NonDē Uprising

Ep 027 - Brooke Berman on *A Playwright Walks Into a Bar*

Brooke Berman is an award-winning playwright, filmmaker, and author of three books, including a memoir, No Place Like Home. Her plays have been produced all over the worl

Ep 026 - Diana Cherry on *Truth (Can Be) Stranger Than Fiction*

Diana Cherry is a writer, producer, and activist who writes the Substack I’m Thinking of Mending Things. She is the managing editor and producer for the upcoming The Who

Ep 025 - Ari Gold on *Brother Verses Brother*

Count on Ari Gold to always take the non-traditional path or make what seems straightforward a bit more interesting. Ari’s most recent film, Brother Verses Brother, was e

Ep 024 - Sandra Lehner on *Why I Left Film for Marketing and What I Didn't Expect to Learn*

Sandra Lehner is considered the TV Futurist on Substack for her uncanny ability to understand where Gen Z gathers for their cultural diet. A former marketer for films, sh

Ep 022 - Tim Gleason on *An Outsider's Perspective on the Independent Film Business*

TimG (Tim Gleason) worked as an engineer at Google for fourteen years. He led a wide variety of teams and eventually founded an internal startup that developed AppSheet D

Ep 021 - Sasha Santiago on *Shooting With Intent*

Sasha Santiago is a fixture in the NonDē community, and in many ways, was enacting NonDē elements in his work long before NonDē was coined. He’s a filmmaker with 20 years

Ep 020 - Shagun Singh on *How Not to Be a Starving Artist*

Shagun Singh is an artist, first and foremost. Through Urban Matter, she creates large-scale interactive sculptures that bring together architecture, technology, and huma

Ep 019 - Alex LeMay on *Designing a Film Industry From Scratch in 2026*

It’s one thing to make a movie; it’s another to sell it. Alex LeMay’s Substack, Pitch Craft, helps creators pitch projects for funding. In addition to offering his own ex

Ep 018 - Stephen Follows on *Audiences Pick Feelings, Not Films*

Stephen Follows mixes data and filmmaking in his fascinating Substack asking the questions you might have always wondered but never knew how to answer. If your brain hobb

Ep 017 - Jen Harrington on *Microbudget Filmmaking*

jen harrington is an exemplar of the NonDē movement. She wrote and directed the horror movies Shook and Housekeeping, and has sold her scripts Hell’s Belles to Amazon Stu

Ep 016 - Ted Hope on *The Paradox of Starting a Leaderless Movement*

If you’re in the NonDē world, the FilmStack community, or have some knowledge of what it means to produce a movie, then you know of Ted Hope. He’s of course the brains be

Ep 015 - Fawnia Soo Hoo on *Mullets*

Fawnia Soo Hoo is a freelance fashion and entertainment journalist whose bylines have appeared in Vanity Fair, The Hollywood Reporter, Elle, W Magazine, GQ, CNN, and more

Ep 014 - Kate Wilson on *The Zero/One Star Review*

Kate Wilson is the author of the Substack Kate Wilson Has Zero F***s to Give, where she writes essays on films. She’s also the author of the 2024 novella Prospects, which

Ep 013 - Jillian Vogel on *Quibi Is My Roman Empire*

jillian vogel has worn many hats throughout her career. She’s a development executive now but she’s also been a producer (she’s one of the producers behind the rom-com Fi

Ep 012 - Evan Shapiro on *The Creator Economy*

Evan Shapiro is an Emmy- and Peabody-award winning producer of TV, films, and podcasts. He served as President of IFC and Sundance Channels and has become known as the “C

Ep 011 - Charlotte Simmons on *Comic Book Movies*

Having worked as an entertainment journalist and film critic, Charlotte Simmons now writes for her publication, The Treatment, while also writing screenplays, designing g

Ep 010 - Kate Casey on *Reality TV*

Kate Casey is the host of Reality Life with Kate Casey, a daily podcast about unscripted television with over 1,500 episodes that is in the Top 10 in TV & Film on Apple P

Ep 009 - Courtney Daniels on *Developing a Bias Toward Action*

Courtney Daniels has written and directed three feature films: What Other Couples Do, Bedroom Story, and It’s Not You, It’s LA. She’s also published a book about microbud

Ep 008 - Richard Lorber on *The Fallacy of Polarization in Independent Distribution Strategies*

Richard Lorber is the Chairman and CEO of Kino Lorber, a leading independent film distributor in North America bringing films to audiences in theaters, on streaming with

Ep 007 - Marion Ranchet on *The State of European Media*

Marion Ranchet currently runs Streaming Made Easy and co-hosts The Media Odyssey Podcast. With 20 years of experience in the industry, she advises streamers, distribution