Hollywood Insider Help by Nancy Fulton

Nancy Fulton, founder of NancyFultonMeetups, interviews professional producers rep Ben Yennie.

As Founder and CEO of Guerrilla Rep Media, Ben Yennie helps producers sell the rights to their films before, during, and after production. He's represented projects directed Sacred Blood by Christopher Coppola, Black Gold starring Marvel's Luke Cage, etc. He’s attached well known stars to projects, including Jodelle Ferland of Twilight: Eclipse and Claudia Christian of Babylon 5.

He is author of The Guerrilla Rep: American Film Market Distribution Success on No Budget, currently used as a text in film schools, and now available at Barnes and Noble, Amazon and independent bookstores, as well as two other titles. He has been featured nationally in many places including CNN Money, IndieWire, Indie Film Hustle - The #1 Filmmaking Podcast on iTunes, Cinesource magazine, etc.

He is also the Founder and Executive Director of Producer Foundry, has served as advisor to the Film Angels, and is the former chapter leader for the San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Vancouver Chapters of the Institute for International Film Financing. Most recently he has co-founded ProductionNext, a new set of tools and an ecosystem that helps filmmakers with scheduling, budgeting, and shot listing, and connects the people involved in every stage of creating a film project.

Writer/Producer Nancy Fulton brings you an audio recording of her interview with Organized Crime Expert Christian Cipollini.

Award-Winning author Christian Cipollini is a freelance journalist, book author (https://www.amazon.com/Christian-Cipollini/e/B00CP95F4K), organized crime historian and collector. A frequent guest lecturer at universities and a consultant to movie and television producers, Cipollini has also appeared as a consultant on episodes of Reelz Channel Series "Gangsters: America's Most Evil," History Channel Series "United Stuff of America" , AHC's 'America: Facts vs. Fiction', and served as a consultant & Location Producer on National Geographic Channel’s critically-acclaimed series DRUGS, INC. You can learn more about Christian and his work at www.GangLandLegends.com.

Topics covered include:

• An overview of organized crime. What it is and isn’t, the problems it “solves”, and the problems it causes.
• A quick but important timeline for organized crime in America from the 1900’s through to the modern day. The Mob, versus the Mafia, versus the Drug Cartels, and why distinctions matter.
• A primer on the origin, temperment, and tactics of organized criminals. What Hollywood usually gets right and what it gets wrong.
• Organized crime in America today. Major conflicts, major players, and major impacts we see every day.

If you have questions about this event, please contact me via the podcast home page at www.AudioIron.com.

Have you worked with a toxic person or business that has made you really rethink your work as a writer, screenwriter, filmmaker, or other creative pro? Does all of Hollywood feel like a den of thieves and difficult people? If so, you'll find this interview with Dr. Rhoberta Shaler important to hear.

As a relationship consultant, mediator, and speaker, Rhoberta Shaler, PhD (ForRelationshipHelp.com) helps the partners, employees, exes, and adult children of the relentlessly difficult people she calls "Hijackals®."

Her work has been featured on FoxNews, PsychCentral, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, The Good Men Project, eHarmony, Care2, Greatist, Pulse, and The Needs, among many others. She is the author of sixteen books, including Escaping the Hijackal Trap: The Definitive Guide to Dealing with Relentlessly Difficult People. Even the US Marines have enlisted her help.

You can learn more about Dr. Shaler’s work at ForRelationshipHelp.com and via her YouTube channel, ForRelationshipHelp. She is also host of two podcasts: Emotional Savvy: The Relationship Help Show and Save Your Sanity: Help for Handling Hijackals®!

