June 2009

In this month’s episode of Second Cinema we head down South to Fayetteville, NC.  We stop off at the historic Cameo Art House Theatre to sit down with author / professor, Chuck Tryon to discuss his book, and then back to Raleigh to talk with Hollywood actress Evan Rachel Wood.

The Cameo was nice enough to open their doors and let Second Cinema use their theatre as a backdrop for our interview with Chuck Tryon, author, blogger (The Chutry Experiment), professor ( film and media studies at Fayetteville State University), and all around nice guy. We met with him to discuss his upcoming book,  Reinventing Cinema: Movies in the Age of Media Convergence, out July 2009 by Rutgers University Press., and to talk about the state of film distribution, options for budding filmmakers with the use of mashups and resources like youtube, myspace, and other outlets, and his thoughts on financing films in the world of ‘new media’. Check out the interview below.

In our second segment, Second Cinema heads back West to Raleigh, NC, stopping by Theatre in the Park to talk with Hollywood actress, and Raleigh native, Evan Rachel Wood.  She was very gracious to sit down and talk with us for about 15minutes, discussing everything from independent films, her career beginnings, advice for upcoming actors/actresses, her latest film, Whatever Works, directed by Woody Allen, and the possibilities of heading to Broadway for a while. Ms. Wood was in town to star in her brother’s  (Ira David Wood IV) directoral debut of Romeo and Juliet. With four sold out shows, we apprecaite Ms. Wood taking the time to sit down with us. Below is our interview with Evan Rachel Wood.

Last, but not least, we catch up with our friends at T3 with the latest installment of the T3 Postcard. It sounds like they are having a lot of fun, and putting in a lot of work to make this fantastic idea come to fruition. Please visit them online at filmblazer.com to follow the journey and possibly take part if your in their next stop.