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The Artemis Women In Action Film Festival is in Los Angeles in April of 2015. The first film festival devoted exclusively to female action films. We will celebrate powerful women taking action on the silver screen. From superheroes to super stuntwomen, from martial artists to mighty athletes, from women in law enforcement to women in the armed forces, we will shine a spotlight on females in film who are fearless and revolutionary. Here is my interview with the founder of the festival Melanie Wise. CM: …so the reason I had you on the show today is to talk about your kickstarter and your film festival that you're putting on right now. So can you tell the people a little bit about it. MW: Yes. Actually, we are starting the very first film festival that is dedicated completely to women in action roles. There's a couple of festivals that are dedicated to just women and basically they support women in front of the camera, behind the camera and so on. our festiv

This is one of those films that will be incredibly difficult for me to discuss without going off on expletive laden tangents. I'll do my best but I make no promises. Out In The Night tells the story of the "New Jersey Four" a group of  lesbians who were arrested for fighting a straight man. The "New Jersey Four" nickname was clearly a play on the "Central Park Five" case from 1989 and it was appropriate because the media frenzy surrounding both cases were solely based on prejudice and conjecture. You see, when you sell the story as "a gang of scary black lesbians stab a straight man in front of a movie theater" it sells papers, keeps viewers tuned in and in the process destroys the lives of the people involved. If you sell the story in a truthful manor it might just disappear and that would be missing a wonderful opportunity to up your Neilsen numbers and sell some ads. Journalistic integrity be damned when you are in the business upset

Lauren Ashley Carter is an actress and producer, known for Premium Rush (2012), The Woman (2011) and Jug Face (2013). Her latest film Pod will be premiering at SXSW later this year. I had her on the show to discuss Jug Face and the finer points of impersonating Jodie Foster and Holly Hunter.

Thompson has starred in more than 30 films, 25 television movies, 4 television series, more than 20 ballets, and starred on Broadway in "Cabaret". Lea can currently be seen on ABC Family's Peabody Award-winning hit show "Switched at Birth," where she acts and directs. Lea's movie credits include: "All the Right Moves," "Red Dawn," "Some Kind of Wonderful," "The Beverly Hillbillies," "Howard The Duck"(star and vocals), Clint Eastwood's "J. Edgar;" the 2014 Sundance favorite "Ping Pong Summer;" and a wonderful film that you need to see called The Trouble With The Truth. It's currently streaming on Amazon and one of the best films I've seen in years. Click play on the embedded player below to listen to our conversation.  

Today we speak with the director of Anna Kendrick's latest film The Last Five Years LaGravenese wrote The Fisher King on spec in the late 1980s. It was acquired by Stacey Sher, Lynda Obst, Debra Hill's production company and subsequently directed by Terry Gilliam. In New York City during the early 1980s, billed as "The Double R" comedy duo, in collaboration with playwright Richard O’Donnell, LaGravenese co-penned and consecutively performed in several Off-Off-Broadway productions including Spare Parts, Blood-brothers" at The 78th Street Theatre Lab, The Lion Theatre, and West Bank Cafe. Click here for the interview

How do you define the role of cinematographer? Well beyond the photographic technique, style of lighting, the intention of the camera, optical frames and a cinema is certainly a mediator, a tightrope between light and shadow, between production and direction, between day and night, etc, the images are abstract gives a script, the reality is travez monitors on set, only then at that point becomes concrete all conversations that had before filming began, and achieve interpret these sensations we gives the script, with the help of the director, is undoubtedly the great mission of the cinema, What makes a good film? Film, film maker, is undoubtedly the union of thousands of items where parts can not work alone, it is therefore very necessary coordination and synchronization of different departments to get outstanding results, if we put in September 1 to the best exponents of each area and you do not communicate well, we will not get good results, then the film becomes a m

The Artemis Women In Action Film Festival is in Los Angeles in April of 2015 .  The  first  film festival devoted  exclusively  to female action films. We will celebrate powerful women taking action on the silver screen.  From superheroes to super stuntwomen, from martial artists to mighty athletes, from women in law enforcement to women in the armed forces, we will shine a spotlight on females in film who are fearless and revolutionary.