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The Celluloid MirrorMini Don't Get Covid (Season 2 Episode 8 Preview)Sean and Nicole share what they'll be talking about on the next full episode -- their top 5 films of 2022 so far! Unusual episode, for reasons we discuss on here. We also share some comments on our last episode with special guest Alanah Rafferty about Saint Maud and Xanadu. People have opinions on skating helmets and Freddy Krueger.
Get early access to new episodes of The Celluloid Mirror PLUS bonus episodes, uncut video of our recording sessions featuring conversations that didn’t make it to the final show, games, invitations to events, Discord access and so much more by...2022-07-2020 min
The Celluloid MirrorTry to Save a Soul or Open a Club (Saint Maud and Xanadu)What’s the price for getting too close to God…or at least believing you have? Actor/filmmaker/podcaster Alanah Rafferty joins Sean and Nicole to discuss Rose Glass’s Saint Maud and Robert Greenwald’s Xanadu, two takes on what happens when one spirals into religious obsession.
“Folding sexual arousal and religious ecstasy into a single, gasping sensation…”
-Jeanette Catsoulis
Who are the protagonists of these films and do they survive them? How are Greek and Christian mythology engaged? Where is the line between inspiration and hallucination? Dance along with Gene Kelly and Olivia Newt...2022-07-132h 22
The Celluloid MirrorMini Saint Xanadu (Season 2 Episode 7 Preview)Sean checks in with a quick update, some listener feedback, and a few fun clips from our conversation with Alanah Rafferty about Rose Glass' Saint Maud and Robert Greenwald's Xanadu. What do these films have in common? What do they say about the audience and our culture? Find out in next week's episode.
You can see more about Alanah at Alanah-Rafferty.com and the film, Fraud, she produced that played Tribeca this year on the Tribeca website.
Get episodes of The Celluloid Mirror early PLUS bonus episodes, uncut video of our recording sessions featuring conversations...2022-07-0610 min
The Celluloid MirrorHe's an Attractive Man (Annette and Little Murders)Elliott Gould plays an “apathist” photographer and Adam Driver a confrontational comedian who take center stage - with varying degrees of enthusiasm -- as we discus Alan Arkin’s early ‘70s satire Little Murders and Leos Carax’s 2021 musical extravaganza Annette.
“ so much of a piece, so consistent on its own terms, that while you're watching it, it doesn't even feel like satire: just real life, a little farther down the road.”
-Roger Ebert
What does a bleak adaption of a late 60s stage satire about the prevalence of violence in modern US American life...2022-06-292h 05The Celluloid MirrorMini Little Annette Murders (Season 2 Episode 6 Preview)Nicole tells you all about what's coming next week from The Celluloid Mirror -- puppet babies and experimental theater via Leos Carax's Annette (2021) starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, and Alan Arkin's Little Murders (1971) starring Elliott Gould and Marcia Rodd!
We've got a few clips from that upcoming episode as well as listener feedback on our Josie and The Pussycats/Speed Racer Discussion. Is it fair to call the Speed Racer ninjas "evil"? How about comparing Josie to Luke Skywalker? Let's get into it!
Plus, hear about the NYC premiere of Audre's Revenge and Monika...2022-06-2220 min
The Celluloid MirrorStop Steering and Start Driving (Speed Racer and Josie & the Pussycats Part 2)Whether you’re playing guitar through Marshall stacks or chasin’ after someone (or both), you simply must hear the conclusion of our in-depth conversation with special guest Che Broadnax about Lana and Lily Wachowski’s Speed Racer and Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont’s Josie and the Pussycats, two candy-coated critiques of capitalism based on cartoon IPs that were in turn based on comic books.
Transcript is HERE
Links
Roger Ebert on Josie and the Pussycats
…and Speed Racer
Elvis Mitchell on Josie in The New York Times
AO Scott...2022-06-151h 37The Celluloid MirrorMini Josie Racer and the Speed Cats (Season 2 Episode 5 Preview)A quick preview of the second half of our epic discussion with Che on Josie and the Pussycats and Speed Racer. Join us next week for more!
Join Nicole and Sean at the Welcome Back to the Dark Side Block at the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival and see Bitten, a tragedy with us!
Encore virtual screening of the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival Welcome to the Dark Side Short Films Block
Encore virtual screening of Community Service and Dark Tales from Channel X with the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival
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The Celluloid MirrorTaste the Rainbow with your Eyeballs (Speed Racer and Josie & the Pussycats Part 1)If you’re a demon on wheels and/or favor long tails and ears for hats, you should definitely check out PART ONE of our deep dive with special guest Che Broadnax into two 2000s cinematic classics based on cartoons (that were in turn based on comics/magna): Lana and Lily Wachowski’s Speed Racer and Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont’s Josie and the Pussycats.
“ …the misfortune of being a double rip-off/ spinoff. In other words, there's no there…” -Elvis Mitchell
Episode Transcript is HERE
Links
Roger Ebert on Josie and the Pussyc...2022-06-011h 46The Celluloid MirrorMini Speed and the Racer Cats (Season 2 Episode 4 Preview)Nicole and Sean give you a little taste of what's to come next week on The Celluloid Mirror when we'll be talking about Speed Racer and Josie and the Pussycats, which was such a fun conversation, we had to split it in two! So, next week you'll just be getting part 1 ... but what a part 1!
Che's episode from Season 1: And Then The Music Wilds Out (The Big Boss and Sorry to Bother You)
See Fraud at the Tribeca Film Festival produced by our upcoming guest Alanah Rafferty.
Girls, Guts and Giallo episode about “th...2022-05-2512 min
The Celluloid MirrorNot Like Other Girls (Variety and Buffy the Vampire Slayer)Teen horror-comedy meets avant garde neo-noir as we discuss Fran Kuzui’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Bette Gordon’s Variety, two very different, reputedly-feminist interventions into genre. Who is a better screenwriter -- Kathy Acker or Joss Whedon? We explore this important question and more.
S2E3 Episode Transcript HERE
Links and Further Reading
Chicago review: David Kehr on how “Buffy is, like, so campy, you know?”
New York Times: Janet Maslin hates Variety
New York Times: Janet Maslin likes Buffy a little more
Another Gaze: Rebecca...2022-05-181h 56The Celluloid MirrorMini Variety the Genre Flip Slayer (Season 2 Episode 3 Preview)Get ready for our conversation about Bette Gordon's Variety and Fran Kuzui's Buffy the Vampire Slayer (written by third generation TV sitcom writer Joss Whedon) with this minisode/teaser. You'll hear a couple of clips from next week's episode as well as a response to some of your comments. Including an explanation of why, as a storyteller, it's important to analyze the work of others and break down what's not as well done even in the things you really enjoy.
Get episodes early as well as bonus episodes, uncut video of our recording sessions featuring stuff that d...2022-05-1117 min
The Celluloid MirrorWalking, Talking Candied Apples (Return to Oz & Hellbound: Hellraiser 2)Girls Guts and Giallo host Annie Rose Malamet joins for a spirited discussion of Return to Oz, Walter Murch’s maligned sequel to acclaimed classic film The Wizard of Oz, and Tony Randel’s Hellbound: Hellraiser 2, a slightly-less controversial follow up to Clive Barker’s Hellraiser.
