Dwayne Johnson-Cochran, writer and director of “Love and Action in Chicago” joins Joel and Kamala to talk about his experiences as a writer and director in Hollywood. This is a great interview to understand the ins and outs of how to work your career as a writer, and how the industry has evolved.

Tanna Frederick, the star of Henry Jaglom’s “Hollywood Dreams” talks about her experience with the film that is premiering this week. Tanna joins Joel and Kamala to talk about developing the film, starting a film festival and what she is working on now.

Heidi Levitt, casting director for Oliver Stone, Wim Wenders, Neil LaBute, Wayne Wang and many others, talks about her career as a casting director and a producer. She cast the films JFK, Nurse Betty, Wall Street, The Joy Luck Club and Benny and Joon, to name a few.

Director George Hickenlooper shares with us his wild ride through the industry, including working for Roger Corman, the short film “Some Call it a Slingblade,” collaboration with Harvey Weinstein, and his current controversial indie film Factory Girl, starring Sienna Miller, Guy Pierce (as Andy Warhol) Hayden Christensen and Jimmy Fallon.

Two-time Golden Globe winning actress Karen Black joins Kamala and Joel this week with a very personal and insightful interview. Karen’s expansive career has included such films as Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, Family Plot, The Day of the Locust, The Great Gatsby, Nashville, Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?, Firecracker and Hollywood Dreams.

She talks about working with Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Altman, John Schlesinger and Henry Jaglom. Karen also gives some very candid and useful information for actors.

Big Screen Entertainment Group a publicly traded movie-making company joins Joel and Kamala for an interesting talk about how they run their company and make movies. Topics include: location scouting, film financing, shooting on film, contracts and night shoots.

Their films include Dirty Love, Forget About It, Babysitter Wanted and The Mirror and Lightfield’s Home Videos.
Guests include Big Screen executives Kimberley Kates, Michael Manasseri, Stephen Eckelberry and David Zappone.

Actor / Director / Writer / Photographer Leonard Nimoy sits down with Joel and Kamala to discuss being an artist in the entertainment industry, choosing projects, artistic expression, the importance of having a sense of humor.

Robert Allan Ackerman joins Kamala and Joel from the editing room of his new film “The Ramen Girl” which stars Brittany Murphy. He talks about his early experience at the Eugene O’Neill Playwright’s Conference, directing at the Pubic Theatre in New York City, the Japanese film company Shochiku, shooting in Japan on HD and directing actors most effectively.

Academy Award winner Bruce Cohen, producer of American Beauty, Big Fish, Down with Love, The Forgotten, among others. Bruce is also the Vice President, Motion Pictures for the Producers Guild of America.

Bruce discusses his path to being a producer beginning with the Director’s Guild Assistant Director Training Program, and working with Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Steven Spielberg.

Digital cinema pioneer, Scott Billups, gives us the straight talk on what we know as “High Definition,” as well as his work as a digital artist, director of photography, writer and director. Scott was the DP and is the Visual effects supervisor on a new movie called Homo Erectus that will be premiered at the upcoming Slamdance Festival. Scott is also an advisor to the big camera companies and has a lot of great information on digital moviemaking.