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Chatting With Sherri welcomes back; Leslee Scallon!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back; Leslee Scallon!
Leslee Scallon’s many successful careers on both the performing and business sides of entertainment have prepared her well for being the guiding light of “Dances with Films” which in the last 20 years has become one of the industry’s most successful independent film festivals.
 Her careers are as varied as; acting (recipient of Dramalogue’s best actress award), magician’s assistant for one of magic’s most prestigious illusion acts, children’s entertainer, producer and currently, “Dances with Films” which has introduced  such spectacular talent  as Oscar Nominated John Hawkes & Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Pompeo (Gray’s Anatomy), Showrunners, Mark V. Olsen & Will Scheffer, among many others, to the industry. Her panel moderator skills have placed her on the stage with great entertainment minds from Mark Ordesky (Prod. Lord of the Rings) to Syrinthia Studer (EVP, Paramount Pictures.)  But perhaps the job she is most proud of is raising her amazing 14 year old daughter, Jocelyn.
Now in its 21st year, Dances With Films is an original on the festival circuit, touted by the Huffington Post as "the future of Independent Film," "An innovator and leader in positioning raw and new talented directors," - CNN and voted one of Moviemaker Magazine's Top 25 Coolest Film Festivals on the planet (and the only one in Los Angeles to make the list in the only year it was actually voted on by filmmakers across the globe), Dances With Films presents nearly 200 films each year to the LA Filmmaking and Film-going community.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back fine artist; Sasha T. !

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back fine artist;  Sasha T. !
"I am often asked how I go about painting on metal. It always starts the same way. I purchase stainless steel panels from my local metal supply company, and then have the sheets cut down to my desired size. I then distress the metal by using a grinder and a sanding pad. Not only does that technique create a surface for the paint to stick onto, but also allows the light to play off the metal once the painting is complete.
Considering that the metal is as much an integral part of my paintings, as is the oil paint - I make sure to leave as much of the metal showing through as I can. When light strikes the metal it creates the illusion of a 3D effect. As the viewer moves around the art it appears as if the reflecting light is dancing across the painting.
I primarily paint in my studio which is located in the historical Gaslamp Quarter in Down Town San Diego. My paintings are mostly a collage of ideas and images that I bring together to form a work of art. I use a thick oil medium that allows my brush strokes and colors to weave together seamlessly - much like water. The combination of all these factors give my paintings a dreamlike quality. My images are like a snapshot of time and place."
To help Sasha get his art in Space go to his; Go Fund Me page.  https://www.gofundme. com/Firstartshowinspace

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Chatting With Sherri welcomes NY Times Bestseller and 5-time Bram Stoker Award winner; Jonathan Maberry!
GLIMPSE; Rain Thomas is a mess. Seven years an addict and three difficult years clean. Racked by guilt for the baby she gave up for adoption when she was sixteen. Still grieving for the boy’s father who died in Iraq. Alone, discarded by her family, with only the damaged members of her narcotics anonymous meetings as friends. Them, and the voices in her head. One morning, on the way to a much-needed job interview, she borrows reading glasses to review her resume. There is a small crack in one lens and through that damaged slice of glass she sees a young boy go running down the aisle of the subway train.
V-WARS; A sweeping, threaded narrative of the global phenomenon known as the Vampire Wars! Mankind is silently infected by a millennia-old bacteria unknowingly exhumed by a scientific expedition in Antarctica. Now, in some rare cases, a person's so-called "junk DNA" becomes activated, and depending on their racial and ethnic heritage they begin to manifest one of the many diverse forms of the "others" that are the true basis for the legends of supernatural creatures. 
DOGS OF WAR;  Robots are no longer science fiction. Autonomous, programmed to react like animals: fast, relentless, deadly. From microscopic nanobots to massive self-guided aircraft. This technology is here, it’s assessable, and it’s dangerous. What’s even scarier is that almost anyone can get their hands on it. A freelance terrorist uses the latest generation of robot dogs to deliver WMDs into cities across America.  
 

Chatting with Sherri welcomes back Steven L Sears and Kevin J Anderson!

Chatting with Sherri welcomes back Steven L Sears and Kevin J Anderson!
 
I am so excited to get to chat with Steven L Sears and Kevin J Anderson about their joint venture STALAG-X!  The novel just is now available for purchase! They will chat with us about that and all their other adventures since our last interview.  I can't wait!!!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes singer, songwriter; Ray Dafrico!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes singer, songwriter; Ray Dafrico!
Ray recorded Tunnel Visions in New York City this year with nine songs of solid rock seasoned with soul and 60s British invasion pop!
 