“Kids are…terrified” - Siskel & Ebert
Misogyny and mental health! Bad mommies! Magical creatures, both sexy and not-so-much! We are discussing all that and more in this deep dive into the connective tissue between these two fascinating sequels featuring young women institutionalized against their will, just for telling the truth. All h...2022-05-041h 57The Celluloid MirrorMini Ozbound: Return 2 Ozraiser (Season 2 Episode 2 Preview)What's coming next from the Celluloid Mirror? We're talking about Tony Randel's Hellbound: Hellraiser II and Walter Murch's Return to Oz with Girls, Guts, and Giallo's Annie Role Malamet! This mini-sode is a little preview of what's coming up next week!
You may want to prepare by listening to Annie's two part episode on the first Hellraiser movie! Part 1 and Part 2
Get episodes early as well as bonus episodes, uncut video of our recording sessions featuring stuff that didn’t make it to the final show, games, invitations to events, Discord acess and so, so muc...2022-04-2706 min
The Celluloid MirrorI'm Good Right? (Tammy and the T-Rex and Breaking the Waves)An animatronic dinosaur with human consciousness meets a Calvinist true believer in our season 2 premiere!
Men have problems! They’re being mauled by lions, injured in oil rig accidents, flattened by steamrollers, and even separated from their very bodies, having their brains placed in a retired theme park attractions. How will the women in their lives fix them??? These are just some of the challenges that Denise Richards, Paul Walker, Emily Watson and Stellan Skarsgard face in Stewart Raffill’s Tammy and the T-Rex and Lars Von Trier’s Breaking the Waves.
Note: This episode contains...2022-04-202h 15The Celluloid MirrorThe Celluloid Mirror Season 2 TRAILER!The Celluloid Mirror is BACK for a second season, in which we continue to take two very different films and see what they reflect about one another, and the audience watching.
Our season premiere is a wide-ranging discussion about Lars Von Trier's Breaking the Waves and Stuart Raffill's Tammy and the T-Rex! It drops Wednesday, March 20th 2022. New episodes every other Wednesday right here or wherever you get podcasts.
Subscribe so you never miss an episode, and if you like what you hear please leave us a review and tell a friend!
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The Celluloid MirrorOur 2021 Top TensHello Listeners! We have a bonus episode for you!
In this special, between-seasons bonus episode of The Celluloid Mirror hosts Sean and Nicole compare their top ten films of 2021. Two will enter, one will fall. Who has the superior cinematic taste?
Bonus: Hear Nicole mispronounce so many words! So many.
Stay tuned for The Celluloid Mirror Season Two coming soon, in which Sean and Nicole will return to discussing a mere two films per episode.
Links and Further Reading:
Sean on Letterboxd
Nicole on Letterboxd
...2022-01-261h 25The Celluloid MirrorHow Do You Define a Cult Classic (Knives and Skin and Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead)Technical Note: Unfortunately Nicole had some technical issues with her recording, so you may notice a change in the quality of her audio for the final 30 minutes of the episode.
In the final episode of season one of The Celluloid Mirror we invited Ashlee Blackwell to join us to talk about two teen films: Jennifer Reeder's Knives and Skin from 2019 and Stephen Herek's Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead from 1991.
Ashlee is the creator of the online scholarship Graveyard Shift Sisters, a resource highlighting the history of Black women in the horror genre and is...2021-05-191h 53The Celluloid MirrorChimps + A Pitbull = Grimdark (Mad Max: Fury Road and Babe: Pig in the City)In our penultimate episode of our first season of The Celluloid Mirror Nicole and Sean invite their good friend cinematographer Yessica Curiel Montoya to discuss two George Miller classics: Mad Max: Fury Road and Babe: Pig in the City.
Yessica is an experienced DP with an extensive background as a gaffer for independent features, documentaries, and commercials. Her work as cinematographer has screened in film festivals around the world, and received a Kodak Eastman Award in 2014. She’s a Mexican immigrant, and a proud Harlem resident in New York City.
What do Pig in the City...2021-04-211h 42The Celluloid MirrorJust Go Live with the Mermaids (The Lure and Splash)How do the 1984 US romantic comedy Splash and the 2015 Polish horror musical The Lure reinterpret the classic Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale The Little Mermaid.? No guests this week, just hosts Sean and Nicole talking about some sea folk and what these tales tell us about how audiences and filmmakers see gender, sexuality, sacrifice, and more.
Deep Cuts: The Lure on Syfy.com
Film Comment on The Lure
Roger Ebert on Splash
Ebert.com on The Lure
Janet Maslin on Splash
AO Scott on The Lure
2021-03-171h 43The Celluloid MirrorNature Slash Pleasure Seekers (Surviving the Game and Parasite)What do an academy award winning South Korean drama and a 90s Ice-T action thriller have in common? That's the question we address this month with the hosts of the Brothers from Another Planet podcast Lemar McLean, Tarik Davis, and Don P. Hooper. You read that right. This month we have not one, not two, but three guests!
This month we address how both Ernest Dickerson's Surviving the Game and Bong Joon Ho's Parasite are stories of how for those without money, capitalism may truly be The Most Dangerous Game, one rigged to be unwinnable. And we...2021-02-171h 46The Celluloid MirrorCageFest 2 (National Treasure and The Wicker Man (2006))Happy New Year!
We're ringing in the new year with a sequel! Not to one of our own episodes, but actually to an episode of Guilt Free Features, the podcast of this month's guests Janet Kim and Karen Wang. Back in August 2020 we chatted with Karen and Janet about Face/Off and Con Air and all the Cagey Cageness of the one and only Nicolas Cage and the "Summer of Cage."
This month, we're talking about Neil LaBute's less than stellar remake of The Wicker Man and Jon Turtletaub's ode to the puzzling genius of...2021-01-201h 54The Celluloid MirrorEdgelords for Jesus (It's A Wonderful Life and The Exorcist)Happy Holiday Season!
On this episode we welcome Liam Billingham to the program!
Liam Billingham is a podcast producer by day, and podcast host by night. He also sometimes makes movies, and really owes Sean Mannion an edit of a thing. He’s [a] dad and a recent transplant to LA from his adopted home of Brooklyn, New York.
You can check out his podcast Oeuvre Busters at oeuvrebusters.com and see his other work at LiamBillingham.com. Liam played a fucking creep in Nicole Solomon’s film Small Talk. He’s psyched to joi...2020-12-232h 17The Celluloid MirrorThe Echo Chamber (Mini Episode 1)We got together and recorded a mini episode for The Celluloid Mirror so we could address some of the feedback and responses we've gotten on the first couple of episodes.
Want to be included next time we do a mini? Email us, leave a voice message, or message us on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. We would really love to hear what you think about our conversations on film and share it with everyone else.
