Hollywood and West Napa on 91.3 FM
With your host Cat Smith, KSVY Sonoma
The countdown continues: 1 day As usual, I’ve got the inside scoop on some of my favorite films that you do not want to miss this year at the festival! Today, in another extended episode, I’ve got even more filmmaker interviews! This is the final show before the festival starts tomorrow. Who’s excited? To see the entire film festival schedule with the complete list […]
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A new online channel with streaming videos from DreamWorks popped up and we chatted with CMO, TJ Marchetti to find out what it’s all about! About DreamWorksTV: Your family’s destination for original live-action and laugh-out-loud funny animated short-form content on YouTube. Find out more on DreamWorksTV.com or go directly to YouTube and find their channel. Here is the interview followed […]
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One of the cutest shorts shown at SIFF 2014 was an animation called “Missing U.” We talked with creator Brooke Wagstaff about the short. About Missing U: Follow along with I as she journeys to discover her missing U! To find out more, visit Brooke’s website, and also check out Missing U on Facebook. Here is the interview followed by […]
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A fun, dark little short I found at the Vancouver International Film Festival was called “Foxed.” It is a stop animation film by James Stewart, who called the show to tell us all about it. (Thank you again Jason Ghiselin for sitting in for me.) About James Stewart: “Producer/Director James Stewart is one of a small group of directors worldwide […]
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Marvel storyboard artist and illustrator called in to talk about his new sketchbook, Comic Relief: the Art of Chris Copeland. About Chris Copeland: “Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Chris Copeland has spent the last four years as a storyboard artist on major animated TV series such as The Emmy award-winning program, Transformers: Prime, Ultimate Spiderman, Ben 10: Omniverse, and […]
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The first in a planned series, The Improbable Journey Of Berta Benz was an animated short at the Sonoma International Film Festival in 2013. We talked with creator, Deborah Hutchinson (writer/producer) about the film and how she chose the story. We also discussed her production company, Gutsy Gals Inspire Me. About the Improbable Journey of Berta Benz: “An animated short […]
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On Show 22 we had another animator, Ryan S Fix, with another successful Kickstarter. He was working on the pilot of an animated series called, “The Syndicate.” In the coming podcasts we have at least one of his voice actors chatting with us as well. The project is still pretty hush-hush, but here’s some info about the animated series, the Syndicate: “Follow […]
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One of our favorite interviews of all time was animator, Bill Plympton. He called in to talk about his feature length animated film, “Cheatin’.” He used Kickstarter to fund his project as it was very expensive to make and that’s with a very small crew. Plympton also draws every frame himself so it was quite time consuming as well. About […]
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We found Jose Acosta on Kickstarter trying to raise funds to make the pilot for an animated series called, Edgar Allen Poe’s Tales of Mystery. It has since grown into a mixture of that and mostly live action tellings of Poe’s stories. To follow what the show becomes, join them on their new Facebook page, Edgar Allen Poe’s Mystery Theatre. Below […]
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Our guest, filmmaker Brian Moore called in to talk about his Kickstarter campaign for “Monster Feast.” It was successful, by the way. You can also see other examples of his work at his website, Concepts of Motion. About Monster Feast: “An animated short about a boy overcoming his fear of monsters by holding an imaginary feast in their honor.” Original air […]
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