Episode 75

Want to Be a Filmmaker? Be Like Director B. Anthony Gibson and Start Making Films!

With today's technology, the path to becoming a filmmaker has never been this smooth. All you have to do is take the phone out of your pocket, use it to shoot your movie, then edit it and upload it for all the world to see. Once upon a time, in the 1990's to be exact - it was nowhere near this easy.

Join me and my guest - director / screenwriter / producer B. Anthony Gibson - as we talk about how his love of filmmaking started the instant he picked up a video camera, the beginning of his production company Tatum Pictures, how he used the resources at the School of the Arts in Rochester, New York to create his first four films (including his first of three James Bond fan films), how I got to join in the fun after we met at Marymount Manhattan College, his foray into more fan films that actually got a local theater screening, and much more!

Find out more about Tatum Pictures by going to www.tatumpictures.com.



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George Sirois

George Sirois is the author of the international bestselling young adult / science-fiction novel "Excelsior," its two sequels, and the science-fiction / sports trilogy "From Parts Unknown." He served as President of the Missouri Writers Guild from 2017-2018, and is the host and producer of the podcasts Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity and From Duck Till Dark: Outside the Marvel Studios. In 2023, George adapted his novel "Excelsior" into a feature-length audio drama, which was performed live on Clubhouse with a full cast of voice actors, a vast catalog of sound effects, and a stirring musical score.
George is also an audiobook narrator, lending his voice to over twenty books of all genres, and he is currently on the narrator rosters for Audio Sorceress and Encyclopocalypse Publications.
In 2025, George's short screenplay "Minus One Plus" won the award for Best SciFi Short at the 13th annual Austin Revolution Film Festival. The same year, Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity joined the Podmatch Podcast Network.
A New Yorker since birth, George now lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his wife and daughter. For more information, please visit www.hesgotit.com.