We also discussed the documentaries of Marlon Riggs on The Criterion Channel, the Nxivm documentary series on HBO and Starz, and Cl...2020-12-0939 minThe Celluloid MirrorAnd Then The Music Wilds Out (The Big Boss and Sorry to Bother You)The Celluloid Mirror is a film discussion podcast in which we look at two very different films to see what they reflect about one another, and the audience.
On this month's episode, we discuss the Bruce Lee classic The Big Boss (1971) and Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You (2018) and how envision workers fighting back against capitalist exploitation.
Also in this episode we welcome special guest Che Broadnax to the program!
Che Broadnax is a Brooklyn-based filmmaking multi-tool. He has been found behind the lens of indie features, in the edit suite for major...2020-11-182h 01The Celluloid MirrorChristmas Means Carnage (Babe and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre)The Celluloid Mirror is a film discussion podcast in which we look at two very different films to see what they reflect about one another, and the audience.
On this episode of The Celluloid Mirror we welcome our first guest! Frequent guest of our 4MileCircus Podcast, Christina Raia. Christina Raia is a New York City based Writer/Director and the Founder of CongestedCat Productions. She focuses on socially conscious narrative projects, primarily in the horror and comedy genres. Her work, consisting of over a dozen short films, a web series, and two feature films, has screened at f...2020-10-211h 46The Celluloid MirrorThe Audience Must Suffer (Funny Games and Transformers: The Movie)Introducing The Celluloid Mirror
The Celluloid Mirror is a film discussion podcast in which we look at two very different films to see what they reflect about one another, and the audience. For our first film pairing we discuss Transformers: The Movie (1986) and Funny Games (2007). We discuss how these two films confront the audience and subvert their expectations for genre films. We have subtitled this pilot episode "The Audience Must Suffer."
We've got some more fun pairings planned for future episodes and some great guests. You can subscribe to the show at anchor.fm/thecelluloidmirror where you can also leave...2020-09-231h 18
The 4MileCircus PodcastThe Celluloid Mirror - Coming Soon from 4MileCircusThe Celluloid Mirror is a new podcast from 4MileCircus (4milecircus.com). Join Nicole Solomon and Sean Mannion as each episode they delve into two very different films to see what they reveal about each other and their audiences. Upcoming episodes include pairings of Funny Games (2007) and Transformers: The Movie (1986); Babe (1995) and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974); and The Big Boss (1971) and Sorry to Bother You (2018).2020-09-0701 min
The Celluloid MirrorThe Celluloid Mirror - Coming Soon from 4MileCircusThe Celluloid Mirror is a new podcast from 4MileCircus (4milecircus.com). Join Nicole Solomon and Sean Mannion as each episode they delve into two very different films to see what they reveal about each other and their audiences. Upcoming episodes include pairings of Funny Games (2007) and Transformers: The Movie (1986); Babe (1995) and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974); and The Big Boss (1971) and Sorry to Bother You (2018).
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thecelluloidmirror/message2020-09-0701 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 46: Summer Vacation Special 2018On episode 46 Sean and Nicole focus on 4MileCircus news you can use before going on a summer hiatus. We talk about the world premiere of 4MileCircus’s first feature-length film Meme at the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, where it won Outstanding Narrative Feature Film! We also discuss the NYC premiere of our short film Sanctuary at IndieWorks’ annual Pride screening, where it won the Audience Choice award; the upcoming premiere of our surreal short Rubber Ducky; and the status of our next horror short, It’s Normal and what we’ll be working on over our summer podcasting break.2018-06-1841 min
The 4MileCircus Podcast4MinuteCircus: Bonnie Trivia with Lisbeth KauffmanKitSplit CEO Lisbeth Kauffman joins Nicole in a game of Uncle Sean's Bonnie Trivia. It makes sense that we're playing that. Really. Kind of.
For more with Lisbeth, check out episode 45 on which we discuss how and why KitSplit got started, what it means to be "the Air BnB of cameras" and why women should brag more.
See the very first 4MileCircus feature-length film MEME at The Art of Brooklyn film festival on June 9th!: https://aobff.eventive.org/films/5ade00b7ab8a58001414fa71
Get $20 Off When You Do You First Rental...2018-06-0404 min
The 4MileCircus Podcast4MinuteCircus: Bookmark Pamphlet Trivia with Lisbeth KauffmanJoin Nicole and KitSplit CEO Lisbeth Kauffman in a confusing game of Uncle Sean's Bookmark Pamphlet trivia. Yup, that's trivia about a pamphlet Sean was using as a bookmark. It's more entertaining and relevant than it may sound!
For more with Lisbeth, check out episode 45 on which we discuss how and why KitSplit got started, what it means to be "the Air BnB of cameras" and why women should brag more.
See the very first 4MileCircus feature-length film MEME at The Art of Brooklyn film festival on June 9th!: https://aobff.eventive.org/films/5ade00...2018-05-2605 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 45 - Lisbeth KaufmanOn our 45th trip to The Circus, Sean and Nicole talk to Lisbeth Kauffman, Co-Founder and CEO of Kitsplit, the “Air BnB of cameras” which connects visual storytellers to individuals and production companies looking to rent out their gear. We talk to Lisbeth about how Kitsplit started, building community as indie filmmakers, growing up on set with Troma, and why women should brag more. We conclude with a #rare couple rounds of Uncle Sean’s The NewlyMet Game, in which Nicole and Lisbeth try to guess each other’s first horror movie, favorite Muppet, and more!
Se...2018-05-2152 min
The 4MileCircus Podcast4MinuteCircus: IndieWorks with Christina RaiaIndieWorks director Christina Raia joins Sean and Nicole to discuss the local short film screening series, which is about to start its sixth year. Christina shares some highlights from year five as well as what to expect in year six.
IndieWorks Year 6 kicks off on June 5th with their annual Pride screening. Sanctuary, co-directed by Nicole with Jeanette Sears is among the films screening:
https://www.facebook.com/events/367154257132498/
Are you a filmmaker in the NYC area with a short? Submit to IndieWorks through Film Freeway:
2018-05-1304 min
The 4MileCircus Podcast4MinuteCircus: Favorite Things with Christina RaiaIndie filmmaker Christina Raia (Summit, About A Donkey) joins Sean and Nicole for a discussion of their favorite things at the moment. Gardening, CatLadyBox, the Lost in Space remake, Superman's briefs, Living Single streaming, sunshine, Atlanta, and The Last Jedi bonus features are all discussed.
If you like what you hear, please subscribe and leave a review on your podcast platform of choice so others can find the show!
Music: Circus Tent by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)2018-05-0704 min
The 4MileCircus Podcast4MinuteCircus: Communal Nightmares with Christina RaiaSeed&Spark Director of Crowdfunding (and unofficial third host of this podcast) Christina Raia tells Sean and Nicole about the Communal Nightmares crowdfunding rally. 3311 Productions and The Orchard will award one genre film that sheds light on social horrors $25,000, join as executive producer and provide a first-look distribution deal. contact Seed&Spark by MAY 1ST if interested!
More: https://www.seedandspark.com/nightmares
If you like what you hear, please subscribe and leave a review on your podcast platform of choice so others can find the show!
