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
Faith-Based Film: Jennifer Dornbush Believes In Hope, Healing & Dissecting Depravity
Kicking off our miniseries on Faith-Based Film, writer Jennifer Dornbush opens the case file on her life, her writing techniques and thoughts on how we can improve movies about The Bible.
Jennifer Dornbush grew up in a house with human body parts strewn about, but not in a bad way. Her father worked in forensics. That environment would have an influence on her writing career but not right away. Once it did though, her career took off in new and unexpected ways, including a recent turn as a faith-based film writer. All of that in more detail in this episode and then we get to The Fishbowl. We draw Improv Poetry (nail it!), Childhood Mischief and Anti-Antidisestablishmentarianism.
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Season 01 Episode 18
Faith-Based Film: Jennifer Dornbush Believes In Hope, Healing & Dissecting Depravity
Recorded on July 18, 2018
Released on September 11, 2018
Episode Duration: 01:14:26
Jennifer Dornbush can be found on the web at www.jenniferdornbush.com.
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.hollywoodfishbowl.com
Indie Musicians: Katie Anne Mitchell Has Built-In Protection From Hubris
Katie Anne Mitchell writes songs and she writes them well. She also writes stories and tells them well. But, the alchemy happens when she’s mixing the two, which is exactly what happens in this episode.
That moment of pure joy when you realize that you've signed a release to be on a podcast! There's truly nothing like it.
A proudly humble product of “the worst town in America”, Katie Anne Mitchell is chasing down her place in the world of Storytellers/Singers/Songwriters (a career they don’t usually mention at junior high job fairs). Her album is titled The Many Lives Of Mockingbird and one could be forgiven for thinking it’s autobiographical. Katie herself has gone through a fair number of transformations herself from the early days on the debate team. But, then, why would we tell/sing/write her story here when she does it so marvellously in the interview.