SIFTER for the Ear presents:
Advantures of a location manager
Tom Sanchez Prunier lives in Richmond and works as a location manager or location assistant on films and TV series shot in the area. He’s also written and directed some film shorts, written poetry and created a YouTube channel that features diecast cars. Our discussion includes:
– Getting into the business
– Location scouting is more than finding a site
– Protecting a $1million piano for Mercy Street
– Hanging with zombies on The Walking Dead
– What is Spork Syndicate
LINKS
Tom on IMDb
Tom on Vimeo
Spork Syndicate on YouTube
Sisters with Transistors screening on March 8
Jerry Williams SIFTER for the Ear March 1st, 2024
Unicorn Power presents:
Unicorn Power Welcomes INVICTIS!
Richmond’s one and only power metal band INVICTIS chatted with One Hit Wanda about themselves and their upcoming debut album, plus a playlist inspired but what inspires them.
One Hit Wanda Unicorn Power March 1st, 2024
Posted In: Local, Music, Music Shows
SIFTER for the Ear presents:
Wait…I have another story!
Crissy Offutt worked in Richmond’s production community before heading out to LA, where she was involved with lots of shows and people. Most notably, she was an enjoyable side character in Denise Richards’ reality show. She’s got lots of dish (and a few expletives), including:
– An office encounter with Rob Reiner
– Buying guitars for the Naked Brothers Band
– Hanging with Matt Bomer at her dog’s birthday party
– Adopting Denise Richards’ pigs for It’s Complicated
– Gene Simmons crawling over Denise to meet Crissy
– Attending a Super Bowl party at the Playboy Mansion
– Being in Celebrity Fit Club and Housewives of the CIA
– Smoking with Jennifer Anniston, Katherine Keener and Drew Barrymore
– Brad Pitt’s grandmother vs Christine’s grandmother
– Her puppeteer husband on Friends
– Keeping her olives from Kelsey Grammer
Jerry Williams SIFTER for the Ear February 23rd, 2024
Higher Consciousness presents:
Higher Consciousness
From 3 to 5 pm on Thursdays, Alicia is dedicated to raising your vibration in this time of mass spiritual awakening. The synchronicities and coincidences that call for attention are given space and joined with music that shares the peace of Gaia and points to the thresholds of our collective experience. A mixture of edgy music, candid interviews, and Alicia’s insights, this is Higher Consciousness.
(Playlist 83)
Alicia Higher Consciousness February 22nd, 2024
Posted In: Local, Music, Music Shows
Tags: DJ Godiva, Music and tarot
SIFTER for the Ear presents:
Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
Nikki Giovanni is one of the world’s best known Black poets. She became famous in the 60s as part of the Black Arts Movement and went on to write more than 2 dozen volumes of poetry and 11 illustrated children’s books. She’s received the NAACP Image Award seven times and has taught at Virginia Tech from 1987 until she retired in 2022. We talk about the new documentary about her that’s on Max, GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT:
– Why a trip to Mars can be understood by Black women
– Who determined the artistic design and concept of the film?
– Getting Taraji Henson to read the narration
– Watching her interviews from the 70s
– Lighting James Baldwin’s cigarette during a TV interview
– Why she refused to answer a question
LINKS:
Nikki’s website
Going to Mars (on Max)
The poem that Paula wrote for Nikki
Screening of CURRENT, A Descendant’s Journey for Truth at the Library of Virginia
and here’s a poster with the dates/times for the other screenings in Virginia.
Jerry Williams SIFTER for the Ear February 16th, 2024
River City Limits presents:
River City Limits – New Year, New RVA Tunes
Andrew with RVA Playlist is back on River City Limits looking at all the new (and some old) stuff coming out in the Richmond music scene.
rvaplaylist River City Limits February 10th, 2024
Posted In: Local, Music, Music Shows
Tags: local music, Richmond music, river city limits, RVA Playlist
SIFTER for the Ear presents:
Meet the director of Driving Madeleine
Driving Madeleine takes a charming cab ride with a 93-year-old woman headed to her nursing home. Christian Carion is the director of the film, which goes deeper into drama than expected. He talked with me from Paris:
– Transitioning from being a farmer to a director
– How the friendship of Dany Boon and Line Renaud helped during the shoot
– Line sang “Relaxez-vous” with Dean Martin in Las Vegas
– Shooting the cab scenes in “The Volume” (new technology)
– Casting the younger version with different color eyes
– Shooting the flashbacks in a reference to American films
– How he used Barnard Herrman’s music to set the mood
– The dance sequence that ends the film
– Showing Spielberg’s DUEL at the screening of his movie
LINKS
Driving Madeleine at Movieland
My review of Driving Madeleine
Line Renaud sings Relaxez-vous with Dean Martin
This clip features stills from the Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis movie You’re Never Too Young, but the song was deleted from the film.)
Indie Short Film Festival (in C’ville)
Jerry Williams SIFTER for the Ear February 9th, 2024
Higher Consciousness presents:
Higher Consciousness
Playlist 81
From 3 to 5 on Thursdays, Alicia is dedicated to raising your vibration during a mass spiritual awakening. The synchronicities and coincidences that call for attention are given space and joined with music that shares the peace of Gaia and points to the thresholds of our collective experience. A mixture of edgy music, candid interviews, and Alicia’s insights, this is Higher Consciousness. Today I’m giving away Sammy Rae and The Friends tickets so Tune in and I’ll tell you what number caller to be when I play their song “Kick it to me”.
Alicia Higher Consciousness February 8th, 2024
Posted In: Local, Music, Music Shows
Tags: Dance therapy, DJ Godiva, Free ticket giveaway, higher consciousness, Tarot and Radio
What Do You Have in Common with Neanderthals?
In this episode, we meet the Science Museum of Virginia’s David and Jane Cohn Scientist, Rose Basom. Rose is a biological anthropologist (you’ll learn what that is) and she talks us through some recent studies that show how genes can express themselves in our behavior, and the distant origins of some of those genes. Tune in – you might learn some things about yourself!
To learn more, visit the Smithsonian Institute’s website on human origins.
amiller February 5th, 2024
River City Limits presents:
RCL 2-3-24 Jay Smack Host
smack River City Limits February 3rd, 2024
Tags: rvamusic