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The 4MileCircus Podcast4MinuteCircus: Favorite Dolls with Heidi MooreFilmmaker Heidi Moore (Dolly Deadly, More Blood!) joins Sean and Nicole for a quick discussion of their favorite dolls, murderous or otherwise.
If you like what you hear, please subscribe and leave a review on your podcast platform of choice so others can find the show!
Music: Circus Tent by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)2018-04-2304 min
The 4MileCircus Podcast4MinuteCircus: Wrapping "It's Normal"!We just wrapped principle photography on a new film! Get the latest on "It's Normal", a scary new short from 4MileCircus about vampires and nazis or something.
If you like what you hear, please subscribe and leave a review on your podcast platform of choice so others can find the show!
Music: Circus Tent by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)2018-04-1604 min
The 4MileCircus Podcast4MinuteCircus: Fave Gore Scenes with Heidi MooreFilmmaker Heidi Moore (Dolly Deadly, More Blood!) joins Sean and Nicole for a quick discussion of favorite gory scenes in cinema.
If you like what you hear, please subscribe and leave a review on your podcast platform of choice so others can find the show!
Music: Circus Tent by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)2018-04-0605 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 44 - Heidi MooreFilmmaker Heidi Moore (creator of the delightful Dolly Deadly) returns to The Circus for episode 44. Topics discussed include her new documentary More Blood! which concerns horror audiences’ gory appetites; Dolly Deadly two: Kill Dolly Kill!, her rock musical sequel currently in production; partnering with Troma; upcoming project ideas, the charm of Christmas horror movies; and the general ins and outs of low budget filmmaking. We conclude with a surprising game of Uncle Sean’s Good Humor Trivia.
Links
Heidi Moore
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thecoolestheidi
http://www.wre...2018-04-0238 min
The 4MileCircus Podcast4MinuteCircus: Favorite Things with Brothers From Another PlanetOn this super-sized mini circus we chat with Tarik Davis, Don Hooper and LeMar McLean aka the Brothers From Another Planet about our favorite things (at the time of recording). Everything Sucks, little black kids enjoying Black Panther, and Morgan Parker's poetry are all discussed and appreciated. And more! We had three guests, we had to run a little long. Or a lot long. Whatever. It's a good conversation.
Check out LeMar, Tarik and Don's film Page One:
http://www.facebook.com/PageOneShort/
...and the Brothers From An...2018-03-2614 min
The 4MileCircus Podcast4MinuteCircus: Favorite Space Movies with Brothers From Another PlanetOn this super-sized mini circus we chat with Tarik Davis, Don Hooper and LeMar McLean aka the Brothers From Another Planet about our favorite space movies. We had three guests, we had to run a little long.
Check out LeMar, Tarik and Don's film Page One:
http://www.facebook.com/PageOneShort/
...and the Brothers From Another Planet podcast:
https://www.facebook.com/Brothers-from-Another-Planet-1140467382644212/
If you like what you hear, please subscribe and leave a review on your podcast platform of c...2018-03-1910 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 43 - Brothers from Another PlanetOn this 43rd trip to The Circus we are joined by LeMar McClean, Tarik Davis, and Don Hooper, creators of the “race-based horror short” Page One as well as the Brothers From Another Planet podcast, Comedy People’s Time improv show, and much more. On this episode they talk to Sean and Nicole about making Page One, the origins of its protagonist Abel Worthy (a black actor who can only get cast as the first guy who gets killed in horror movies), surprising contributors to their crowdfunding campaign, “embracing chaos” on set, screening the film in genre and other contexts...2018-03-1254 min
The 4MileCircus Podcast4MinuteCircus: Replacing People with Pudding with Kristina Leath-MalinFilmmaker Kristina Leath-Malin and hosts Sean and Nicole discuss who they would like to replace with a Jello pudding sculpture of a porpoise eating a baby panda. Yep. They sure do.
If you like what you hear, please subscribe and leave a review on your podcast platform of choice so others can find the show!
Music: Circus Tent by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)2018-03-0504 min
The 4MileCircus Podcast4MinuteCircus: Bionic Vs Cryogenic with Kristina Leath-MalinWould your rather be bionically rebuilt or cryogenically frozen for 300 years? That is the question guest Kristina Leath-Malin (My Final Girl, One For The Road) discusses with Sean and Nicole. Somehow this leads to how the Shirt Tales are like pick up artists.
http://www.productionchick.com/
http://www.myfinalgirl.com/
It's still Women in Horror Month! Follow us on social media where we're featuring some of our favorite horrifying women all month long. Visit http://www.Womeninhorrormonth.com for more about events happening this February! #WIHM92018-02-2504 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 42 - Kristina Leath MalinFilmmaker and horror academic Kristina Leath Malin joins us for our 42nd trip to The Circus! Topics discussed include Kristina hosting screenings of Pam Grier's Coffy and other cult classics; making One For The Road which is one of Stephen King’s “dollar babies”; her nonfiction work on My Final Girl which focuses on black women in 70s horror; differences between how black and white women are presented in scary movies; partnering with local organizations like BRIC; and we all play an educational round of Uncle Sean’s Turbo Teen Trivia, which somehow was in honor of Superbowl Sunday, the day...2018-02-1937 min
The 4MileCircus Podcast4MinuteCircus: Valentine's Day MassacreHappy Valentine's Day! What's YOUR favorite romantic scene in a scary movie? Sean and Nicole discuss their own in a rare remotely-recorded episode from when Nicole had the flu and brought the mood waaaaaaaay down by repeatedly mentioning convicted child abuser Victor Salva. And also confused the names of Kevins Bacon and Spacey, apparently. Sigh.
More on Victor Salva and how terrible he is:
https://www.snopes.com/jeepers-creepers-victor-salva-convicted-child-molestation/
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/jeepers-creepers-3-victor-salva-pedophile-molestation-plot-details-1201881375/
It's also Women in...2018-02-1104 min
The 4MileCircus Podcast4MinuteCircus: Favorite Female FiendHappy Women in Horror Month! To celebrate, we're chatting about our favorite (filmic) female fiends! Recorded remotely in January. Nicole had the flu and Sean confused the names of Hellraiser actor Clare Higgins and Hellraiser villain Julia Cotton.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Higgins
http://hellraiser.wikia.com/wiki/Julia_Cotton
Visit http://www.Womeninhorrormonth.com for more about events happening this February! #WIHM9
If you like what you hear, please subscribe and leave a review on your podcast platform of ch...2018-02-0404 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastThe 4MinuteCircus: Favorite Things with Lindsay and Manny SerranoLindsay, Manny, Sean and Nicole talk about their favorite things at the time of recording, earlier in January 2017. Includes pizza, telling people you like certain recent movies, Jean Claude Van Damme's recent endeavors and more!
If you enjoyed this mini ep, be sure to check out episode 41 of The (full-length) 4MileCircus podcast on which Lindsay and Manny discuss their actual filmmaking and stuff.
