Film Florida
Film Florida is a state-wide non-profit entertainment production trade association that represents Florida’s screen production industry. The Film Florida Podcast focuses on the people and stories that make up the multi-billion dollar screen production industry in Florida and features a wide ranging guest list including award winning writers, producers, storytellers, visual effects artists, actors, and more.
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May 18, 2025 • 37 mins
Donny Herran is a graduate of UCF and an accomplished Producer, Production Executive and Executive in Charge and is currently a Senior Vice President of Production for Paramount. Early in his career he produced content for Disney, ABC, FOX and Discovery Channel while venturing into independent filmmaking, including being a part of the Oscar Winning Film, “Monster.” For the second half of his career Donny joined the production team ...
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May 4, 2025 • 23 mins
Antonia McCutcheon has been with the Tampa Bay Community Network for close to three decades and is currently the Executive Director. TBCN is the last public access television station in Florida and they help Tampa Bay’s diverse community by offering accessible media resources and innovative specialized training and workforce development for the video production industry while providing access for the community to air their shows. W...
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April 20, 2025 • 33 mins
Michael Wesley has been a Location Manager and Scout for close to thirty years. He’s been a member of the Location Managers Guild International (LMGI) for over a decade and is currently a Board Member for LMGI. Some of Michael’s credits include “Transformers” 2, 3 & 4, “Inception,” “The Dark Knight Rises,” “Booksmart” and “The Terminal List.” We talk about his career, the evolution of the locations craft, his Master Class in Lo...
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April 6, 2025 • 44 mins
Jonathan Olsberg is the Founder and Executive Chair of Olsberg-SPI, a leading international creative industries consultancy that specializes in the global screen production sector. For the last 30 years, Olsberg-SPI has helped clients plan, design and deliver sustainable growth, evidence impact, and evolve and expand in a highly competitive and fast-moving screen sector. Jonathan’s previous roles in production, distribution and fin...
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March 23, 2025 • 39 mins
Miami-based Alexis Garcia is the Founder of CAT5, a finance and production label for action films focused on building a better machine for filmmakers and financiers. He sees CAT5 as a turnkey financing and production option for filmmakers, leaning in on content with strong commercial appeal. CAT5 targets independently financed and/or produced action films in the $10 - $50 million budget range. Alexis is an entertainment executive w...
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March 9, 2025 • 40 mins
Stefan Roesch emigrated to New Zealand in 2003 to embark on the world’s first PhD in Film Tourism. Since then, he has 20 years of experience in market research and is a leading expert on film tourism and has consulted with various destinations on film tourism projects around the world. In 2023, he earned the designation of Certified Film Commissioner and is on the Board of Directors for the Association of Film Commissioners Interna...
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February 23, 2025 • 24 mins
Artie Malesci is an Emmy and SAG Award nominated Stuntman and Stunt Coordinator. Artie has worked on close to 150 major titles including some of the biggest Florida-based projects including “Bad Monkey,” “Moonlight,” “Burn Notice,” “Miami Vice” the series and the movie, “2 Fast 2 Furious,” “The Waterboy,” “Ace Venture: Pet Detective,” “My Girl,” and “Parenthood” among many others. We talk to Artie about his stunt work, the evolutio...
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February 9, 2025 • 46 mins
Dominic Giannetti is the founder of Florida-based Giannetti Films and an award-winning director, writer, and producer. With more than 30 years of experience in the entertainment industry, Dominic has worked on over 100 professional TV, Movie, and Music video sets including producing more than a dozen feature films, many of them in Florida helping launch the careers of dozens of professional filmmakers and actors. We talk to Dominic...
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January 26, 2025 • 35 mins
Shawn Davis has been the Executive Producer of the Film Independent Spirit Awards for 22 years. The Film Independent Spirit Awards is the premier awards event for the independent film and television community. Shawn is a two-time Emmy nominated Producer for his work on the Spirit Awards. Prior to his current role, he was the Director of Events for the Los Angeles Film Festival for 18 years. We talk to Shawn about the Film Independe...
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January 12, 2025 • 31 mins
Sam Read is the Executive Director of the Sustainable Entertainment Alliance. SEA is a consortium of the world’s leading studios, streamers, and industry leaders dedicated to advancing sustainability initiatives through advocacy, education, and innovation. Sam works collaboratively with SEA’s member companies to reduce environmental impacts within the global entertainment industry and inspire a sustainable future. We talk to Sam ab...
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December 15, 2024 • 38 mins
Amy Paskow is an award-winning visual effects artist with credits on some amazing projects including "The Lion King," "Suicide Squad," "The Legend of Tarzan," "The Jungle Book," "Maleficent," "Rescue Me" and "Boardwalk Empire" just to name a few. We talk to Amy about the evolution of visual effects, her career, her newest venture as Owner and CEO of New Wave Colour and more on this episode of the Film Florida Podcast. Audio editing...
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December 1, 2024 • 40 mins
Based in South Florida, Jacobo Rispa and Damián Romay are award-winning producers and directors with close to 200 credits between the two of them. Both have produced titles all over the world with projects airing on Netflix, NBC, Amazon, HULU, BET, Tubi, Lifetime, Paramount, Great American Family & UpTV. Their company, Sunshine Films, is a South Florida-based film and television production company with a successful track-record...
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November 10, 2024 • 25 mins
Joe Chianese is the Senior Vice President & Production Incentives Practice Leader at Entertainment Partners. In his role at EP, Joe provides production and legislative consulting, financial, tax, and administrative services for domestic and international production incentives. He has over 30 years of accounting, government affairs, production and tax experience including positions at Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Walt Disney...
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October 27, 2024 • 31 mins
Terry Olson is the Co-Founder, Creative Director and Chief Instigator of FusionFest in Central Florida. Previously, Terry was the Director of Arts & Cultural Affairs for the Orange County Government. His purpose is to help create dynamic events which celebrate, unite, enliven and empower people, with the primary conduit being the arts. We talk to Terry about his background, his time with the County, FusionFest, his passion for ...
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October 13, 2024 • 28 mins
Susan Fox is the Founder & CEO of Casting Workbook. For over two decades, Casting Workbook has been driving the industry forward with leading-edge enterprise casting software by bridging essential communications between production, casting, agents, and their talent. Casting Workbook’s global network consists of offices all over the world with production, casting, agents, managers, and talent in 62 countries with services are of...
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September 29, 2024 • 71 mins
Aaron Gilman is the CEO of Steamroller Studios in Central Florida. Prior to his current role, Aaron worked in the animation and visual effects departments on such films as “The Matrix Revolutions,” “The Avengers,” “Iron Man 3,” “The Hobbit” franchise, and “Avatar” among others. But arguably Aaron’s biggest passion is in providing leadership and creating the culture at Steamroller Studios that has allowed the independent animation s...
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September 15, 2024 • 40 mins
Born in Detroit but raised in Florida, actor Tom Nowicki has more than 160 film and television credits, including a major role in the new series “Bad Monkey” on Apple TV+. We talk to Tom about his numerous roles in Florida-based projects, stories from his most well-known projects, how he got his start in the industry and advice for young actors. Tom also runs Hip Dog Canine Hydrotherapy, a small organization that does swim-therapy ...
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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 ...
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April 28, 2024 • 43 mins
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 conte...
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April 14, 2024 • 32 mins
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 storyt...
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