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Celebrating our Latinidad: Filmmaker Merced Elizondo, “Unidos Somos Más” (opens the original)
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This month we’re celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month with a filmmaker whose entire body of work is proof of what happens when you stop waiting for permission (a lo latino ;) In this episode, Anna sits down with director and writer Merced Elizondo (Manos de Oro, And Then Everything Turned Itself Inside Out) to talk about growing up in Dallas, Texas with a house full of borrowed VHS tapes, learning to direct through trial by fire, and why he believes some of the best scenes are the ones t
Let’s not be scared of AI but understand where it is going…because humans still matter (opens the original)
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Let’s get one thing straight before anyone starts criticizing AI users: I use AI the same way I use a GPS or a calculator. A tool. Not a personality. Not a threat to my personality. I didn’t cry when GPS told me a shortcut existed (because I wanted to be smart enough to discover it myself), and I’m not going to cry because a chatbot can draft a mediocre paragraph, although I do fight (and have fun) with it…Pero, let’s see. My first job at a TV network was as an assignment editor and writer. What
My Experience at Televerse 26: Behind This Year’s Emmy Nominees (opens the original)
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It’s been a couple of weeks (or more), but now that we’ve already cast our Emmy votes, I wanted to share more about an event I had the opportunity to attend before the 78th Emmy Awards: Televerse 26. This was the second season of the Television Academy’s Televerse festival, and I enjoyed much more than watching some of this year’s Emmy-nominated shows.As Co-Lead of the Latinidad Affinity Group, I had the opportunity to welcome our members and invite academy members to join the program. I also lo
Actor George Finn on Trading Auditions for the Producer's Chair | ‘Atlas King' Movie (opens the original)
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In our episodes of The Hollywood Makers, we’re looking for the same thing: people who are actually inside the changes happening in the media industry right now. This week’s guest, actor George Finn, is exactly that.George stars opposite Michael Bisping and Cuba Gooding Jr. in Atlas King, a crime thriller he didn’t just act in, he helped build it from the inside with his brother, director Nika Agiashvili. To play the part, he trained twice a day alongside actual UFC and Pride fighters. Host Valer
Keanush Tafreshi on Rejection, Representation, and Becoming Hassan Zamani in 'The Agency' Series. (opens the original)
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What does it mean to bring authenticity to a character when your own cultural identity becomes part of the process? Actor Keanush Tafreshi joins Mona on The Hollywood Makers to talk about it.From theater stages to sharing the screen with names like Richard Gere and Michael Fassbender in The Agency, Keanush opens up about playing Hassan Zamani with vulnerability and complexity instead of stereotype, and what it meant to reconnect with Farsi, the language he grew up speaking, as part of preparing
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