Happy New Year! We Welcome You With Open Arms, 2020!
The new season begins with a hearty handshake, a warm embrace and an emotional look backwards and forwards with more words untoward towards all that can be!
The winter break is over and we are back! In this premiere inaugural first debut episode for 2020, Swinky and I take a look back at 2019 and a look forward at 2020 (which is where, incidentally, we plan to spend the next year). We’ve got a lot planned (and a lot unplanned) for The Hollywood Fishbowl and we hope you’ll join us on the journey. It’s a wide open road ahead of us with guests au gusto and talking to taste. I just wrote that! With my brain and fingers! As always, thank you for listening!
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Season 03 Episode 01
Happy American New Year! We Welcome You With Open Arms, 2020!
Recorded on January 12, 2020
Released on January 14, 2020
Episode Duration: 00:44:34
Swinky can be found on Twitter & Instagram @swinkymusic and on the web at www.swinkymusic.com.
Jesse can be found on Instagram @jjkoester and on the web at www.sunshinepicturesllc.com.
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Journalism: Zon D’Amour Loves Tea, Turns It Down
From The Shadows of the Archives, Zon D’Amour strikes without warning, leaving not but insight in her wake!
We welcomed Zon D’Amour to The Hollywood Fishbowl ages ago, at the start of a journalism series that was harder to book than expected. We’re releasing this episode now. Why? Because it’s good and Zon emailed saying “what ever happened to that episode?” We cover a lot of ground that was relevant then (Black Panther) and even more that’s relevant now (everything else on the episode). When we get to The Fishbowl, we pull and skip unwanted medical advancements but take the time to answer questions on autobiography titles, moments of bad friendship, and the three items you’d take to an island.
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Season 02 Episode 31
Journalism: Zon D’Amour Loves Tea, Turns It Down
Recorded on August 10, 2018
Released on July 2, 2019
Episode Duration: 01:23:10
Zon D’Amour can be found on Instagram @zondamour and on the web at https://zondamour.com/.
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.hollywoodfishbowl.com.
Comedy: Nicole Feenstra Takes Over The Hollywood Fishbowl
In which The Hollywood Fishbowl makes the transition from documentary to narrative.
Once in lifetime, there comes a Hollywood Fishbowl so epic... So singular... So bonkers that it will make you question everything you know about The Hollywood Fishbowl. Are we a long-form interview show? Or, are we a narrative radio show? Or, are we an improv theatre of the mind? The answer is and only can be yes. And, we’re also The Hollywood Fishbowl where-in we pull questions from a bowl and then answer them. As always, thanks for listening!
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Season 02 Episode 21
Comedy: Nicole Feenstra Takes Over The Hollywood Fishbowl
Recorded on April 19, 2019
Released on May 9, 2019
Episode Duration: 00:59:31
Nicole Feenstra can be found on the web at https://www.nicolefeenstra.com/.
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.hollywoodfishbowl.com.
Comedy: Nicole Feenstra Made A Very Funny Web Series
Nicole Feenstra works in the world of marketing and data analysis. Jesse is a font of ignorance on those topics so the episode is instead about comedy and first kisses.
Nicole works in marketing, specifically data and analytics. Which led her to the world of podcasting as she prepared to launch her own. Which, in turn, led her to The Hollywood Fishbowl (because we love helping people launch their own podcasts). She’s also made the web series Broken Hearts Division. In this episode, we talk about Nicole’s childhood, her move to (and retreat from [and subsequent move back to]) LA and the genesis of her web series. Then, Jesse bails on the episode so that Nicole can host. Stick around for her episode and, as always, thanks for listening!
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Season 02 Episode 20
Comedy: Nicole Feenstra Made A Very Funny Web Series
Recorded on April 19, 2019
Released on May 7, 2019
Episode Duration: 56:36:15
Nicole Feenstra can be found on the web at https://www.nicolefeenstra.com/.
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.hollywoodfishbowl.com.
MWP: Simone Bartesaghi Talks 3D Filmmaking, Sensitivity and The Matrix
We met Simone through Michael Wiese Productions but the title of ‘author’ only begins to scratch the surface. Simone started his career in business and had already found success when he finally got bitten by the film bug. Once he got his start, he couldn’t shake it and went on to produce and direct multiple award-winning shorts (one of them unbound by 2 crummy dimensions). As always, thank you for listening!