In this video Dr. Shaler discusses:

• Why she uses the term Hijackals (R) to describe predatory and abusive people instead of more clinical terms like Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, and Psychopath.
• Why some people seem to attract and be attracted to Hijackals and others never seem to encounter them at all.
• How and why Hijackals destroy careers, relationships, projects, and people and why those witnessing their behavior so frequently don’t step in to stop it.
• Why trying to help a Hijackal be a better person usually results in more damage rather than an end to the abuse.
• An initial understanding of how to work with, or live with, a Hijackal when walking away is too expensive.
• Why most people who have had to cope with Hijackals for prolonged periods of time need professional help to recover.

If you have questions about this podcast, please email [email protected]. I look forward to hearing from you. You can find more online and face to face events at www.NancyFultonMeetups.com.

Bridget Fitzgerald (smileybridge.com) is an actress, comedienne, and model. She is also a member of National Lampoon's sketch comedy team, making a sketch comedy podcast heard by half a million monthly listeners. Her web series SmileyBridgeTV has had 1/4 million views, and she attributes some of that success to two audiobooks: "How I Exiled My Inner B*tch” which she acted in and "iHumpty" which she produced as well as acted in. You can learn more here: http://www.bridgetfitzgerald.com/

Her investment in producing audio content and a SAG New Media web series has helped her get more and better acting roles and writing gigs. It’s also allowed her to establish herself as a producer, co-producer, and director. She’s been asked to work as a judge in writing contests and consults with those producing web series, podcasts, and audiobooks.

This interview with Nancy Fulton discusses how writers, actors, and producers benefit from generating independent media.

Larry Jordan has amassed more than 45 professional credits, working on successful films such as Fallen, Assassins, Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo and television series including CSI: Miami and NYPD Blue. . Larry has worked with many of the top creatives at the world’s largest entertainment companies, including Time Warner, Sony, Fox, MGM, HBO, Netflix and Disney. Larry recently Master the Workflow (www.MasterTheWorkflow.com), a game-changing online course that teaches the practicalities of a career in film editing to a new generation of up and coming filmmakers and professional film editors.

Topics addressed in this interview include:

• Why a professional editor is key to the success of an independent feature film.
• When in the process of development/pre-production producers should start looking for their film editor.
• How to foster a productive, streamlined, relationship between DP, Director, and Editor
• The relationship between Film Editors and Post Production Supervisors
• Collecting, storing, protecting, and editing digital images in a 4K+ world
• What to look for when assessing film editors for your feature
• Why some indie filmmakers elect to edit their own productions and how to do it well

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Producer Patti Pelton has worked with CBS, Paramount, Walt Disney Studios among many others to arrange deals which make projects easier to produce and more profitable.You can learn about Patti's background and work here: www.PattiPelton.com

Product placement and brand integration deals can significantly reduce your costs and increase your revenues. They can also make your project more attractive to investors.

Tip: Reach out to Patti, or anyone else you want to work with to do product placement, brand integration, and/or sponsorship before funding and production if you want to maximize the value of your production. Minor tweaks to the script may have a huge impact on who you can work with and what you can earn.

Topics addressed in this recorded interview include

• Acquiring filming locations, props, and other elements required for production through product placement.
• Brand integration deals and how they can generate revenue for a film.
• Why companies sponsor projects or invest in product placement
• How business use their involvement in a project to promote their products and services to customers and their company to investors.
• Necessary Clearances and Standards & Practices Compliance

If you have questions about this interview please send me an email at [email protected]. I look forward to being of service to you. Patti can be reached at [email protected]

Dinah Perez graduated from Loyola Law School and has been in the practice of entertainment law since 1996. As a full service entertainment attorney she supports screenwriters, producers, talent management companies, production companies, publishers, recording artists, and creators of new media content.

Her work has been published in Story Board Magazine, Release Print, Surfview.com, Legalserviceindia.com, Mecfilms.com, and Findlaw.com, and she's been quoted in Entertainment Weekly, Wired Magazine, Wired.Com. She was interviewed by John Scott Lewinski for his books, Alone In A Room and The Screenwriters Guide to Agents and Managers. She's spoken at the Screenwriters World Conference, Beverly Hills Bar Association, Scriptwriters Network, Writers Digest Conference West, and Cinewomen. Ms. Perez is fully bi-lingual in Spanish and services clients from Spain, South America, and Mexico.