Screamer's Pizzeria: http://www.screamerspizzeria.com/
Instagram: @screamerspizzeria
If you like what you hear, please subscribe and leave a...2018-01-2804 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastThe 4MinuteCircus: Bomb Cyclone! with Lindsay and Manny SerranoLindsay, Manny, Sean and Nicole all share how they spent the Bomb Cyclone of January 2017
If you enjoyed this mini ep, be sure to check out episode 41 of The (full-length) 4MileCircus podcast on which Lindsay and Manny discuss their actual filmmaking and stuff.
Screamer's Pizzeria: http://www.screamerspizzeria.com/
Instagram: @screamerspizzeria
If you like what you hear, please subscribe and leave a review on your podcast platform of choice so others can find the show!
Music: Circus...2018-01-2204 min
Filmmaking SucksHow To Build a Following w/4MileCircusSocial Media! That ever elusive combination lock that we all struggle to get right. How to get followers, how to get shares, how to get likes, how to get people to pay attention to you and your film! Well, this week, we sit down with Sean Mannion and Nicole Solomon at 4MileCircus and discuss exactly that.
4MileCircus is a media company who offer their services in video production, social media management, teaching workshops, training seminars and more, all to help you create better content. They share a few of their methods on how to create a social media following for...2018-01-171h 43Filmmaking SucksHow To Build a Following w/4MileCircusSocial Media! That ever elusive combination lock that we all struggle to get right. How to get followers, how to get shares, how to get likes, how to get people to pay attention to you and your film! Well, this week, we sit down with Sean Mannion and Nicole Solomon at 4MileCircus and discuss exactly that.
4MileCircus is a media company who offer their services in video production, social media management, teaching workshops, training seminars and more, all to help you create better content. They share a few of their methods on how to create a social media following for...2018-01-1700 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 41 - Manny and Lindsay SerranoHorror filmmakers Lindsay and Manny Serrano of Mass Grave Pictures join us for our 41st trip to the circus and discuss their movies Beneath, Theta States, Blood Slaughter Massacre. Lindsay and Manny also discuss their experiences working with distributors versus self-distribution, share tips on recreating the 1980s as authentically as possible onscreen, and reminisce about the very first horror scene they shot together, including grisly details about how they did the gory DIY effects and why they never worked with some of the cast/crew again. We conclude with a warming round of Uncle Sean’s Snow Trivia.
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The 4MileCircus Podcast4MinuteCircus: Things We're Looking Forward To In 2018Sean and Nicole talk about stuff they're eagerly anticipating. Pickings are slim.
If you enjoyed this mini ep, be sure to check out episode 40 of The (full-length) 4MileCircus podcast, on which Sean and Nicole talk a lot more about other end-of-year business.
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Music: Circus Tent by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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The 4MileCircus Podcast4MinuteCircus: New Year's ResolutionsSean and Nicole share their resolutions for 2018! Kinda.
If you enjoyed this mini ep, be sure to check out episode 40 of The (full-length) 4MileCircus podcast, on which Sean and Nicole talk a lot more about other end-of-year business.
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The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 40 - The Shotgun Murder Santa Holiday SpecialMerry Christmas! We’re allowed to say that again. BOOM. Taste the freedom as we wait for Santa (or is that Shotgun Murder Santa?) to slide down our chimney on Xmas Eve while making merry with some good old-fashioned holiday cheer. Said cheer mostly involves our feelings about The Last Jedi (skip from 8:32 min in to 43:50 to avoid TLJ spoilers!), comparing our best film and TV of the year lists, and discussing which shitty pop star’s fans have been leaving loseriffic (and homophobic!) comments on our YouTube channel (hint: might sound kinda like Roast Pantone). Along the way we p...2017-12-251h 37
The 4MileCircus Podcast4MinuteCircus: Holiday Movies with Mateo MárquezRecent guest filmmaker Mateo Márquez joins us for a quick discussion of holiday movies.
Be sure to listen to episode 39 of The (full-length) 4MileCircus podcasts, on which we talk to Mateo about his short films The Blood in our Veins and The Invaders.
If you like what you hear, please subscribe and leave a review on your podcast platform of choice so others can find the show!
Music: Circus Tent by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 39- Mateo MárquezNYC filmmaker Mateo Márquez joins us for episode 39 to talk about his films The Blood in our Veins and the upcoming The Invaders. Topics discussed include why and how he isolates his characters, the importance of Queens specifically and New York City in general to his work, festival strategy for short films, social media promotion techniques, and Mateo’s approach to crowdfunding (Including what he’s learned from past mistakes). Since we’re now knee deep into “pie season”, we play a round of--what else?--Pie Trivia.
If you liked this episode, pretty please with...2017-12-1046 min
The 4MileCircus Podcast4MinuteCircus: Least/Favorites with Mateo MárquezWhat are our (and upcoming guest filmmaker Mateo Márquez's) favorite and least favorite pop cultural things RIGHT THIS SECOND? Find out on this scintillating slice of Circus.
For more on why Post Malone is so, so bad: http://www.complex.com/music/2017/11/post-malone-and-racism
Be sure to listen to the upcoming episode 39 of The (full-length) 4MileCircus podcasts, on which we will talk to Mateo about his short films The Blood in our Veins and The Invaders.
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The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 38 - Ax Wound Ancillary Content PanelLive from the 3rd annual Ax Wound Festival in Brattleboro, VT, it’s The 4MileCircus! This time we have three guests, all of who screened films at the fest: Monika Estrella Negra (Flesh, Audre’s Revenge), Lindsay Serrano (Beneath, Mass Grave Pictures) and unofficial 3rd co-host of the circus, Christina Raia (Night In and Enough, Congested Cat Productions), all gathered together to talk about “ancillary content” (aka #ExtraFilmicContent aka #SynergyOfExtraFilmicContent™), which is basically any content you may create beyond your central film for creative and/or promotional purposes. Specific topic discussed include getting bts on set, the spoileriffic perils of social...2017-11-2750 min
The 4MileCircus Podcast4MinuteCircus: Horror Reboots With Ashlee BlackwellWhich horror franchises could actually benefit from a reboot? We discuss this provocative question with recent guest Ashlee Blackwell (Graveyard Shift Sisters) on this episode of The 4MinuteCircus.
Be sure to listen to episode 36 of The (full-length) 4MileCircus in which we talk to Ashlee about her work highlighting the contributions of black women to the horror genre.
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The 4MileCircus Podcast4MinuteCircus: Annie Potts Trivia with Annie Rose MalametWe play Annie Potts trivia with recent guest Annie Rose Malamet on this episode of The 4MinuteCircus.
Be sure to listen to episodes 34 and 35 of The (full-length) 4MileCircus in which we talk to Annie about her work as an interdisciplinary multimedia artist and DIY curator.
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Music: Circus Tent by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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The 4MileCircus Podcast4MinuteCircus: Direct-To-Video Sequels with Ashlee BlackwellOn this episode of the 4MinuteCircus, recent guest Ashlee Blackwell (Graveyard Shift Sisters) chats with us about favorite direct-to-video sequels.
Be sure to listen to episode 36 of The (full-length) 4MileCircus in which we talk to Ashlee about her work highlighting the contributions of black women to the horror genre.