 A founding member of legendary Atlanta bands The Nightporters and later Kathleen Turner Overdrive. Guitarist, singer, songwriter Ray Dafrico has been playing original music professionally since April of 1981. He has toured, opened for or performed with artists such as The Clash, The Ramones, The Replacements, REM, Bo Diddley, Richard Hell, The English Beat, Joan Jett, Hugh Cornwall, Weird Al Yankovic, Husker Du, Peter Tork, The Lords of The New Church, Jonathan Richman, Lene Lovich, Missing Persons, The Georgia Satellites, Redd Kross, The Flaming Lips, The Dickies, The Red Rockers, Rocket From the Tombs, The Feelies, Let's Active, Jason and The Scorchers, Mary Lou Lord, Mojo Nixon Flat Duo Jets, The Fleshtones, Guadalcanal Diary, Steve Wynn, Young Fresh Fellows, and many others. He has also had many of his own projects such as Shades of Shame, Kickstand, Soulfinger ,The Shanghai Gesture and The Ray City Rollers.  In the studio he has worked with Peter Buck (REM), Rob Fraboni (Bob Dylan, The Band Beach Boys), Brendan O'Brian (Bruce Springsteen) and Pierre De Beauport (The Rolling Stones).

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Chatting With Sherri welcomes author; Kaaron Warren!
Tide of Stone is set in a Timeball Tower, which ships at sea used to use to set their clocks. Prisoners are given the option of the death penalty or eternal life. they choose eternal life, and are imprisoned in the Timeball Tower. Phillpa is the most recent 'keeper', the people who look after the prisoners. The story is the history of the tower, and the present! What decisions she makes and how she deals with life there.
 
Exploring Dark Short Fiction is a short story collection from Dark Moon Books.
 Kaaron Warren's photo is by Julian Stevenson.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back talented photographer; Chris Loomis!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back talented photographer; Chris Loomis!
Chris Loomis has been blessed to shoot for numerous commercial, editorial and personal clients. Design, art, nature, architecture, high-fashion, science, science-fiction, surrealism, the paranormal, music and even old cartoons are things that inspire me from a creative standpoint and help me to generate concepts for many of my productions. Whether a personal project or an illustrative commission for my clients, I strive to deliver the highest level of quality and art direction. 

We chat with Brittney Powell and Tom Konkle about Trouble Is My Business!

Chatting With Sherri chats with the talented Brittney Powell and Tom Konkle about Trouble Is My Business starring Vernon Wells! 
 
Random Media and Lumen Actus Productions proudly announce the April 3rd DVD, Digital and VOD debut of a spectacular new classically inspired 1940’s noir feature, TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS.  Directed by and starring Thomas Konkle, the film follows Roland Drake, a Los Angeles Private Investigator trying to untangle a mystery that only lands him in deep trouble.  Check out the page here; troubleismy.biz
 
Debuting on DVD in a spectacular 2-Disc ‘Special Edition,’ the release allows whodunit fans to enjoy the adventure in color or in beautiful, authentic to its roots, black and white.  A story ripped from the covers of hard-boiled pulp magazines, inspired by noir film classics like The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity and Raiders of The Lost Ark, TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS also stars Vernon Wells (Mad Max, Commando) and Brittney Powell (Xena), in an adventure that ticks all the classic boxes, including seductive femme fatales, corrupt cops, a weary P.I., and troublesome thugs and dames. 

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Chatting With Sherri welcomes filmmaker Beth Ryne about her documentary; Feeling Seen, a feature length documentary!
Telling the story of how lesbians, bisexual women, and Trans/masculine identities have been represented on TV from their own perspectives, this documentary gives voice to those whom society has historically cast aside. Exploring how TV can suppress and isolate on one hand, and provide safety and community on the other, we reveal the universal human need for acknowledgement and validation.
Beth has created a kickstarter campaign; http://kck.st/2HXcILw

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back Producer/Actor Chris Lemmon!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back Producer/Actor/Musician and Professor; Chris Lemmon!
We will chat with Chris about all his adventures since we last chatted.  
Chris will be appearing at the Coronado Island Film Festival with his one-man musical tribute to his “Pop,” Jack Lemmon called “A Twist of Lemmon,”