During his teenage years, Lustig avidly watched a huge volume of lowdown trashy exploitation fare at numerous 42nd Street grindhouse theaters in Manhattan and also worked as a movie theater usher in Fort Lee, New Jersey. After graduating from high school, he took a few film classes at New York University. In 1980, Lustig found himself at the center…

The team sits down for a discussion with Mark Mills, as part of the Sonoma Valley Authors Festival. Mark P. Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science where he co-directs the Institute on Manufacturing Science and Innovation. He is also a …

The team sits down with the one and only, Roger Love! Roger Love is recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on voice. No other vocal coach in history has been more commercially successful in both the speaking and singing fields. Roger has vocally produced more than 150-million-unit sales worldwide and written three top-selling books. R…

The team sits down with Nikki Erlick, as part of the Sonoma Valley Authors Festival. Nikki's book debuted #6 on the NY Times Best Seller list. Nikki Erlick is a journalist and travel writer whose work has appeared online with New York Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Newsweek, Cosmopolitan, Indagare Travel, The Huffington Post, and Vox. Erlick’s eagerly …

The team sits down with Rebecca Halpern, Director of "Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter." Rebecca Halpern From true crime and social justice docuseries that affect real world change to epic feature documentaries rooted in history and the arts and culture, Rebecca's work evokes emotion, and enlightens and empowers audiences. L…

The team sits down to get the scoop on new film, "Traveling Light". Featured in this interview is Bernard Rose, Director and Writer, and Danny Huston, who plays "Harry" in the film. Traveling Light tells the story of Caddy (Tony Todd) over a twenty four hour period on May 30th 2020 as he searches for his missing son who has been living on the stree…

Georgette Angelos: Born in South Florida, Georgette moved to Los Angeles to pursue her love of photography. Working as the house photographer for Silverback Music Management Label, she was soon led to her career in the film industry. She transitioned between assistant directing and associate producing for music videos, commercials and short films p…

The once peaceful and booming Yellowstone City has fallen on hard times, but when a local prospector strikes gold, things seem to be turning around. Any hope is soon shattered when the prospector is found dead and the Sheriff quickly arrests a mysterious newcomer. But nothing is so simple in this sleepy western town, and more than a few of the loca…

Sleeze Lake comes exclusively to Fandor on June 28. In the 1970s, the custom van craze was sweeping America. Van clubs began to form all over the country. In Chicago, one of the wildest to ever exist came into creation: Midwest Vans Ltd. On Memorial Day Weekend in 1977, these blue collar outcasts set out to throw a gonzo party and built their own p…

The team sits down with Director, Alberto Belli, and Writer/Star, Jim Mahoney from film, GATLOPP. A group of old friends reunites for a nostalgic evening of fun and games after a decade apart. After one too many, they decide to play a drinking game, but it’s quickly revealed that this game comes with supernatural stakes. Mischief leads to mayhem, a…

The team sits down with Ásgeir and Anton, the co-directors of "Come to Harm," available exclusively to Fandor this month. Ásgeir Sigurðsson and Anton Karl Kristensen, the co-directors behind “Come to Harm” started their filmmaking journey early in their lives. Born in 2000 (Ásgeir) and 1998 (Anton), they met when they were little through their pare…

The team sits down with Daniel Adams, Director of “The Walk“. This film has its WORLD PREMIERE at the Opening Night (8pm PT) of the 25th annual Dances with Films Festival in Los Angeles. Fandor is a proud sponsor of Dances with Films, a defiantly independent festival. The festival will run from June 9 – 19th, 2022. Daniel Adams grew up in Boston an…

LESLEE SCALLON & MICHAEL TRENT are the Co-Founders of DANCES WITH FILMS, a tremendous indie film festival now in its 25th year! Fandor is a proud sponsor of this festival. Both Turducken and The Huntsman and the Hound were selected for the Fandor service at this festival last year - both available to watch now on Fandor! A Regent Scholar at New Yor…

