Episodes
This is part 1 of a 2 part conversation with Christian Capello-Colon. "Triple C" is Sr. Editor at Trailer Park and has cut such standout pieces as the BABY DRIVER “TeKillYah” trailer, LUPIN, KNIVES OUT, CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR, DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, DOCTOR STRANGE and so many more. In this part of the conversation, we talk about where Christian came from, how he got into the industry and of course we talk about some of the work.
Published 05/31/21
Miguel Branco and Clark Zhu are both rising star trailer editors - Miguel is cutting at Rogue Planet and Clark is at Wild Card. Miguel and Clark were both doing fan trailers and mashups as passion projects before they ever got into the trailer industry. Their stuff online got a ton of attention, justifiably so, because they’re really good. In both their cases, they were able to turn their passion into their profession and represent the next generation of great creative contributors to the...
Published 05/24/21
Ricky Strauss: Entertainment Marketing great + prolific film producer. As President of Participant Media, he was Exec. Prod. of such films as AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, FAST FOOD NATION, THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL and CONTAGION. In his role as President of Content and Marketing at Disney+, he helped audiences adapt to what’s possible in terms of excellence in content. Ricky’s helped shape how we experience content and how profound of an impact on our culture content can have.
Published 05/17/21
This is part 2 of our conversation with Brent "B Rock" Rockswold, Senior Editor/Producer best known for such seminal pieces including ROGUE ONE, THE LAST JEDI, and FURIOUS 7. In this part of the conversation we do a deeper dive on the work itself. In addition to the above, we discuss a :60 he did for JURASSIC WORLD, his STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS trailer and THE FORCE AWAKENS trailer he co-edited with Josh Dunn among a number of his other great projects.
Published 05/10/21
We start this EP with Dir. of Music at Aspect, Alison Sieh, who shares about a great fundraiser for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Then we get into Part 1 of our 2 part convo with Brent "B Rock" Rockswold, Sr. Editor/Prod. best known for such seminal pieces including ROGUE ONE, THE LAST JEDI, and FURIOUS 7. Today we discuss how B Rock got into the industry; the heroes in the industry who mentored and inspired him; and how being a stand-up guy can be hard in the moment but is well-worth it...
Published 05/03/21
Neal Spector has 3 distinct chapters in his career: starting out as one of the “Mad Men” of mainstream advertising; then paved the way and dominated home entertainment advertising; and more recently has re-made himself again as the owner of Ammo Creative, that is playing at the highest levels in all the areas that define our culture from brand to digital, movies and television, design, writing, editorial and post production. Neal Spector is crushing it.
Published 04/26/21
Tina Hsu and Casmir Jordan of Rogue Planet break down what it’s like working as POC women in the industry. Listen to them chat about rhythmic cutting styles, their breakthrough franchise finishes such as MORTAL KOMBAT and BUMBLEBEE, as well as a special conversation about unicorns 🦄. Featuring special guest Helen Ahn Cutler!
Published 04/19/21
Tommy "Pitt" Malatesta, Editor/Producer at AV Squad, is doing some of the most ground-breaking work being done today. You'll notice he's very quick to talk about all the other incredibly creative people that are part of the collaborations that result in all of his work including the most renowned pieces he's known for such as THE WITCH trailer, HEREDITARY trailer and THE GREEN KNIGHT teaser among so many others.
Published 04/13/21
Craig Murray started out writing copy for Disneyworld in the mid 70s before working for Disney's film studio as a writer in creative advertising. Then in 1986, Craig got an opportunity to work on trailers from concept to completion - thus the beginning of Craig Murray Productions, aka CMP, and later Mocean which has gone on to earn Entertainment Agency of the Year 3 times over.
Published 04/05/21
Chad Misner, is well known and well loved as one of the most respected editors and creative directors of the entire trailer industry. Most recently Chad was the SVP of Creative Advertising at Focus Features and, prior to that was responsible for 2 of the greatest trailers of all time LITTLE CHILDREN and THE SOCIAL NETWORK, among dozens, if not hundreds of other brilliant contributions. Some other favs: https://vimeo.com/82565290 https://vimeo.com/57498175 https://vimeo.com/57433705
Published 03/29/21
Mike Ferman, editor/prod, Buddha Jones is prolific in theatrical, broadcast + streaming in action, drama, horror + docus. Creds incl A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD | MCCARTNEY 3 | THE WALKING DEAD | BIRDS OF PREY | GLASS | BABY DRIVER | HOBBS & SHAW + more. With co-host Helen Ahn Cutler, we discuss being mentored + being a mentor; Mike's mastery of the art of anticipation; how many trailers are a collaboration among numerous editors; + the time Mike started a call with "...it's 5am. How did you...
Published 03/14/21
Aimee Pitta: award-winning writer/producer + marketing exec has created successful campaigns for almost every studio from the early days of New Line, as a consultant with Paramount, Lionsgate + Roadside, + w/ top agencies like Trailer Park. Also a published author (having just won TaleFlick’s writers award 1st place for THE THEORY OF INVISIBILITY), the writer of shows from Reel One Entertainment (LOVE'S SECOND CHANCE premiered on the W network), and she is arguably the best “retitler” in the...
Published 03/08/21
Eugene Fillios is founder, creative director of Creature Street, a trailer shop that’s worked on campaigns such as HALLOWEEN, CANDYMAN, MINIONS, THE HUNT, THE INVISIBLE MAN and many more. Remarkably, Creature Street is based in Portland, OR. We discuss Eugene's days as a professional musician, starting over in the trailer industry and coming up the ranks before starting his own company. We also get pretty deep into how to stay creative, how the industry's changed and where things are going.
