Femme Regard Podcast

Hosts Tessa Markle and Carolina Alvarez of Femme Regard Productions spill the tea with this week's guest: Gretchen Warthen!

Gretchen has been a camera operator on everything from reality TV to documentaries to narrative films and traveled all over the world to do so! This episode is full of digestible camera op knowledge with a few funny stories along the way.

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Hosts Tessa Markle and Carolina Alvarez of Femme Regard Productions spill the tea with this week's guests: Sabine Kahwaji & David Lee!

Tessa and Carolina have talked often about their feature film debut with Sync and now you get to hear about it from key crew members Associate Director Sabine and DP David. The team chat about their experience on set and working together. We get into the nitty gritty on lessons learned, takeaways, challenges, and rewards.

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Hosts Tessa Markle and Carolina Alvarez of Femme Regard Productions spill the tea with this week's guest: Rick Ives!

Rick Ives chats with us about his feature film: Solid Rock Trust and how to build a successful foundation for your filmmaking career. Solid Rock trust is a female-led thriller where, armed with only a collection of cell phones and a unique talent, a hacker orchestrates an elaborate bank heist from an abandoned building. But when things spin out of control, she has her wits to hold it all together.

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Hosts Tessa Markle and Carolina Alvarez of Femme Regard Productions spill the tea with this week's guest: Brittney Bertier!

Brittney chats with us from NYC about building her filmmaking foundation in LA and the lessons she learned along the way. She also shares the valuable community BlackMagic Collective. Founded with the belief that the art of filmmaking should be accessible to all, BlackMagic Collective is designed to bring together filmmakers from all disciplines and all experience levels to learn from, share with, and inspire each other.

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Hosts Tessa Markle and Carolina Alvarez spill the tea on creating a fantasy film with filmmaker Chris Heck!

We chat with return guest, Chris about his first feature, the Savage State. A dark fantasy for children. We get into all of it. Where did this idea come from and why is it important? How is he combining elements of puppetry, SFX, and more? And what about fundraising? We learned a lot in this episode and we know listeners will too!

Hosts Tessa Markle and Carolina Alvarez spill the tea on going from filmmaker to SVOD platform creator with Christin Baker!

We chat about Christin's growth as an indie filmmaker and her willingness to get on the phone and ask for favors. This has lead her to not only winning film festival awards, but getting nominated for an Emmy! Along the way, she created Tello Films, an SVOD platform for LGBTQ content and more.

Hosts Tessa Markle and Carolina Alvarez spill the tea on how psychology fits into character building and screenwriting with William Indick!

We chat about our film, Sync, and how psychology fits into our character creation and story building. We dive deep into narcissism and toxic relationships and how to build a sci-fi story with the psychology behind it!

Hosts Tessa Markle and Carolina Alvarez spill the tea on writing with Olivia Haller!

We chat about her experience as a playwright and producing theatre and how that led her to screenwriting for film and tv!

Hosts Tessa Markle and Carolina Alvarez spill the tea on being a creative with Danielle Beckmann!

We chat about indie filmmaking and how so many of us grow from actor to creator with actress, filmmaker, producer, and creative coach, Danielle.

Hosts Tessa Markle and Carolina Alvarez spill the tea on producing with Ceci Cleary!

We chat about the world of producing from her company, Bluewaterlane Productions, to her film "To Leslie" which premiered at SXSW. 

Hosts Tessa Markle and Carolina Alvarez spill the tea on financing your film to open season 14!

We chat about how we're currently finding funding for our first feature film, Sync. We also share a free proposal template that you can receive simply by subscribing to our newsletter on our website!

Hosts Carolina Alvarez and Tessa Markle of Femme Regard Productions spill the tea with this week's guest, Sarah Gadon!

The ladies chat with Sarah about how she taps into a character. How she doesn't get caught up in the character's emotions. And how she blocks out the rest of the world when on set. We get into her most recent film, All My Puny Sorrows, and working with her friend Alison Pill. As actresses ourselves, we were very inspired and thrilled with the takeaways Sarah left us with.

Hosts Carolina Alvarez and Tessa Markle of Femme Regard Productions spill the tea with this week's guest, Opher Yisraeli!

The ladies chat with Opher about all things Jambox.io. Jambox is a company we have been working with as both a show sponsor and to find music and sound fx for projects. We love that this company has so many options. From flexible subscription based plans to the selection of music and how to search for it, Jambox truly has it all. Opher fills us in on it all and why Jambox is such a great resource.
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Hosts Carolina Alvarez and Tessa Markle of Femme Regard Productions spill the tea with this week's guest, Luis Ortiz!

The ladies chat with Luis about Latino Public Broadcasting and how they fit into the larger scope of the Public Broadcasting System. LPB collects Latino and Latino-made stories and works to present them on PBS. Offering so many opportunities, LPB is only growing larger. And we learned that their content can be not only watched on PBS on tv, but also streamed online! Docs, fiction, long and short form!