The team sits down with Program Director for the Mendocino Film Festival, Herb Stratford! Herb Stratford is the program director for the Mendocino Film Festival and Film Fest Tucson. He was previously the program director for the Napa Valley Film Festival and a guest programmer at the Sonoma International Film Festival. He is also a documentary fil…

The team sits down with Aaron Hillis, Director of Programming at Cinedigm. Aaron Hillis is the Director of Programming (VOD) at Cinedigm. As a film curator with an eclectic career from exhibition to distribution to owning a video store, he was praised by Brooklyn Magazine as one of "The 100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture" alongside Len…

The team sits down with Lori Shockley, Producer and Director. Lori is a seasoned, multifaceted independent writer, producer, and director. Her most recent project, Corked, an award-winning short film, follows a young woman and her struggle to enter the male-dominated wine industry in the early 70s. Corked also serves as a proof of concept for the f…

MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU. Special episode of the Fandor Festival Podcast releases today with guest, Steve Harms, Professional Opera Singer! Steven A Harms was classically trained as a professional opera singer and has been performing nationally and internationally for two decades. He has shared stages with well-known greats such as Placido Doming…

The team sits down with Sunnie McFadden-Curtis, Director of Broken Vows. Sunnie McFadden-Curtis is a multi-award-winning independent filmmaker, director, producer, actor, educator, social advocate for women and children, and above all a devoted mother. Before she included independent filmmaker to her repertoire of titles, Sunnie was an actor for ov…

The team sits down with Lori Miller, Director and Producer of Living Wine. Lori Miller, a Los Angeles-based producer/director, is known for her documentaries about arts and culture. As a producer, credits include They Came to Play about the inspirational stories of older amateur pianists rekindling their musical dreams, Shakespeare High which follo…

Today we site down with Mikey Corker (Director of "Savage Waters") and Taz Knight (professional surfer featured in the film). Savage Waters is a captivating surf adventure inspired by a tantalizing passage in a 19th century treasure hunter’s journal. Director Mikey Corker follows modern day adventurers, renowned skipper Matt Knight, world-class big…

The team sits down with Ed Vincent, CEO of Festival Pass. Ed Vincent is the founder and CEO of Festival Pass, the world’s first festival and live events subscription marketplace providing access to thousands of experiences around the globe across music, film, food and wine, art, sports, theater, lifestyle, and tech & innovation experiences. Enjoy t…

The team sits down with Dr. Nate Kohn, Director of Ebertfest. Dr. Nate Kohn is the festival director at Ebertfest and a professor at the University of Georgia. His producing credits include Zulu Dawn starring Burt Lancaster and Peter O’Toole; the independent feature Somebodies, which premiered at Sundance (2006); Rain, the Bahamas’ first indigenous…

The team sits down with Joseph A. Ziemba & Annie Choi, the Creators behind BLEEDING SKULL! On January 4, 2004, Joseph A. Ziemba launched BLEEDING SKULL! with a simple intention: to share a passion for obscure genre films and honor the filmmakers behind them. Since then BLEEDING SKULL! has become the authority on cinematic dispatches from the fringe…

The team sits down with David Goldblum & Julie Parker Benello, Producers of "Sell/Buy/Date". Sell/Buy/Date is a heartfelt, witty doc/narrative hybrid following Tony-winning performer/comedian Sarah Jones and her multicultural characters on a journey exploring her personal relationship to the sex industry through a social justice lens. David Goldblu…

The team sits down with Ondi Timoner, award-winning non-fiction filmmaker & director of "Coming Clean". Ondi Timoner is known to be one of the greatest talents in non-fiction filmmaking. She often takes on the stories of visionaries fighting against all odds with a gripping and unique narrative style. She has the rare distinction of winning the Gra…

