Girls on Film Podcast: Recent Episodes
Sarah K. Smith
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We talk about the Hollywood Down South!! From our hotbed home in Atlanta, GA - GOF explores folks in TV - Movies - Music - and more.....take THAT LA!!
This title, from director Diane Foster and writer Allison Lobel, is the latest narrative that takes a family theme and perverts it into something absolutely horrific. In this case, a small town is rocked by sudden disappearances and animal attacks, and it’s going mostly unknown until a wiry middle-aged woman goes on a quest to find her missing husband. Soon, she discovers that 150 years ago the town was besieged by jackalopes – a mythical creature home to North America that’s a dangerous cross between rabbit and deer. Are the jackalopes planning another onslaught to mark the occasion? Watch and find out!
Filmaker - Cara Consilvio takes her filmmaker lens to the incredible journey of playwright and gay/HIV activist Brent Nicholson Earle. With her incredible storytelling ability - Consilvio walks the viewer through her documentary with passion, love and empathy. Listen up! Girls on Film talks with documentary film director - #cara#Consilvio
Time Warners' top dog in negotiations for affiliate relations - Coleman Breland - sits with Best Bud and Olympic Gold Medalist - Norman Bellingham - and talks todays' broadcast landscape - and the future of media - its BIG!!!!!
Listen up! Queen of Atlanta's entertainment Scene - LaRonda Sutton! From working with LA Reid - to setting up the city 1st office of entertainment - LaRonda Sutton has a legacy that cannot be matched! Here some of her incredible stories here - on the Girls on Film Podcast!
On this episode of Girls on Film – Host Sarah Smith welcomes guest host Stacey Reece. Stacey is a real southern girl who “gets” the south AND the entertainment business. Together – Sarah and Stacey welcome Performance enthusiast – Shellie Schmals…. Atlantan Shellie Schmals is a performance enthusiast who’s made it her mission to inspire, inform, and elevate “age acceptance.” Schmals uses social media to promote burlesque experiences, dancers, circus acts, comedians, and artists and has created an online space for people over 40 to express themselves sensually and showcase their talent and flair. Check out Shellie on Instagram at #Older and Bolder
Listen up as the GIRLS talk with Atlanta based PR Mogul - and movie Savant - Stephen Brown!! Listen up as Brown talks about the Fall Season 2021!!! Hear about all of the latest shows and actors to watch for!
LIsten up - Sarah and Teresa have been watching EVERYTHING under the sun - lets hear what they're watching and WANT to watch!! And don't forget the new Helen Reddy movie coming out soon!
Kenny Blank - Director of the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival - talk COVID and moving the AJFF to the world of DIGITAL!!! This gives the independent Jewish filmmaker a great platform for continued exposure to delighted audiences! Lets go to the AJFF with Kenny Blank!!
Listen up to the GIRLS as they welcome Jessica Merriman and her Chihuahua to the Podcast!!! Jessica founded MOMOCON - one of the worlds largest digital entertainment conferences in Atlanta, GA!!
On this podcast the Girls go BACK to Buffalo to talk with Wild Knights lead guitarists - Ken Doyno and Mike Bellman. Loaded with original recording supplied from the Doyno library - This podcast takes a deep dive into the bands frontmen, their backgrounds, and their memories.
Navid Negahban is a prolific actor! He has appeared in The Shield, The West Wing, Lost, and CSI: Miami.[4] He has collaborated twice with Iranian-American actress Necar Zadegan, once in 24, where her on-screen husband ordered his interrogation and the torturing of his family, and also in CSI: Miami, where, as his wife, she killed him.[5]
Negahban also had two collaborations with another Iranian-American actress Mozhan Marnò in the TV series The Unit[6] and the movie The Stoning of Soraya M., where he plays the husband of Soraya (Marnò). In 2008, Negahban voiced and provided his likeness to the character Dr. Challus Mercer in the survival horror game Dead Space.[4] Negahban also appeared as the main antagonist in the critically acclaimed TV series Homeland.[1] In 2011 he won the Best Actor Award for the 2009 Iranian short film, Liberation at the Noor Iranian Film Festival, and in 2012, he returned to serve as an official festival judge.