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The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 37- Halloween Special 2017Happy Halloween! On this 37th episode, GoreMileCircus partners Sean and Nicole share films viewers should watch (and avoid) this spooky season. There’s plenty of time for terrifying digressions into why Sean believes LL Cool J’s roles in Halloween H20 and Deep Blue Sea are “the best reflection of life in America,” Nicole’s strong feelings regarding American Horror Story: White Nonsense and the Little Shop of Horrors Director’s Cut, confusion regarding Chastity the vampire comic book vs Chastity the vampire stand up comedian, how to start a Small Talk fight club, how True Detective ruined Sean’s script, our...2017-10-3050 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 36- Ashlee BlackwellAshlee Blackwell is a writer and the creator of the indispensable Graveyard Shift Sisters, a website dedicated to “purging the black female horror fan from the margins.” On episode 36 of The 4MileCircus, Ashlee talk to Nicole and Sean about how the site has evolved over the past five years and the community that has developed around it, using Patreon effectively when it’s hard to ask for money, why she (mostly) likes twitter and thinks Facebook looks like Jack Nicholson’s typewriter in The Shining, the 31 Days of Black women in horror challenge, the joys of both great and terrible...2017-10-2351 min
The 4MileCircus Podcast4MinuteCircus: Vampire Movies With Annie Rose MalametWelcome to the inaugural episode of The 4MINUTECircus, a bite-sized version of The 4MileCircus podcast. Halloween is coming up, so we had a seasonally-appropriate roundtable discussion with recent guest Annie Rose Malamet about our favorite vampire movies. What could they be? Listen and learn!
Also be sure to listen to episodes 34 and 35 of The (full-length) 4MileCircus in which we talk to Annie about her work as an interdisciplinary multimedia artist and DIY curator.
If you like what you hear, please subscribe and leave a review on your podcast platform...2017-10-1604 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 35 - Annie Rose Malamet (Part 2)Interdisciplinary media artist Annie Rose Malamet joins Sean and Nicole for episode 35 and the second half of an in-depth conversation about her work. This time we get into the nitty gritty on how she financially manages being a multimedia artist and DIY curator. Topics include how she incorporated lack of funds into her aesthetic including working with found footage and shooting on her phone, what it takes to put on a gallery show including how to recalibrate after a major sponsor flakes and part of your exhibit is destroyed by a drunk bro, providing financial support for artists and t...2017-10-0234 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 34- Annie Rose Malamet (Part 1)Annie Rose Malamet is a horror buff, interdisciplinary media artist, and DIY curator based in Brooklyn. On episode 34 of The Circus, she is kind enough to sit down with Sean and Nicole to discuss her work remixing found images and her shows “Fatter IRL” and “W4W”. We also talk a lot about Tatu’s “All The Things She Said” video and its original impact on a 13-year-old Annie, Annie’s love of reality television, how she uses Instagram to help curate exhibitions, and the lack of fat people and diversity in general in so much of the NYC art scene. We c...2017-09-1646 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 33 - Beach Party Summer SpecialIt’s The 4MileCircus Beach Party Summer Special! Nicole and Sean sit down with themselves to discuss what 4MileCircus has been up to over the last few months and what we have in the works for the rest of the year. They discuss shooting Sean’s upcoming short Rubber Ducky and shooting with Tara Cioletti (of his films Abel and Cain, Time Signature, and Meme) again. They also discuss Nicole co-directing previous guest Jeanette Sears’ short film Sanctuary and raiding Nicole’s grandmother’s house for era-appropriate props. Nicole also confuses chloroform for formaldehyde when discussing the contents of the cough...2017-09-0356 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 32 - Jeanette Sears (Part 2)Pop open a La Croix and tune in to the stunning conclusion of our 2-part interview with cinematographer Jeanette Sears! We discuss crewing on films in various roles, The difference between a tuba and a sousaphone (Jeanette plays both!), being director of cinematography on films like Ryan Kramer’s Arm Bar, Christina Raia’s Night In, and Sean’s own Beneath the Black Moon, editing video for Astrea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, working as a wedding videographer and generally finding film work, and how Jeanette got into filmmaking in the first place. We also discuss our preferred zombie film sub-ge...2017-08-2035 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 31 - Jeanette Sears (Part 1)Jeanette Sears is a queer cinematographer, director and editor who has made tons of awesome stuff, sometimes even with Sean and Nicole! They’ve shot a number of 4MC productions (Small Talk, Mare, Beneath the Black Moon) and most recently wrote, directed, and starred in the short film Sanctuary (co-directed by Nicole!) which was inspired by Leslie Feinberg’s classic book Stone Butch Blues and is currently in postproduction. We discuss that production as well as their short film Happenstance (co-written with Nicole!) and the pros and cons of various social media platforms for filmmakers. Sean and Nicole try to bu...2017-08-0739 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 30 - Michael AndersonMichael Robert Anderson is a Staten Island-based actor, writer, director and producer who has made a number of short films with his production company, Purple Cloud Entertainment. On episode 30 of the 4MileCircus, Sean and Nicole talk to Michael about his latest short, the World War II-themed Major Key, which Anderson wrote, directed, produced, and stars in. We discuss how he managed to wear all those hats at the same time, finding his cast (including his co-lead Sabrina Matarazzo, sister of Stranger Things’ Gaten Matarazzo), and why he wanted to make a romance about a US soldier and German musician se...2017-07-2341 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 29 - Hannah Neurotica (Part 2)Hannah Neurotica is the mastermind behind Ax Wound zine, Women in Horror Month, the Ax Wound Film Festival and so many more deliciously horrific projects. In the second half of our conversation with her (and our 29th trip to The Circus), we talk to Hannah about writing and directing her own films, online misogyny, the Soska sisters’ blood drive, her own upcoming feminist dystopian horror film, living in dystopia, Facebook-induced panic attacks, making augmented reality sea creature videos, why Snapchat is actually awesome, what Hannah loves about social media marketing, why Hannah thinks paper zines will make a comeback as...2017-07-101h 02
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 28 - Hannah Neurotica (Part 1)From the celebrated and historic Ax Wound zine to Women in Horror Month to the more recent Ax Wound Film Festival, Hannah Neurotica is a key figure in the thriving feminist horror community and a lovely human being whom we have the pleasure of interviewing for our 28th trip to The Circus. Hannah talks with Nicole and Sean about how Ax Wound--the first feminist horror zine--was born out of riot grrrl and punk rock feminism, the oft-hostile world of online horror fandom, life on Livejournal, the importance of zine distros, why she started Women in Horror Month and the...2017-06-261h 05
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 27 - Christina Raia (Part 2)Filmmaker Christina Raia returns for our one year anniversary episode and the second half of our conversation about her new feature film About A Donkey. More specific discussion topics include the changing landscape of film funding in general and crowdfunding on Seed and Spark in particular, what it’s like when preproduction and crowdfunding campaigns overlap (spoiler:there’s not a lot of sleeping), working with donkeys, how both weddings and babies are like films, taxes taxes taxes, kicking off year five of the IndieWorks screening series, and the utility of writing groups. We also play a rousing round of “...2017-06-1253 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 26 - Christina Raia (Part 1)Indie filmmaker Christina Raia was our very first podcast guest and for our one-year anniversary she has returned! Topics discussed include Christina’s upcoming feature film About A Donkey, inclusivity in film, her first feature Summit, the connections between comedy and horror, self-distributing her films, reacting to reviews, and the real meaning of “microbudget” filmmaking.
we also play a game of Amazon-themed trivia in honor of Summit’s recent release on Amazon Prime.
