Reel Talk Arkansas: Recent Episodes
Arkansas Cinema Society
Reel Talk Arkansas, a podcast from the Arkansas Cinema Society, features filmmakers and creatives from around the state discussing craft, resources, events, and the state of the arts and film production in Arkansas.
ELDOFILMFEST.COM
IG: @eldoradofilmfest
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Rudy Jones IMDB page
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CorbinPitts.com
Good Time Charley Trailer
Reel Talk Arkansas is a production of the Arkansas Cinema Society + Little Rock Public Radio. Theme music by Princeaus. Follow ACS on Instagram, Facebook or our website.
Why Film Scores Matter enrollment page
Dustin Yoder on IMDB
Dustin Yoder on Instagram
Article on Dustin from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Reel Talk Arkansas is a production of the Arkansas Cinema Society + Little Rock Public Radio. Theme music by Princeaus. Follow ACS on Instagram, Facebook or our website.
ABIGAIL BEFORE BEATRICE trailer
Cassie Keet on Instagram: @kissmycassiek
Reel Talk Arkansas is a production of the Arkansas Cinema Society + Little Rock Public Radio. Theme music by Princeaus. Follow ACS on Instagram, Facebook or our website.
WestofGreatness.com
West of Greatness Trailer
West of Greatness YouTube Channel
Jared's links:
IG / @is_somethinghuman
somethinghuman.co
Mathew's links:
MathewMozzoni.com
@mathewmozzonimusic
Reel Talk Arkansas is a production of the Arkansas Cinema Society + Little Rock Public Radio. Theme music by Princeaus. Follow ACS on Instagram, Facebook or our website.
Southern Fried Lies preview
Small Isles music video
The Grotto trailer
Reel Talk Arkansas is a production of the Arkansas Cinema Society + Little Rock Public Radio. Theme music by Princeaus. Follow ACS on Instagram, Facebook or our website.
Synopsis: An aspiring musician coping with the death of his best friend finds purpose when a disgraced record label executive unexpectedly visits his hometown.
Shakey Grounds trailer
IMDB page
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In this episode, long-time producer MaryIlene Blondell discusses her first time in the director's chair and her experience making the documentary RISE ABOVE: THE CARL JACKSON STORY. Reel Talk Arkansas is a production of the Arkansas Cinema Society +Little Rock Public Radio. Theme music by Princeaus. Follow ACS onInstagram, Facebook or our website.
Raeden Greer IMDB
ACS Night School
Reel Talk Arkansas is a production of the Arkansas Cinema Society + Little Rock Public Radio. Theme music by Princeaus. Follow ACS on Instagram, Facebook or our website.
"Show Pub Queen" trailer
Ren Tsukamoto IG: @i_am_just_ren / YT: @uzupictures9959
Javion Lee IG: @roccstarjayy_
Nikolett Kovács IG: @nikolett.photography / @nikikovax
Reel Talk Arkansas is a production of the Arkansas Cinema Society + Little Rock Public Radio. Theme music by Princeaus. Follow ACS on Instagram, Facebook or our website.
Instagram: @lisamariefilm
Reel Talk Arkansas is a production of the Arkansas Cinema Society + Little Rock Public Radio. Theme music by Princeaus. Follow ACS on Instagram, Facebook or our website.
Watch CRIES FROM THE COTTON FIELD on Tubi
Larry Foley's website
Larry Foley's filmography
Reel Talk Arkansas is a production of the Arkansas Cinema Society + Little Rock Public Radio. Theme music by Princeaus. Follow ACS on Instagram, Facebook or our website.
Instagram: @leapingdogfilms
Reel Talk Arkansas is a production of the Arkansas Cinema Society + Little Rock Public Radio. Theme music by Princeaus. Follow ACS on Instagram, Facebook or our website.
