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Making Media Now, presented by Filmmakers Collaborative and hosted by Michael Azevedo, is a podcast dedicated to presenting informative and enlightening conversations with creators of all stripes--filmmakers, writers, directors, editors, technical experts--about their process, their vision, their joys and challenges. Listen in to meet visionaries crafting media in a range of genres and for the full spectrum of distribution platforms.
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Monday Jul 03, 2023
Meet Anne Zeiser of Azure Media
Monday Jul 03, 2023
Monday Jul 03, 2023
Her background as a broadcast journalist, marketing executive, and social advocate uniquely positions her as the architect of successful media-driven productions and social impact campaigns. She has stewarded iconic documentary, drama, lifestyle and children’s series and specials for PBS. She’s also produced news for CBS, managed consumer brands for national marketing firms, and has served in government and on political campaigns.
Integrating all of these perspectives, Anne founded Azure Media, which develops high profile projects for broadcast and digital platforms that fuel social impact in communities, schools, and capitols.
Tuesday Jun 20, 2023
Journalist Tom Roston Examines Mental Health Issues Among Documentary Filmmakers
Tuesday Jun 20, 2023
Tuesday Jun 20, 2023
Tuesday May 30, 2023
Sherry Granader Brings The Art of Ghostwriting to Life
Tuesday May 30, 2023
Tuesday May 30, 2023
Thursday May 18, 2023
Patrick Lydon was ”Born That Way” and Eamon Little is Telling His Story
Thursday May 18, 2023
Thursday May 18, 2023
Michael Azevedo's guests on this episode—Eamon Little, Joan Pratt, and Christopher Lydon—are part of the team behind a documentary-in-progress call "Born That Way," for which Filmmakers Collaborative is the fiscal sponsor.
"Born That Way" documents the final year in the life of Patrick Lydon, in which he looks back on a fascinating life, lays the ground for posthumous, ‘green-shoot’ projects and prepares for death. Director Eamon Little promises that the film will be an unflinching journey to the end of an exemplary life, probing ‘otherness’ in our society and asking searching questions about the future we want to create.
Joining Eamon to talk about the life and work of Patrick Lydon are, Joan Pratt, his friend from his days at Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and Patrick’s brother, Christopher Lydon, who covered politics for The New York Times from its Washington bureau in the 1970s, hosted The Ten O’Clock News on WGBH TV in Boston through the 1980s, and co-founded and hosted The Connection on WBUR in the ’90s, and is currently the host of Open Source, the world’s longest running podcast, having been established in 2003.
For more information about the "Born That Way" film project, please check out its page in the projects section of the Filmmakers Collaborative website at www.filmmakerscoll.org.
Making Media Now is sponsored by Filmmakers Collaborative, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting media makers from across the creative spectrum. From providing fiscal sponsorship to presenting an array of informative and educational programs, Filmmakers Collaborative supports creatives at every step in their journey.
Tuesday May 09, 2023
Writer & Filmmaker Michele Meek on Teen Movies in the Age of Consent
Tuesday May 09, 2023
Tuesday May 09, 2023
On this episode of Making Media Now, host Michael Azevedo is joined by writer, filmmaker and professor Michele Meek.
Michele recently published the book, Consent Culture and Teen Films , and she has published several other books including Independent Female Filmmakers (2019) and The Mastermind Failure Club(2020). She presented a TEDx talk “Why we’re confused about consent—rewriting our stories of seduction” and has written for Ms. Magazine, Script Magazine, Entrepreneur, The Good Men Project, Salon.com, among others.
Michele has also directed numerous award-winning short films, including Imagine Kolle 37 (2017) and Red Sneakers (2008), and she worked as associate producer on the documentary feature Salvage (2019), which premiered at SXSW Film Festival. She has several creative projects in the works—including a short film Bay Creek Tennis Camp, a feature screenplay Cruisin‘ and a documentary The Impermanence of Everything.
She is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies department at Bridgewater State University, where she teaches filmmaking, screenwriting, film studies, digital media, gender studies, and life design.
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
Paula Apsell Leads NOVA to the Pinnacle of Science Television
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
Thursday Apr 13, 2023
”NOVA” Creator Michael Ambrosino
Thursday Apr 13, 2023
Thursday Apr 13, 2023
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Award-Winning Audiobook Narrator Edoardo Ballerini and Author Jane Healey
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Monday Apr 03, 2023
On this episode, we delve into the oldest forms of so-called media known to man: storytelling and writing as host Michael Azevedo welcomes first-time guest and award-winning actor and audiobook narrator Eduardo Ballerini and welcomes back best-selling author Jane Healey.
Edoardo Ballerini is a two-time winner (and five time nominee) of the Best Male Narrator "Audie" Award from the Audio Publishers Association, the industry's highest prize.
In a 2020 profile, The New York Times called Edoardo “a master in his field… at the forefront of a new kind of celebrity.”
In 2019, Edoardo was named a “Golden Voice” by AudioFile Magazine, an honorific bestowed to only 40 narrators in the magazine’s 22 year history.
Jane Healey is the author of The Beantown Girls, a Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestseller, The Secret Stealers, which was an Amazon First Reads Editor’s Pick and a Historical Novel Society’s Editors’ Choice, and her debut, The Saturday Evening Girls Club.
Jane joined us to talk about Goodnight from Paris, her newly released novel from Lake Union Publishing. Jane is also the host of Historical Happy Hour, a monthly webinar and podcast featuring interviews with premier historical fiction authors and their latest novels.
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Donna Loughlin on Public Relations, Silicon Valley, and the Power of Acorns
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
She is also the host of "Before It Happened," a leading narrative podcast featuring visionaries and the moments, events, and realizations that inspired them to change our lives for the better.
Donna and I talk about her roots in journalism and how knowing how to research thoroughly and ask questions intelligently played a huge role in creating a successful PR firm, we also discussed the difference between PR and advertising and what draws her to tell the stories of what she calls "acorns."
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Director Sara Terry and the Need for ”A Decent Home”
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Monday Mar 13, 2023