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The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 25 - Late Cambrian (Part 2)John Wlaysewski and Olive Hui of Late Cambrian join us for the thrilling conclusion of our two part interview in our 25th episode! We discuss the Pledge Music funding platform, creative crowdfunding incentives, John’s recent work with Tracy Bonham (re-recording her seminal The Burdens of Being Upright album as Modern Burdens), and Olive’s YouTube series New York Real. We also play a rousing game of trivia
Nicole also shares a social media tip about actually listening to the people with whom you work, and we all play a rousing round of trivia kind...2017-05-1550 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 24 - Late Cambrian (Part 1)Late Cambrian’s John Wlaysewski and Olive Hui sit down for the first of a two part conversation about making it work as an indie rock band. From meeting as background actors on Nurse Jackie through snagging reviews for their current LP, Golden Time, Olive and John take us through building and promoting a band. Topics discussed include the pitfalls of finding band members through Craig’s List, releasing music on cassette, getting big in Japan, starting a PR company, and the art of balancing peppy melodies with depressing lyrics.
Nicole also shares a socia...2017-05-011h 27
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 23 - Shawn Setaro (Part 2)Shawn “Other Shawn” Setaro is the host of acclaimed hip hop podcast The Cipher, a prolific journalist for Forbes and Complex among other publications, and a long-time musician. In the conclusion of our two part conversation, Sean and Nicole talk with him about using Patreon: from wtf it even is and how it works to planning patron incentives, effectively promoting the thing, and why Shawn still doesn’t have a video up on his page. We discuss The Cipher’s stance on sponsorship, as well as how being a white guy doing a podcast about a black art form affects...2017-04-1657 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 22 - Shawn Setaro (Part 1)Shawn Setaro is the host of the acclaimed hip hop podcast The Cipher as well as a prolific music journalist for Forbes and Complex, an award-winning composer, and seasoned professional bass and guitar player. In Part One of a two part interview, Nicole and Sean talk with “other Shawn” about making the shift from being primarily a musician to music journalist, using social media to build audiences for his writing and podcast (and how that differs from using it as a working musician), finding your social media “voice”, boosting posts effectively on Facebook, hashtagging efficiently on Instagram, coming up with con...2017-04-0154 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 21 - Joselin Linder (Part 2)Author Joselin Linder's just-released The Family Gene is a memoir about the deadly effects of a unique genetic mutation on her family, as well as their efforts to stop it. In part two of our two part conversation, Sean and Nicole sit down with Linder to discuss her new book and the ins and outs of making a living as a writer, including finding an agent, getting work for hire, using a pseudonym, and winning battles against writer's block.
Sean also shares a crowdfunding tip about making your campaign a team effort, and we...2017-03-2040 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 20 - Joselin Linder (Part 1)Joselin Linder is the author of The Family Gene, her memoir about the deadly effects of a unique genetic mutation on her family, as well as their efforts to stop it. In part one of a two part conversation, Joselin, Sean, and Nicole discuss how to effectively build a social media following, the perils of accidental tweet-jacking, the book marketing potential of Instagram, and the pros and cons of Twitter vs Facebook for both personal and professional use.
Sean also shares a social media tip about not talking about your own campaign 24/7 while crowdfunding...2017-03-0654 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 19 - Lisa Hammer and Levi Wilson (Part 2)We focus on fundraising in part two of our conversation with Lisa Hammer and Levi Wilson of Radiana, Maybe Sunshine, The Sisters Plotz, and a variety of other projects across multiple forms of media. Lisa and Levi discuss selling band merch to fund projects, the crowdfunding campaigns for SLC Punk 2 and the Sisters Plotz, and the value of pounding the pavement and hitting Wall Street bars (especially with Lisa’s friend and fabulous artist Dame Darcy). We conclude our most triumphant recording with another round of Uncle Sean’s Literary Trivia which covers Shakespeare, The Brontes, and who Uncle Sean...2017-02-2057 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 18 - Lisa Hammer and Levi Wilson (Part 1)Lisa Hammer and Levi Wilson of the band Radiana, the web series Maybe Sunshine, the feature film The Sisters Plotz, and a variety of other projects across multiple forms of media sit down with Sean and Nicole to discuss how they build an audience with and without social media. They discuss their involvement in projects including the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot, the Adult Swim series The Venture Bros., underground New York City goth rock bands Mors Syphilitica and Requiem in White, and more. Nicole shares a crowdfunding tip (just a tip) on creating immediate incentives to help promote...2017-02-0650 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 17 - Hye Yun Park (Part 2)Hye Yun Park sits down with Nicole and Sean to talk about her work. Topics include crowdfunding failures and successes, responsibilities to and collaboration with funders of a project, her upcoming series BKPI with SuperDeluxe, casting toys in film and photography projects, her Grown Woman with Toys photo project, and selfies (they’re great!). Then a discussion of favorite toys including vibrators, LEGOs, and JEM and the Holograms dolls.
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The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 16 - Hye Yun Park (Part 1)Actor, director, and erotic clown Hye Yun Park sits down with Nicole and Sean to talk about her work. Topics include her web series Hey Yun, how she and Sean initially connected over Twitter, directing actors, the acting process, how it's really not hard to hire women for film crews, our collective adoration for filmmaker Christina Raia, and Hye Yun's upcoming web series BKPI. Nicole and Hye Yun delve into her short film Sumi and the intersection of English Second Language teaching over the phone and phone sex. We also address Hye Yun’s questions about Instagram Stories and In...2017-01-091h 14
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 15 - 2016 Year-End Special2016 was a year. Nicole and Sean take the final episode of it to review what has happened generally and what we ourselves have done. We discuss the impact of social media on the election, as well as shooting Mare, The Shondes music videos, starting this podcast, hosting the Social Media & Crowdfunding workshop at the Ax Wound Film Festival, hosting the Friday the 13th Small Talk VOD release party in May, and co-hosting the Artists in Action forum with Congested Cast Productions in December. We also look forward to 2017, home of our upcoming Social Media & Crowdfunding: Strategies and Realities workshop...2016-12-261h 17
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 14 Chris Cuffaro (Part 2)From George Harrison to Ice Cube, photographer Chris Cuffaro has shot them all. In our fourteenth episode, Chris talks to Nicole and Sean about his Greatest Hits Project, which reflects on his storied and celebrated career. Chris also discusses "old school crowdfunding" to make the original music video for Pearl Jam’s "Jeremy", the importance of surrounding yourself with the best people in order to produce the best work, and the peacemaker role he played between Kurt Cobain and Eddie Vedder. We also weigh in on evolving band line-ups from Van Halen / Van Hagar to the re-united Guns ’n’ Roses...2016-12-121h 12
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 13 Chris Cuffaro (Part 1)From George Michael to Nirvana, photographer Chris Cuffaro has shot them all. In our thirteenth episode, he talks to Nicole and Sean about his Greatest Hits project and how photography has changed during his 40 years in the industry. Chris discusses shooting musicians including Jane’s Addiction, Ice-T, Ice Cube, George Harrison, No Doubt, and many more. He also shares his perspectives on how social media has affected his industry and what it's like to pursue the work you love for decades. We also share a social media tip on including images in your social media posts, using free tools to...2016-11-281h 05
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 12 Heidi MooreIn our twelfth episode, 4MileCircus partners Sean Mannion and Nicole Solomon talk with filmmaker Heidi Moore (Dolly Deadly) at the 2nd Annual Ax Wound Film Festival in Brattleboro, VT. We discuss Heidi’s film Dolly Deadly, her experience crowdfunding for the film, and what it's like spending all day on social media. Nicole shares a post-election social media tip about prioritizing self care. Also, Games! Plus Nicole and Heidi also discuss the 80s kids show Out of the World (though Nicole actually meant to bring up the 80s kids show Out of Control, leading to slight confusion. Whatever. Both are...2016-11-1433 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 11 The Halloween SpecialIn our eleventh episode, 4MileCircus partners Sean Mannion and Nicole Solomon celebrate Halloween by talking about our mutual love of horror movies and our own spooky film projects including Small Talk, Beneath the Black Moon, and the brand new, just-released-on-the-same-day-as-this-episode horror short, Mare.
