Podcast Episodes

Miguel Lepe Jr: Jon Seda punched a bee for me

Chicago based comedian, writer, actor, and filmmaker Miguel Lepe Jr joins Ilse for a conversation that starts with a defunct pandemic podcast and som…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Juan Luis Garcia: I want to need an exorcism

Juan Luis Garcia has designed key art for Netflix, HBO, and A24, and was the art director and photographer behind Narcos: Mexico. He also built a spo…

3 months ago

Sofie Khan: Doritos and yogurt go together, fight me

Sofie Khan is an actor, writer, producer, and director born and raised in Chicago, with a chapter of her childhood spent in Brownsville, Texas. She's…

3 months, 1 week ago

Kyle Leland Cullerton: I handed the evidence to a Catholic priest

Kyle walks us through his path from a rejected Catholic school film submission to editing two of his friend's short films at Tribeca, taking his own …

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Tim Corpus: Gravity is just weird

Before he was orchestrating for Andrea Bocelli and Renée Fleming, Tim Corpus was fixing Segways and running walking tours around downtown Chicago. On…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Vishaal Desai: Do not start a company right out of film school

Vishaal Desai is a writer, director, and editor with over fifteen years of experience and a career that has taken him from Mumbai to London to Chicag…

3 months, 4 weeks ago

Marco Rosas: Green tea and a psychological thriller

Ever wonder what actually goes into editing a film? Like the real version, not the glamorous one? This week I sat down with Marco Rosas, a Mexican-Am…

4 months ago

Nick Cartwright: The cosmic egg made me do it

Nick Cartwright is a filmmaker, DP, Meisner acting teacher, and co-founder of two Chicago production companies: Cosmic Egg Productions and Film in a …

4 months, 1 week ago

Derry Shillitto: There is something living in the caves

Derry Shillitto is a writer, director, and producer from Nottingham, England — the rebel city, as he'll tell you, birthplace of Robin Hood, D.H. Lawr…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Sundance, SXSW and Cannes: Film festival strategy for independent filmmakers

This one's a little different.

No guest this week - just me and my producer Jacob Cagle, flipping the mic and doing a proper debrief on the last six …

4 months, 3 weeks ago