Inglorious Artists
On Inglorious Artists actor Peter Hallin talks to all manner of creative professionals of different levels of success. Showing that being an artist doesn't mean just one thing, and there is not just one path to take. Sometimes there is glory, but oftentimes we're... Inglorious.
Episodes
February 16, 2021 • 83 mins
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, hi...
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February 2, 2021 • 92 mins
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, ...
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September 8, 2020 • 73 mins
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 wher...
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July 24, 2020 • 77 mins
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...
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June 23, 2020 • 93 mins
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 ong...
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May 19, 2020 • 98 mins
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, technic...
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April 3, 2020 • 89 mins
Brian Colin Foley is an actor based out of New Jersey who has been seen in Orange Is the New Black, Snowpiercer, The Mysteries of Laura, Show Me a Hero and more. We're talking about going to film acting school together, our parallel journeys as struggling actors and much more!
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March 14, 2020 • 95 mins
Two guests this time. A married couple, Thomas, a Danish born actor of Chinese descent and Sara, a Swedish actor. Today based out of southern Sweden they met around the millennium and has since then together navigated the career path on screen and stage.
We chat about working together as a couple in the same artistic field, the art of self taping, networking, the Cannes film festival and their involvement in productions like Net...
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February 27, 2020 • 81 mins
Ida Gyllensten is an actress trained at Drama Center London and the Swedish Theatre Academy and had been seen in Holby City, John Hron, Kommisarien och havet, Zoo and more.
This is another one of those episodes where it's a bit like listening in on a couple of actors chatting about their professional life when we talk about Ida's education, lack of roles for women of all ages, typecasting, tired crime drama tropes, her band Drea...
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February 14, 2020 • 79 mins
Lidia Wos is a dancer and choreographer from Poland who's been working onstage for 25 years and has during the years developed into a choreographer and dance teacher.
She got her education at Public Ballet School in Warsaw in the 80's. And has since been working as a dancer and choreographer in several countries around Europe.
We're talking ballet school, her career, staying fit, teaching dance to people with disabilities and...
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November 16, 2019 • 75 mins
Ted Otis, coming from a family of Hollywood veterans, started his acting career in the 80s. He also discovered a passion for filmmaking and documentaries.
Under his own prod. company, he has produced television documentaries and mini-series taking on various roles in production. A conservationist at heart, he spent years flipping Hollywood houses. In 2001 he took residence in Prague where he worked extensively and now lives and wo...
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October 30, 2019 • 56 mins
The art and importance of casting is beginning to be more recognized as a creative endeavor and it's starting to be more included in film and tv awards. Nancy Bishop is a casting director from the US based in Prague and London and has cast for such projects as Mission Impossible, Hellboy, Snowpiercer, The Bourne Identity, The Romanoffs and many more. We're talking her life and career in the business with its challenges and living i...
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October 15, 2019 • 86 mins
Guy Roberts is the artistic director and oftentimes actor of the Prague Shakespeare company. His work onstage as actor, director and producer has been seen all over the world like the US, Czechia, France, Egypt and India. He and his productions have been honored with numerous awards and over 100 US theater award nominations, including many for Best Actor, Director and Production. He'll soon be seen in the movie Medieval with Ben Fo...
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September 30, 2019 • 91 mins
Dr. Josepha (Joshka) Wessels is a Visual Anthropologist/Human Geographer and award-winning filmmaker and Syria-scholar. She has 23 years of experience in the Arab world, particularly in Syria. She has specific expertise in virtual reality and film/video for social sciences and media studies. She has worked on several documentaries for BBC World and has started venturing into fictional 360 degree VR with the the interactive short fi...
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September 16, 2019 • 84 mins
Petra Bučková is a Czechoslovakian born actor who has made her way up to national recognition. In theatre for many years before moving onto the Screen to be be seen in The Zookeeper's Wife, Haunted and Home is Here as well as in several Czech series and films.
We delve into her experiences acting in a long running soap opera style show, finding your type as an actor, preparing for a demanding role - as in one of her next project...
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August 31, 2019 • 89 mins
Jim High is an actor and improviser from the UK based in Prague. He's been seen in a ton of things from Snowpiercer, Borgia and 12 Monkeys the series to recently being in Knightfall and is currently seen as Fergus in the Amazon Prime show Carnival Row.
We're reminiscing about past projects, talking the business of acting in film and tv in Europe, working with helmets and wigs, his theatre company Blood, Love and Rhetoric and muc...
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August 17, 2019 • 82 mins
Brian Caspe is an actor from the US based in Prague and has been seen in Hellboy (2004), Wanted, Unlocked, Underworld: Blood Wars and much more. And is now in the second season of Knighfall, the Taika Waititi film Jojo Rabbit and the upcoming show Carnival Row.
We're sitting in the rain on in an outside café talking about his acting career with anecdotes from it, moving to Prague, his love of the Meisner technique and the philos...
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June 1, 2019 • 86 mins
Manuel Concha is a film director from Sweden with Chilean heritage who've made films most of his life and had his first feature, Mañana, released in 2008. Since then he's made the feature Blind Alley, and worked on tv-series Alex, Heder and several others and has made numerous short films, music videos and commercials. He recently relocated to Los Angeles with his family and from there he's talking to Peter about his projects, crea...
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May 8, 2019 • 77 mins
Linus James Nilsson is a Swedish actor who started studying acting in High school, when he soon got his first role as a lead character in Capricciosa (2003) where he played against Rolf Lassgård and Noomi Rapace. Linus moved to Los Angeles 2010 where he studied performing arts/acting at SMC. He's bringing some whiskey to the studio and talks to Peter about acting methods, being led astray in ones career, following the dream and sta...
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March 24, 2019 • 74 mins
Andreas Lindergård is a director a film director and script writer from Sweden who had his beginnings as a filmmaker in the US and has directed comedy and cooking shows in both the states and in Sweden. Shows like Swedish Dicks with Peter Stormare and Johan Glans, Hipp Hipp and New Scandinavian Cooking. Recently he made the feature mockumentary Case Study, with minimal time, budget and crew. We're talking starting out in the filmma...
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