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Film Critic & Writer Jeremy Knox on BRAINSTARE, AI Cinema, and the Creative Tool

2026-04-2401:24:44

Film critic and writer Jeremy Knox joins Steve Balderson to discuss BRAINSTARE, AI cinema, and the shifting conversation around artificial intelligence as a creative tool. Once strongly opposed to AI, Knox has since begun experimenting with it himself, leading to a thoughtful conversation about skepticism, authorship, control, independent film, and the future of moviemaking. Jeremy Knox is a film critic and writer whose work has appeared in Film Threat and Cinema Crazed, where he contri...

The One & Only Tony Pedone!

2022-10-0445:21

This special Season Two finale features producer/director Anthony Pedone. Pedone has produced, written, directed, or shot over 24 features, documentaries, and short films. In 2015, he produced THE STRONGEST MAN, which premiered at Sundance and was released theatrically and on VOD by Film Buff and Sundance Global. In 2018, his directorial debut AN AMERICAN IN TEXAS won the Dutch Golden Stone Award at the Scenecs Film Festival in Hilversum, Holland and was distributed by Gravitas Worldwid...

Clara Ritger "Film, Curiosity & Adventure"

2022-09-2047:31

Clara Ritger grew up in the small town of Huntington Beach, California, where she learned what real Mexican food tastes like and how to cut the line at Disneyland. At the ripe old age of two she ran as far ahead of her parents as her child leash would take her on the Yosemite trails to ask random strangers questions about why they were hiking and if they would be her friend. Since then, she has continued to ask why but usually refrains from asking subjects during interviews if they want to be...

Filmmaker & Author John Gaspard

2022-09-0654:21

John Gaspard is author of the Eli Marks mystery series as well as four other stand-alone novels, "The Greyhound of the Baskervilles," "A Christmas Carl," "The Sword & Mr. Stone" and "The Ripperologists." He also writes the Como Lake Players mystery series, under the pen name Bobbie Raymond. In real life, John’s not a magician, but he has directed six low-budget features that cost very little and made even less – that’s no small trick. He’s also written multiple books on the subject ...

Contemporary Artist Austin Young

2022-08-2349:44

Austin Young is from Reno, Nevada and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. The foundation of his career is from studying at Parsons in Paris. Early in his career, Austin transferred his interests from traditional portrait painting towards a long celebrated career in portrait photography. In many ways, Austin is more accurately described as an image-maker: his projects illustrate the sublime qualities of character that make celebrated people unique. Based on a nuanced visual language of p...

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