How Wither and Bloom Aims to Portray the Personal and Political (w/ Gyani Wasp and JT Turner)

How Wither and Bloom Aims to Portray the Personal and Political (w/ Gyani Wasp and JT Turner)

The podcast is rebranding! Introducing the Cinematiccss podcast. On this week's episode of the podcast I speak with filmmakers Gyani Wasp and JT Turner about their upcoming short film Wither and Bloom. Wither & Bloom follows a queer immigrant daughter navigating care, identity, and memory after her mother falls into a mysterious coma soon after they migrate to the U.S. You can learn more about the short here [https://seedandspark.com/fund/wither-and-bloom#story]. Thanks for listening! Like the show? Donate to my ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/tobipitan [https://ko-fi.com/tobipitan] Instagram: @cinematiccsspod [https://www.instagram.com/cinematiccsspod] Website: https://otbpitan.wixsite.com/toboroboproductions [https://otbpitan.wixsite.com/toboroboproductions] Youtube: https://youtube.com/@tobipitanmakingfilms?si=kv6SUGKvJiwm-t4d [https://youtube.com/@tobipitanmakingfilms?si=kv6SUGKvJiwm-t4d] Email: otbpitan@gmail.com

Independent Documentary Filmmaking (w/ Soren Sorensen)

This week I speak with Soren Sorensen, Associate Teaching Professor at Clark University. We discuss his latest documentary Omar Sosa's 88 Well-Tuned Drums now available to rent or buy on Amazon Prime. Listen as we dive into the ins and outs of independent documentary filmmaking from pre-production to premiere. Thanks for listening :) Like the show? Donate to my ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/tobipitan [https://ko-fi.com/tobipitan] Instagram: @cinematiccsspod [https://www.instagram.com/cinematiccsspod] Website: https://otbpitan.wixsite.com/toboroboproductions [https://otbpitan.wixsite.com/toboroboproductions] Youtube: https://youtube.com/@tobipitanmakingfilms?si=kv6SUGKvJiwm-t4d [https://youtube.com/@tobipitanmakingfilms?si=kv6SUGKvJiwm-t4d] Email: otbpitan@gmail.com

Writing the Homestead in Film (w/ Nic Overbaugh)

This week's episode I speak with filmmaker Nic Overbaugh about how they channel their emotions into film specifically in their recent projects Ask the Birds and The Bread Knife, both of which they wrote and directed. We discuss the role that the homestead plays in their work and how they've been embracing the quietness of their post-grad life and some upcoming pieces they have in the works. Like the show? Donate to my ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/tobipitan [https://ko-fi.com/tobipitan] Instagram: @cinematiccsspod [https://www.instagram.com/cinematiccsspod] Website: https://otbpitan.wixsite.com/toboroboproductions [https://otbpitan.wixsite.com/toboroboproductions] Youtube: https://youtube.com/@tobipitanmakingfilms?si=kv6SUGKvJiwm-t4d [https://youtube.com/@tobipitanmakingfilms?si=kv6SUGKvJiwm-t4d] Email: otbpitan@gmail.com

Portraying the Personal in "Moving Room" (w/ Gyani Pradhan Wong Ah Sui)

This week I speak with cinematographer and photographer Gyani Pradhan Wong Ah Sui about their upcoming thesis film Moving Room. We talk about how they first developed an interest in film, spending their adolescence living with host families, and how those experiences led to this phenomenal project, their senior thesis film, Moving Room. Like the show? Donate to my ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/tobipitan [https://ko-fi.com/tobipitan] Instagram: @cinematiccsspod [https://www.instagram.com/cinematiccsspod] Website: https://otbpitan.wixsite.com/toboroboproductions [https://otbpitan.wixsite.com/toboroboproductions] Youtube: https://youtube.com/@tobipitanmakingfilms?si=kv6SUGKvJiwm-t4d [https://youtube.com/@tobipitanmakingfilms?si=kv6SUGKvJiwm-t4d] Email: otbpitan@gmail.com

Teaching Pop Culture (w/ Ryan Syblis)

On this week’s episode of the podcast, I speak with pop culture expert Ryan Syblis, a New York native and Sociology major at Tufts University. I speak with him about how growing up in Jamaica impacted his pop cultural intake and perceptions of America, and about the class he peer taught as a student at Tufts, The Kardashians: The Queens of American Culture. Tune in for a discussion on gender, race, classism, capitalism, and power, through a Kardashian lens and how he plans to incorporate pop culture into the rest of his career in Marketing. Like the show? Donate to my ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/tobipitan [https://ko-fi.com/tobipitan] Instagram: @cinematiccsspod [https://www.instagram.com/cinematiccsspod] Website: https://otbpitan.wixsite.com/toboroboproductions [https://otbpitan.wixsite.com/toboroboproductions] Youtube: https://youtube.com/@tobipitanmakingfilms?si=kv6SUGKvJiwm-t4d [https://youtube.com/@tobipitanmakingfilms?si=kv6SUGKvJiwm-t4d] Email: otbpitan@gmail.com