Road Trip to Totality landing page
Burnt Sugar Productions (Emily Railsback)
TaraSheffer.com
BrooksTipton.com
Papaw Land trailer
Merry Good Enough Trailer
Brooks Tipton Instagram: @boarhoof
Instagram: @latebloomersmovie
Email: teamlatebloomers@gmail.com
About Spade Robinson
Spade Robinson is an award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter and actress with experience that spans feature film, documentary, television, commercial and stage. Spade is a master's alumnus of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where she emphasized writing and directing, completing her MFA in Film and Television Production. Since then, she's been commissioned to direct and produce commercial content for clients ranging from Time Warner and Sundance Institute to Peculiar People and Finding Charlie. Her original works include award winning films such as Seen Also In Men, The Wedding and The Love Life of A Black Girl as well as a host of feature screenplays and television pilots. After a host of award-winning shorts, Spade is mounting her first feature, Late Bloomers.
Sahlah Tepes is an SFX artist, located in Northwest Arkansas. A lifelong curiosity about how movie monsters are made and working in a haunted house in 2014 were the spark that ignited the flame. A forever-student with the Stan Winston School of Character Arts, Sahlah has been making costumes and creatures for both individuals, as well as movies which include Voorhees: Night of the Beast, Voorhees: After the Beast, Rotten and Inthralled. Sahlah has her personal company, Spellbinding FX and is half of another company with her partner, Paris Richardson, Cryptic Sisters FX, also based in NWA.
Instagram:
Spellbinding FX
Cryptic Sisters FX
Movies:
Voorhees, Night of the Beast
Voorhees, After the Beast
Stan Winston School of Character Arts
"New West" Trailer
"New West" Instagram
Tickets for Aug. 25, 2022, Arkansas Filmmaker Spotlight Premiere
Tickets to the screening of "54 Years Late" on Aug. 20, 2022 at CALS Ron Robinson Theater
Make a donation to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
"54 Years Late" website
LINKS:
www.vidbee.org
www.bierhauscreative.com
www.theconnectedcup.com
https://www.instagram.com/itsbrookebierhaus/
BIO:
Brooke Bierhaus is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, photographer, and visual storyteller. Creator of the feature length documentary, The Connected Cup, Brooke specializes in narrative driven storytelling with an immersive approach. The Connected Cup follows the global language of coffee and tea as a universal means of human connection, and how clean water plays a vital role in this fabric of the human experience. Filmed across 9 countries and in 9 languages to further the idea of a universal language.
Brooke is a published National Geographic TopShot Photographer, and works on stories that bridge Anthropology and Journalism through effective visual storytelling. From summiting Mount Kilimanjaro to reporting in a conflict zone on the outer border of Syria, Brooke handles stressful situations with care and purpose.
Brooke was awarded a Women In Film & Television grant in 2019 to finish her short documentary "Women of the West Bank". She filmed and edited the short documentaries, "Regeneration of land and Culture", "Il Mundo in una Tazza", "The World in a Cup", "Boda Boda: Illegal Transportation of Bushmeat and Ivory in the Western Corridor of the Serengeti", and more. Her work has appeared in Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, NBC Sports, PBS, Vox Media, ABC Australia, NBC, FOX, and international film festivals. Brooke is a current board member of Women in Film Arkansas. Brooke is a recipient of Doc Society and Exposure Lab’s Climate Story Lab - South 2021 social impact production cohort for her current documentary with Quapaw Nation: “Regeneration of Land and Culture”.
Brooke is driven by creating work that makes people feel seen, heard, and valued. A graduate of the University of Iowa School of Journalism and currently finishing her Masters in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Arkansas. Brooke is certified in Hostile Environment First Aid through the Global Journalist Security 2019.