During his teenage years, Lustig avidly watched a huge volume of lowdown trashy exploitation fare at numerous 42nd Street grindhouse theaters in Manhattan and also worked as a movie theater usher in Fort Lee, New Jersey. After graduating from high school, he took a few film classes at New York University. In 1980, Lustig found himself at the center…

It's Fandor's April Fool's Special! Today the team brings special guest, comedian/actor Greg Baldwin, to the show. Greg Baldwin is a comedian/actor and producer and host of the popular podcast Second Chances. Greg performs regularly at the top clubs performing in shows with many of today's biggest comedians. He currently tours and features for Jay …

The Team sat down with Ryan de Quintal, actor, producer, and writer. In the fall last year as he was on set of "Big Sky," please excuse the technical difficulties! Since that time we're pleased to announce that you can now watch Ryan's short film, The Huntsman and the Hound, on Fandor.com! Ryan began his acting career in 2005 while attending Califo…

The team sits down with Louis Godbout, Writer & Director. Louis Godbout is a writer and director living in Montreal. He holds law and philosophy degrees and has taught philosophy for fifteen years in a Montreal college. In parallel with teaching, he has pursued a career as a writer, publishing essays in philosophy before recently turning to screenw…

The team sits down with Eric J. Adams, Producer & Writer. A passionate filmmaker, Eric is best known for his provocative and poignant storytelling. Most recently he produced the girl-empowerment feature film Rickshaw Girl — the first-ever US-Bangladeshi co-production — and winner of six international film festival awards. Eric wrote and co-produced…

The team sits down with Gardner Grady Hall, Writer and Director of "Winter Ball." WINTER BALL is the debut feature film of writer-director Gardner Grady Hall. A former professional baseball player, Hall was a first round draft pick of the Chicago White Sox and is a member of Northwestern University's Athletic Hall of Fame. He wrote and directed the…

The team sits down with Brian Lilla, Director of Children Of The Vine. Brian Lilla is an award-winning American documentary filmmaker. Lilla's first films began with raw super-8 footage of skateboarding empty pools in his 1999 short, Twenty To Life, and would later be nominated for best documentary short for Tale Of Two Bondage Models at the 2008 T…

The team sits down with Kathleen Ermitage, Director & Producer. Mixtape Trilogy: Stories of the Power of Music is written and directed by Kathleen Ermitage. This film is her directorial debut. Previously, she was an associate producer on Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary; Sergio Mendes: In the Key of Joy; Herb Alpert Is; and the forthcom…

The team sits down with Patricia Nazario, International Journalist. Patricia is an international journalist with 18 distinguished recognitions, including two Congressional Awards. Her career spans from hurricane coverage in Florida and New York during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, to Argentina's severe financial, social, and political crisis in 2001.…

The team sits down with Marc Shaffer, Documentary Filmmaker, Investigative Reporter, and Founder of Inside Out Media. Marc Shaffer's latest film is Exposing Muybridge, the first feature documentary on the revolutionary 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Exactly 150 years after Muybridge made the very first photographs of Northern Califor…

The team sits down with Stan Zimmerman, industry veteran, and multi-talent. Stan Zimmerman is a writer, producer, and director, with multiple decades in the entertainment industry, including two nominations from the Writers Guild of America for Episodic Comedy. Stan's writing has spanned across film and television, including such notable credits as…

The team sits down with the talented Rosalie Chiang! Rosalie is the voice star in Pixar's new release, "Turning Red" (2022). Rosalie Chiang was born in the Bay Area, California. She is the lead in Pixar's "Turning Red" (2022). She also played the lead in the USC MFA thesis film, "Soiled" (2018), and was the principal in Yamaha Piano's first TV comm…

The team sits down with Domee Shi, Director of Pixar's new film, "Turning Red" (2022). (And she did the screenplay!!) Domee Shi is a Chinese-Canadian animator, director and screenwriter. Since 2011, she has worked for Pixar, where she has contributed to multiple films including Inside Out (2015), Incredibles 2 (2018), and Toy Story 4 (2019). She wa…

