Jeanette Milio: Financing your Film
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Jeanette Millo is a Producer with 20 years of experience, born and raised in Germany, currently teaching Film Finance at USC. Her students have inspired her to write her new book, Entertainment Finance Today. We talk about what it was like to break into Hollywood as a Native German, the importance of weighing the story you want to tell against what it can make, and how to tell impactful stories.
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Daniel Ragussis on Ideology and Radicalization
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On this episode of the podcast Ragussis talks about what drove him to create the film. He talks about how he humanized the characters in the film by understanding their ideology and displaying qualities beyond just their views.
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HBO's Chance Morrison on Storytelling and Corporate Social Responsibility
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Chance Morrison has worked at HBO for 11 years, holding various positions and currently working in the department for Corporate Social Responsibility.
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Stacy Traub: The Impact When Writing a Modern Sitcom
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This week on the Cinema of Change podcast we’re talking with writer and show-runner Stacy Traub. Stacy Traub has worked as a writer and show-runner on shows like, Glee, Trophy Wife, The Real O'Neals, and Black-ish.
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Mark Litwak: Filmmaking Pitfalls in Deal-Making and Distribution
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Welcome to the with Tobias Deml and Robert Rippberger. Cinema of Change is a magazine and community that challenges the conventions of film and its ability to effect change in the world. This episode is an interview with entertainment attorney Mark Litwak called, "Filmmaking Pitfalls in Deal-Making and Distribution." Mark Litwak is a veteran entertainment attorney. As a Producer’s Representative, he assists filmmakers in arranging financing, marketing and distribution of their films. Litwak has packaged movie projects and served as executive producer on such feature films as “The...
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Joshua Oppenheimer: Why Filmmakers Shouldn't Chase Impact
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Welcome to the with Tobias Deml and Robert Rippberger. Cinema of Change is a magazine and community that challenges the conventions of film and its ability to effect change in the world. Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer was born in 1974 in Austin, Texas. He is a two-time Oscar-nominated American film director based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Oppenheimer has a Bachelor of Arts-degree summa cum laude in filmmaking from Harvard University and a PhD from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts in London. Oppenheimer spent 12 years in Indonesia and returned with two...
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Glenn Sparks: Is Media Impact Real?
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Welcome to the with Tobias Deml and Robert Rippberger. Cinema of Change is a magazine and community that challenges the conventions of film and its ability to effect change in the world. ...
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Nicholas Paige: The French New Wave and a Look to the Future
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Welcome to the with Tobias Deml and Robert Rippberger. Cinema of Change is a magazine and community that challenges the conventions of film and its ability to effect change in the world. Professor Paige teaches at the UC Berkeley French Department and has published a number of papers and books focusing mostly on seventeenth and eighteenth-century French literature and culture. What makes him so unique to us is that he is on of the foremost experts on the French New Wave - and the magazine that came with it, the “Cahiers du Cinema.” This period in 1960s French Cinema sparked a revolution...
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Lee Mun Wah: How Cinema Challenges our Perspective on Race
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Welcome to the podcast with Tobias Deml and Robert Rippberger. Cinema of Change is a magazine and community that challenges the conventions of film and its ability to effect change in the world. Lee Mun Wah is an internationally renowned Chinese American documentary filmmaker, author, poet, Asian folkteller, educator, community therapist and master diversity trainer. For more than 25 years he was a resource specialist and counselor in the San Francisco Unified School District. He has produced several documentaries discussing the impact of race relations in America. His list of...
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Linda Williams: What Really Are Filmmakers Up To?
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Welcome to the podcast with Tobias Deml and Robert Rippberger. Cinema of Change is a magazine and community that challenges the conventions of film and its ability to effect change in the world. ...
info_outlineWelcome to the Cinema of Change podcast with Tobias Deml and Robert Rippberger. Cinema of Change is a magazine and community that challenges the conventions of film and its ability to effect change in the world.
Linda Williams is a professor in the Film and Rhetoric departments at UC Berkeley. She teaches courses on pornography, melodrama, and “body genres.” In 1989 she published a study of pornographic film entitled Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the Frenzy of the Visible (second edition 1999). More recently she published Screening Sex (Duke, 2008), a history of the revelation and concealment of sex at the movies. In 2001 Williams published Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White, from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson (2001, Princeton)–an analysis of racial melodrama spanning the 19th and 20th centuries of American culture.
- 00:27 - Intro: Linda Williams
- 01:04 - How does the depiction of female characters influence women?
- 02:45 - How can filmmakers avoid including their unconscious bias in their films?
- 06:14 - The power play between Hollywood and the serial format
- 10:05 - Can films go beyond entertainment? Do they have a utility in deconstructing ideology?
- 15:07 - How has "The Wire" impacted you and its audience at large?
- 18:30 - How does the viewer's position in society influence a film experience?
- 22:20 - What's the relationship between critics, theorists and filmmakers?
- 23:49 - Is Pornography an instructional tool for our personal sex lives?
- 26:02 - Relationships in film - do they influence our own romances?
- 27:44 - What is the role of Film Theory in pushing media?
- 28:40 - Outro: A collaboration between scholars and practitioners?
We hope you find this conversation interesting and insightful. Subscribe to make sure you don’t miss an episode. Until next time, be the change that you want to see in the world. Then turn it into cinema.