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Tanya Dahl – Commercial Director | On The Fly Filmmaking

Popcorn Talk Network University, the online broadcast network that features movie discussion, news, interviews and commentary proudly presents “On The Fly Filmmaking (OTFF). Marielou Mandl interviews filmmakers and artists, from different facets of the industry, and discuss their involvements with production. Here you will learn free tips and tricks of filmmaking that they do not teach you in film school, and then you too can produce a movie!

Host & Producer Marielou Mandl (@MarielouMandl) interviews Commercial Director, Tanya Dahl !

ABOUT TANYA DAHL:

Tanya Dahl is a director and writer, known for Simulife (2017), The Story (2015) and The AlleyCat Hour (2014).

 

 

 

Kris Bowers – DEAR WHITE PEOPLE, Composer | On The Fly Filmmaking

Popcorn Talk Network University, the online broadcast network that features movie discussion, news, interviews and commentary proudly presents “On The Fly Filmmaking (OTFF). Marielou Mandl interviews filmmakers and artists, from different facets of the industry, and discuss their involvements with production. Here you will learn free tips and tricks of filmmaking that they do not teach you in film school, and then you too can produce a movie!

Host & Producer Marielou Mandl (@MarielouMandl) interviews Composer, Kris Bowers!

ABOUT KRIS BOWERS:

Emmy-winning composer, Kris Bowers, scores compositions that step beyond the traditional boundaries of genre to form new and thrilling music. Bowers currently scores Netflix’s critically acclaimed “Dear White People,” and Shonda Rhimes’ “For The People,” starring Hope Davis. As a composer of color in network television, Bowers is in a small group of composers closing the diversity gap, and at 29 years old, stands as the youngest composer scoring a network TV show.

Bowers recently wrote the music and lyrics for an original song featured as the main theme and end credits for “Madden NFL 19: Longshot,” the latest ‘story mode’ entry in the long-running “Madden” video game franchise, launching August 10. Earlier this year, Bowers scored the critically-acclaimed drama, “Monsters and Men” which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, and is having its Canadian premiere in September at the Toronto International Film Festival before releasing in theaters October 5. He recently completed the score for Peter Farrelly’s latest drama, “Green Book,” starring Academy Award-winner Mahershala Ali and Academy Award-nominee Viggo Mortensen, in theaters November 21. In addition to scoring the film, Bowers was the piano-playing double for Ali and performed all the on-camera piano playing in the film.

Bowers has scored a wide range of films including Amazon’s TV movie “The Snowy Day,” for which Bowers won a Daytime Emmy. He composed for “Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me,” starring Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey, “Seeds of Time,” “Play it Forward,” “Kobe Bryant’s Muse,” featuring Kobe Bryant, and “I Am Giant: Victor Cruz.” He also scored “Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You,” which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and “Little Boxes” which premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and was purchased by Netflix.

In addition to composing for film and television, Bowers has recorded and performed with artists such as Q-Tip, Aretha Franklin, Marcus Miller, José James, Ludacris, Christian Rich, Jay-Z, and Kanye West. He was commissioned by the Alvin Ailey dance company to create an original composition for “Untitled America,” a modern ballet piece that shines a light on the impact of the prison system on Africa-American families. The ballet was choreographed by Kyle Abraham, a MacArthur Genius Grant winner, with whom Bowers is a long-time collaborator. Furthermore, Bowers’ rich and eclectic sensibilities can be heard in his debut album with Concord Jazz, “Heroes + Misfits”, which opened at number one on the iTunes jazz chart.

Bowers, a Juilliard-trained musician, has received numerous awards and accolades for his excellence in jazz performance. Bowers was one of 40 artists selected to perform at the White House for the 2016 International Jazz Day, hosted by President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama. In 2011, he also won the coveted Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, where Aretha Franklin picked Bowers as a favorite to win during the semi-finals concert. Moreover, he was named a Steinway Artist, one of twelve iTunes “Artists to Watch” and was one of six composers to participate in the Sundance Film Composers Lab at Skywalker Sound in 2015.