We also offer a very special social media tip on “Halloween Talk”--or maybe we should call it Halloween “Stalk”?--and discuss what actually scares us in horror movies.
Thanks to special Halloween guest Boney the Skeleton Ghost, everyone who left us reviews on iTunes, and Sean's hea...2016-10-301h 22
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 10 - SJ & Ginny (Part 2)In our tenth episode, 4MileCircus partners Sean Mannion and Nicole Solomon talk with comedy duo SJ & Ginny about their crowdfunding campaigns for the short film "Pillows" and television pilot Urban Teach Now. We touch on how press coverage can be a blessing and a curse, the genius of Angry Asian Man, and what they learned from Sara Benincasa’s short film "The Focus Group." We also discuss some guilty pleasures that we maybe don’t feel so guilty about, including Will & Grace, Gilmore Girls, Cruel Intentions, and the animated feature Heavy Metal.
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The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 9 - SJ & Ginny (Part 1)In our ninth episode, 4MileCircus partners Sean Mannion and Nicole Solomon talk with comedy duo SJ & Ginny about promoting their live shows The Shame Game and Great Gig, how their The Shame Game promo video “Drive-by Street Harassment” went viral, and whether or not a certain actor's full name is Jonathan Hamm or just Jon Hamm. We also share a social media tip about scheduling posts, and talk about our favorite things including: Hi-Chew, Eddie Huang, Elena Ferrante Neapolitan novels, grinding your own coffee, Animaniacs, and game shows.
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The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 8 - Louisa Solomon and Eli Oberman of The Shondes (Part 2)In our eighth episode, 4MileCircus partners Sean Mannion and Nicole Solomon bring you part two of our talk with Louisa Solomon and Elijah Oberman of independent rock band The Shondes. This time we focus on crowdfunding for their tour van and European tour--what worked, what didn't, and lessons learned. How can audience perception of "success" undermine a band's ability to raise needed funds, and what does it mean to "succeed" as an artist, anyway? How does or doesn't it relate to financial stability? And what's the deal with Patreon? We get into all that and more! Sean also offers...2016-09-191h 15
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 7 - Louisa Solomon and Eli Oberman of The Shondes (Part 1)In our seventh episode, 4MileCircus partners Sean Mannion and Nicole Solomon talk with Louisa Solomon and Elijah Oberman of independent rock band The Shondes about building and reaching an audience. We discuss outreach methods from their early days using MySpace and Friendster through their social media and email list tactics today. Sean shares a social media tip about Instagram "stories", and we discuss some of our current favorite things including the independent comic Bitch Planet, the Rogue One trailer, joy, Family Ties, spousal recaps of classic TV, air conditioning, and The Paper Menagerie. The Shondes' new LP Brighton will b...2016-09-031h 15
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 6 - Michael DiBiasio and Rebecca De Ornelas (Part 2)In our sixth episode, 4MileCircus partners Sean Mannion and Nicole Solomon talk with filmmakers Michael DiBiasio and Rebecca De Ornelas (Multiverse) about self-distribution and their feature film, The Videoblogs. We also share a social media tip about using link shorteners, and we play “Guess the Cronenberg Film Quote.”
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The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 5 - Michael DiBiasio and Rebecca De Ornelas (Part 1)In our fifth episode, 4MileCircus partners Sean Mannion and Nicole Solomon talk with filmmakers Michael DiBiasio and Rebecca De Ornelas (Multiverse) about crowdfunding and social media around their feature film, The Videoblogs. We also share a social media tip about building your followers, and Rebecca, Michael, Sean, and Nicole discuss some of their favorite things including: Maps to the Stars, My Dad Wrote a Porno, Stranger Things, Jalapeño Cheese Doodles, and the book Z.
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The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 4 - Christina Raia (Part 4)In our fourth episode, 4MileCircus partners Sean Mannion and Nicole Solomon talk with filmmaker Christina Raia (Summit, IndieWorks film series) about her social media use around the release of her first feature film, Summit. Part four of a four part interview. We also share a social media tip about putting the social back in social media, and Christina, Sean, and Nicole make up rules for their own film movements (a la Dogme ’95) that they probably won’t follow.
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The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 3 - Christina Raia (Part 3)In our third episode, 4MileCircus partners Sean Mannion and Nicole Solomon sit down with filmmaker Christina Raia (Summit, IndieWorks film series), to discuss social media and the film production process. Part three of a four part interview. We also share a social media tip on timing of your posts, and Nicole and Christina try to guess which Cronenberg film the quote: “I’m gonna suck your brain dry. Everything you are is gonna become me.” comes from.
You can read the “Shooting Summit” series mentioned in the interview at: http://www.congestedcat.com/blog?category=Sh...2016-07-1031 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 2 - Christina Raia (Part 2)In our second episode, 4MileCircus partners Sean Mannion and Nicole Solomon sit down with filmmaker Christina Raia (Summit, IndieWorks film series), to discuss social media and crowdfunding. Part two of a four part interview. We also share a social media tip on using images to attract attention, and Nicole and Christina try to guess the oldies song Sean misheard as containing the lyric “She’s a slut you mourn, and you will know."
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The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 1 - Christina Raia (Part 1)In our first episode, 4MileCircus partners Sean Mannion and Nicole Solomon sit down with filmmaker Christina Raia(Summit, Indieworks film series), to discuss social media and filmmaking. Part one of a four part interview. We also share a social media tip for anyone confused about how to use hashtags and Nicole, Sean, and Christina talk about a few of the things that they are enjoying right now such as Lady Dynamite, period dramas centered around women's stories, and podcasts about decades-old television shows.
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