Guest host Jamie H. Jung and actor and filmmaker Bree Klauser discuss disability empowerment in the film industry

Ross Kagan Marks is an award-winning director best known for directing WALKING WITH HERB, THE TWILIGHT OF THE GOLDS and HOMAGE. His other credits include THE HEART OUTRIGHT, FOWL, TARRANT COUNTY, SHOWDOWN ON RIO ROAD, FLUFF and PRINCESS, which was on the short list for the Academy Award live-action shorts. His films have won awards at the Sundance Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Cleveland International Film festival and festivals throughout the world. He is a graduate of the American Film Institute and a member of the Writers Guild. The Executive Director and founder of the Las International Film Festival, Ross teaches at New Mexico State University.

In this episode, host Genevieve Trainor is speaking with Kyiv-based producer and cinematographer Andrii Kotliar, a member of one of Ukraine’s biggest production companies, Babylon’13. Andrii and Babylon’13 produced recent genre-bending documentary Iron Butterflies, which premiered at Sundance 2023 and examines Russia’s 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Eastern Ukraine. The flight killed all 298 people on board, and Russia was never officially held accountable. We’re discussing the importance of film in fighting propaganda. Watch full Babylon’13 films, including some with English subtitles, on their YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrJIIeADD45RsffK2yYgmSw Learn about Babylon’13: https://babylon13.org.ua/?lang=en

Tony Doupé is a SAG-AFTRA actor and producer with an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. A successful actor for over 34 years in LA, New Orleans, and Seattle, he has been teaching and coaching actors for 25 years, both privately and at the college level. He currently serves as the Film/Theatre Department Chair, at Shoreline Community College.

Lisa Zambetti is a casting director, known for the long-running crime drama series Criminal Minds as well as independent films and video game casting.

In this episode, host Genevieve Trainor is speaking with film and television writer and director Megan Griffiths, whose recent television work includes serving as producing director for S2 of Amazon’s The Summer I Turned Pretty. Megan's giving her advice on building a successful career for others who, like her, live in markets outside L.A.

In 2016, as a relatively unknown electro-pop artist (MEMORYY), Shaun was selected to score the theme song for Netflix's first-ever streaming nightly talk show, Chelsea Handler’s Chelsea, beating out A-listers and Grammy winners for the job.He then exploded into the film and television music scene and launched Neon Moon Studios (neonmoonstudios.com). He quickly started working with a roster of clients like Amazon, YouTube, Revlon, MTV, Pfizer, Gatorade and The Hallmark Channel. Recently, he started scoring feature films.

Filmmakers at War: A Rising Fury Director and Producer Lesya Kalynska and Producer TJ Collins

Director, Actor and Writer Andy Kastelic on His Latest Film, The Countryman, and the Importance of Small Things