Dub Web Fest Show #14: Chester Travis From How To Be Gay

Chester Travis is co-creator of award winning web series, How To Be Gay. Sebastian Stephenson speaks to Chester about the origin of the web series, playing with stereotyping in storytelling, is there an issue with not being gay to write a LGBT story and how they managed to get New Zealand arts funding with his partner in crime (and co-creator of How To Be Gay), Paul. Their are plenty of great behind the scene stories here, give it a listen.

How To Be Gay Website

Dub Web Fest Show #12: Noel Sutton From GAZE Film Festival 2015

Sebastian Stepheson speaks to Noel Sutton, Director of the GAZE Film Festival, about the history of the GAZE Film Festival, the web series strand of the festival and how LGBT filmmakers have embraced the web series format. We also talk about the standard of the Irish short at this year festival and how GAZE 2015 is shaping up in light of the Marraige Equality Referendum and the Gender Recognition Bill.

GAZE Film Festival Website

Dub Web Fest Show #11: Transmedia With Nuno Bernardo From Beactive Media

Nuno Bernardo tells Sebastian Stephenson what transmedia is, what is the difference between making a transmedia property and a marketing campaign and what can be achieved in transmedia that you can’t do using just one medium. Nuno talks about how he started out telling a two year long story though a blog, web series and films, with a Pinterest page. We also talk about his latest TV projects such as following Irish comedians to the Edinburgh fringe festival and a boxing project. Nuno also talks about what he’s doing for Dub Web Fest.

Beactive Media

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Dub Web Fest Show #10: Clare Cullen

The creator of YouTube channel Clisare, Clare Cullen, talks to Sebastian Stephenson about how to run a YouTube channel: How she keeps coming up with new ideas and how promoting a YouTube channel is more than just sending a status to Facebook and Twitter. We talk about how travelling to other countries inspired her when she came back to Ireland. Finally we talk about how Clare deals with harassment of being a women online.

Dub Web Fest Show #9: Tony Kelly

Tony Kelly is the writer and lead role of The Hurler, which is a mockumentary that follows a famous hurler’s downfall. Sebastian Stephenson interviews Tony about the character and how Gar, the star of the The Hurler, is all the embarrassing aspects of himself. We talk about writing for stand up and writing for film and how you can never write or play comedy for laughs.

Dub Web Fest Show #8: Bob Gallagher

Bob Gallagher, director for music videos from Le Galaxie, Girl Band and Elaine Mai among others and short film maker talks to Sebastian Stephenson on this edition of the Dub Web Fest Show. Bob talks about his dark, erotic and violent imagination; why doing a film course can negatively affect your artistic vision and the state of the music scene in Dublin. Bob Gallagher is also our judge for the music video category of Dub Web Fest.

Dub Web Fest Show #7: Edwina Forkin

Sebastian Stephenson speaks to Edwina Forkin about what is to be a producer, her transition from the music industry to the film industy, how she approached making a web series, the need for Zanzibar films (her production company) to change and grow beyond her and how you have to think internationally from the start to make an Irish film. Don’t miss this.