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What truly empowers creatives? How are today’s creators convincing in their process? Do they need convincing? Filmmaker Evan Kidd & curated guests dialogue to navigate how the makers of this world define culture.
Evan has gone on to work in the filmmaking industry, founding RockSet Productions, creating his original feature film Son of Clowns & TV series Home Remedy on Amazon Prime Video, as well as industry music videos featured on XXL, Mass Appeal, and more.
Welcome to the start of Convincing Creatives. My name is Evan Kidd. I’m a filmmaker, drummer, and hot sauce aficionado. I call North Carolina home, and I’ll be your host. I hope this show brings value to your creative life.
Evan has gone on to work in the filmmaking industry, founding RockSet Productions, creating his original feature film Son of Clowns & TV series Home Remedy on Amazon Prime Video, as well as industry music videos featured on XXL, Mass Appeal, and more.
Welcome to the start of Convincing Creatives. My name is Evan Kidd. I’m a filmmaker, drummer, and hot sauce aficionado. I call North Carolina home, and I’ll be your host. I hope this show brings value to your creative life.
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Kynan Pearson is a video game designer who has worked with Nintendo on titles such as Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Pearson was the lead designer for Donkey Kong Country Returns developed by Retro Studios. Pearson has also developed for Halo 4. Pearson brings passionate creativity and thoughtfulness into his design […]
Kamus Leonardo returns to Convincing Creatives for this bonus episode! It’s been a minute since Convincing Creatives podcast released an episode so here is a little something! Always a pleasure to catch up with my friend Kamus and talk creativity. Kamus is a Durham, NC based hip-hop artist and lead actor of the feature film […]
After 15 interview episodes season three of Convincing Creatives Podcast is officially wrapped! We learned a ton! Here in this bonus episode we discuss what we learned across this past season and how to apply it going forward to be the best creatives we can be. In a clip show format! Thank you for all […]
Evan Kidd sits down with Oliver William Smith. Oliver is a writer, director and performer based in the UK. The Great, Great Grandson of a circus ringmaster and the son of travelling showman, the magic of putting on a show drew him to the theatre at an early age, but it was the moving image […]
Evan Kidd sits down with Melissa Maerz. Melissa has worked as an editor at Spin and Rolling Stone, a staff writer for Entertainment Weekly and the Los Angeles Times, and a supervising producer on HBO’s Vice News Tonight. She was a founding editor at New York magazine’s Vulture website. She recently released the book Alright, […]
Evan Kidd sits down with Dan Perlman. Dan is a comedian, writer, and director from New York City. He is currently the executive producer, co-creator-writer-star of Showtime’s critically-acclaimed comedy series, FLATBUSH MISDEMEANORS. Dan co-created the award-winning digital series of the same name, which served as the foundation for the Showtime show. Made on zero-budget, the […]
Evan Kidd sits down with Dayna Reggero. Dayna is an award-winning film director, listener, and founding director of the Climate Listening Project. She was an All-American and Division 1 runner before volunteering at the local zoo while in college. Dayna’s work started at 19, when she began appearing on television with animals to promote connection […]
Evan Kidd sits down with Eric Morgan. Eric is a North Carolina based guitarist, music producer, and is a product manager at Facebook. Eric balances both music and technology to find new meanings in the art and world around him. Eric has played in bands such as A Hero A Fake, Brigades, and the indie/art/dream-pop […]
Evan Kidd sits down with Michele Tracy Berger. Michele is a professor, a writer, a creativity coach. Her main love is writing speculative fiction, though she also is known to write poetry and creative nonfiction, too. A few places her short fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction has appeared, or is forthcoming include: 100 Word Story, […]
Evan Kidd sits down with Michael DiBiasio. Michael is an author and a filmmaker working to craft hopeful stories for complex people. A self-taught, middle-class independent artist, Michael aims to deliver thoughtful, accessible stories that more closely resemble the everyday lives of American audiences, particularly when it comes to real-world issues surrounding contemporary economics, inequality, […]
Evan Kidd sits down with Stevee-Rayne Warren. Stevee is the Community Crew Up Manager at New Orleans Video Access Center (NOVAC), where through consulting partnerships with WarnerMedia, The Walking Dead, and FilmNation she facilitates community-based PA placement programs across the country. She has a passion for socially moving stories and for cultivating and supporting individuals […]
Evan Kidd sits down with Justin Meckes for this week’s episode. Justin is a fellow North Carolina based writer & filmmaker who bounces between novels, poetry, and making movies. Justin’s latest project is AUTUMNAL HYMNS currently featured on his website. Watch this episode! DOWNLOAD PS: Check out the trailer for Evan’s new movie Panda Bear It. […]
Evan Kidd sits down with Kyle Sullivan for this week’s episode. Kyle is a filmmaker from Birmingham, Alabama who is curious about the natural world around him. Bouncing between narrative and documentary film Kyle recently filmed a multipart YouTube series for his channel… in Antarctica! Plus he also has a new short film that played […]
Evan Kidd sits down with Ian Wheeler for this week’s episode. Ian is the Co-Founder and Publisher of Talkhouse. Some of his first experience in the entertainment industry was writing about music for alt-weeklies Charleston City Paper and Athens, GA’s The Flagpole. He soon began managing bands and eventually co-founded Partisan Records, which led to […]
Evan Kidd sits down with Sydney Gayle Amanuel for this week’s episode. Sydney is an artist from New York. Her projects range from film to photography to whatever else she gets her hands on. She is currently the Art Director on the ID Channel show, Evil Lives Here. She also plays a few characters on […]
Evan Kidd sits down with Los Angeles based screenwriter David Wappel for a super dope conversation about all things screenwriting. David’s latest collaborative screenplay with director Andrew Morgan for Long Gone By was adapted into an award winning feature film that is now streaming on HBO Max, so go watch it! The International Screenwriters’ Association […]
Evan Kidd sits down with Great Guns Managing Director and Producer Oliver Fuselier for an insightful hour of conversation about how commercials are creatively made. Oliver began his career interesting in being in front of the camera, but soon found joy in producing projects after arriving in Hollywood. Currently Oliver is an award-winning Executive Producer, […]
Welcome back to season three of the podcast! Evan Kidd sits down with filmmaker and composer Rich Ragsdale for an exciting hour of conversation. Rich began his career as a composer for some of the biggest TV shows in Hollywood creating music for WILL AND GRACE, ACCORDING TO JIM, and KING OF QUEENS, among others, […]
Season two finale! “Panda Bear It” director Evan Kidd speaks with lead actor & hip-hop artist Damien Elliott Bynum aka Kamus Leonardo who plays the role of Kamus, a slightly fictionalized version of himself in the film. Evan talks with Kamus about his acting debut in Panda Bear It as the lead role, and how […]
“Panda Bear It” director Evan Kidd speaks with actress Mary Miles Kokotek who plays the role of Irma in the film. Evan and Mary Miles discuss filming on a farm with cows, horses, and other live animals as well as finding the balance in her performance with comedy in the role of Irma alongside tragedy. […]
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