In February 2015, The Hollywood Reporter and Variety confirmed that Negahban had begun shooting the spy thriller, Damascus Cover, based on the novel by Howard Kaplan, alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Olivia Thirlby and John Hurt. Negahban played the role of Syrian General Sarraj. Negahban appeared as General Abdul Rashid Dostum in the 2018 war drama, 12 Strong, and also starred as the Sultan in the 2019 live-action adaptation of Aladdin.
A fun conversation with The WIld Knights team of double drummers - DJ Bonin - and Corey Kertzie - listen up for a blast from the past - Buffalo NY - Broadway Joes, Partners, Williamsville South - Give this a listen it will be fun!
Listen up as The Girls talk with THE GOOD DOCTORS Assistant Editor - Craig Tollis! Its a great peek behind the curtain of one of ABC's top shows! Also - Listeners get a sneak peek into a new entertainment podcast - TRUTH VS HOLLYWOOD! It's an episode inside an episode - LUV IT! and Girls on Film is thrilled to introduce a new podcast for movie lovers.....
Listen up as the Girls go to London to talk with Nigerian film producer - Rhoda Wilson - and dive into the digital world of coffee house song with Distance Fest on Facebook!
A reunion 25 years in the making! Girls on Film founder - Sarah Krimski Smith meets up with 2 former band members - Dave Ruch of DaveRuchmusic and Rocket Scientist - Joe Bellanti - for a cool rehash of The Wild Knights reunion show - November 2019! Love it - and love the new band - #organfairchild
Sarah-Teresa & Stacy (Shuker!) talk reinvention in the time of Corona! And our LOVE Of OUTLANDER!! AND all scottish men with red hair! Bless them.
Ryan Millsap joins the GIRLS ON FILM to talk about the life of a studio chief in the time of CORONA! He's quarantined - but still working! Listen up - Ryan Millsap is in the house!
Stuck at home with a mask on and gloves at the ready?? pressing your face against the window wishing you were at the Mall? Well -stop it!! Go sit your butt down during this Corona Virus PAUSE and check out some streaming ideas from your favorite girls! Sarah & Teresa - and honorary girl - Port Wilson.
Ivy Meeropol - grand daughter of Julias and Ethel Rosenberg - brings to the surface an important historical figure in the realm of '50s communist persecution: Roy Cohn. Mentor to Donald Trump, Cohn's story is a fascinating journey through a tragic life.
Ivy Meeropol - grand daughter of Julias and Ethel Rosenberg - brings to the surface an important historical figure in the realm of '50s communist persecution: Roy Cohn. Mentor to Donald Trump, Cohn's story is a fascinating journey through a tragic life.
The North American Law Summit is an amazing event to meet the US's top lawyers in sport-entertainment-and music!! Dig it! Listen up girls - with Latonia Hines And Nequosha Anderson!
Listen up as Girls on Film goes BACK to Cancun and hears some serious talk about musicians and their intellectual property rights! Stay with us as we continue with brilliant Kentucky Senator - Reginald Thomas!! Rock on!!!!.....
The North American Law Summit in Cancun, Mexico - with Rockstar lawyers - Darry Cohen and Co-Chair - Scott Keniley! Listen up - as Girls on Film gets to the HEART of these tough guys and discovers what it takes to be a lawyer at the heart of the entertainment BIZ!
From the representation of high net worth individuals in business disputes and divorces to the representation of multi-millionaire athletes and entertainers, Alan utilizes his charismatic personality and aggressive litigation skills to zealously represent his clients. In his over 30 years of experience, Alan has developed a diverse practice catering to the varied needs of his clients. Alan focuses his practice in the areas of civil litigation, commercial law, family law, sports and entertainment law and international law.
Join GOF for this fascinating interview with BMI Executive - Charlie Feldman. Listen up as Feldman walks fans through his incredible, historical career working with some of the worlds most amazing music legends!!!
Back in Cancun, Mexico - Sarah Smith has a blast talking with folks at the North American Entertainment Law Summit!
