KUCI: Get the Funk Out

10/15 at 9am pst - Janeane speaks with Award-winning author Dana Chamblee Carpenter about her final installment in Bohemian Trilogy,

AWARD WINNING AUTHOR DANA CHAMBLEE CARPENTER RELEASES FINAL INSTALLMENT IN BOHEMIAN TRILOGY
Dana's first book, “Bohemian Gospel” was awarded the Killer Nashville Claymore Award. The second book in her trilogy, “The Devil’s Bible” not only won the Silver Falchion in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror category but also Best Overall novel at Killer Nashville.

10/8/18 - Acclaimed Director, Inna Blokhina, called in to our KUCI Studios to talk about her award-winning documentary She is the Ocean - this film ma...

She is the Ocean to Make US Premiere
at 14th Annual LA Femme Film Festival
WATCH the trailer!
A Documentary about Great Women at a Festival Highlighting Exceptional Women From Innesse Blohina, the acclaimed director of the award winning documentary about surfing ON THE WAVE (with Kelly Slater), comes her second film which examines nine extraordinary women from the four corners of the globe who share one thing in common: a profound love for the Sea. A love so profound that they have chosen to make the Ocean the center of their physical, philosophical and professional lives. SHE IS THE OCEAN will screen on Saturday, October 13that 6PM, at Regal Cinema at LA Live, 1000 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles.
In a unique documentary concept, the director has selected these women, ranging from the ages of twelve to eighty three, in order to create a portrait of what could be a metaphor for one woman’s Ocean life through all her ages.
Starting with three women who engage in the thrill of ocean sports, to a famed scientist who plunges into the deepest depths on the edge of human survival, to a cliff diver who is hailed as “The bravest woman in Germany”, She is the Oceancaptures the common thread that bonds them together. Both how it has formed their lives and given them meaning beyond the normal constraints of society.
Mankind has always referred to the Ocean as a She.
Even the boats that sail upon her waters are considered to possess female energy. Could this be mankind’s greatest homage to the female gender? That these Oceans of ours, which contain the most powerful forces on the planet, the most boundless mysteries, the progenitor of all life on earth, the vessel of our planet’s most infinite and valuable bounty, will forever be related to the same noble attributes of a woman? The attributes of mystery and power which has kept mankind enthralled from time immemorial?
She is the Ocean will explore these thoughts and more. And, in the very words of the women who lead these extraordinary lives, seeks to discover the answers.

10/8/18 - Post show conversation with Emmy Winner Jenni Gold - considered a triple threat in the world of entertainment. Janeane will be speaking with...

Compelling, star-studded, historic documentary CINEMABILITY: THE ART OF INCLUSION for coverage consideration? The perfect entertainment story for October’s National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Director Jenni Gold, the 1st wheelchair using female in the Director’s Guild, shares this entertaining and fascinating 120 year history of disability representation in film and TV - very much like THE CELLULOID CLOSET but with more humor! Features Jamie Foxx, Ben Affleck, Marlee Matlin, Jane Seymour, William H. Macy, Geena Davis and so many more!

10/8/18 at 10:15am pst - Janeane speaks with Dr. Ellen Vora about her functional medicine approach to mental health and more!

Ellen Vora, MD graduated from Columbia University medical school, received her B.A. from Yale University in English, and is a board-certified psychiatrist, acupuncturist, and yoga teacher. Dr. Vora takes a functional medicine approach to mental health–considering the whole person and addressing the problem at the root, rather than reflexively prescribing medication to suppress symptoms. In addition to seeing patients, Dr. Vora also writes, teaches courses through mindbodygreen, works for two health care start-ups, and does corporate wellness presentations

SUSIE RIVO’S HISTORIC DOCUMENTARY “LEFT ON PEARL” WILL COMPETE AT 14TH ANNUAL LA FEMME INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, OCT. 11- 14, 2018 - Janeane speaks...

LOS ANGELES, September 29, 2018 - LEFT ON PEARL, an award winning documentary with “Me,Too” overtones, will be entered into competition at this year’s LAFemme International Film Festival and screen on October 12th@ 2PM at the Regal Cinemas at LA Live in downtown Los Angeles.
The acclaimed film takes us back to 1971 when International Women’s Day marchers took over a Harvard Building in Cambridge, MA. for a women’s center, on land sought by the largely African-American Riverside neighborhood for affordable housing? How and why did hundreds of women of diverse backgrounds decide to take a radical, collective action that would change their lives? How did this action intersect with the surrounding African-American neighborhood’s fight against displacement by Harvard University’s expansion? What is the legacy of this action almost 50 years later?

10/8/18 at 9:45am pst - accomplished writer, faculty member at the New England Conservatory in Boston, and author of numerous articles...Tracy Strauss...

Named by Bustle as one of eight women writers with advice to follow , Tracy Strauss is the author of the forthcoming #MeToo-themed self-help/relationships book cum epistolary memoir I Just Haven't Met You Yet, a modern-day Bridget Jones's Diary-meets-Eat, Pray, Love.
Written as an open love letter to her future life partner, I Just Haven’t Met You Yet details Tracy’s dating history and her journey to dismantle the effects and stigmas of an abusive past, break free of destructive relationship patterns, and ultimately conquer her fear of truly being seen by the world, flaws and all.

The inaugural ReelAbilties Film Festival: Los Angeles takes place October 11 - 17, 2018 at Laemmle’s NoHo 7. On Monday 10/8/18 at 9:15am pst, Janeane ...

