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It's episode 50! And we celebrate this final episode with a chat with world renowned cinematographer Seamus McGarvey, who has worked on titles such as Atonement, Anna Karenina, Nocturnal Animals, High Fidelity, Godzilla and The Avengers. He has achieved much acclaim with nominations for two Academy Awards, four Baftas and an Emmy. And many wins including six Irish Film awards. We're chatting about how he got to were he is today, his work methods, and many stories from behind the scenes.

Johan Nilsson is a screenwriter and producer based in Sweden who has worked within the film industry for years while writing several film scripts on a journey to get to the one that would be made into his first feature. That script turned out to be indie science fiction drama Among Stars, now in post production, which he also self produced together with the director and lead actor.

We're talking about that journey, his process, the making of the movie and much more!

Åsa Ekström is a Manga comics artist from Sweden living i Japan for the past decade. She started her path back home being one of the few who drew in the Japanese style and managed to get her career started. Her dreams of living in Japan drew her to move and has since established herself drawing the strip "Hokuou Joshi: A Swedish girl discovers the mysteries of Japan".

Hear about her journey of moving to Japan and getting to where she is in her career, her long form comic Sayonara September and more.

Raam Reddy is an Indian film director, writer and photographer. He made his directorial feature debut with the 2016 film Thithi, which premiered at the 68th Locarno International Film Festival 2015, where it won the Golden Leopard in the "Filmmakers of the Present" category as well as the First Feature award. The film is now available on Netflix.

We're talking about the making of the film, his novel It's Raining in Maya, life in India during Covid -19, his next film project and much more!

Steven E. Simon is an assistant director based in Los Angeles, California. He's been working since the late 90's on everything from The Perfect Storm and Godzilla (1998) via Lost and Bones to Westworld and Us.

We're talking the life and times of the assistant director, how that relates to the jobs around it, what makes an actor great or problematic from the crews perspective, the state of the film business in a world with an ongoing pandemic and much more.

Mixing it up with a hitherto unexplored artform - VFX and 3D graphics for movies and TV! Jack Jägerman has worked professionally in the field for years after having studied at Escape Studios in London and has specialized in the area of effects and digital pyrotechnics. We're talking how to get into the field, what it's like working with visual effects overall, stories from the trenches and delving a bit into the more nerdy, technical aspects of it all.