Listen up - to celebrity Makeup Artist Sandye Lomax - with clients like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce on the list - list lady knows how it's done!! Meet Sandye Lomax - Atlanta's BEST makeup expert!
Vela has an extensive, worldwide management background in online travel and eCommerce business development, product marketing and sales. As Vice President of eCommerce Vela was one of the creators of Worldspan’s eCommerce business unit. Vela was instrumental in negotiating agreements with Expedia, Orbitz and Priceline which grew Worldspan into the largest market share holder in online travel distribution
Randy Kessler is one of the Nations TOP Divorce and Sports Entertainment Lawyers! You've seen him on CNN - Headline News and more - He's the REAL PRO!
Listen up GIRLS as we hit the town with Atlanta's #1 place for Film and TV Production equipment supply! These guys know their stuff! Mark Wofford talks about the amazing expertise of PC&E!
Listen up as the GIRLS ON FILM PODCAST goes into Newnan, GA - and meets with the amazing folks that run the Central Education Center! Hi-tech training for young folks who want to work in "the biz" is all they do! Featuring top faculty who come from the industry - the CEC is hot stuff!
Listen up Ladies! The Girls have a summer binge-fest with Atlanta TV personalities - Evelyn Mims and Donna Lowry. It's a blast on top of The Lilli Midtown luxury Apartment Pool top Penthouse!
Andrew Goldman is an accomplished and creative leader with industry-wide relationships and is highly respected for his ability to collaborate and negotiate. Andy’s expertise is in developing and launching new linear and digital initiatives, strategy, acquisitions, multi-platform scheduling, and channel development/conversion that target both broad and specific demographics.
Andy is currently the VP of Programming at Fathom Events, an entertainment content provider that broadcasts entertainment events in movie theaters throughout the US including film, television, theatre, Metropolitan Opera Live in HD, the performing arts, major sporting events, and music concerts. Goldberg oversees acquisitions of high-value content with broad audience appeal.
Rodney Ho of the Atlanta Journal Constitution is THE Atlanta voice on the entertainment biz and all its goings-on! Check him out online - and follow Rodney on Social Media.
The GIRLS go to The Arue Brothers Studios with the Georgia Production Partnership in support of the State's Entertainment Tax Incentive!
Ryan Millsap - Blackhall Studios
Girls on Film is pleased to host Mr. Ryan Millsap – CEO of Blackhall Studios in Atlanta, GA.
A visionary, Millsap weaves a story for GIRLS ON FILM of his professional journey - both as a financier and entrepreneur.
Showing a diligence for smart investing from a very young age, Millsap shares how his penchant for entrepreneurial real estate ventures moved him through initial forays in recycling and sustainability and to movie studio mogul. Listen up as Blackhall Studios Ryan Millsap tells the GIRLS how BLACKHALL studios came to be…..
Listen up folks - as Girls on film comes to you from KAROO glasses at Ponce City Market! We talk with Kennedy Brammer of Kaelin Marketing - while we meet Atlanta native and hometown girl – BJ Arnett. Former NBC 11-Alive news anchor and entertainment/lifestyle reporter, Mrs.BJ Arnett is no stranger to the film and entertainment industry. As host and associate producer of Employment Line and Primetime for Georgia Public Television, Arnett can boast of regular appearances on TV69, (now CW) with Community, Beat of the City and Soul of Atlanta - - Check out IMDB for Arnets’ impressive portfolio of film appearances – and impressive co-hosts too! An investigative reporter and producer, you can catch Arnett on one of her current talk shows - BJA Today produced by Camy Arnett Production Studios and This Day with BJ Arnett.
Listen up as the girls wrap their interviews at the Women in Production Summit!
Listen to the vision of how public broadcasting blossomed and grew for the State of Georgia with Teya Ryan - CEO of Georgia Public Broadcasting - - and learn how SOME girls can blow things up just as good as the boys can, with on-set explosives expert - Kathy Tonkin-Vasquez. And taking over the Director’s Chair – Maya Table created her own company – The Cut Life – after taking her Instagram into the stratosphere with 1.4 Million followers – Table is a digital media expert with her OWN stories of the rich and famous – including producing a behind the scenes take on the incomparable - Janelle Monet.
