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Conversations on the craft of filmmaking

Megan has worked in the independent film community for over a decade. Megan received her MFA in Film Production from the Ohio University School of Film.

While in school Megan wrote and directed several award-winning student films including Not Waving but Drowning, a 2001 Student Academy Award nominee. 

Megan's first feature was First Aid for Choking, and Megan's second feature, The Off Hours, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

Megan was a co-producer on Lynn Shelton's film Your Sister's Sister and on the acclaimed Sundance documentary, Zoo.

Megan's third and most recent feature film that she has both written and directed, Eden, premiered at SXSW and has been lauded by critics and at other film festivals worldwide.  

Eden is about a young Korean-American girl, abducted and forced into prostitution by domestic human traffickers, who joins forces with her captors in a desperate plea to survive.

Megan has also directed the upcoming film, Lucky Them, starring Toni Collette, Thomas Haden Church, and Oliver Platt, about a rock journalist assigned to track down her ex-boyfriend.

Direct download: MeganGriffiths.mp3
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Andrea has lived in Cuba, New York, Buenos Aires and Chile editing films and has also taught cinema.

Andrea has worked on a variety of award winning features and shorts over the years. 

These films include: Soccer Stories, Loco Fever and Violeta Went to Heaven for director, Andres Wood, and also the documentary, My Life with Carlos.

Andrea has more recently worked as film editor on the Iranian drama, Circumstance, the Chilean drama Young and Wild, and the films: Tony Manero, Post Mortem, and No for director, Pablo Larrain.  

No was also nominated for an Oscar for best Foreign Language film.

Direct download: AndreaChignoli.mp3
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As bandleader of the jazz-based but far reaching Golden Arm Trio, Graham has repeatedly toured the country and released several critically acclaimed albums. 

As Co-Artistic Director of Golden Hornet Project, Graham has produced more than fifty concerts of world-premier alt-classical music by more than sixty composers, as well as five symphonies, two concertos and countless chamber pieces of his own. 

Graham's music has been heard throughout the world on TV, on stage, in films, and on radio.

Graham's score work includes: a variety documentary shorts and features like Shepard & Dark, independent narratives like I'll Come Running, and Richard Linklater's features: A Scanner Darkly, Bernie, and Before Midnight

Direct download: GrahamReynolds.mp3
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Since graduating North Carolina School of the Arts, Chad has pursued all aspects of film.

Chad was actor in the award winning feature Dance Party USA, he co-wrote an animated short nominated for the Student Academy Award, and he as behind-the-scenes videographer for David Arquette’s directorial debut, The Tripper, along with making short films, like Surprise.

Chad wrote and directed his first feature, Luke And Brie Are On A First Date which played at festivals across the globe including Hamptons International Film Festival and Mar Del Plata International Film Festival in Argentina.

Chad’s second feature, This Is Martin Bonner, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and has also toured extensivelyat other film festivals, is a warm and perceptive meditation on friendship, human connection and getting a second chance at life, shot on location in Reno, NV.

Direct download: ChadHartigan.mp3
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After Graduating from the Louis Lumière Cinematography School, Emmanuel started very quickly to work as a director of photography on shorts, feature films, and advertising.

Emmanuel is currently based in Paris, and shares his time shooting features and commercials.  Emmanuel usually works in Japan, Lebanon, Ukraine, France, UAE and Africa.

Emmanuel’s feature film work includes: The Old Dream That Moves, Farewell Homeland, Grande Ecole, and Melodrama Habibi

Emmanuel has worked films for director Lorraine Levy including: The First Time I Turned Twenty and The Other Son.

Direct download: EmmanuelSoyer.mp3
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Andrew is best known for working as a production designer internationally on the many feature films that he has made for over 25 years.

Andrew has worked on films such as Sid and Nancy for Alex Cox, Stormy Monday for Mike Figgis, The Piano for Jane Campion for which he won an AFI and BAFTA award, and Clockers for Spike Lee

Andrew's more recent production design work over the years includes: The Reckoning, Dean Spanley, An Education, Made in Dagenham, Love Birds, Quartet, and the upcoming Half A Yellow Sun.

Direct download: AndrewMcAlpine.mp3
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Ron works as an editor, which he has done professionally for over a decade, and has experience as a shooter, editor, producer, sound designer, and colorist.

Ron is New York based and has worked on everything from feature films and documentaries to commercials, television series, and music videos as well as short films and experimental art. Ron's documentaries include: Fade to Black, B.I.K.E., and Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful

Ron has edited feature films appearing in the Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca and Toronto film festivals, most notably Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond The Pines, directed by Derek Cianfrance

Direct download: RonPatane.mp3
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Leslie gained an Emmy nomination for the TV pilot to the David Lynch’s series' Twin Peaks and also worked on the films Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and Lost Highway.

Leslie’s other projects include: Shy People, The End of Violence, Hi-Lo Country, Forces of Nature, Big Bad Love, Stealing Harvard, and Our Very Own.

Leslie has also worked on other TV projects and series including: Everybody Hates Chris, Raines, Hawthorne, and Rizzoli & Isles.

More recently, Leslie has worked as set decorator on the feature films, Killing Them Softly and Stoker.

Direct download: LeslieMorales.mp3
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Beth gained a BAFTA nomination for her work on An Englishman in New York starring John Hurt.  Beth designed It’s Kind of a Funny Story starring Zach Galifianakis and the box office hit Drive, starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan, that premiered in competition at Cannes.

Named as one of the Hollywood Reporter's "Production Designers To Watch," Beth has worked on a number of award-winning films including: Half Nelson, which won the Best Film prize at the Gotham Awards and Cold Souls, starring Paul Giamatti, David Strathairn, and Emily Watson, which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance

Beth’s other projects include: Madness and Genius and Sugar which was also nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, along with Night Catches Us, The Son of No One, and Arbitrage.  

Beth’s upcoming films include: 2 Guns, Thanks for Sharing, Only God Forgives, and How To Catch A Monster.

Direct download: BethMickle.mp3
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Pierre is a Canadian cinematographer who has won and been nominated for multiple awards for his work, including Genie and Jutra Awards

Pierre has worked on such films as: EldoradoLost and DeliriousThe Art of WarThe Covenant, The Rocket, and Polytechnique.

Pierre has also directed the television series Charlie Jade and TV movie The Last Casino.

Pierre has more recently worked on the comedy Starbuck, and the science fiction films, Upside Down, and The Colony.

Direct download: PierreGill.mp3
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