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The Call Sheet is Now Available as an Audio Podcast

If you’d rather listen to The Call Sheet on the run, it’ll now be available on several podcasting platforms, including directly through Substack. The first episode, with Academy Award-nominated director Tim Reckart, is already available. Apple Podcasts Stitcher Spotify Pocket Casts Google Podcasts (soon) And, of course, you can still watch all of the interviews on the […]

Director of Content Daniel Ungar is Impacting the Way Hollywood Develops Scripts

Whether you are interested in a career as a development executive, or you want to be the one pitching shows, you should listen to today’s Call Sheet, where we interview Daniel Ungar, the director of content at Impact. Impact is an accelerated writers incubator, started by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard out of Imagine Entertainment. […]

How John Quinn Edits Horror Movies and The Chosen

A career in Hollywood is always strange. You work on so many different kinds of films and TV shows, because a job’s a job, and you never know when the next one is going to come along. But our next guest on The Call Sheet? He’s got range. He edited Tales from the Hood 2 […]

Reconnecting Just to Ask for a Job

Fred writes in about reconnecting with an old boss: So, a field producer I worked for a couple years ago (I was a PA) recently started working on a show that I like. I haven’t actually spoken to him in maybe a year or so, but I want to ask him if he could pass […]

Crew Call is Back!

Crew Call, the below-the-line podcast, is back for another season on iTunes!{{1}} Some of you may recall that TAPA created a podcast a couple years ago, wherein I interviewed below-the-line crew–DPs, editors, and so on. But because it was so time consuming and expensive, we only made one season. I was saddened by that, because […]

The Final Stretch

The good people at Bebee lights have decided to sponsor Crew Call at the studio level. That puts us at slightly over halfway to our goal! If you live in Los Angeles, you’ve seen Night Lights by Bebee, even if you didn’t know what they were called. They’re the massive lights mounted on trucks, used […]

Crew Call Season 2

That’s right, Crew Call is coming back! What’s Crew Call, you ask? It’s just about the only place you’ll hear interviews with below-the-line crew. You know, the people who actually make the TV shows and movies you watch? You can hear the entire previous season on iTunes, or right here on the TAPA website. This year, […]