filmmaker | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net A radio show about animals & animal issues Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:19:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://i0.wp.com/talkinganimals.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-talking-animals-favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 filmmaker | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net 32 32 142518242 Will Braden, curator of CatVideoFest https://talkinganimals.net/2024/08/will-braden-curator-of-catvideofest/ https://talkinganimals.net/2024/08/will-braden-curator-of-catvideofest/#respond Wed, 21 Aug 2024 20:23:18 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=11413 Will Braden, filmmaker—and curator of CatVideoFest 2024, a 75-minute compilation of short cat videos, edited into a briskly-paced reel, screening at theaters across the country, including the Tampa Theatre Aug. 23 & 25-27—recalls what first drew him to film.  Studying film, at first informally, then later in film school, he realized that he was particularly […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2024/08/will-braden-curator-of-catvideofest/feed/ 0 11413 Mark Devries, documentary filmmaker, “Humans and Other Animals” https://talkinganimals.net/2024/08/mark-devries-documentary-filmmaker-humans-and-other-animals/ https://talkinganimals.net/2024/08/mark-devries-documentary-filmmaker-humans-and-other-animals/#respond Wed, 14 Aug 2024 04:00:34 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=11396 Mark Devries–the documentary filmmaker (https://markdevries.com/) who specializes in exploring the realm of animals and animal welfare—expands on the final line (the fate of our kin is up to us) of his new film, “Humans and Other Animals.” Laying out an eloquent and philosophical operating principle—which permeates his new film, as it did his debut doc, […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2024/08/mark-devries-documentary-filmmaker-humans-and-other-animals/feed/ 0 11396 Tom Mustill, author of “How To Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication” https://talkinganimals.net/2022/12/tom-mustill-author-of-how-to-speak-whale-a-voyage-into-the-future-of-animal-communication/ https://talkinganimals.net/2022/12/tom-mustill-author-of-how-to-speak-whale-a-voyage-into-the-future-of-animal-communication/#respond Wed, 07 Dec 2022 05:00:48 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=9862 Tom Mustill, who’s a biologist, filmmaker, and author, discusses how he’s forever primarily identified by a 2015 incident: while kayaking with a friend, a humpback whale breached, landing on the pair.

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2022/12/tom-mustill-author-of-how-to-speak-whale-a-voyage-into-the-future-of-animal-communication/feed/ 0 9862 Susan Fleming, director of “Remarkable Rabbits” https://talkinganimals.net/2020/04/susan-fleming-director-of-remarkable-rabbits/ https://talkinganimals.net/2020/04/susan-fleming-director-of-remarkable-rabbits/#respond Wed, 08 Apr 2020 04:00:50 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=8089 Owing to the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing Stay at Home order, this was the second show I broadcast remotely from home, with in-studio help from my friend/WMNF music director Lee “Flee” Courtney, featuring live and recorded elements… Susan Fleming—a filmmaker who’s been making movies for 30 years, and specializing in nature films for 20; […]

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