Published 03/01/21
Kevin Abernathy started out making, as he would say, “really bad YouTube videos” with his friends until one day he followed his passion for “previews” and moved to L.A. to pursue his dream. Game Grumps brought him unexpected fame in the world of video games. But his heart has always been in "coming attractions." On this episode, along with our dynamo co-host Helen Ahn Cutler, we explore Kevin’s journey thus far from rock star in the eyes of gamers everywhere to making his way in the trailer...
Published 02/22/21
Samantha Hart, known in the trailer world from her time at Gramercy, Searchlight and Universal where her creative marketing brought prominence to films such as FARGO, DEAD MAN WALKING and BOYS DON'T CRY and cult status to DAZED AND CONFUSED and others. Sam went on to build Foundation Content and Wild Bill Creative, disruptive creative content companies. More recently, Samantha wrote the poignant memoir, BLIND PONY: AS TRUE A STORY AS I CAN TELL, coming out in March. www.samanthahart.net
Published 02/15/21
For those who call Helen Ahn Cutler friend, four words that come to mind are heart, soul, mind and strength. Because Helen is all heart, all soul, all brilliance and so powerful in all the best ways. We discuss her work as an Editor and CD at great shops like Ant Farm, JAX and a stint at Paramount Vantage. Helen's greatest impact is as a friend and mentor of so many just now coming into their own and in a lot of ways is the glue that makes this industry a community.
Published 02/08/21
Co-host Brandi Seymour, 10 yr ent adv industry veteran, + Corey discuss great recent work. Lily Lasuzzo, SVP Global Crea Adv, LionsGate, guests to discuss Barb & Star. Here's what's on the docket: Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar Teaser; LionsGate, Trailer Park The United States Vs. Billie Holiday Poster; Paramount, Hulu, BLT Cherry Trailer; Apple TV+, Rogue Planet Boogie Poster; Focus Features, Gravillis Coming 2 America Poster; Paramount, Amazon Prime, BLT Malcolm & Marie...
Published 02/01/21
Dave Yocum is a legendary editor, creative dir. at Create. He’s responsible for some of the most admired trailers of all time incl the 300 Trailer and the Bohemian Rhapsody Teaser. Kelly Yocum is a rising star at JAX. Recent finishes incl the trailer for BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIE FILM and some cool pieces for HBO like the teaser for The Undoing and Euphoria. We explore what it was like working on those projects, how trailer editing has evolved, the value of great mentors and their process among...
Published 01/25/21
Tom Grane, Co-founder/CEO of Mob Scene, the pre-eminent creative agency for strategic content (Behind-the-Scenes, EPKs), in the industry. Mob Scene also has a widely respected trailer division along with social/digital, brand work + orig productions. Tom shares his experience navigating the company through the many challenges of the last year. He also has great stories about so many huge films he's worked on like AVATAR, brilliant directors like "Jim" Cameron and many others he's befriended...
Published 01/18/21
Today’s guest is the first of what we’ll be doing a lot more of in 2021: Bringing in folks who are in the trenches now. Louis Plamondon, Trailer Editor at Zealot, who some might know as “Sleepy Skunk,” is helping to shape the trailer industry of today. He’s perhaps best known for those incredible trailer mashups (https://www.youtube.com/user/sleepyskunk) he’s been doing since 2010. But he’s also a pretty killer editor on major campaigns such as the redband teaser for POSSESSOR he did with Zeal
Published 01/11/21
How may people on the planet can say they've been involved in 2,500 major motion picture campaigns? Tony Seiniger can! His work includes the most iconic movie posters of all time such as Jaws, Rocky Horror Picture Show, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 9 to 5, Breakfast Club, Poltergeist, Moonstruck, Private Benjamin, Schindler's List and on and on. Joined for this wide ranging conversation by Dawn Baillie, one of Tony's many proteges, who's in the midst of a hall of fame career of her own.
Published 01/04/21
Charlotte “Charlie” Honess, a groundbreaking trailer editor and producer who’s known for so many great pieces from the original The Fast and the Furious teaser to The Devil Wears Prada, from True Detective to The Glorias and so many more, has won multiple awards, leading the way and influencing so many other prominent women as well as everyone in the trailer industry. Plus, Charlie discusses the influence her father, renowned editor Peter Honess, has had on her craft.
Published 12/21/20
Steve Panama was not only the CEO and Creative Director of Kaleidoscope, which established the standard for what a modern trailer shop could be before there really was such a thing as trailer companies; he is also the trailblazer who was the first in the industry to transition from film to non-linear computer editing systems, as well as the first to bring fiber into the process as a way for creative execs at the studios to collaborate in real time with their creative partners on the agency side.
Published 12/07/20
Joel Wayne, long-time EVP of Crea Adv at Warner Bros and living legend in the trailer industry, started in the late 1950’s among the real-life Mad Men of Madison Ave. Joel came to Warner Bros in 1980 and spearheaded campaigns for Chariots of Fire, Road Warrior, The World According to Garp, Outsiders, Risky Business, The Color Purple, Beetlejuice, Driving Miss Daisy, Goodfellas, New Jack City, X, You’ve Got Mail, The Matrix and many others. Joined by special co-host Seth Gaven, Founder and...
Published 11/09/20
Angel Mendoza, the Director of Music at AV Squad, is arguably the soul of some of the greatest collaborations in the history of the trailer business. Check out some great pieces such as the No Country for Old Men red band trailer, the 42 trailer with Brooklyn We Go Hard, all the Fast & Furious campaigns of recent years, or Creed, John Wick 3, The Witch, Hereditary, Climax and Free Guy and soak in how the music and sound help shape the whole experience.
Published 10/25/20