She is publisher of

• The Legal 411 for Screenwriters – The Legal Information Screenwriters Need to Work Smart and Succeed in the Film Industry
• The Legal 411 for Producers – The Legal Information Producers Need from Script to Screen.

In this podcast Dinah Perez addresses:

• How Writers Sell Screenplays
• Submitting Your Work to Agents, Managers & Producers
• Understanding Submission Releases & Shopping Agreements
• How Entertainment Lawyers Work with Writers to Close Deals
• 5 Mistakes Most Writers Make When They Negotiate Their Own Deals

If you have questions, please email [email protected]. I look forward to being of service to you.

Dr. Rebecca Royhas built a successful practice helping entertainment industry professionals reach their goals, manage their stress, and deal with the natural ebb and flow of creative careers. She is aLicensed Clinical Psychologist (PSY 28773)with both aPh.D. and a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology (MFT 45901)and she has12 years experienceas a psychotherapist licensed to treat both individuals and couples. She uses evidence-based treatment approaches which are both solution-focused and long-lasting which help her patients reach their goals while remaining grounded, sane, and creative.

She is a former coach of Olympic athletesand has over 20 years of experience helping people reach their goals, including many writers. She has been featured in theNew York Times,LA Times,Reuters,CNNand many other major media.

Topics addressed include:

• Frequent Causes of Writers Block and other forms of Severe Creative Inhibition
• How these Inhibitions Creep into the Lives of Creative Professionals
• How External Forces Can Exacerbate Creative Inhibition
• Entertainment Industry Specific Challenges for Creative People including Drugs, Alcohol, Untreated Organic Mental Illness, etc.
• The Impact of Creative Inhibitions on the Work and Well Being of Creative People
• Self Help Solutions that Don’t Help at All for Those “Blocked” in Creative Pursuits
• How Psychologists Understand and Treating Creative Impairments
• The Unexpected Benefits of Working Through Creative Blocks
• Carl Jung, CBT, and Other Therapeutic Lenses through which Creative Blocks can be understood and treated.

If you are a creative professional working to write, produce, act, etc, you can find the support and active community you need at www.NancyFultonMeetups.com.

In this podcast by writer/producer Nancy Fulton, founder of NancyFultonMeetups, you learn how to get lots of good Amazon reviews legally and for free for your books. You also learn how to acquire Amazon reviews more quickly and with less effort if you have a little money to spend. You learn how to promote your books through Amazon author pages and contests, and how to promote your books on Facebook so it drives sales on Amazon. This podcast also discusses how to sell your work through iBook, Nook, Scribd and other bookstores that offer better royalties than Amazon.

In this interviewwriter/producer Marilyn Andersonaddresses tools and techniques writers and producers can use to:

• Entertain potential business associates, partners, and investors with style and grace
• Dress themselves and performers well
• Travel well cheaply to domestic and international locations

Writers and Screenwritersfrequently find themselves living a long time between paychecks, pitching projects to decision makers in face-to-face meetings, and paying for the travel and other experiences that turn into the stories, articles, books, and screenplays they tell. Marilyn's techniques help writers save money while enjoying a better and more productive life.

Producersentertain constantly. When they aren't inviting writers, agents, actors, investors, and key crew to lunch, dinner, or drinks they are providing catered meals throughout production. They have to dress well to convey confidence and an air of success, and they are paying for travel all the time.

Marilyn's How to Live Like a Millionaire When You're a Million Shortis a funny, savvy, empowering book derived from her many years asa working writer and producerin the entertainment industry.

She frequently consults with producers to help them reduce costs and solve problems as they develop their projects and works with writers to improve their screenplays.

If you have questions about this event, please email [email protected].