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Category Archives: Filmmaker Q&A’s
Guns, Ghosts, and Family Values: Philip Cook Peels Back the Many Layers of Hit Internet TV Series MALICE
By Ariel Nishli
When I received an email from Phil Cook suggesting we conduct our interview using “this device that Alexander Graham Bell invented over a hundred years ago” in lieu of Skype, it wasn’t too great of a leap to assume I was in for a lesson on the value of old school sensibilities.
It wasn’t only our initial c…
A Hitman with Heart: The Sixth Wall Chats with Georgie Daburas, Star of Hitman 101
By Ariel Nishli
Silver screen contract killers have historically been older, hardened men with nothing to lose and no ties to sever. When they speak, it’s minimalist and foreboding. When they set out to do something, it’s methodical, cold, and calculating.
These preconceptions of what Hollywood’s hitmen are su…
A Strong Partnership in Dysfunction: The Sixth Wall Probes the Minds Behind The Marriage Counselor
By Ariel Nishli
Jerry White and Raymond Creamer make a solid creative team. They’re on the same wavelength. They tend to finish each other’s sentences. Jerry will begin a joke, and Ray will come in with a punch line. One will reference the short-lived 1990 TV police drama musical, Cop Rock, and when I express ignoran…
Pro Juice Profiles: Guerrilla Artists on the Cutting Edge of All Things Digital | Jim Moynihan aka Spoonbill
By Ariel Nishli
Tastemakers and fans of delectable eye and ear candies have spoken. They want to know who designed the choicest treats on their Pinterest boards, the animators behind the most viral of videos, and what VJs concocted the laser art spectacle at last weekend’s rave, let alone who produced the unworldl…
Internet TV Mans Up! Ivan Silvestrini Offers an Inside Look at Stuck, The Italian Series About a Stunted Playboy That’s Changing the ITV Game
By Ariel Nishli
In 1995, veteran showrunner David Chase pitched a new series to HBO about a 40-year-old New Jersey suburbanite whose contentious relationship with his mother and stressful job forced him to meet with a therapist once a week. His situation was relatable to men across the country, except that he also…
Battle of the Sexes, Exes, and Seriously Funny Sketches: The Sixth Wall Gets Deep with Comedienne and Satirist Katie Schwartz
By Ariel Nishli
Katie Schwartz appreciatively sips her iced coffee, patiently waiting as I arrive to our interview a few minutes late. There’s some small talk – turns out we grew up near one another in New York – but little need for formalities. In no time she’s rattling off hard-earned opinions on comedy, our…
Q & A with NASA Filmmaker & Conspiracy Theorist John Beck Hofmann
By Ariel Nishli
There’s a fine line between curiosity and paranoia. Curiosity, after all, did kill that cat. How deep should one continue to dig once powerful opposing forces begin to surface? Ask John Beck Hofmann, director of photography for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he’ll most likely point out the…
Mother-Daughter Time: The Sixth Wall Talks to Miss Behave Series Creator Susan Bernhardt and Star Jillian Clare
By Ariel Nishli
Susan Bernhardt and Jillian Clare walk into Café Motif, a sleepy Beverly Hills café where aspiring starlets meet with ambitious hucksters and the occasional tech startup sets up shop. At first glance, the pair may appear to be a timeworn Tinseltown story: momager convincing Hollywood that her lit…
Seriously Funny: The Sixth Wall talks with Veronique Girma, Producer of International Hit Show Mister French Taste
By Ariel Nishli
Veronique Girma is a woman of contradictions. A Parisian living in Hong Kong. A bank executive turned anthropologist. A successful producer who insists she’s a novice. Over a Skype call with Ms. Girma that she took from a meticulously organized study stacked high with books in her Hong Kong flat, I t…
What if Heaven is Really a Roadside Waffle Joint?: A Chat With The Book of Dallas Creator
By Ariel Nishli
Just over six weeks ago, the incredibly controversial film, Innocence of Muslims, was broadcast on Egyptian television station Al Nas, supposedly sparking the riots across the Middle East that would claim the lives of four Americans, including US Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens. On…