What's a Grip?

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11. What's a Comedy Researcher?

Bethy Squires is a researcher for fact-based comedy shows, meaning she's responsible for making sure every d*ck joke on Drunk History is a historically accurate d*ck joke

Aug 27 2020
44 min

10. What's Standards & Practices?

Rasheea Hall is VP of Standards & Practices for the Fox Broadcasting Company, and she's here to teach us that S&P is about WAY more than bleeping curse words (although th

Aug 20 2020
54 min

9. What's a Dubbing Director/Adapter?

Tyler Rhoads has made a career for himself as a director and script adaptor for dubbing international projects into English. He talks through what exactly that means, sha

Aug 13 2020
54 min

8. What's Remote Production?

Jillian is back on the hot seat in the first episode recorded since the COVID-19 pandemic. She talks about her experience working on the quarantine episode of Apple TV's

Aug 6 2020
1 h 11 min

7. What's a Costume Designer?

Natalie O'Brien is a talented costume designer who's been making her mark on the independent film world. Natalie talks about her early days hustling on low budget project

May 21 2020
49 min

6. What's a Story Producer?

Kristin Carroll is a Story Producer for reality television. Yes, we thought the concept of "frankenbiting" was pretty interesting too. Kristin talks about her career as a

May 14 2020
51 min

5. What's Current Programming?

Sandra Leviton is an independent film producer and one of the most driven people we've ever met. She walks us through her professional path -- which, like so many in the

May 7 2020
47 min

4. What's a Script Supervisor?

Script Supervisor is one of the most important and misunderstood jobs in the film business. Often mistaken for other departments with "script" in their title, Script Supe

Apr 30 2020
51 min

3. What's an Art Director?

Alyssa Hill is an Art Director who has worked on some of our favorite series. From "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" to "I'm Dying Up Here" to the upcoming "Penny Dread

Apr 23 2020
47 min

2. What's a Film Loader & 2nd AC?

Lacey Joy works as a film loader and 2nd camera assistant. She talks passionately about how her first love, photography, led her to the camera department, gets into her f

Apr 16 2020
47 min

1. What's a Casting Director?

Welcome to the first episode of "What's A Grip? The Below The Line Podcast!" To kick things off, we spoke with Cara Chute Rosenbaum, a Casting Director who's been respons

Apr 16 2020
47 min

0. What's This Podcast?

Just a little intro to what we're trying to accomplish here -- meet us (Annie & Jillian), and get to know "What's a Grip?". If you're a filmmaker looking to understand yo

Apr 13 2020
6 min

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As a film industry professional (2nd AC), this podcast is a great listen. Informative and selective with the topics covered so far, but it provides great firsthand insight into some of the positions that a lot of people don’t know about unless they’ve worked with them firsthand. Super insightful and I love hearing the conversations facilitated by women!

Salle2Shooz · Oct 2020

This pod is chock full of fascinating tidbits from the entertainment industry that even industry insiders would be fascinated to learn. Highly recommend, and am looking forward to new episodes!

LucyCarter567 · Apr 2020

Thanks for taking the time to do these interviews. I have always been a big fan of the work of NPR’s Susan Stamberg, and her film jobs segments that have been recorded annually prior to the Oscars, but they just tease the listener into wanting more. Film Craft, like that of the theater, is an oral tradition, and to understand it takes the context of the people who work in it, what they do, what they work on, and with, to make the whole story. Kudos to you for cataloging some of the stories from our workforce. -All the best, from a Grip.

IEM71 · May 2020

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