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E21 - Indie Panel: Finding Your Voice & Career As A TV Director

The Catalyst Storieroad Institute proudly presents "Finding Your Voice & Career as a TV Director".  Our guest is Anu Valia: As a TV director, Anu's directing credits include: THE OTHER TWO (Comedy Central), AWKWAFINA IS NORA FROM QUEENS (Comedy Central), MIXED-ISH (ABC), NEVER HAVE I EVER (Netflix, produced by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher), LOVE VICTOR (Hulu), LOVE LIFE (HBOMax, produced by Paul Feig), and AP BIO (Peacock). She is currently directing a new pilot for NBC.
 
Thank you to the National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences, WDSE-WRPT Duluth, The Wrap, and the WGA-East for supporting Storieroad.

E20 - Festival Podcast Lounge: Complete Bull

Colleen Krantz swings by the 2021 Festival Podcast Lounge to chat about the drama, Complete Bull. 
 
Logline: A marketing executive who reluctantly joined her father’s bull-semen business seeks a way back to the city, but both she and her rural hometown face an unexpected upheaval after the arrival of hundreds of relocated immigrants from the nation’s water-deprived coastal cities.

E19 - Directors’ Seminar: From Indie To Network

Three of our guests on this From Indie To Network panel have screened at Catalyst before, so we were very excited to hear about their journey!
 
Meet:
Joshua Butler (The Magicians, Vampire Diaries)
Rachel Goldberg (Veronica Mars, American Horror Story)
Dinh Thai (New Amsterdam)
Daniel Willis (The Blacklist, Grey's Anatomy)
Topics include:
Starting a new project: where do you begin to lock down a job and start the prep process?
From prep to production
Career journey and how you navigated the industry
And more!
 

E18 - Indie Panel: Creating & Maintaining Your Creative Community

Your creative network is the lifeline of your career. How do you grow it, maintain it, and make sure you're helping others along the way? Featuring NYC Women Filmmakers, this discussion focuses on the best practices to building your creative community. Panelists include: Lauren Sowa (actor/producer) - VP of Partnerships, NYCWF; Richa Rudola (writer/director) - VP of Development, NYCWF; Danielle Eliska Lyle (writer/director) - Founder of Conjure Noir Films, Member, NYCWF; and Nora Unkel (writer/producer) - Co-founder of Wild Obscura, Member, NYCWF.
Catalyst Storieroad is brought to you by the National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences and WDSE-WRPT in Duluth.

E17 - Festival Podcast Lounge: Circus Person

Alex Knell joins us in the 2021 Festival Podcast Lounge to discuss the dramedy, Circus Person.
 
Logline: Ava (Britt Lower) is a square. When her fiancé admits to loving the free spirited Luna, Ava joins a local circus in an act of wild abandon. But Ava’s heartache isn’t easily ignored, and feeds her fear that she’s not cut out for being “wild too”.

E16 - Pitch World: Week Three - Characters & Your Series Overview

Welcome to Pitch World with Carlo Gonzales-Moss! This week is Class #3, and we'll be focusing on CHARACTERS & YOUR SERIES OVERVIEW.
 
In this series, Carlo will teach you everything you need to know about the entire pitch process and will reveal the format and structure that he uses for each and every one of his pitches.
 
Carlo is the Founder and CEO of MARANTY MEDIA, the startup that he created in order to demystify the art of pitching for creators all over the world. Prior to founding Maranty, Carlo was a successful writer, producer, and executive specializing in comedy and animation. He most recently served as the SR. DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT AT THE RUSSO BROS’ OCTOPIE STUDIOS and CCO AT EXTRA CREDIT STUDIOS, the animation studio he co-founded in 2013. In the past, Carlo has developed, sold, and produced television and digital properties with a wide variety of partners, including NBCUNIVERSAL, WARNERMEDIA, VERIZON, TWITTER, CHARLIZE THERON, ERIC ANDRE, RONDA ROUSEY, FREEFORM, and SYFY, among others. Along the way, he also created THE MOST POPULAR GIRLS IN SCHOOL, an independent stop-motion series that ultimately became one of Youtube’s most popular and impactful scripted series ever, boasting more than 150 million views and 1 million subscribers.

E15 - Catalyst Spotlight: Katie Locke O’Brien

Our Catalyst Spotlight with Actor, Writer, Director & Producer, Katie Locke O’Brien.
 
Katie hails from New Hampshire and got her start as an actress on shows including JUSTIFIED, WEEDS, COMMUNITY, CHUCK, and Showtime's I'M DYING UP HERE. As a writer, Katie was featured on the prestigious Young & Hungry list in 2017. She co-wrote and produced the award-winning festival films THE REAL TRUTH BEHIND THE REAL TRUE STORY and the feature dramedy THE THING BEFORE THE THING, which came to Catalyst in 2020. Katie has developed comedy series with IFC, ABC & Warner Brothers.
 
Katie wrote & directed the festival short film DISCARD, and her 2018 short HAVE IT ALL, which she also wrote and in which she stars, was a finalist for HBO's Insider Comedy Short Challenge at the Women in Comedy Festival, a semi-finalist for the NBCU Short Film Competition, and took home the Jury Prize for all Narrative Short Films at the Napa Valley Film Festival. In 2018, Katie was selected for the inaugural class of NBC’s Female Forward Initiative for female episodic directors. She has since directed on multiple seasons of A.P. BIO and the new SAVED BY THE BELL, as well as several episodes each of PERFECT HARMONY, KENAN, and the upcoming CBS comedy GHOSTS.
 
This program is brought to you by Catalyst Storieroad's partners: the National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences and WDSE-WRPT Duluth, in collaboration with our individual donors.

E14 - Festival Podcast Lounge: Chronicles of a Bleep Year Old Woman

Tamra Paselk joins us in the 2021 Festival Podcast Lounge to tell us all about the short comedy, Chronicles Of A Bleep Year Old Woman.
Logline: The Bleep Year Old Woman is not at all ashamed of her age but every time she says it, it gets censored. She is child-less, marriage-less, pursuing her dreams in an industry built for 20-year-olds and brazen enough to be happy about it.

E13 - Special Guest: From Broadway to TV with James Monroe Iglehart

James Monroe Iglehart is a Tony Award winning actor, voice actor, and singer. He originated the role of the Genie in Aladdin on Broadway for which he won the Tony in 2014. He also originated the role of Bobby in the Tony-winning musical Memphis. Recently, he took on the role in Hamilton for Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson. His TV credits include Coriolanus Burt on "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," "The Good Wife," "Gotham," Lance Strongbow on "Disney's Tangled," and "The Electric Company. James is a member of the hip-hop improv group Freestyle Love Supreme.
 
Thank you to the National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences, WDSE-WRPT Duluth, The Wrap, and the WGA-East for supporting Storieroad.

E12 - Indie Panel: Entertainment Law

Discover why an Entertainment Lawyer is an essential part of you team in our in-depth Entertainment Law Panel with Hannah Mulderink & Matthew Valentinas.
Hannah is a partner at Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christoper, LLP, and a former Business Affairs Executive for Lionsgate Television. She has been in private practice for eight years, and represents writers, directors, producers & actors in connection with their film & tv deals.
Matthew is an attorney at Sennott, Williams & Rogers, LLP, as well as an Affiliated Agent at Kneerim & Williams Literary Agency in New York & Boston. He serves as both a Manager & Executive Producer under his Mom's Basement Management banner, packaging & producing projects, and providing submission services, screenplay & manuscript coverage.
This program is brought to you by Catalyst Storieroad's partners: the National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences and WDSE-WRPT Duluth, in collaboration with our individual donors.