For those of you keeping track, you'll know it's been a LONG time since my last email blast. The reason for this recess is I've been BUSY! I just got back in town from a string of trips--I was in Montana for a month helping my buddy Liam Finn on a feature called Two Eyes, written and directed by Travis Fine (Any Day Now); I was in Las Vegas shooting my newest micro-budget feature called The Last Days of Capitalism, written and directed by Adam Mervis (writer of the upcoming 21 Bridges); and I was in San Francisco taking a little R&R.
Can't wait to tell you about this new feature, which will certainly make a nice case-study. It's about a third of the budget of DriverX and is much more of a classic micro-budget feature. More about that film in a future missive.
Today I want to share with you a great opportunity that I am helping organize through the LA chapter of my University of Texas alumni group, the Texas Exes. Our non-profit organization The Hollywood Seminar puts on regular educational seminars for folks in the Entertainment industry and our next event is not to be missed.
Certainly you're aware of the explosion in Podcasting over the last few years. You probably have several podcasts you listen to regularly on your phone. I, for one, have been a guest on several filmmaking podcasts in the last year. There's also investigative true-crime podcasts, self-help podcasts, comedy podcasts--just about every subject under the sun is covered by one or more podcasts.
But did you know that some of your favorite TV shows started out as podcasts? Homecoming, on Amazon Prime, for instance, started off as a podcast. Two Dope Queens on HBO started as a podcast. The hit podcast Serial spawned the HBO series The Case Against Adnan Syed. One of the first shows for the new Facebook Watch is Limetown from the podcast Limetown, and Bravo's Dirty John was a podcast. The list goes on and on.
In the race to develop cost-effective, yet recognizable IP, the Podcast is king. I know, because I was involved with one last year that is currently on the path to becoming something more than an audio drama. | 
