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Welcome to Bea’s NYCC Speed Interview Series!

Welcome to Bea’s NYCC Speed Interview Series!

Welcome to Bea's NYCC Speed Interview Series! As I attend New York Comic Con 2021, I'll be doing short interviews with influential creators. For issue #2, here's a speed interview with Chad M Strohl, author of A Tale of the Inferno: Infinity, a 6-issue comic series from Caliber Comics.

Welcome to Bea’s NYCC Speed Interview Series!

Nowadays Barry is one of the most sought-after photographers in the NYC and DC area for actors, news anchors, TV hosts, attorneys , doctors, executives and politicians. Clients love visiting Barry's studio. The staff is friendly, fun and laid back and he always has fabulous tunes playing on his famous travellin’ Jukebox. (He also shoots in Nashville and Dallas.)

Adams’ Apples is a John Strasberg talent trifecta. He wrote, directed and starred in this contemporary homage to Anton Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard. In our recent interview, Strasberg explains that like Chekov’s dramatis personae of 100 years ago, the modern day characters we meet in his film “never did anything about doing what they dreamed of doing”.

One of their most popular packages is the Agency Jump-starter Program, which includes 3 two-week intensives with agents, and closes with a private industry night via Zoom. On industry night, each actor goes into a private breakout room and performs one-on-one with each agent and receives feedback. As of now, Acting & Voice Studios works with over 150 agents, casting directors, and managers; including agents from Gersh, Paradigm, A3 and Verve.

As the story usually goes, a young person is bit by the “acting bug” and knows immediately what they want to do for their career. For Yue, not so much. His life was an acting drought until he turned 26.

1 in 4 Americans has a disability. It's high time for the media to step up and deliver on empty words with meaningful follow-through: Hire disabled people. Let THEM share their authentic stories. LISTEN to them when they say what you're doing is wrong, and change your ways. People fear what they don't understand. Educate them with proper representation in media and watch the world bloom in living color. When you let the colors in and change the narrative in media, everything begins to change, and the world is better for it. Without diversity, there is no art. Can you paint with no color?

The 'Hero's Journey' begins with answering the 'Call to Action'. For concept artist Dane Hallett, the journey began with literally answering a call. Hallett knew from a young age that he wanted to work in the film industry. He was self-taught in many forms of drawing and art, and had experience in prop-making. By age 17, he was living on his own with his brother and sister and had to take on odd jobs to make ends meet.

'It’s massive, isn’t it? I just know that if I had seen that moment when I was really small, I would’ve felt very seen and it would’ve helped me work some things out about myself that I didn’t quite know then. . Something that was important to me was that it was matter of fact the way he talks about it; it’s normal.'

James Pratt, award-winning actor, director, and film-maker, found his love for making movies in the most unexpected of places: the Australian Outback. Pratt performed in the occasional play, but as was common in Australia for high school, the main emphasis for James was on surfing and sport. After completing his required education, he studied film acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Kensington.

The creation of “Boy Scientist” began when Dr. Danziger crossed paths with one Dr. Christina Tan in their first year of medical school in Australia. Both soon realized they were very interested in the field of Neurology and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Dr. Tan shared ALAN THE MUSICAL with Dr. Danziger, which she had been working on with Dr Susan Lim. The story follows a young female scientist and her artificially intelligent stuffed toy companion. 

Mere minutes after Disneyland California announced that, come June 15th, out-of-state residents would be welcome to visit the park -mask-free for vaccinated folks, no less - I did what any sane person would do: I booked my butt on a last-minute flight to California and, miraculously, scored a ticket to the brand-new Avengers Campus. (Hey—you only live once, and who knows whether Thanos will ever return and snap his fingers again?) 

Think about it… if we’re perfect immediately at everything we try, wouldn’t life be ridiculously boring? Perhaps our life’s purpose is to find something we enjoy failing at… over and over and over… because without failure, you will have no idea what works and what doesn’t. 

Pixar's latest film, Luca, follows a journey of two young sea monsters throughout the human world. Set on the exquisite coast of Italy, Luca (voiced by Jacob Tremblay) discovers that that he becomes human once he leaves the ocean. He soon encounters another morphed-to-human sea monster, Alberto (voiced by Jack Dylan Grazer) who is Luca's age.

Yet when I pick a day to do this, just as I begin that day of unbridled “rest and relaxation”, I’m met with thoughts we’ve all experienced. Much like the God of Mischief himself, these thoughts are uninvited and troubling: “Are you seriously taking a break right now? When you should be working? How dare you. If you’re not working, then what are you except lazy?” 

The New Media Film Festival®, created and launched in 2009, is best described by its simple slogan: 'honoring stories worth telling'. The innovative festival provides creators of any skill or experience with the opportunity to distribute their media to high-level executives and companies. Open globally, the festival prides itself on its 28 categories of media and all-inclusive selections. Judges include representatives from Emmys, Marvel, HBO, BMI, PBS, BBC, OSCARS and the Grammy Awards. It is an IMDB official event with $45K in awards, and entries may be considered for 1st look deals as well as distribution.

'What you think is who you are. If you embody what you want to be, that is what you will become.' - Dan DeLuca

As a young child, he became fascinated with dramatic storytelling through images of stained glass windows and sculptures while passing by churches as a boy walking with his mother. He was and still is inspired by their common extraordinary elements: 'rising up' or 'suffering'.