Filmnut - Season 3 (2008)

Phil Alberstat is the CEO of 49 North Media. The company is involved in the financing and production of film, television and web content. Prior to the North Media, Phil was an agent with the William Morris Agency in the independent film division. There he was involved in the packaging, financing and selling of such films as "Thank You For Smoking", "Away From Her", "Factory Girl", and "Bobby". He won an Emmy in 2004 for "The Incredible Mrs Ritchie". He has also written the book: The Insider's Guide to Film Finance".

Leslie Zemeckis came on too talk about her project "Staar: She'd Rather Be a Mistress", a comedy/mocumentary in which Zemeckis wrote, starred and produced. The piece had many hilarious moments and is based on her one woman show and the exploits of a burlesque dancer.

Robert Davi, whose credits include: Stargate: Atlantis, Die Hard, License to Kill, The Goonies, Profiler and far too many others to list, makes his directorial debut in the indie film "The Dukes," in which he also co-writes and stars in. The Dukes is a heartfelt comedy filled with great humor and Doo-Wop music.

Don Most, best known as Ralph Malph on Happy Days talked about three great projects. Two features he directed, "Moola" and "The Last Best Sunday". In addition, we talked about his pilot Take2 in which he co-stars with fellow Happy Days alum, Anson Williams (Potsie). Lastly, directing in general, his appearance in Star Trek Voyager and of course we talked a little Happy Days.

Founder of theStream.tv, 1st A.D and executive producer of Filmnut, Brian Gramo sits down for an in depth interview about thestream.tv and his work as a 1st.

Producer Scott M. Rosenfelt credits include: Home Alone, Mystic Pizza, Teen Wolf, Kids In America, Smoke Signals, and Extremities. Rosenfelt talked about the role of a producer in films. He emphasized the importance of pre-production and discussed the difference in how he approaches a project that he helps develop from the outset versus being brought on as a hired gun.

Having worked with Oscar winning actors Larry Moss is considered to be an acting coach that is a legend in his own time. Synthesizing the work of the great coaches that have come before him, Meisner, Addler, Hagan and more, Moss adapts his style to the needs of actor he is working with. A big believer in script analysis, we covered a lot in this interview.

Writer/ Director James Gunn (Slither, Dawn of the Dead) was the perfect guest to celebrate the two year anniversary of Filmnut with. Like my first interview with James, he was fun and informative. Making the most of new media opportunities he has a variety of new projects going on that we covered.

John D'aquino shared some great technical sound knowledge with us tonight. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts with a degree in a film, John currently has a his own company, Childhood Dreams, in which he produces his own work and provides production sound services for both studio and indie films...Good questions from viewers, good tips from John and few links for more information as well.

Fans around the world tuned in to Xena: Warrior Princess star Renee O'Connor and they were not disappointed. O'Connor is a passionate, sincere, fun loving artist sharing her filmmaking and life experiences. We covered her just completed dramatic short, "Words Unspoken" in which O'Connor acts, writes and directs. This is a heartfelt piece about a man fulfilling his father's dying wish that makes you think and inspires debate. In addition we touched on an upcoming web series "Ark" in which she stars. Lots more covered including many viewer questions.

How real is reality TV? We got into that and much more with editor Marina Catala who edits for NBC's The Biggest Loser. Catala's other credits include: The Amazing Race, Beauty and the Geek, A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila, Big Brother, Pros Versus Joes, Madden Nation and many more.

Producer Kerry David talked about her current projects "Like Dandelion Dust" to be released by 20th Century Fox in September starring Mira Sorvino and "College Sucks" which begins shooting next month. She also talked about how she broke into the business via a temp job for Paramount and then being a personal assistant for Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.

Chuck & Star Trek (TV) Visual Effects Supervisor Dan Curry was informative and entertaining using visual aids from Star Trek in some cases to demonstrate what he does. In this episode we talked about the skills it takes to be a visual effects supervisor, working with different departments on a film set and geek-ed out a little bit on Chuck & Star Trek.

Todd Lindgren from FilmL.A. Inc. talks about the film permit process.

Dov S-S Simens, who includes Quentin Tarantino, and Chris Nolan among his many famous past students, talks and entertains us tonight about his 2 day film school including everything a first time filmmaker would want to know. Dov is funny yet very sincere as he talks about many different aspects of the process. Directing, lighting, negotiating with vendors, shooting ratio, budgets, marketing, getting that great script, and more. Whatever we don't get to in the show he gets to in his two day seminar.

Tino Struckmann talks about his work in personal protection to the stars to service in the military and his transition to acting and Filmmaking.

Producer Andrew Paquin talks about his projects, Blue State, starring Anna Paquin, New In Town, starring Renee Zellweger and more.

Gary Goldman is a the 1st A.D./ Associate Producer of Entourage. He talks about the process of shooting an episode, working with the director, the actors, the crew and more.

Sreen Actors Guild national board member Seymour Cassel came on to talk about the proposed agreement between SAG and the Alliance of Motion Pictures ad Television Producers (AMPTP).

Hollywood Screen Actors Guild board member Ned Vaughn announced the results of the SAG vote on the proposed agreement with the AMPTP.

In addition to a lot of laughs, a lot of material is covered, Chuck related and otherwise with Josh Gomez.

Storyboard Artist Robbie Consing came on to talk about his work on such films as: Batman Forever, Terminator 3, The Rock, Armageddon, Jumper, X2, Bad Boys II, Mission Impossible II and more.

Award winning Actor/Producer Paul J. Alessi came on to talk about his romantic comedy Knuckle Draggers.

Script Consultant Pilar Alessandra discusses the craft of writing. Her background includes: Script reader for Amblin Entertainment. With the formation of DreamWorks, she became Senior Story Analyst and a reader liaison between the studio and Robert Zemeckis's company, ImageMovers.

Gary Valentine, best known for his role as Danny Heffernan on King of Queens, comes on to talk about his hilarious new web series, Dusty Peacock, the old days on King of Queens and a lot more.

Vik Sahay, Lester Patel, from the NBC show Chuck, talked about his character, Chuck, Jeffster's live performance at Comic-Con, his work in the Genie award winning film Amal and much more.

David Maples, Creator, writer, executive producer of the USA Network show "In Plain Sight" came on to talk about the show and the craft of writing.

Jonathan Bennett came on to talk about a recently released film he is starring in, Van Wilder: Freshman Year. We also talk about Mean Girls, Dukes Of Hazzard, Smallville, why Jonathan repeatedly reads Michael Caine's acting book and much more.