Ilse Will Say
Welcome to My Brain. I'm Ilse, and every Wednesday I sit down with actors, filmmakers, comedians, and storycreators to talk about the stuff that doesn't make the press kit. How they actually got here, the project that almost didn't happen, the festival story they can't believe they're telling me, and whatever weird detour we end up on. Haunted sets, folklore they secretly believe in, the best taco in town. It's part industry real talk, part group chat, and I promise I'm more curious than qualified.
Ilse Will Say
Latest Episodes
Sean Slimak: Don't get trigger happy with festival submissions
Sean's one-take horror short Intruder premieres on The Longest Take YouTube channel this Halloween!Filmmaker and fellow podcast host Sean Slimak joins me to talk about his love of one-take films, making six shorts while working ...
Tommy Martin: He's harmless, we talk to him all the time
Tommy Martin is a Chicago based actor, filmmaker, and musician who has basically worked every job on a set at some point, and honestly it kind of exhausted me just hearing about it. We start with an unreasonable amount of hair talk (his, not mi...
John David Wolfe: The Hansel and Gretel origin of Candy House
This week, Ilse sits down with John David Wolfe, a DGA member and Chicago based producer whose two decade career as a location scout and manager put him behind the scenes on Spider-Man 2, High Fidelity, Proof, and Rhythm + Flow before he made t...
Connar Brown Sprenger: I called them chicken nuggets
Connar Brown Sprenger is an actor, puppeteer, voice actor, and award winning filmmaker who somehow makes all four look easy. She joins Ilse to talk growing up between Tokyo, London, and Atlanta, playing all seven brothers in one production of G...
Veronica Miles: New Orleans has an internal council
Veronica Miles has spent over 25 years inside the business of film exhibition, running festivals, theaters, and now the American launch of a ticketing platform. On this episode of Ilse Will Say, she and Ilse get into film festival strategy, the...
