In this episode Jesse Trussell reports from the Dallas International Film Fest, sitting down with Landon Zakheim (from the programming staff of Sundance, among other fests) to talk about his experiences “on the other side” of the festival fence as a filmmaker with a short in the Dallas fest.
Special update regarding the karaoke conversation: Later that evening Landon Zakheim was declared Dallas IFF Karaoke Champion for his rendition of Alanis Morrisette’s “You Oughta Know.”
In this episode Jesse Trussell and I are joined by filmmaker Mark Potts and a surprise guest or two while waiting to see MacGruber at SXSW 2010. This was a really fun episode to record. The background noise of the crowd and a few friends wandering by – one of whom stopped in to contribute substantially – really made it a great experience. We’re going to have to do this again. Listen now.
It’s time for another episode and an embarrassing faux pas: Jesse Trussell and I talk about the upcoming Austin madness that is South by Southwest. Also, I momentarily forget that the Dallas International Film Fest has outgrown its AFI affiliation. I’m sure they’ll forgive me eventually. Listen now.
It’s time for another episode: Jesse Trussell and I recap our visit to Park City for Sundance and Slamdance, and speak fondly of the Oxford Film Festival. Plus, South by Southwest is just around the corner.
Podcasting cohort Jesse Trussell and I sit down to chat about the start of the festival year, including the inevitable mention of Sundance and some discussion of the new Filmmaker Summit at Slamdance. Also: announcements from SXSW and the 2010 hiatus of the Hollywood Black Film Fest.
There are probably a few of you out there who noticed that I started a podcast for Film Festival Secrets late in 2008, only to ignore it for over a year. The reasons for this are many but rather than catalog them here let me simply announce the availability of episode number two. Former Austin Film Festival programmer Jesse Trussell and I sat down to record a quick episode about the things we think filmmakers (and festival staffers) should know. We’re going to try and do these regularly, and maybe get some additional people to sit down to talk shop with us as well.
Wherever this experiment takes us, I promise you three things about these podcast episodes:
Oh, and I mentioned in the podcast that I would post the links to our Twitter accounts – you can find Jesse as @jrtrussell and my personal Twitter account (as opposed to the official FFS account) is @stomptokyo.
Unveiled with very little fanfare, the first episode of the Film Festival Secrets podcast. In it I talk with Fred Andrews of the new Kansas City FilmFest, the joint creation of the festivals formerly known as KC FilmFest and KC Filmmakers Jubilee. You can listen to it on the web with this player:
You can subscribe to get future episodes with this URL:
(If you don’t know how to subscribe to a podcast in iTunes, you can follow these instructions.) I have submitted it to the iTunes store, hopefully you’ll be able to subscribe directly through iTunes soon.
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There are probably a few of you out there who noticed that I started a podcast for Film Festival Secrets late in 2008, only to ignore it for over a year. The reasons for this are many but rather than catalog them here let me simply announce the availability of episode number two. Former 