Now - Let’s get down with the Girls at the 4th Annual Women in Production Summit!
Listen up Girls!! We are back at the Women in Production Summit in Atlanta, GA! With Saptosa Foster - Chaun Pinkston - and Lynn Hyldon! Movies movies movies!!!
Girls on Film Podcast talks about the SUMMER BINGE! We love TV and we know what to watch!
Listen up folks as the ladies continue their amazing meets and greets at the 4th Annual Women in Production Summit at Georgia Public Broadcasting Headquarters in Atlanta, GA
Joining the girls are 2 serious HOLLYWOOD crowd execs - - - President of Areu Brothers Studios – Kim Leadford - as well as Kim’s right-hand woman – or self-proclaimed Shadow – Kate Nayberg. An interview not to be missed – Leadford and Nayberg are setting the stage for Atlanta’s latest international movie production studio.
Entertainment Lawyer & Professor Mo Ivory talks about Georgia's "Heartbeat Bill" and the delicate intersection of entertainment revenue, culture and the the rights of women!
Listen up with the Girls as the interview Brad Siegel - media exec extraordinaire - from TNT and TCM to The Gospel Music Channel to the UP next - to US One TV - and now - A Brand New World - Siegel is a serial television entrepreneur!!!
Listen up to the GIRLS as they talk about the final 3 episodes of HBO's amazing show - GAME OF THRONES!!!!
Sarah and Teresa and Port talk the worlds most famous television Show - GAME OF THRONES!! We are so sad to see the show go!!! Thanks for listening y'all!
From the Georgia Department of Economic Development - Film & Video Office - Girls on Film Presents - ASANTE BRADFORD - want to know how Georgia makes all that money in the digital entertainment sphere? LISTEN UP! Asante knows.....
Today’s Guest is Tom Luse – best known for his work as executive producer of AMC’s hugely successful series – THE WALKING DEAD. With credits like Glory – Everwood – The Joneses – Blue River - Jeepers creepers – Drumline, and Remember the Titans – Luse, who holds a position at Georgia State University’s Creative Media Industries Institute – gives GIRLS ON FILM listeners a behind the scenes tour of America’s favorite Zombie Series!
Jeremy Campbell is an investigative reporter focused on impactful, innovative storytelling. In the past decade his work has changed lives, changed laws and reached millions of viewers.
He helped reinvent the formula for local news with “Atticus,” an investigative team that crafts docu-series reports about hard to talk about issues. Their primary goal: Change the world.
Campbell's reporting career began in the winds of change that blew alongside Hurricane Katrina. He created a documentary about New Orleans life after the storm that led to his first on air job as a Reporter/Anchor at KLFY in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Campbell is a National Murrow Award recipient for Innovation. He’s been honored with eighteen EMMY® Awards, four Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, a Gracie, a Cronkite Award for political reporting and back to back Service to America Awards from the NAB. He’s been named “Best Reporter” by the AP in Georgia, Florida and Alabama and is a three-time Atlanta Press Club Awards honoree. Now the President of The South eastern National Academy of Television Arts and Science - Girls on Film is honored to host Jeremy Campbell!
Girls on Film talks about Alyssa Milano - and the controversial abortion bill - entertainment meets politics AGAIN - Dumbo Review - US Review - waiting on Game of Thrones!!!
Girls on Film recommends some fun - and sexy - binges to stream NOW!! Give a listen with Sarah - Teresa - and Port - and lets' talk TV!!!
This is episode 12 of GIRLS ON FILM PODCAST – Todays guest is lauded entertainment executive LaRonda Sutton – SUTTON is a founding executive of the early LA hip hop.
