Audiovisual Cultures

Paula Blair chats with Dean Simone, Val McAdoo and Pete Postiglione about making their sports-themed family drama independent feature film Game Day (dir. Edgar Michael Bravo, 2021). Each talk through their production experiences in front of and behind the camera, Italian-American culture and family, and growing film production and storytelling embedded in Philadelphia. Includes plot details and potential spoilers.Music: commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. Find this episode’s extended show notes, links and automated transcript at https://audiovisualcultures.com/2022/10/05/audiovisual-cultures-episode-126-game-day-with-dean-simone-val-mcadoo-and-pete-postiglione/ Funding the podcast helps improve its quality and accessibility.

Paula Blair chats with Jenn Francis about making her podcasts Tools of the Podcast Trade and SoloMoms! Talk. We also hear about Jenn’s work with mindset coaching and mentoring, and about her travel experiences. We learn about getting started with podcast production, the importance of meeting people virtually and in person, and the ways Jenn is disrupting lasting stigmas around solo motherhood. If you get something out of this conversation or know someone who will, please share it and give it a good rating and review on your podcast app!Music: commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. The book Jenn refers to is The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.Funding the podcast helps us improve its quality and provide more accurate transcripts and captions. You can support this work and find this episode’s extended show notes, full guest bio and automated transcript at https://audiovisualcultures.com/2022/09/21/audiovisual-cultures-episode-125-podcasting-and-mindset-with-jennifer-francis/

Recorded on location at the Strand Arts Centre in East Belfast, programme manager Johanna Leech and cultural freelancer Robert J. E. Simpson chat to Paula Blair about the venue’s history, its current status and plans for its future. We then learn more about Robert’s work as an artist, an actor, a for-hire freelancer and with the CinePunked podcast. And finally, there is a post-viewing discussion between Robert and Paula after seeing Thor: Love and Thunder (dir. Taika Waititi, 2022) with plenty of references to plot details and lots of meandering off to other broadly relevant topics! If you get something out of this episode or know someone who will, please share it and give it a good rating and review on your podcast app.Music: commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. Funding the podcast helps us improve its quality and provide more accurate transcripts and captions. You can support this work and find this episode’s extended show notes and automated transcript at https://audiovisualcultures.com/2022/09/07/audiovisual-cultures-episode-124-strand-thor-and-robert-simpson/