daryl Wein and cast Vivian Bang and Nana Ghana.
Friday, January 19, 2018
It’s officially Day One of Sundance 2018, and the first episode for The Daily Buzz is packed with amazing films. This episode begins with a heartwarming tribute to the late Irene Cho, the founder of Daily Buzz; moves on to a fascinating account of the lives and training of service dogs in Pick of the Litter, made by Dana Nachman and Don Hardy; and ends with a packed panel with Nick Offerman, Kersey Clemons and Brett Haley for Hearts Beat Loud.