The team sits down with Kevin McNeely, Artistic Director at SIFF. The Sonoma International Film Festival is celebrating 25 years this year! The SIFF team does an incredible job each year of curating talent from around the globe. This year there is an incredible 120 films showing at the festival and 79 of those (79!!) are premieres of some sort. Kev…

The team sits down with very special guests, Iryna and Lesya. This interview was recorded on 3/7/22. Iryna Pravylo, filmmaker, is in the middle of a war zone in Ukraine. Please excuse any technical difficulties. Iryna Pravylo Film director, screenwriter, producer, member of the NGO "Congress of Cultural Activists", and associate professor of the In…

The team sits down with Obie Benz, Producer, and Director. Benz was born in 1949 in New Jersey. After graduating from Middlebury College in 1971, he founded the Vanguard Foundation, a San Francisco-based philanthropic group that granted over $400,000 a year to social change organizations. Benz served on the boards of progressive organizations: TVTV…

The team sits down with Brad Parks, CEO of Hollywood Film Festival. Brad has over 30 years' experience in community engagement and social commerce technology development. In February of 2014, Brad financed the acquisition of the Hollywood Film Festival and became the CEO, before managing the acquisition of other “Hollywood” related brand properties…

The team sits down with Claudia Puig, Director of Programming for the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The SBIFF, in its 37th year, is happening in person from March 2—12th in Santa Barbara, CA. Claudia Puig is a nationally recognized film journalist. Currently, she is Director of Programming for the Santa Barbara International Film Festi…

The team sits down with Renny & Boston McConnaughey, Filmmakers, Director, and Star of "Alien Country." We'll be checking back in with the duo as they progress through their journey of making their dream a reality, which includes a companion video game! Renny and Boston are a filmmaking duo based in Utah. They got their start writing and directing …

The team sits down with Alison Levine, Documentarian, Polar Explorer & Mountaineer. Alison is the executive producer of: "Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest;" which has its WORLD PREMIER at The 37th Annual Santa Barbara Film Festival running March 2-12, 2022. Alison will be in attendance for the second screening of the film. Alison Levine is a histor…

The team sits down with Chaz Ebert, Publisher, Producer and Philanthropist. Chaz Ebert is the CEO of Ebert Digital LLC, which publishes the acclaimed movie review site, Rogerebert.com. She is also a producer of television and movies, and co-founded the Ebertfest Film Festival at the University of Illinois, now in its 22nd year. Her civic passions i…

The team sits down with Tim Kirkby, Director of "Last Looks," currently in theaters. "Last Looks," which stars Charlie Hunnam, Morena Baccarin, Lucy Fry, Dominic Monaghan, Cliff "Method Man" Smith, Clancy Brown with Rupert Friend and Mel Gibson is about Charlie Waldo (Charlie Hunnam) an ex-LAPD superstar who left the force. He now lives a life of s…

The team sits down with Frazier Prince, Director and Producer of Crackdown Big City Blues and Crackdown Retrospective: Behind the Scenes of Crackdown Big City Blues. Both films are set to come to Fandor as exclusives for streaming in early April. Frazier Prince is the CEO/Founder of Prince Henry Entertainment, assembling a multi-talented creative t…

Chris and Hooman sit down with Ray Giarratana ("Jer - a - tanna"), Director of The Tiger Rising. Ray has been a staple in the commercial industry for over 20 years. Originally visual effects supervising high-end commercials for directors like Fincher, Bay, Fuqua (and many more guys with accents) as well as music videos for artists ranging from Mich…

Hooman and Bryn sit down with multi-talent, Anthony Diaz V, "T-Boy," joining us all the way from the Philippines, where he is in pre-production on his next film. Anthony Diaz V discovered his love for film since childhood and enthusiastically began his journey into filmmaking through creating dozens of short films since the age of 15. His passion f…