Bowers resides in Los Angeles, CA.

http://www.krisbowers.com

 

 

 

Sarah McDaniel – Actress/Filmmaker | On The Fly Filmmaking

Popcorn Talk Network University, the online broadcast network that features movie discussion, news, interviews and commentary proudly presents “On The Fly Filmmaking (OTFF). Marielou Mandl interviews filmmakers and artists, from different facets of the industry, and discuss their involvements with production. Here you will learn free tips and tricks of filmmaking that they do not teach you in film school, and then you too can produce a movie!

Host & Producer Marielou Mandl (@MarielouMandl) interviews Actress/Filmmaker, Sarah McDaniel!

ABOUT SARAH MCDANIEL:

Sarah Rose McDaniel is an American model. She appeared in the music video for Mark Ronson and Kevin Parker’s songs “Summer Breaking” and “Daffodils”, and was the cover girl for Playboy magazine’s first non-nude issue in March 2016.

 

 

 

David Garcia – TEJANO- Director/Producer | On The Fly Filmmaking

Popcorn Talk Network University, the online broadcast network that features movie discussion, news, interviews and commentary proudly presents “On The Fly Filmmaking (OTFF). Marielou Mandl interviews filmmakers and artists, from different facets of the industry, and discuss their involvements with production. Here you will learn free tips and tricks of filmmaking that they do not teach you in film school, and then you too can produce a movie!

Host & Producer Marielou Mandl (@MarielouMandl) interviews Director & Producer, David Garcia!

ABOUT TEJANO:

Desperate for money to save his sick Grandfather, a South Texas farmhand resorts to the extreme: He breaks his own arm to smuggle a cast made of cocaine across the Mexican border.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8257900/

https://www.facebook.com/pg/tejanothemovie/about/?ref=page_internal

ABOUT DAVID GARCIA:

David Blue Garcia is an Emmy award-winning Director / Cinematographer based in Austin, Texas and makes a living directing and shooting television commercials, product videos and feature films. David Produced and Directed his first feature film, “Tejano”, which had its world premiere at the Dallas International Film Festival in 2018.

 

 

 

Sherri Chung & Cindy O’Connor – Composers | On The Fly Filmmaking

Popcorn Talk Network University, the online broadcast network that features movie discussion, news, interviews and commentary proudly presents “On The Fly Filmmaking (OTFF). Marielou Mandl interviews filmmakers and artists, from different facets of the industry, and discuss their involvements with production. Here you will learn free tips and tricks of filmmaking that they do not teach you in film school, and then you too can produce a movie!

Host & Producer Marielou Mandl (@MarielouMandl) interviews Composers, Chung & Cindy O’Connor!

ABOUT SHERRI & CINDY:

Sherri Chung is a composer for film and television and currently composes and conducts the scores for “Blindspot” (NBC) and “Riverdale” (CW).  Her compositional work includes both songs and scores for t.v., films, documentaries,  commercials, musicals and music libraries.  One of her recent films, “The Other Side of Home” was shortlisted for the 2017 Oscars for Best Short Documentary.

A long time collaborator with composer Blake Neely, they have worked together on a number of scores, including those for CW’s “Arrow”, “The Flash”, “Supergirl” and “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow”.

Sherri studied Music Composition and Theory at Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, FL, and attended USC’s Scoring For Motion Picture and Television Graduate Program in

Los Angeles, CA. Sherri has also attended the Sundance Institute’s Film Music Program as well as ASCAP’s Scoring Workshop. Shortly after moving to Los Angeles, she began working as an orchestrator for “Family Guy” and “American Dad”, with composer Walter Murphy.

Not only a composer, Sherri is also a pianist, vocalist and songwriter. She has recorded and produced 2 original albums and performs with her band in Los Angeles. As a vocalist, she has recorded for films, commercials, trailer music, and television (ABC’s “Resurrection”, and CW’s “Arrow”). Currently her voice can be heard on NBC’s “Blindspot” and the Netflix documentary series “The Keepers” (Emmy nominated for Outstanding Documentary), two scores she also conducted.

 

Cindy O’Connor is a composer, arranger and performer for film, TV and theater. She was born in Santa Fe, NM and raised in Japan, New York and Los Angeles. Her parents knew she had a musical future when at age 5 she wrote a song on her little keyboard called “The Aku-Aku Foot Disease” (OK, a strange musical future perhaps…).

