Pepper Jay's Lounge Discussions

Happy Saturday! Now that's a music video.

Like everyone else, I've been thinking a lot about how and when we will be able to safely return to set life. When we do, ensuring cast and crew are taken care of and feel safe to do so will have to be top of mind. 

When we are back on set:

1) What would freak you out?

2) What would make you feel safer?

Hello fellow house bound! I am a writer and producer with Cloud Horse Media in Kyle on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. We have offered a film school here for almost 6 years. We call it Reel Jobs and funded it with USDA Rural Jobs Training Grants. (See cloudhorseartinstitute.org) I am sure we are the only Native, community based film school in North America. Reel Jobs brings in Industry professionals to teach in our humble studio. I am also an author whose books, like "Madonna Swan:A Lakota Woman's Story" or "Of Uncommon Birth" or "Walking in the Sacred Manner", have stayed in print year after year. Our documentary films like, "Mato Paha::Rally to Protect Bear Butte", and "Who Will Bury the Dead:The Death of Christianity in Lakota country?" (Amazon Prime) have won numerous awards. As a writer I realized years ago, after being invited to LA to talk about my projects, that if Native film is ever to become anything useful, impactful or truly meaningful, especially to Native people, we would have to create our own production capability. We have just finished a feature Romantic Dramedy, called "Mallard's Road" (See Mallardsraod.com) in which everyone n front of and bhind the camera is Lakota. A first. While Tyler Perry might be one fo the few who would really understand what we are trying to do, we are now in Pre-Production on our next feature film. We are looking for folks who might be interested in working with us, right here in Indian Country. We are looking for partners who want to see Native American films take a huge leap and be actually be produced by Native film companies. I love script writing as much as straight prose and am sitting on a pile of scripts in a wide budget range, both contemporary and period. If you have ever felt isolated from other writers or the industry, we are surely on the dark side of the moon. I am new to Stage 32 so don't know if what I have written is even appropriate! Stay well everybody!

Hope you are staying safe. John Michael Ferrari and I have been

making music. Please check out his latest single, "So Beautiful" at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfCzH7aAUOI

If you like the song, would be terrific is you hit the LIKE button and

Subscribe to John's YouTube Channel. We can use all the help we can

get! LOL

Hope to hear from you,

Pepper Jay

P.S. be sure to check out the LIVE John Michael Ferrari from WRR & Gypsy Wagyn from home concert this Saturday evening May 16th https://www.facebook.com/event...

LIVE John Michael Ferrari from WRR & Gypsy Wagyn from home concert this Saturday evening May 16th


https://www.facebook.com/events/518093522172666/

Listen to the new song' So Beautiful - right here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhyc2q7k9Uw

And, please LIKE it and subscribe to John's YouTube Channel

Actor and Film Producer Tony Todd Guests on ActorsE Chat with Host Pepper Jay Tony Todd is perhaps best known for his chilling portrayal in the title role of CANDYMAN. Since his film debut in the motion picture SLEEPWALK in 1986, followed almost immediately by a starring role in Oliver Stone’s Academy Award winning film, PLATOON. This charismatic six foot five inch tall actor has consistently turned in compelling performance after compelling performance. Tony has become a film icon in the horror and sci-fi realms starring in not only the CANDYMAN franchise, the HATCHET franchise, and also in the FINAL DESTINATION franchise of hit films. Films grossing more than $6 Billion at the box office worldwide have made the name Tony Todd box office gold. Tony has added his unique talents to the films TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN, THE ROCK, THE CROW, LEAN ON ME, BIRD, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, and THE SECRET from the award-winning team of Erick Zonka and Virginie Wagon (Dream Life of Angels). A few of the smaller gem films that Tony has starred in have been MANSFIELD 12, THE MAN FROM EARTH, A NIGHT AT THE BIJOU, CHANGING THE GAME, and starring and producing the cult classic SUSHI GIRL. Tony has recently completed starring in the films COLD DESCENT alongside Lance Henriksen, and renewed his relationship with CANDYMAN director Bernard Rose in the upcoming FRANKENSTEIN. Tony has also made his impact on television having starred recently on the hit CBS show HAWAII 5-0, and in the NBC series THE EVENT and recurred on two television series CHUCK for NBC and 24 for FBC. Some of Tony’s past guest starring TV appearances include MASTERS OF HORROR, CRIMINAL MINDS, WITHOUT A TRACE, BOSTON LEGAL, NYPD BLUE, BOSTON PUBLIC, SMALLVILLE, LAW AND ORDER, CROSSING JORDAN, HOMICIDE, XENA, HERCULES, THE X-FILES , ANDROMEDA, as well as recurring roles on all three incarnations of STAR TREK. His television movies include starring roles in TRUE WOMEN, THE BLACK FOX, BUTTER, THE LAST ELEPHANT, BABYLON 5: A CALL TO ARMS, and the UPCOMING CONTROL FACTOR, among others. Tony Todd is not only an icon in the horror/scifi world, but also in the animated and gaming worlds as well. Tony has voiced many animated characters in film, television, and games the most notable being CALL TO DUTY: BLACK OPS, TRANSFORMERS PRIME, JUSTICE LEAGUE, HALF LIFE 2 and MARVEL SUPERHERO SQUAD. Tony’s passion for acting began in theater, first at the University of Connecticut, and then at the renowned Eugene O’Neill National Theatre Institute. Tony was at the inception of the Trinity Rep. His theater credits include originating the title role of award-winning playwright August Wilson’s KING HEDLEY II. He also received a Helen Hayes nomination for his performance in Athol Fugard’s THE CAPTAIN’S TIGER. Other theater credits include LES BLANCS, PLAYBOY OF THE WEST INDIES, OTHELLO, ZOOMAN AND THE SIGN, DARK PARADISE, AIDA (on Broadway), LEVEE JAMES for the prestigious Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference, and most recently starred in Athol Fugard’s THE ISLAND, as ‘Troy Maxon’ in August Wilson’s FENCES for the Geva Theatre Center, as ‘Paw Siden’ in the world premiere of the Marcus Gardley play BLACK ODYSSEY at the Denver Center, and the one man show GHOST IN THE HOUSE as the late great world champ Jack Johnson. Jeff Goldberg Management ActorsE Chat is a Live Chat Show on Actors Entertainment, a channel on the Actors Podcast Network, a Pepper Jay Productions LLC, with PR-Marketing-Sales by Live Video Inc.

Hello, everyone. I'm kicking the tires here, interested in networking. I'm a screenwriter living in the Chicago suburbs, repped by Zero Gravity Management. I co-wrote "Victim" (a low budget horror film) and "Arena" (action/thriller with Samuel Jackson and Kellan Lutz), and I've optioned other work. I'm a novelist as well, and a chili pepper fanatic. I'm actively working on new material. Good luck to all in your present and future projects.