We’re back in LA, and we’ve just added the first eight shows, out of over 40 waiting in the wings, which we hope to have completely up within the next few weeks.  These eight episodes offer a good cross section of what we have in store for you.

Just the three from DreamWorks Animation give us an idea of our variety.  Steve Hickner (Episode #29, seen here, holding the first Bee Movie script from Jerry Seinfeld) is the director of a major animation feature.  Sharon Colman (#28) is an independent filmmaker, who won an Oscar nomination for her animated short, Badgered, and is a Story Artist at DreamWorks, and Justin Brandstater (#33) is a matte artist, something most of us know little about.

From Pixar we have two of the six interviews we did in the San Francisco bay area recently; Brad Bird (#27) this years Oscar winner for Ratatouille, and Lou Romano (#32) primarily a concept designer, is also a performer and voice artist. Also we’ll be bringing you many interviews we’ve done at animation festivals, where we’ve presented UPA programs.  We met Mikhail Aldashin (#34) a prominent independent Russian animation filmmaker, at the Anima Mundi festival in Brazil, and Borivoj Dovnikovic (#31) a pioneer cartoonist and animator, we met at the Zagreb festival, which he helped organize.  And, finally, we will be dipping into the 100+ interviews we’ve conducted for the UPA documentary, the first one being Dave Hilberman (#30), one of the founders of UPA, and an important promoter of the Cartoonist’s Union, which was an uphill battle in those early days, prior to World War II.

So, that’s it for now.  Hope we have more up, by the time you’ve finished listening to these Episodes.

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