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: Dallas Jenkins Knows The Danger Of Exceeding Expectations
Faith-Based Film Director Dallas Jenkins shares his ups, his downs and his all-arounds as a filmmaker with an uncommon openness of what he’s getting right and what he’s gotten wrong.
Dallas Jenkins has learned the hard way what it means to exceed expectations. Sometimes it’s a good thing, sometimes it’s not. And, sometimes it can bring a multi-year project to a screeching halt. Not only does Dallas take us on the deep-dive into that screeching halt, he also talks candidly about how he got the next project off of the ground, a task that was only possible after he picked himself up first. Then we turn to the Fishbowl and the conversation continues forward with the same positive energy but in more bite-sized chunks.
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Season 01 Episode 20
Faith-Based Film: Dallas Jenkins Knows The Danger Of Exceeding Expectation
Recorded on September 15, 2018
Released on September 25, 2018
Episode Duration: 01:15:50
Dallas Jenkins can be found on Facebook at dallas.jenkins, Instagram @dallas.jenkins and on the web at www.thechosen.tv.
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and atwww.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