Cinemascope

Genevieve Trainor, Nazneen Akhtar Rahim

Genevieve Trainor, a professional actor and PR and marketing expert, chats with a range of entertainment industry experts from around the world who share "insider insights" that demystify the industry and help with the economic development of our communities. On the last Friday of every month, Dr. James Wysong, Dean of Arts and Design at SFCC, and Milton Reiss, Co-Chair of the Film Department at SFCC, discuss everything from how culture impacts film and vice versa to their love of the sci-fi genre. Nazneen Akhtar Rahim is a British American actor. Originally from London, Nazneen studied Law at the University of Westminster, graduating with honors, following which she practiced human rights law. She has worked at a humanitarian assistance charity, obtaining a certificate in Disaster Management and is fluent in Urdu and Hindi. email - cinemascope@ksfr.org

  1. 6 MAR

    Tantoo Cardinal & Lonnie Anderson

    Tantoo Cardinal is an extraordinarily talented Native Canadian actress, with an illustrious career spanning five decades. She is known for the films Dances with Wolves, Legends of the Fall, Smoke Signals, and Killers of the Flower Moon. She is of Cree and Métis heritage. She is a founding member of The Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company. In 2009 Tantoo was honored with the Member of the Order of Canada "for her contributions to the growth and development of Aboriginal performing arts in Canada, as a screen and stage actress, and as a founding member of the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company". In 2017 she was inducted in Canada's Walk of Fame.  Lonnie Anderson is Jicarilla Apache, Mexhika, Chichimeca.  He was an executive producer of the film THE SEVENTH FIRE working with Natalie Portman and Terrence Malick which examines Native American gangs. The film was shown at the White House under the Obama administration. Anderson collaborated and consulted on the animation featured in Michael Pollan limited series HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND (2022) on Netflix. Anderson is also working with the world-renowned poet and film maker Jimmy Santiago Baca of the film Blood In, Blood Out on a literacy and film program. Past experience include working with Spike Lee at 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks; collaborating with American Indian Movement founders Dennis Banks and Russell Means on substance and alcohol abuse Film programs.  Anderson has worked, lectured and filmed all over the globe.  He has had the privilege of collaborating with many amazing and talented people such as President Barack Obama, Mark Ruffalo, Natalie Portman, Lance Armstrong, Robert Duvall, Spike Lee, Samuel L Jackson, Jason Lee, Shepard Fairey, Dolores Huerta, Wes Studi, Gary Farmer, Russell Means, Adam Beach, Dennis Banks and Floyd Red Crow Westerman. Anderson has worked with some of the largest clients on the planet. NASA, SpaceX, Nike, Microsoft, Coke, Tesla, NFL, ABC, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, IBM, Intel, Pepsi, Pfizer, FedEx, Ikea, Wildlife Conservation Society, Tour de France, US Air Force, The Pentagon and The White House. Anderson lectured and taught at the New York Institute of Technology in Bahrain, Jordan, Abu Dhabi and Dubai. He is a frequent lecturer at Università Luava di Venezia in Italy, and works with former gang members and formerly incarcerated youth at La Plazita Institute.  The documentary film ENOUGHNESS - The Prequel, Indigenous Economics is brought to us by Lonnie Anderson and voiced by Tantoo Cardinal.   Watch the film here: https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/enoughness-the-prequel-indigenous-economics-with-tantoo-cardinal/

    27 min
  2. 13 FEB

    Kirk Ellis

    Kirk Ellis won two Emmys, a Golden Globe, a WGA Award, a Peabody and the Humanitas Prize for his work on the HBO miniseries John Adams. The miniseries won a record-breaking 13 Primetime Emmys in total, as well as four Golden Globe awards. Previously, Ellis received an Emmy nomination and won the WGA Award and Humanitas Prize for the ABC miniseries Anne Frank, which he wrote and co-produced. Miniseries on which he has served as writer and producer, including Into the West, and Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows have received more than 50 Emmy nominations. Upcoming feature projects include a biography of the Marquis de Lafayette for director Jean-Francois Richet (Mesrine) and Oscar-nominated Why Not Productions. For HBO, Ellis is writing The Day the Laughter Stopped, an account of the Fatty Arbuckle trials of the 1920s, set to star Eric Stonestreet and to be directed by Barry Levinson. He is currently collaborating with L.A. Confidential author James Ellroy on the contemporary police drama Throwdown Gun for FX. A graduate of the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema and Television, Ellis began his professional career as a film critic for The Hollywood Reporter, and at age 24 served as the magazine's international editor. In 1992 he formed Shadow Catcher Productions, an independent production banner under which Ellis develops his own indie features and documentaries. In addition to serving as a Television Academy governor, Ellis is chairman of the Santa Fe, New Mexico, Arts Commission. He is a former board member of the Western Writers of America, and sits on the advisory board of James River Writers. His latest book, 'They Kill People' is available at bookstores and online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. 'They Kill People' is the story of the making of Bonnie and Clyde. It is the story of the outlaws whose real lives were anything but glamorous. Most of all, it is the story of how violence and a predilection for firearms became a fundamental part of American identity.

    27 min

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Genevieve Trainor, a professional actor and PR and marketing expert, chats with a range of entertainment industry experts from around the world who share "insider insights" that demystify the industry and help with the economic development of our communities. On the last Friday of every month, Dr. James Wysong, Dean of Arts and Design at SFCC, and Milton Reiss, Co-Chair of the Film Department at SFCC, discuss everything from how culture impacts film and vice versa to their love of the sci-fi genre. Nazneen Akhtar Rahim is a British American actor. Originally from London, Nazneen studied Law at the University of Westminster, graduating with honors, following which she practiced human rights law. She has worked at a humanitarian assistance charity, obtaining a certificate in Disaster Management and is fluent in Urdu and Hindi. email - cinemascope@ksfr.org