Ep 10: Glitter Everywhere
The dazzling finale to our second season explores a personal journey of life, loss, hope and new creation with writer Robin Cloud, and soundies Alexandra Banhazl and Stephen Chesley.
Robin Cloud (writer) is an award-winning writer and director working in television and film. As a member of the 2020 Class of the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women, Robin wrote and directed the short film 2 Dollars that premiered at the BFI Flare Film Festival in London. During its festival run, 2 Dollars earned several audience and best of the festival awards.
Her first narrative short, Out Again, was executive produced by Refinery29 as part of their Shatterbox Anthology and premiered in March of 2017. Out Again has screened at film festivals throughout the world.
Her docu-series, Passing: A Family in Black & White, executive produced by Topic/First Look Media, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2019. In 2020, Robin wrote and directed This Old House which premiered on Hulu as part of their Bite-Size Halloween Series.
Cloud is a 2021 Alliance for Women Directors Black Directors Advancement Initiative Fellow, a 2017 Kickstarter Creative Fellow, and a graduate of Lena Waithe's Hillman Grad mentee program. Robin has been featured in The New York Times, The LA Times, The Washington Post, Diva Magazine, and GO magazine’s “Top 100 Women We Love,”
She graduated cum laude from Howard University's School of Communications where she studied film under Haile Gerima. In addition, she studied cinematography at the School of Visual Arts. Her production company, Cloud Creative Media, was launched in March of 2016 and focuses on creating independent narrative and documentary films and series.
She is represented by Underground Management. Make it stand out
Instagram: @robincloudcomedy
Alexandra Banhazl (soundie)-Multimedia artist specializing in video, sound art, poetry. Emotions create perception and emotions destroy perception. Emotions are pure creation. What's living underneath our emotions is idea and language. How we express and communicate our perception is multi-layered. I've been spending time with creating films, film scores, and sound art. Each piece is its own story, desire, question, answer, and flow. I gravitate towards surrealist, symbolic, deconstructed, abstract aesthetics as I wander through our metaphysical and physical reality. It was a pleasure listening to the written words that I was sent through You Heard Me Write, and to extend its' shadow through music and sound.
Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCzwfbx1amjbaojNhdaMej9w
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/alexandrabanhazl
Instagram: @alexandrabanhazl
Stephen Chesley (soundie) is a singer, songwriter, sound designer, and storyteller from Maryland. His primary focus is artistic expression through sound and collaboration across disciplines. Stephen is based out of Los Angeles and works as a Music Coordinator at Paramount. He's currently reminding himself not to let a sea witch bamboozle him out of his voice.
Instagram: @sdotchesley