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The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley

On the Viewfinder Podcast, you"ll hear fascinating in-depth interviews with some of today"s most talented indie filmmakers and actors as they take you inside the creative process behind their latest productions.

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Episode 129 - Indie South Network Founder and...

The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley ·

2025/12/12

While popular streaming platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu deliver countless choices for viewers, only a small percentage of the content on those services is made in Louisiana, and often such content portrays Louisiana and its people in an unbelievably stereotypical light. Working to dispel those stereotypes through authentic programming made by and for the Gulf South is a new streaming hub called the Indie South Network, a digital service whose diverse and growing library of

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00:36:25

Episode 128 - EVANGELINE Writer/Director Cory St....

The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley ·

2025/12/05

This week, our lens is focused on another amazing short film that was part of this year's lineup at the inaugural Baton Rouge Underground Film Festival: writer/director Cory St. Ewart’s frightening supernatural thriller Evangeline, a story that re-imagines the beloved character from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's classic 1847 poem as a rebellious youngster - played by newcomer Renee Reed - who yearns to flee from the daily abuse inflicted on her by her cruel father (portrayed by Hick Cheramie)

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00:31:36

Episode 127 - THE RED MASK Director Ritesh Gupta

The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley ·

2025/11/21

Director Ritesh Gupta’s new movie The Red Mask is not just an entertainingly scary indie slasher but it's also a tribute to the classic chillers - like Halloween, Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street - that spooked and thrilled generations of horror lovers and filmmakers. It's also an authentic representation of queer relationships, and an incredibly timely commentary on how toxic fandom and the “culture wars” in America have done immeasurable damage to present-day society. The Red

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00:44:43

Episode 126 - 2025 Louisiana Film Prize Recap Pt. 2 -...

The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley ·

2025/11/14

Part two of our review of the 2025 Louisiana Film Prize features two back-to-back interviews with the acting winners from this year’s event: from writer/director Alexander Jeffery’s The Old Man at The Bar, Best Actress honoree Abby Tozer, and Best Actor honoree from Girl Dad, Ty Hudson, who’s joined by wife/filmmaking partner Rachael Hudson. Ty wrote the movie and Rachael directed it. In The Old Man at The Bar, Abby plays a temperamental French waiter who along with her irritating co-worker (played

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01:14:28

Episode 125 - 2025 Louisiana Film Prize Recap Pt. 1:...

The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley ·

2025/11/07

This past October, the city of Shreveport, Louisiana again became Prize Port as the Louisiana Film Prize showcased another remarkable lineup of short films shot and produced in the Pelican State. This week and next week’s shows are dedicated to the 2025 edition of Film Prize, and you’ll hear exclusive interviews with this year’s honorees for its Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress awards. On today’s show, I’m joined by three members of the brilliant team behind Grand Prize-winning film Last

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Episode 124 - THE DEMONIC DETECTIVE Creator Jason...

The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley ·

2025/10/31

On this edition of the show I’m honored to be joined by two of the brilliant talents behind the spooky audio drama The Demonic Detective: its creator, Jason Brasier, and co-star Jonathan W. Robbins. The eight episode first season of the series is now streaming on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and various other platforms. Set in New Salem - or an alternate universe of Salem, Massachusetts in the 1940’s - and combining hard-boiled detective drama with supernatural chills in a retro old-time radio style, The

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00:51:09

Episode 123 - AIR SHIFT Writer/Director Chris Maes...

The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley ·

2025/10/24

Next week is Halloween, and fitting with the spooky nature of this show these past few weeks I now turn your attention to another chiller that's in the spotlight on this pre-All Hallow's Eve edition of the Viewfinder Podcast: writer/director Chris Maes’ suspenseful, scary and sometimes silly horror/thriller mash-up, Air Shift. The movie stars Ashlee Lawhorn as Lisa Richmond, a lonely, struggling overnight DJ at a failing community radio station managed by her overbearing jerk of a boss,

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00:51:36

Episode 122 - DONOR Writer/Director/Co-Star Wesley...

The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley ·

2025/10/17

Written and directed by Wesley Boone, the terrifying short film Donor puts audiences in the throes of a mother's worst nightmare: the loss of a child immediately after birth. Yet, as two different yet unexpectedly connected parents played by Gordy Cassel and Lucy Faust discover, a baby's death - and inexplicable rebirth - is just the start of a chilling odyssey that makes them risk everything for the love and joy of motherhood. In August, Donor played at the inaugural Baton Rouge Underground

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00:30:28

Episode 121 - BENEDICTION Writer/Director Zandashé...

The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley ·

2025/10/10

Written and directed by Zandashé Brown, and co-starring Idella Johnson, Rhonda Johnson Dents, and Lance Nichols, the haunting and spiritually evocative supernatural thriller Benediction turns a desperate and grieving woman's search for emotional healing at a Black Baptist church service into an incredibly surreal experience that tests both her faith and her willingness to take her life in a challenging direction that she never imagined before. Johnson plays the troubled visitor, Rosalee, while

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00:29:54

Episode 120 - ALMOST FORGOT HOW TO SWIM Star Jahmiu...

The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley ·

2025/10/03

On the last show, you heard my conversation with Casey Shaw, the writer/director of Almost Forgot How To Swim, which was recently shown at the first annual Baton Rouge Underground Film Festival as part of a block of Louisiana short films. Now, I'm honored to be joined by the star of that movie, multi-talented actor and musician Jahmiu Yakubu, who plays an emotionally struggling but successful rapper trying to get himself and his career on the right track following a painful breakup. It's a

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00:58:17

Episode 119 - ALMOST FORGOT HOW TO SWIM...