Cindy is currently scoring (and occasionally singing on) the Crash TV series with Mark Isham.  Her film composing credits include the upcoming feature Not Forgotten (starring Simon Baker), Forgiving the Franklins (one of Premiere Magazine’s “Ten to Watch at Sundance” 2006), Compact Only, and additional music for The Women, The Black Dahlia, Crossing Over, The Secret Life of Bees, The Express, The Mist, Running Scared, and The Black Donnellys (NBC series). As an orchestrator, arranger and programmer she has worked on The Express, Pride and Glory, Lions for Lambs, In the Valley of Elah, Bobby, Eight Below and many other films.

Cindy is an award-winning theater composer with several original musicals produced internationally. Her musical “All That He Was” won the Kennedy Center/ACTF National Musical Theater Award and is published by Samuel French. She has composed music for the off-Broadway premieres of “In The Air” and “La Llorona”, and she is currently developing a new musical, “40 is the new 15”, with the Academy for New Musical Theater in Los Angeles. Watch this space for performance listings in 2009.

As a singer and keyboard player she has played everything from classical concerts to rock & roll to electronica. She has toured with rock superstar Pat Benatar, played the North Sea Jazz Festival with Grammy-winning trumpeter Mark Isham, swung with the vocal jazz quintet Pacific Swingline, and gotten all girly with Petra Haden’s “Sellouts” (10 women singing a cappella arrangements of The Who’s album “Sellout”). TV appearances include Good Morning America, VH1’s “Women Who Rock”, and “Charmed”.

 

 

 

Jordan Taylor Wright – Filmmaker | On The Fly Filmmaking

Popcorn Talk Network University, the online broadcast network that features movie discussion, news, interviews and commentary proudly presents “On The Fly Filmmaking (OTFF). Marielou Mandl interviews filmmakers and artists, from different facets of the industry, and discuss their involvements with production. Here you will learn free tips and tricks of filmmaking that they do not teach you in film school, and then you too can produce a movie!

Host & Producer Marielou Mandl (@MarielouMandl) interviews Filmmaker, Jordan Taylor Wright!

ABOUT JORDAN TAYLOR WRIGHT:

Taylor Cut Films is a digital media and film production company that specializes in shooting and editing music videos, short films, live concerts, and commercials.

 

 

 

Leo Birenberg and Zach Robinson – Composers | On The Fly Filmmaking

Popcorn Talk Network University, the online broadcast network that features movie discussion, news, interviews and commentary proudly presents “On The Fly Filmmaking (OTFF). Marielou Mandl interviews filmmakers and artists, from different facets of the industry, and discuss their involvements with production. Here you will learn free tips and tricks of filmmaking that they do not teach you in film school, and then you too can produce a movie!

Host & Producer Marielou Mandl (@MarielouMandl) interviews Composers, Leo Birenberg and Zach Robinson!

ABOUT:

Members of r/outrun might know Zach from his work as D/A/D. He released his first EP (Super Motives) in 2009 and LP, “The Construct,” in 2013.

Leo Birenberg has composed music for shows such as “Son of Zorn,” Comedy Central’s “Big Time in Hollywood, Florida” and “Adam Ruins Everything.”

Together they composed the music for YouTube Red’s original series “Cobra Kai,” and the score was heavily influenced by synthwave! The soundtrack is out now on all digital platforms and we have a physical release on 5/22 from La-La Land Records.

Betsy Heimann – Costume Designer | On The Fly Filmmaking

Popcorn Talk Network University, the online broadcast network that features movie discussion, news, interviews and commentary proudly presents “On The Fly Filmmaking (OTFF). Marielou Mandl interviews filmmakers and artists, from different facets of the industry, and discuss their involvements with production. Here you will learn free tips and tricks of filmmaking that they do not teach you in film school, and then you too can produce a movie!

Host & Producer Marielou Mandl (@MarielouMandl) interviews Costume Designer, Betsy Heimann!

Betsy Heimann was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is known for her work on Almost Famous (2000), Pulp Fiction (1994) and Vanilla Sky (2001).