Bentonville Film Festival Website
Mixtape Trilogy
Cat Daddies
Cherokee Film Office Mixer
Art & Krimes by Krimes
Deconstructing Karen
Cinema Talks with Sony: Where the Crawdad's Sing
BIO:
Ashlie Atkinson is an award-winning theatre, film, and television actress. A 2003 graduate of the Neightborhood Playhouse, in 2005 she received the Theatre World Award for Breakthrough Performance for originating the role of Helen in Neil Labute's "Fat Pig"(opposite Jeremy Piven) - which also garnered her Outer Critics' Circle and Lucille Lortel nominations. She has graced screens both big and small in Denis Leary's critically-acclaimed Rescue Me, 3lbs, Spike Lee's Inside Man, Another Gay Movie, Sex and The City Movie, Margot at The Wedding, Law & Order, Law &Order: Criminal Intent, Puccini for Beginners, and Filthy Gorgeous. MTV fans may recognize Ashlie as her hip-hop alter ego, "Chunky Pam", a plus-size rap diva - and YouTube viral phenomenon. After appearing opposite Debra Jo Rupp in SecondStage's "Butcher of Baraboo", she returned to Broadway in 2007 to play Vivian Proclo in Terrence McNally's The Ritz (starring Rosie Perez). Ashlie is a proud member of both the Bridge Theatre Commpany and Gotham Girls Roller Derby (where she skates under the name Margaret Thrasher, Prime Minister of Your Demise). Ashlie toured the world in Sam Mendes' The Bridge Project and continues to work in film opposite actors such as Jessica Alba, Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Ricky Gervais and Julia Roberts.
SOCIAL MEDIA:
TW: @ashlieatkinson
IG: @ashlie_atkinson
SummerHousePictures.com
IG / @lazrael_lison
BIO:
Having produced and directed five successful feature film projects, a 15-episode comedy series, documentaries, commercials, music videos and a host of other film-related media, LazRael Lison leads the paramount team of imaginative and business savvy film professionals that make up Summer House Pictures.
A Little Rock native, LazRael began writing and directing plays and short films in junior high school, demonstrating an early aptitude for success in the genre that has formed the foundation for his life-long career in film. After attending the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, he eventually relocated to Los Angeles where he has built his independent media support company in the heart of the entertainment industry. He came out of the gate running, starting his company at age 21 where he began financing, writing and directing a wide range of film-based projects that gained creative notoriety.
Since founding Summer House Pictures, LazRael and partner Tatiana Chekhova-Lison have expanded the reach of the company to include production of major motion picture projects, promotional media, brand enhancement and value-based marketing both globally and domestically. His passions for creating, writing, directing and managing exceptional film projects have established him as an emerging creative leader in the independent film industry.
Watch the trailer for Take Shelter
Film School Rejects interview with Jeff Nichols
EMPIRE Magazine interview with Michael Shannon about Take Shelter
Jessica Chastain talks Take Shelter
Randy Wilburn:
https://iamnorthwestarkansas.com
Lauren McCullough:
IG - @itslaurenmccullough
IG - @mcculloughexpressions
Cade Bethea:
IG - @wcadebethea
TT - @cadebethea
SeJames Humphrey
Into the Sunset Productions
IMDB
R.J. Daniel Hanna
Twitter
Instagram
Website
Fayetteville Film Fest:
Website
Facebook
Instagram
Reed C. Carson:
Website
Instagram
Venmo
Drive-in Speaker Box:
Facebook
Apple Podcasts
YouTube
Instagram
Spotify
Pinpoint:
Website
Facebook
Instagram
Echo Boomers:
Trailer
IMDB.com
Wikipedia
Drunk Bus:
Trailer
IMDB.com
Wikipedia
For more information and the full schedule visit: www.hsdfi.org.
Instagram: @hsdff
Facebook.com/HSDFI
Damen Tolbert:
IG - @damentional
Bryan and Bernice Hembree:
smokeyandthemirror.com / fayettevilleroots.org /
IG - @smokeyandthemirror / IG - @fayettevilleroots
Kyle Kellams:
ozarksatlarge.com / kuaf.org / IG - @ozarksatlarge / IG - @kuaf_radio
FORT SMITH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL:
FortSmithFilm.com
IG / @fortsmithinternationalfilmfest
BRAD NEELY:
CreasedComics.com
IG / @bradneely
TW / @bradneely
YouTube / TheRealBradNeely
In this episode, our Executive Director Kathyrn Tucker chats with Bentonville Film Festival Director and BFF Foundation President Wendy Guerrero and BFF Head of Content and producer Kristin Mann about what to expect at the 2021 Bentonville Film Festival. The Festival runs August 2nd through 8th, with both virtual events and safe in-person events at venues across Northwest Arkansas. Keep up with the Festival on IG @BFFFestival and visit their website to get tickets!