Coming to Los Angeles for the first time, ReelAbilities Film Festival is the largest festival in the United States dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories, and artistic expressions of people with different abilities. Founded more than ten years ago in New York City and now held annually in multiple cities throughout North America, the festival presents international and award-winning films by and about people with disabilities in multiple locations throughout each hosting city. Post-screening discussions and other engaging programs bring together the community to explore, discuss, embrace, and celebrate the diversity of our shared human experience.
The festival is produced by the City of Los Angeles Department on Disability in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Commission on Disability and ReelAbilities North America. Sponsors include Laemmle Theatres, USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, SAG – AFTRA, Jeffrey Pechter Family Foundation, the Writers Guild of America, and The Ruderman Family Foundation.
Opening the festival on Thursday, October 11 with a blue carpet and gala is Chloé Zhao’s quiet masterpiece, THE RIDER. After suffering a near fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for a new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.

10/8/18 at 9:00am pst - New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins joins Janeane to talk about her latest novel, GOOD LUCK WITH THAT

New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins’s novel, GOOD LUCK WITH THAT (Berkley Trade Paperback Original; August 7, 2018), has caused a stir, challenging readers to think about their views of weight and body image. The passionate dialogue that followed proves how far we still have to go when discussing weight and our society’s definition of what’s too fat, too thin, perfect and problematic.

10/1/18 at 9:45am pst - Janeane spoke with filmmaking team Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster of ’SCIENCE FAIR’ - NOW PLAYING IN NEW YORK & LOS ANG...

Synopsis: Hailed by critics as "immensely likeable," "brilliant and quirky" and an "ode to the teenage science geeks on whom our future depends," and winner of the audience award at Sundance and SXSW, National Geographic Documentary Films' SCIENCE FAIR follows nine high school students from around the globe as they navigate rivalries, setbacks and, of course, hormones, on their journey to compete at The International Science and Engineering Fair. As 1,700 of the smartest, quirkiest teens from 78 different countries face off, only one will be named Best in Fair. The film, from Fusion and Muck Media and directed by the DuPont Award-winning and Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaking team Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster, offers a front seat to the victories, defeats and motivations of an incredible group of young men and women who are on a path to change their lives, and the world, through science.
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10/1/18 from our KUCI Studios, Janeane spoke with Leslie La Page of the LA FEMME International Film Festival!

For over a decade Leslie La Page has Produced, Directed and Line Produced/UPM for Film, TV, Music Videos, Commercials and Theatrical productions nationally and internationally in both the independent and commercial markets. She has worked for such companies as Black Entertainment Television Action Pay Per View (BET) HBO, Lifetime TV, MTV, Paramount and Nickelodeon just to name a few.
While at BET she line produced their entire slate of original programming which aired on their network and additional achieved international and domestic video releases. Her production experience also involves her in the areas of marketing, developing scripts, creating promotional copy as well as promotional feature spots and trailers.
In 1997 Ms. La Page ran and operated TIGER’S EYE SOUND, a dialogue editorial company, with her partner Bruce Murphy. There she worked with numerous awarding winning dialogue editors and edited over 20 independent feature films in the company’s first year. Ms. La Page and TIGER’S EYE SOUND dialogue-edited such critically acclaimed films as: 1998 Academy Awards Nominee, Best Foreign Film – “Four Days in September”; 1998 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for “Smoke Signals”; and the film “Dead Man’s Curve,” which was a Sundance Film Festival Invitee.
In 2003, Leslie and her Partner Saul Stein, Co-Executive Producer of “The Holy Land”, formed BooYah! Films and have released through Cavu Pictures the critically acclaimed film “The Holy Land”, which opened domestically at the Angelica Theatre in New York City before rolling out to 45 cities across the nation. She still has her production company Infinity Films which is involved in feature film, music video, and commercial productions.
Ms. La Page also, consults independent filmmakers for feature films, script analysis, budgets, independent marketing, and film festivals and taught at the New York Film Academy and has taught as an adjunct professor nationally at universities. She was a Slamdance Film Festival Programmer for over five years and was the creator and Executive Producer for the Slamdance Filmmaker’s Bootcamp.
Ms. LaPage was the Director of Programming for the New Orleans Media Experience Film Festival (NOME 2003) occurring in Louisiana which platformed over 100 films. 50% of the films platformed at NOME went on to have theatrical distribution: Show Boy, Nursie, Hungry Hearts, Dog Walker and Flavors just to name a few.
Ms. LaPage launched in 2005 the LA FEMME International Film Festival which still operated today as one of the most prestigious women’s film festivals in Los Angeles. The focus of the film festival is to empower women in entertainment and to platform women artists with commercially viable productions. Ms. LaPage has been a forerunner in the empowerment of independent artists. Ms LaPage explored new technologies as the V.P. of Production for Fun Little Movies channel on the Sprint mobile network. She directed and produced the channel’s first animated series, “Spacey Movie, The Series”.
Ms. LaPage launched a “Christian Faith Based Network” for a philanthropic Christian organization. She held the title of Supervising Producer for all Original Programming in Production and Post Production for their scripted and non-scripted content.
Ms. La Page holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and a Master of Fine Arts in Film Directing from the California Institute of the Arts. She currently teaches as an Adjunct teacher at Columbia College Hollywood. Ms. LaPage is currently in development with Television shows for the major networks and writing a novel series.