With lifelong friends LA REID, EVAN MEDDLE and JAMIE FOXX – Sutton – who founded the SOUL - R&B Division at Chrysalis Records, signed artists - Roy Aires – OUTKAST – GOODY MOB – AND - Tony Rich – ALONG WITH - Beyonce & Destinys CHILD - -
Moving to NYC to continue her work with LA REID – SUTTON was soon grabbed by UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUBLISHING NORTH AMERICA - where – under the guidance of music executive legend – TOM STURGESS – she created a larger division collaborating with song writers including- Mary J Blige & Prince - - - soon after, SUTTON came home to Atlanta GA to head up the Mayors office of FILM & ENTERTAINMENT – helping GEORGIA become one of the worlds’ top 3 locations to film in the world.
This weeks episode was recorded at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival - the largest Jewish Film Festival in the world - and features actress Naian Gonzalez Norvind as a Ariela - a young, Jewish woman in Mexico City who faces challenging cultural stereotypes with an independent spirit. Joining Ms. Norvind is the films director - Isaac Cherem - who gives GIRLS ON FILM a special look inside his first major film endeavor - LEONA.
Addy Ball - Head of Technology Innovation for the Weather Channel - listen up as Addy talks the challenges of broadcasting the weather - and how technology aids the viewer to understand the state of the climate!!
Sit up an celebrate Black History Month - and take in a show of Black Panther- the 1st Black action flik to be nominated for best picture by the Academy Awards! Get some popcorn - and celebrate!
Listen up as Sarah Smith and Teresa Roth talk the latest in streaming and WTW (what to watch!) on Netflix-Hulu-Amazon and more.
Girls on Film interviews 2 top execs in the Screen Actors Guild - AFTRA (SAG AFTRA) offices in Atlanta GA - the NEW Hollywood Down South. Listen up and hear about women breaking into the Biz - and how the SAG AFTRA offices support their emergence!
KC GEORGES & STEPHANIE WEAVER are young female editors - and they talk about how they made thier move into the world of hi-tech broadcasting! Young artists listen up and grab some tools for moving your career forward! Girls on Film is proud to host Women Who make the Cut!
Jessica Teal and Claudia Turner talk about the ART of Editing at Atlanta's own Turner Broadcasting in part 3 of WOMEN WHO MAKE THE CUT!!!
Meredith Moore and Shayne Borenstein talk about the male dominated editing world at Atlanta's very own Turner Broadcasting. Listen up - learn the tricks of the trade with these high tech Ladies!
Turner Broadcasting Editors - Kerry Schnitzlein and Heather Chastain talk the in's and out's of making a living as PRO editors! Working for The Cartoon Network - These Women Who Make the Cut are amazing at their craft!
Girls on Film goes to the Digital Media & Entertainment Summit at QTS Headquarters in Atlanta, GA!! We interviewed 7 awesome people - 1 - Aisha Lilly from Turner Broadcasting - 2 - QTS's Kaitlin Schaberg! - 3 -Lerae Funderberg: Indy entertainment Atty! - 4 - 39:23 - Georgia Game Developers President - Andrew Greenberg- 5 - 37:50 Louvain Demps MOTOWN DIVA! - 49:26 Audra Browning & David Lieberman - co-Chairs of the TAG's Digital Media & Entertainment Committee! Thanks Y'all!!
Girls on Film - we love our Saudi Twitter Followers!! We love Mario DiLeonardo! And Joey Luthman! House of Cards! Girls on Films thanks our Twitter followers!
Girls on Film talks SUSPIRIA - VICE - Bohemian Rhapsody - Black Klansman - Dakota Johnson - Rami Malek - We talk the current Oscar race- and OUR favorites!! We won't steer you wrong!
Girls on Film inaugural interview with Entertainment Lawyer - on-Air Talent - Emmy Chapter Founder - and Emmy winner - Darryl Cohen! Entertainment lawyer extraordinaire, Cohen is the man to KNOW in Hotlanta!!! Cohen Cooper Estep & Allen is his firm! The best entertainment pro's know Darryl Cohen!
Teresa and Sarah take on Fall 2018 television with gusto! we love our shows!! and want Hulu-Netflix-and Amazon to keep 'em coming baby! Our deepest thanks to John Krasinsky for being such a kick-ass Jack Ryan!!