We met Simone through Michael Wiese Productions but the title of ‘author’ only begins to scratch the surface. Simone started his career in business and had already found success when he finally got bitten by the film bug. Once he got his start, he couldn’t shake it and went on to produce and direct multiple award-winning shorts (one of them unbound by 2 crummy dimensions). As always, thank you for listening!
Season 01 Episode 08
Simone Bartesaghi Talks 3D Filmmaking, Sensitivity and The Matrix
Recorded on January 24, 2019
Released on February 26,2019
Episode Duration: 01:50:39
Simone Bartesaghi can be found on the web at www.sibamedia.com.
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.hollywoodfishbowl.com.
Faith-Based Film: Paul Long Seeks Direction, Not Perfection
Paul Long, founder and president of Kappa Studios, shares his thoughts on not just post production but also faith-based filmmaking and even faith.
Paul Long is a native Angelino but not a native post guy. His first college experience was for architecture. It wasn’t until a bit later in life that he got into post-production and eventually founded Kappa Studios (you know it, down on the corner on Magnolia). On this episode, Paul shares the genesis of Kappa, from the early days through to today and their current slate of projects, which includes a move into producing faith-based films. After all of that, we dive into the fishbowl and pull until our hearts content.
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Season 01 Episode 21
Faith-Based Film: Paul Long Seeks Direction, Not Perfection
Recorded on September 26, 2018
Released on October 2, 2018
Episode Duration: 01:09:13
Paul Long can be found on Twitter @kappastudios, Instagram @kappastudios and on the web at http://www.kappastudios.com/.
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.sunshinepicturesllc.com/hwfishbowl
Faith-Based Film: Sonja Piper Dosti Heard The Best Pitch At Age 8
Sonja Piper Dosti found her faith at 8 years old and never turned her back on it, even through a long and successful career in filmmaking. How does that work? Listen and find out!
Sonja didn’t grow up a Christian; she discovered her faith at 8 when a stranger introduced her to The Bible. She’s held that faith close through her life, even as she moved through a career in film. We talk about the gap between the quiet austerity of religion and how that squares with a career in the film industry, which isn’t exactly known for its quiet austerity. We also take a swim in The Fishbowl and answer some humdingers from that arena. And, of course, empathy!
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Season 01 Episode 19
Sonja Piper Dosti Heard The Best Pitch At Age 8
Recorded on July 23, 2018
Released on August September 18, 2018
Episode Duration: 01:10:45
Sonja Piper Dosti can be found on Twitter @spdosti and on the web at www.sonjapiperdosti.com/.
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.sunshinepicturesllc.com/hwfishbowl
Storytelling: Kathie Fong Yoneda Has Had Her Feet On Every Rung Of The Ladder
Kathie Fong Yoneda has climbed from typist to executive but didn’t do so in a straight line (because there is no such thing as a straight line when it comes to life). Exactly how does an early interest in journalism and art lead to top-level employment at major studios? We’d answer that but Kathie does so better than we ever could.
One of the common themes among our guests is empathy. While this isn’t a competition, Kathie was the first guest to ask about Neo’s wellbeing after he finished fighting Morpheus. So, that’s where the bar is now, future guests. From there, the conversation takes off, touching on community college, art, journalism, affirmative action, and storytelling. Specifically, we focus on how to think about storytelling when addressing executives. How do you best package an idea for studios? How do you rework a project for pitch and for sale? All that and more on this episode of The Hollywood Fishbowl!
Storytelling: Hilliard Guess Has Game, Shares Game
Hilliard Guess can pinpoint the exact moment he became a writer. It was when he started writing. Of course, no story is so simple and few are this well told. As always, thank you for listening.
Hilliard Guess knows his way around a microphone. And a podcast. And a writers room. And a screenplay. And a film set. And a stage. So, where do you even start the interview? We start at the relationships he cultivated with the local skinheads (Neo-Nazi and traditional) growing up in the ‘hood, as a gay, black kid in the 80s Mod/Rudeboy/Punk Scene. From there, we wind our way into the writers room with a torrent of gold wisdom on how to navigate that environment. Our belated arrival at the fishbowl gives us solid three-act structure with the pulls Baby Writers, Autobiographies and Death.
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Season 01 Episode 11
Hilliard Guess Has Game, Shares Game
Recorded on July 8, 2018
Released on July 17, 2018
Episode Duration: 01:12:11
Hilliard Guess can be found on Twitter @hilliardguess & @screenwritersRR, and on the web at https://www.patreon.com/ScreenwritersRantRoom
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.sunshinepicturesllc.com/hwfishbowl