Pranakasha Matt interviews Eric Hayden VFX supervisor for The Orville Season 3.

as well as...

---Emmy Nominated VFX Supervisor of DEADWOOD: THE MOVIE for HBO

---Creator/Director of ASTRONAUT: THE LAST PUSH

---Creator/Director of AMERICAN MADNESS a documentary currently in production.

"Astronaut: The Last Push" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njtDxD5V_yo

Eric's Interview with Orville Nation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyho_lwic0g&t=1429s

Viking Lander Interview https://youtu.be/uOhk-kaJLQA

The Mandalorian practical effects shots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtGAiEQEIXE

Eric's Twitter https://twitter.com/EricHayden1

Eric's LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-hayden-444b2610/

Eric's IMDB https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1051393/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Pranakasha Matt interviews the hugely talented and hard-working Nami Melumad, music composer for both Star Trek Strange New Worlds and Star Trek Prodigy.

Nami's website: http://www.namicomposer.com/

Nami Melumad is represented by the Gorfaine Schwartz Agency.

Please reach out to Maria Machado’s Office:

Email: mmoffice@gsamusic.com

Phone: +1 818 260 8500

Contact Nami at nami@namicomposer.com

Nami’s Social Media profiles:

IG: @namicomposer

Twitter: @namicomposer

Facebook: nami melumad, Nami, Film-Composer

Spotify: Nami Melumad

Apple Music: Nami Melumad

Nami Melumad is an Israeli-Dutch film composer, based in Los Angeles, California. Her scoring credits include over 130 projects in a wide range of genres, most notably the HBO Max comedy, An American Pickle, starring Seth Rogen, the Amazon thriller-drama series, Absentia, starring Stana Katic, and EA’s VR video game Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond. She also scored the Oscar® winning documentary short, Colette, and contributed music and arrangements to Amazon’s latest hit, Borat Subsequent MovieFilm. Her score to the Star Trek episode, Shorts Treks: Q&A in 2019, landed her an upcoming Star Trek series, making her the first female composer for the franchise.

Nominated for Breakthrough Composer of the Year (2020) by the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA), Nami won the IFMCA For Best Original Score for a Video Game for Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, earned a Jerry Goldsmith Award Nomination for Over the Wall (2019), won the Hollywood Music in Media Awards for her work for Passage (2018), as well as Best Score for a Short at Fimucite for Luminarias in 2017 (out of 908 score entries), and Best Featurette Score at Idyllwild Festival of Cinema in 2017. She was also nominated for an HMMA for Miss Arizona (2018) and This Day Forward (2017).

Nami takes pride in telling thought-provoking stories that make an impact on the viewer, such as Subira, Kenya’s official entry to the 92nd Academy Awards, about a young Muslim woman who challenges gender stereotypes and tradition; Miss Arizona, a dramedy about a former beauty queen who meets four women at a shelter; More Beautiful For Having Been Broken, a drama focusing on a single mother and her special-needs child; and Not Your Skin, a documentary examining the issues of the transgender community through the stories of people who transitioned in different stages of their lives.

Nami had recorded music at the Fox Newman Scoring Stage, Warner Brothers Eastwood Scoring Stage, Abbey Road Studios, East-West Studios and Capitol Records. Her works have been performed by the Hollywood Chamber Orchestra, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, The Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva and Helix Collective Ensemble.

An alumna of the prestigious ASCAP Film Scoring workshop (16′), Nami completed the highly rigorous Scoring for Motion Pictures and TV program (SMPTV) at the University of Southern California (15′) and holds a B.A. in multi-style composition from the Jerusalem Academy of Music, where she was admitted directly to sophomore year.

Nami started her musical life as a pianist and a flute player, performing in orchestras and bands, and she also plays guitars, uke, and some clarinet. After completing her two-year IDF service she traveled the world with a big backpack (New Zealand, Australia, China, Thailand), and a small backpack (Israel, Europe, Canada, USA). She is an enthusiastic Trekkie and an avid film fan but also enjoys oil painting, hiking, and having coffee with friends.

Nami serves as board member of the Alliance for Women Film Composers, and is represented by Maria Machado at the Gorfaine Schwartz Agency.

Part 2 of Pranakasha Matt's interview with Rob Jones, US Marines Double Amputee.

Rob's Website https://www.robjonesjourney.com/

Rob's Facebook https://www.facebook.com/robjonesjourney

Rob's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/robjonesjourney/

Rob's Twitter https://twitter.com/robjonesjourney

Rob's LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/rob-jones-journey/

I grew up on a farm in the small town of Lovettsville, Virginia. During my junior year at Virginia Tech in 2006, I read the book “Brotherhood of Heroes” about the Marines on Peleliu. This story helped me realize that my life was missing the elements of courage, brotherhood, and selflessness. The following day, without consulting anyone, I went to the Marine Corps Recruiter’s office and set my path on finding those missing elements by joining the Marine Corps.

I was assigned to B Company, 4th Combat engineer Battalion, in Roanoke as a combat engineer and in 2008 deployed to Iraq with the role of finding buried caches of weapons. My second deployment was to Afghanistan in 2010, where I was tasked with the job of finding improvised explosive devices. It was in this role that on July 22, I stepped on an IED, which resulted in double above knee amputations of my legs.

Five days later, I arrived at National Naval Medical Center, having left in Afghanistan the Marines that supplied my brotherhood, and the mission that gave me courage and selflessness. I had lost my path toward these elements. Shortly after waking up, I met two fellow amputees who showed me firsthand that a new path could be found that brought me these same elements. With the support of my family, the hospital staff, and the Marine Corps, I began my search for that path by healing, regaining my strength, and learning how to walk, ride a bike, run, and row.

I retired in 2011, at the end of December. I was leaving behind the world I had known for five years, but armed with the tools I needed to find my new path. I immediately began training for the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, and along with my rowing partner, earned a bronze medal in the double sculls event. Not only that, I found an even greater reward when I met a beautiful girl named Pam.

After the 2012 Games I noticed that something didn’t feel quite right. Despite the great strides in self confidence that rowing had helped me make, I knew that my path did not lay within it. Remembering how difficult and time intensive relearning how to ride a bicycle had been, and knowing that through extreme endurance challenges that push them to their physical and mental limits, many athletes find lifelong purpose, I decided to ride my bike across America in 2013 along with my brother Steve in a support vehicle. Six months, 5,181 miles, one polar vortex and $125,000 raised for charity later, I crossed the finish line at Camp Pendleton. But, something was still missing. It took two years, and a failed attempt to make the 2016 Paralympics in triathlon for me to determine what was missing, and how to encompass brotherhood, courage, and selflessness into one endeavor. The bike ride, I realized, had been about pushing myself. It was all about me. What I needed was a challenge whose purpose was selfless. I would run 31 marathons in 31 consecutive days in 31 different cities to create a positive story that veterans and civilians could use when they were struggling.