How I Got Greenlit
ALEX KELEDJIAN, the creator of "Project Greenlight," hosts a weekly podcast about pursuing your passions, both in the creative arts and beyond. Featuring in-depth personal interviews and lively round table discussions with Hollywood's hottest media makers, as well as innovators in music, advertising, and business, industry veteran Keledjian unlocks the secret ingredients to personal success through long form one-on-one interviews and group conversations examining how acclaimed working professionals discovered their path in life and achieved their goals through hard work, perseverance, and incredible luck. They share their humble origin stories, their brushes with legendary figures in Film and TV, and give us a front row seat to their "Greenlit" moments of breakthrough success. "How I Got Greenlit" is part How To, part Self-Help/Self-Actualization, part Industry gossip, and part Pop Culture geek out. World class on-screen and off-screen talent share their unique, touching, hilarious, and often unbelievable adventures on their way to the top of the screen trade and beyond.
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In our season finale, the importance of reinvention is never clearer than in the stories from playwright Gordon Farrell's career, where he had to keep coming back to what drew him to writing in the first place in order to continue moving forward. Gordon Farrell's play, "The Lifespan Of A Fact," starring Daniel Radcliff
Go After Every Opportunity That Comes Your Way with Eric Balfour (The Offer, Six Feet Under)
Opportunity may only knock once. But if you open the door without asking second-guessing yourself, then the phone may start ringing off the hook. And you just might find yourself with as long and respected a career as actor Eric Balfour. Eric Balfour is a true Angelino, one who embraces everything the City of Angels ha
Tell the Stories You Can't Stop Thinking About wih Pete Jones (Hall Pass, Stolen Summer)
There are an infinite number of stories to tell, an infinite number or worlds to explore. But sometimes one just burrows into your brain and won't let go, squirming into every daydream and idle conversation, demanding to be brought to life. And writer-producer Pete Jones believes those are the ones worth pursuing. An u
Be a Nice Guy, Not a Doormat with Pete Jones (Ricky Stanicky, The Greatest Beer Run Ever)
Some people might think that in a business as cutthroat as entertainment, ruthless cunning is the only thing that'll get you ahead. But writer-director Pete Jones is a living example to the contrary. An up and coming filmmaker who got his big break thanks to the Miramax sponsored competition "Project Greenlight," Peter
The entertainment business has always been in a state of flux, from the earliest days. Whether that means technologicial, social or structural change, cinematographer Michael Goi says the harder you fight against it, the faster you become irrelevant. Michael Goi, ASC, ISC was born and raised in Chicago, where he establ
In writer/producer/showrunner John Glenn's view, there should really only be one reason you go into show business: a love of storytelling. Anything else gets in the way of the most important task at hand, and that is doing the work you should already love. John Patrick Glenn is an American screenwriter, producer, and s
