This year, the Spy is expanding its commitment to the Chesapeake Film Festival by co-producing a monthly podcast with CFF Executive Director Cid Walker Collins and her dedicated team of volunteers. The series will feature in-depth conversations about the films being presented throughout the year, offering listeners a behind-the-scenes look at the creative forces behind them.

In this episode, Irene Magafan, the CFF’s new board president, talks with filmmaker, storyteller, and CFF Vice President, Monda Raquel Webb. Monda has built her career around uncovering the “little known stories” that rarely make it to the big screen—voices from our mothers, grandmothers, and community elders whose lives shape history but often remain untold.

This podcast is approximately 22 minutes in length.  For more information and to purchase tickets for the Chesapeake Film Festival, please visit this link.

This year, the Spy is expanding its commitment to the Chesapeake Film Festival by co-producing a monthly podcast with CFF Executive Director Cid Walker Collins and her dedicated team of volunteers. The series will feature in-depth conversations about the films being presented throughout the year, offering listeners a behind-the-scenes look at the creative forces behind them.

In our third episode, Irene Magafan, the CFF’s new board president, sits down with casting director Kimberly Skyrme. With notable successes such as House of Cards and True Lies, Kimberley talks describes her accidental start in casting, passion for storytelling, championing diverse talent, mentoring newcomers, and empowering women and locals in film.

This podcast is approximately 30 minutes in length.  For more information and to purchase tickets for the Chesapeake Film Festival, please visit this link.

This year, the Spy is expanding its commitment to the Chesapeake Film Festival by co-producing a monthly podcast with CFF Executive Director Cid Walker Collins and her dedicated team of volunteers. The series will feature in-depth conversations about the films being presented throughout the year, offering listeners a behind-the-scenes look at the creative forces behind them.

In our second episode, Irene Magafan, the CFF’s new board president, sits down with filmmaker and producer Ted Adams. Their conversation explores Ted’s many roles—as writer, engineer, entrepreneur, and valued CFF board member. His work spans a wide range of independent projects. His feature film, Try, follows the story of a young woman training for a triathlon, while the award-winning short Othello-san captures a biracial actor’s struggle with identity and artistic purpose in Japan, written and filmed in a single day on location. Another standout, Tyndall Typewriters, draws from Ted’s fascination with restoring vintage machines.

This podcast is approximately 30 minutes in length.  For more information and to purchase tickets for the Chesapeake Film Festival, please visit this link.

This year, the Spy is expanding its commitment to the Chesapeake Film Festival by co-producing a monthly podcast with CFF Executive Director Cid Walker Collins and her dedicated team of volunteers. The series will feature in-depth conversations about the films being presented throughout the year, offering listeners a behind-the-scenes look at the creative forces behind them.

In this episode, Irene Magafan, the CFF’s new board president, speaks with Rebekah Louisa Smith, better known as The Film Festival Doctor. Irene and Rebekah chat about the Chesapeake Film Festival podcast, Irene Magafan interviews Rebecca Louisa Smith, founder of The Film Festival Doctor. They discuss Rebecca’s fascinating scholarship on Tarantino’s audiences, her accidental start in festival consulting, and two standout films she will be bringing to the festival this year.

This podcast is approximately 30 minutes in length.  For more information and to purchase tickets for the Chesapeake Film Festival, please visit this link.