Reel Talk Arkansas is a production of the Arkansas Cinema Society. It's produced by Christian Leus and Kody Ford.
COVID-19 shut down the world and the performing arts got hit hard. But with quarantine comes ingenuity. TheatreSquared adapted to the new normal by hiring their own film crew to take their productions online. Bob Ford and Joannah Sheehan Bell tell us how they did it and what role that will play in the coming season now that their doors are open again. Then, Kody is joined by Zane Placke who got his start catering when True Detective filmed its third season in Northwest Arkansas.
Reel Talk Arkansas is a production of the Arkansas Cinema Society. It's produced by Christian Leus and Kody Ford.
Kody sits down with a panel of producers to talk about their experiences in the industry. Amber Lindley is an independent screenwriter and producer, and the co-founder of Northwest Arkansas’s Chasing Sunsets Productions. B.D. Gunnell, originally from Louisville, Kentucky, is a line producer whose credits include Mob Town, The Watermark, and more. Kathryn Tucker, in addition to being Executive Director of ACS, is a Directors Guild-trained producer and director.
Reel Talk Arkansas is a production of the Arkansas Cinema Society. It's produced by Christian Leus and Kody Ford.
Surprise! We’re happy to present a bonus episode of Reel Talk! Kody chats with the team behind “Blood on the Risers,” a new short film from Rockhill Studios. Writer/director Caleb Fanning and Rockhill producers Blake Elder and Dan Robinson talk creative process, running a production studio in Arkansas, and making movies safely during a pandemic. Then, Kody’s joined by Dwight Chalmers, Arkansas film’s go-to sound guru and sound designer and mixer at Prisma.
Reel Talk Arkansas is a production of the Arkansas Cinema Society. It's produced by Christian Leus and Kody Ford.
The Oscars are finally here! In this episode, Kody sits down with Arkansas Democrat-Gazette film columnist Philip Martin, Drive-In Speaker Box's Bo Counts, and Niketa Reed of Arkansas Soul to talk predictions, snubs, and Hollywood in the COVID era.
Reel Talk Arkansas is a production of the Arkansas Cinema Society. It's produced by Christian Leus and Kody Ford.
In our first panel discussion, we spoke with three creatives—textile artist and writer Crystal C. Mercer, artist Kat Wilson, and author Elle Nash—about their output during quarantine over the last year and how it helped them cope. You can follow Crystal on Instagram @ccmercertoo or @mercertextilemercantile, and her new book, From Cotton to Silk: The Magic of Black Hair, is available for preorder now. Follow Kat on Instagram @katwilsonartist to keep up with her #quarantinehabitat project. Elle can be found on Twitter + Instagram @saderotica, and her new short story collection, Nudes, is set to debut later this year.
Then, we chat with Amber Lindley and Zak Heald about how they managed to safely produce films at Farm Studios (@farmstudiosnwa on IG) during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Welcome to Reel Talk Arkansas! We're kicking off this new podcast from Arkansas Cinema Society with Mario Troncoso, Director of Film and Media Ecosystems at CACHE in Northwest Arkansas. Mario is the co-producer of OZCast, an experimental variety show that's showcasing and supporting artists in the region. He joins our host, ACS Director of Outreach and Educational Programming Kody Ford, to discuss the genesis of the show and the pivotal role it has played in the lives of local creatives during the pandemic.
Catch up on OZCast's first season on their website, OZCast.art. For more information about CACHE, visit CACHEcreate.org.
Reel Talk Arkansas is presented by the Arkansas Cinema Society and produced by Christian Leus and Kody Ford, with theme music is by Amos Cochran. To find out more about ACS's programming, visit arkansascinemasociety.org.