Guinevere Thomas: Writer/Director & Graduate of AFI Conservatory - Support Our #creatives® podcast [Originally broadcast on October 7, 2024]

Originally live streamed via StreamYard on October 7, 2024. The Support Our #creatives® podcast, hosted by Alan Greenstein. Special guest is Guinevere Thomas: writer/director/filmmaker. She is the creator of the award-winning film "The Garden of Edette" and graduate of the American Film Institute (AFI) Conservatory. Synopsis of "The Garden of Edette": A Creole Southern Gothic Film: A lonely Creole woman’s life is bound to her flesh-eating garden. When Edette unexpectedly befriends a young girl before her next offering, she must decide whether to sacrifice her new friend or die alongside her beloved garden. – synopsis from film website

**Guinevere Thomas’ BIO:**

Guinevere Thomas is a writer/director from Austin, Texas, who received her MFA in Directing from the American Film Institute. During her time there, her feature, INHERITANCE, was a semi-finalist in The LAUNCH Million Dollar Student Screenplay Contest hosted by Coverfly. In addition to AFI, Guinevere interned at Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY. She now works for writer/producer C. Robert-Cargill, who remains her mentor. Raised in Texas to Louisiana Creole parents, Guinevere has always allowed her cultural roots to guide her work. Her films explore growing pains, family, and the southern Black American experience through a genre lens. Guinevere’s most recent film, THE GARDEN OF EDETTE, won the Audience Award at The Black Filmmaker Rebellion Festival, sponsored by Film Independent and The Golden Globes Foundation; the Best Short Film award at the DC Black Film Festival; and Best Production at the Black Film Festival of New Orleans.

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This is a recording of a live broadcast, so expect some imperfections during the show. There was some editing performed on the original recording.

Enjoy the show!

***Notes:

The owner of this podcast, Alan Greenstein, has NOT been financially compensated for including the message about Crystal Starnes.

The "The Garden of Edette" trailer has been played with the permission of the filmmaker, our guest Guinevere Thomas. Alan Greenstein has NOT been financially compenstated for playing this. ***

CREDITS:

Main interview portion, originally live streamed and recorded by StreamYard, was repurposed by Alan Greenstein.

Support Our #creatives animated and static logos were created by Shakesha Williams.

Episode Thumbnail Static Promo Image was created by Alan Greenstein (using Canva).

Episode Intro and Outro were written by Alan Greenstein.

Episode Intro and Outro voices were created by text-to-speech technology (using Balabolka).

Episode was edited and packaged by Alan Greenstein (using Camtasia and Spotify for Podcasters).