12 Interviews
QED President Bill Block
Mar 28, 2010 - 7:53 AM
BILL BLOCK, President, QED Bill Block founded QED INTERNATIONAL in December 2005 where he leads day-to-day operations and strategy for the company. Previously, Block was President of Artisan Entertainment where he supervised all divisions – film production and acquisitions, international distribution, home entertainment, and television. Block managed Artisan’s senior lending as well as international distribution relationships. While at Artisan, Block acquired The Blair Witch Project which realized one of the most profitable returns on investment in film history. Artisan was successfully sold to Lionsgate in December 2003. Before Artisan, Blo…
Ted Kotcheff, Executive Producer of LAW & ORDER: SVU
Mar 07, 2010 - 6:00 AM
TED KOTCHEFF, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, LAW & ORDER: SVU Ted Kotcheff was born William Theodore Kotcheff in Toronto, Canada in 1931. After graduating with a degree in English Literature, Kotcheff began his television career at the age of twenty-four when he joined the staff of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), with television still very much in its infancy in the country. Kotcheff was the youngest director on the staff of the CBC, where he worked for two years on shows such as General Motors Theatre, before leaving Canada in 1958 to live and work in the United Kingdom. Kotcheff was inspired by his compatriot Sydney Newman, who had be…
CBS News Producer Joel Bernstein (Pt. 1)
Feb 28, 2010 - 12:00 AM
Joel Bernstein - CBS News Producer Joel Bernstein is an Emmy Award-winning veteran producer at CBS News. He began his career as a writer and producer for Walter Cronkite, served as a producer for Dan Rather at "60 Minutes," was Bureau Chief for CBS in Tel Aviv and Paris, and produced several hour-long documentaries including "Schwartzkopf: Return to Vietnam" with Dan Rather, and "Heroes of the Century" with Ed Bradley. Mr. Bernstein is a resident of New York City.
Interview with Hotplate Productions Josh Gold & Lowell Cauffiel (Pt. 1)
Feb 21, 2010 - 1:20 AM
Lowell Cauffiel - Novelist, TV Writer Lowell Cauffiel, born in Michigan, is an American writer and TV producer. An award-winning reporter with the Detroit News and Detroit Monthly Magazine in the 1970s and 1980s, Cauffiel began his bookwriting career in 1988 with Masquerade: A True Story of Seduction, Compulsion and Murder. That title, and his 1997 New York Times bestseller House of Secrets, have appeared on many critics' lists of the best works in American true crime. As a nonfiction author, he's known for his meticulous research and accuracy, delivered in novel-like, page-turner style. Thematically, Cauffiel's books often explore how peop…
Patrick McGrath Interview (Pt. 1)
Feb 14, 2010 - 11:03 PM
Patrick McGrath - Novelist Patrick McGrath was born on February 7th, 1950 in London, and grew up near Broadmoor Hospital where his father was Medical Superintendent. He was educated at Stonyhurst College, and is the authorof numerous novels including Spider, Trauma, Asylum,Martha Peake, Ghost Town andPort Mungo. He is also the author of the short story collection Blood and Water and Other Tales. Patrick's novel Martha Peake won the Premio Flaiano Prize in Italy, and Spiderwas made into a film in 2002 by acclaimed director David Cronenberg. Spiderwas nominated for the Golden Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival that same year. Patrick c…
Steven Pressfield Interview (Pt. 1)
Feb 07, 2010 - 11:01 PM
Steven Pressfield - Novelist Steven Pressfield is the author of Gates of Fire and four other historical novels set in the ancient world, including The Afghan Campaign. His most recent book is Killing Rommel, a WWII story. He is also the author of The Legend of Bagger Vance and The War of Art, which Robert McKee wrote the forward to. Mr. Pressfield is a graduate of Duke University and a former Marine. His books are in the curriculum at West Point, Annapolis and the Naval War College, as well as being on the Commandant's Reading List for the Marine Corps. Steven Pressfield's Official Website: www.StevenPressfield.com Steven Pressfie…
Shawn Coyne, Literary Agent, Interview (Pt. 1)
Jan 30, 2010 - 11:00 PM
Shawn Coyne, Literary Agent Shawn Coyne is the founder of Genre Management Inc., a boutique literary management company based in New York. Coyne began his publishing career as an assistant to the editorial director at Delacorte Press in 1990. He was promoted to editor of Dell publishing's paperback crime imprint in 1992 and ran Dell's nonfiction Expedition line devoted to first person nonfiction accounts of man in and against nature. Coyne left Dell publishing to become Senior Editor at St. Martin's Press. He founded St. Martin's paperback mystery line and published works across many genres. In 1996, Coyne was hired by Doubleday as Senior…
Steven Pressfield Interview Sample
Jan 07, 2010 - 10:50 PM
Steven Pressfield - Novelist Steven Pressfield is the author of Gates of Fire and four other historical novels set in the ancient world, including The Afghan Campaign. His most recent book is Killing Rommel, a WWII story. He is also the author of The Legend of Bagger Vance and The War of Art, which Robert McKee wrote the forward to. Mr. Pressfield is a graduate of Duke University and a former Marine. His books are in the curriculum at West Point, Annapolis and the Naval War College, as well as being on the Commandant's Reading List for the Marine Corps. Steven Pressfield's Official Website: www.StevenPressfield.com Steven Pressfield on Am…
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