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Film Florida Podcast Episode 127- Based in Miami, Marco Mall is the Executive Producer of the Florida Film House, the Founder of World Wide Urban Distribution, 1st Take Youth Film Program and Urban Film Festival and an Executive with the Urban Streaming Network. Marco has spent more than a decade mentoring young talent, developing an in-house team of filmmakers, and vertically integrating their business from service productions to their own six feature films. We talk to Marco about all of these endeavors and more on this episode of the Film Florida Podcast. Audio editing by Rob Hill.

Film Florida Podcast Episode 126- Traci Deen is the President and CEO of Conservation Florida. Conservation Florida is an organization working on your behalf to protect Florida’s land, water, wildlife, and way of life. Chad Crawford is the Creative Director of Crawford Entertainment. Established in 2010, Crawford Entertainment specializes in producing award-winning branded entertainment programs, and they also distribute that content for millions to see. Together, Crawford Entertainment and Conservation Florida produced “Protect Our Paradise,” a six-episode docuseries that explores Florida’s wild, wonderful places and exposes environmental issues that threaten their existence. Chad and Traci talk about Florida, the environment, the docuseries and more on this episode of the Film Florida Podcast. Audio editing by Rob Hill.
For more about Conservation Florida visit https://conservationfla.org/
For more about "Protect Our Paradise" visit https://conservationfla.org/cflnews/2023/6/26/protect-our-paradise-streaming-now
Clip from "Protect Our Paradise" https://youtu.be/Wh2dSkUqvjo 
Traci Deen explains the Florida Wildlife Corridor https://youtu.be/Hcuna5GNDi8

Film Florida Podcast Episode 125- Established in 2013, White Elephant Group is a Miami-based film and media-tech collective of award-winning film and digital media artists innovating and challenging audiences with new film and VR stories to artistically address and elaborate upon the voices and experiences coming from minority and underserved communities in South Florida. We talk to Ronald Baez and Ashley Rose from WEG about storytelling, their collaborations, the WEG Short Film Lab and more on this episode of the Film Florida Podcast. Audio editing by Rob Hill. For more about WEG visit https://www.wegfilms.com/

Film Florida Podcast Episode 124- Melora Hardin is an Actress, Producer and Director best known for playing Jan Levinson on "The Office" and Trudy Monk on "Monk" in addition to her roles in "The Bold Type," "Transparent," "The Blacklist," "The Rocketeer," "17 Again," "Hannah Montana: The Movie," "Transparent" and "The Hot Chick" among many others. We talk about her recent film “Golden Vanity,” her time at two film festivals in Florida, her advice for actors, her collage art, her home décor line “Storyboards by Melora Hardin,” on-set stories about Gene Hackman and Clint Eastwood, and more on this episode of the Film Florida Podcast. Audio editing by Rob Hill. For more about Melora Hardin visit https://melora.com/ 

Film Florida Podcast Episode 123- Mario Garcia & Michael Alfieri are filmmakers, and graduates of the University of South Florida, together they made “The Throwback,” a comedy about an underappreciated and stressed supermom whose holiday-season mental breakdown causes her to believe that she is a college-age party girl. Michael produced and Mario wrote and directed the movie, filmed throughout the Bay area. They talk about their time at USF, their careers, being able to come back to Tampa and work together, and more on this episode of the Film Florida Podcast. Audio editing by Rob Hill.

Film Florida Podcast Episode 122- Jennie Jarvis is an award-winning Director, Writer, and Actress as well as the writer of the award-winning textbook "Crafting the Character Arc: A Practical Guide to Character Creation and Development." Jennie is also a judge for multiple major screenwriting and film competitions each year and served as the Artistic Director for the Orpheus Theater Group from 2006-2008. As an educator, Jennie has mentored over 400 student film projects, including several that went on to win or be nominated for major awards including Telly Awards, Suncoast Region Student Production Awards, Student Emmy Awards, and ASC Awards. We talk all of these topics and more on this episode of the Film Florida Podcast. Audio editing by Rob Hill.