Student Blogger: Bea Mienik - Page 2

“#GivingTuesday is an opportunity for people around the world to come together through generosity in all its forms by sharing acts of kindness”.

BRECHT ON BRECHT is playing now through November 20th, 2021.

This past week, I interviewed Roxanna Lewis, director of the film Mandy’s Voice. The film entails the story of “a curious and intelligent non-verbal autistic girl [who] struggles to communicate. Her mother is desperate to provide the necessary tools for survival in a world where if one is without a voice ~ one is invisible to the world as well.” 

On Sunday, October 10th, 2021, the “#BroadwayToHollywood: A New Age of Musicals” panel took place at New York Comic Con. Packed with excited fans, the panelists shared valuable information and touching sentiments about the importance of stories and the process of bringing a show from the Great White Way to the Silver Screen. 

In this new series, Felix the Cat and friends face the mysterious Xilef the Extraordinary, an all new foe more powerful than all of Felix's past enemies combined. Can Felix and friends (classic and new) save the world from this Magical, Melodramatic, Machiavellian Malcontent?

Welcome to Bea's NYCC Speed Interview Series! As I attended New York Comic Con 2021 (October 7-10, 2021), I did a series of short interviews with influential creators. For issue #9 (final issue!), here's a speed interview with Axel Alonso, Chief Creative Officer of AWA Studios. Previously, he held roles as DC Comics Vertigo (1994-2000), Executive Editor of Marvel (2001-2011), and Editor in Chief of Marvel (2011-2018). AWA Studios was 'founded by Marvel alumni and strategic investors with a mission to build a creative and business ecosystem that will bring out the best in creators with something significant to say and show and to show their works to the world'. He is famously known for an unusual switch in careers: journalism to comics.

Welcome to Bea's NYCC Speed Interview Series! As I attended New York Comic Con 2021 (October 7-10, 2021), I did a series of short interviews with influential creators. For issue #8, here's a speed interview with James C. Mulligan, an artist for The Walt Disney Company. His paintings are collected by impressive names, including (but not limited to!) Johnny Depp, Roger Daltrey, Neil Patrick Harris, (the late) Hugh Hefner, Chuck Liddel and the Presley family. Before his current work with Disney, he performed in national Broadway tours.

Welcome to Bea's NYCC Speed Interview Series! As I attended New York Comic Con 2021 (October 7-10, 2021), I did a series of short interviews with influential creators. For issue #7, here's a speed interview with comic artist Joe St. Pierre. Works include Marvel (Most Spider-Man #1 comics, Venom) and DC (Aquaman) as well as his own works, the Fabien Cousteau Expeditions and The New Zodiax.

Welcome to Bea's NYCC Speed Interview Series! As I attended New York Comic Con 2021 (October 7-10, 2021), I did a series of short interviews with influential creators. For issue #6, here's a speed interview with Jackie Cox, best known for placing 5th in the 12th season of RuPaul's Drag Race.

Welcome to Bea's NYCC Speed Interview Series! As I attended New York Comic Con 2021 (October 7-10, 2021), I did a series of short interviews with influential creators. For issue #5, here's a speed interview with artist Tim Doyle of Nakatomi, Inc. Nakatomi, Inc, established in 2009, is a 'a full-service Silkscreen print shop, and Music/Pop art collective'. His past clients include Marvel, Dark Horse, Cartoon Network, Studio Canal, Metallica, Failure, 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Kings of Leon, and George Strait.

Welcome to Bea’s NYCC Speed Interview Series!

Welcome to Bea’s NYCC Speed Interview Series!

Welcome to Bea's NYCC Speed Interview Series! As I attend New York Comic Con 2021, I'll be doing short interviews with influential creators. For issue #2, here's a speed interview with Chad M Strohl, author of A Tale of the Inferno: Infinity, a 6-issue comic series from Caliber Comics.

Welcome to Bea’s NYCC Speed Interview Series!

Nowadays Barry is one of the most sought-after photographers in the NYC and DC area for actors, news anchors, TV hosts, attorneys , doctors, executives and politicians. Clients love visiting Barry's studio. The staff is friendly, fun and laid back and he always has fabulous tunes playing on his famous travellin’ Jukebox. (He also shoots in Nashville and Dallas.)

Adams’ Apples is a John Strasberg talent trifecta. He wrote, directed and starred in this contemporary homage to Anton Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard. In our recent interview, Strasberg explains that like Chekov’s dramatis personae of 100 years ago, the modern day characters we meet in his film “never did anything about doing what they dreamed of doing”.

One of their most popular packages is the Agency Jump-starter Program, which includes 3 two-week intensives with agents, and closes with a private industry night via Zoom. On industry night, each actor goes into a private breakout room and performs one-on-one with each agent and receives feedback. As of now, Acting & Voice Studios works with over 150 agents, casting directors, and managers; including agents from Gersh, Paradigm, A3 and Verve.

As the story usually goes, a young person is bit by the “acting bug” and knows immediately what they want to do for their career. For Yue, not so much. His life was an acting drought until he turned 26.

1 in 4 Americans has a disability. It's high time for the media to step up and deliver on empty words with meaningful follow-through: Hire disabled people. Let THEM share their authentic stories. LISTEN to them when they say what you're doing is wrong, and change your ways. People fear what they don't understand. Educate them with proper representation in media and watch the world bloom in living color. When you let the colors in and change the narrative in media, everything begins to change, and the world is better for it. Without diversity, there is no art. Can you paint with no color?

The 'Hero's Journey' begins with answering the 'Call to Action'. For concept artist Dane Hallett, the journey began with literally answering a call. Hallett knew from a young age that he wanted to work in the film industry. He was self-taught in many forms of drawing and art, and had experience in prop-making. By age 17, he was living on his own with his brother and sister and had to take on odd jobs to make ends meet.