The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley ·

2025/09/26

My series of conversations with some of the outstanding Louisiana-based filmmakers whose shorts were recently seen at the inaugural Baton Rouge Underground Film Festival continues on this week's Viewfinder Podcast. My guest on the show is Casey Shaw, the writer/director of a fascinating and reflective character drama called Almost Forgot How To Swim. The movie, shot on 35mm analog film in Atlanta and produced by Casey's New Orleans-based studio Shawscope, stars actor/singer/songwriter

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00:31:52

Episode 118 - ADA AND THE DOC Writer/Director Matison...

The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley ·

2025/09/18

Held for the first time this past August, the Baton Rouge Underground Film Festival presented an eclectic and entertaining selection of shorts and feature films made in the unmistakable indie spirit, with a significant number of them produced by and starring Louisiana-based talent. For the next few weeks on this podcast, you'll hear from several of those extraordinary filmmakers and actors who brought the Pelican State to the big screen while telling unforgettable stories in the process.My first

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00:42:06

Episode 117 - Creighton Hobbs, Christian Fiorella and...

The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley ·

2025/03/21

The last time I had writer/director Creighton Hobbs join me on this show, he discussed his riveting drama Binded By Tragedy - a film about an ex-con’s desperate fight to escape from his dangerous criminal past.Now with his latest feature, the chilling thriller A Way Out, he looks at a crisis that continues to threaten lives and marriages - domestic violence - in the story of a brave woman who’s determined to flee from her abusive and emotionally broken husband. Alexis Baca plays the tormented wife,

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00:42:42

Episode 116 - CLUTCH Writer/Star Bryan G. Thompson

The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley ·

2024/12/26

This week, the amazing and talented actor/filmmaker Bryan G. Thompson is my guest on the show. I'm honored to have him join me to talk about his new action drama CLUTCH, in which he stars as an ex-police investigator - named Clutch - who's driven to solve a complicated unsolved case that's troubled him for years: the kidnapping of several young women by wealthy and dangerous human traffickers. Reluctantly teaming up with a new partner in detective Angel (played by Jamiah Dancil), Clutch and Angel

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Episode 115 - SEX DATE Writer/Director Mike Nicholas

The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley ·

2024/12/19

This week, The Viewfinder Podcast welcomes writer/director Mike Nicholas, whose romantic comedy short film SEX DATE recently won both Best Film and a cash prize of $50,000 at the 2024 Louisiana Film Prize in Shreveport. Follow The Viewfinder Podcast on X: @ViewfinderPod On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheViewfinderPodcast Music by Audionautix.com

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Episode 114 - CARRIAGE RETURN Composer Elena Maro

The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley ·

2024/12/13

Composer Elena Maro's unsettling avant-garde/jazz hybrid soundtrack for director Ferguson Sauvé-Rogan's 1950's-set drama Carriage Return powerfully surrounds the on-screen conflict between a lazy, writer's block-afflicted playwright Lane Williams (played by Jeremy Parr) and his outraged ex-writing partner Charlie Marlow (played by Carlos Sanchez), who accuses his former collaborator of stealing his creative ideas and using them for his most recent theatrical success in an angry confrontation that

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00:15:54

Episode 113 - RED Writer/Producer/Director Ashley Rae...

The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley ·

2024/07/26

Peer pressure. Bullying. Family troubles. The need to overachieve. Depressed and overwhelmed by these problems, many teenagers try to solve them not through therapy and medication but through illicit narcotics, alcohol, criminal recklessness, self-harm and, sadly, suicide. However, numerous organizations, parents, teen survivors of suicide attempts and mental health experts are combating the suicide crisis. So too are amazing filmmakers like our guest on this week’s Viewfinder Podcast, Ashley Rae

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Episode 112 - Actor, Producer and Inspirational...

The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley ·

2024/06/07

On this week’s show I’m honored and proud to bring you my conversation with an actor, producer and inspirational speaker whose story is one of the most inspiring you’ll hear. His name is Charles D. Clark. He’s appeared on such primetime TV hits as the Fox drama Empire, which co-starred Terrence Howard as hip-hop king Lucious Lyon, whose once-incarcerated ex-wife Cookie (played by Taraji P. Henson) aims to reclaim her piece of their music dynasty, and whose three sons - Jamal (played by Jussie

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00:39:50

Episode 111 - AFTER FOREVER Co-Star/Co-Creator Kevin...

The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley ·

2024/05/10

This week, actor/writer/producer Kevin Spirtas - co-star and co-creator of the Emmy, GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) and Indie Series Award-winning drama AFTER FOREVER - joins us to talk about the acclaimed series' third and final season, now streaming on Amazon Prime. Watch all 3 seasons of the show on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/After-Forever/dp/B07CK6TL1P Find out more about AFTER FOREVER on its official web site: https://afterforevertheseries.com/ Follow The Viewfinder

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00:45:51

Episode 110 - HEMISPHERE Writer/Director Chris Maes

The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley ·

2024/03/29

Stranded aboard a distant outer space capsule, two women discover a danger bigger than any alien in writer/director Chris Maes' claustrophobic science fiction thriller HEMISPHERE. Maes joins us to discuss the making of his extraordinary first feature film on this week's Viewfinder Podcast.Check out HEMISPHERE on Amazon and Tubi TV: Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0CKDTS4MM/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r Tubi TV: https://tubitv.com/movies/100011499/hemisphere Follow The Viewfinder Podcast on

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