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Newly welcomed into the family/roster at McCartneyStudios.com, Director - Producer - Screenwriter Christina Capra carries forward a remarkable cinematic legacy as the granddaughter of legendary director Frank #Capra and daughter of acclaimed producer Frank Capra Jr. Her family's contributions helped shape the #goldenage of #Hollywood, with Frank Capra Sr. creating enduring classics like It’s a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and It Happened One Night. Frank Capra Jr. continued that tradition, producing celebrated films and leading EUE/ #ScreenGems Studios into a new era. Building on this rich foundation, Christina Capra brings her own voice to filmmaking, as a director, producer and screenwriter, honoring the timeless storytelling values of her family while forging her own path in contemporary cinema.

She was born in Hollywood, CA and grew up on the West Coast before moving to Wilmington, NC where she graduated from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington with honors, with a degree in Film Studies.

In Christina's Words:

"I’m very passionate about film! Film is the one media that incorporates all the other art forms; music, art, theatre, photography, poetry. I believe film is a unifying medium that can connect people from all over the world, from all different backgrounds. The goal of any film should be to elicit a response in the viewer, the audience is the integral part of film. If you can make the audience feel something, that to me is a good storyteller."

Project In Development:

Poster Girls

Based on the novel Poster Girls by Meredith Ritchie.

Feature length film

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Steve Postell is a singer/songwriter/guitarist/composer and producer. His new album "Walking Through These Blues" is out now on Quarto Valley Records and his spring tour with OUR HOUSE - featuring the music of CSNY begins this week with bandmates Jeff Pevar, Chris Pierce, Teresa James, Ted Russel Kamp and a cadré of fabulous drummers with shows on April 17 - Norwalk CT, District Music Hall, April 18 - Tarrytown NY, The Music Hall.

Trained at The Mannes College Of Music in New York City, Steve Postell has had a successful, prolific career which spans his days playing with Pure Prairie League, performing on Broadway in shows such as “Evita” and “The Man Of LaMancha,” co-writing the score for the off-Broadway rock musical "Fallen Angel" (starring Living Colour vocalist Corey Glover), touring with Lea Salonga (Miss Saigon, Princess Lea in "Aladdin") as her musical director, and fronting the popular New York City bands, “Chain o' Fools” and “Little Blue”. Steve has written scores for film and television including ESPN’s Sportsweek featuring Greg Gumbel, and producer Lawrence Kasdan’s "Jumpin' At The Boneyard," a 20th century Fox production starring Tim Roth and Samuel Jackson. Steve wrote and produced Jingles for Right Sound Music in New York City for clients including Pontiac, AT&T, Dupont and many others. He has performed live on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Today Show with Katie Couric, The Regis and Kelly and The Regis and Kathie Lee shows.

Steve was the composer for the documentary “Dying to Know,” about Timothy Leary and Ram Dass, narrated by Robert Redford. Steve contributed guitar to David Crosby’s album, Sky Trails, and has co-written a song for his last released record, “For Free”. Steve’s new CD, “Walking Through These Blues”, was recently released on VIVID SOUND. This CD features a host of guests, including David Crosby, Iain Matthews, Tony Furtado, Bekka Bramlett, Jeff Pevar, Greg Leisz and many others. In addition to David Crosby, Steve has worked with John Oates, Jennifer Warnes, Kenny Loggins, Eric Andersen, Iain Matthews, Pure Prairie League, Dan Navarro and many others. He recently contributed engineering and mixing duties to the James Taylor/Carole King live concert film, “The Troubadour Reunion Tour”.

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TeaFlix Interview with Laurie Kaye

Laurie Kaye began her career in radio at KFRC-AM San Francisco, for years one of the nation’s greatest top 40 stations, where she started as an intern and worked her way up to on-air reporter and anchor. She wrote and coproduced numerous radio rock specials for RKO, including RKO Presents the Beatles (released in 1977, and later expanded and retitled as The Beatles from Liverpool to Legend), and The Top 100 of the 70’s before moving on to write Dick Clark’s weekly radio countdown show and syndicated newspaper column. Kaye then moved on to television and film as a writer, producer, and casting director, handling both creative content and line producing for docuseries pilots. She now concentrates full-time on writing.

About Lauries' Book - Confessions of a Rock 'n' Roll Name-Dropper

Laurie Kaye is a writer and producer, and 'Confessions of a Rock ’n’ Roll Name-Dropper: My Life Leading Up to John Lennon’s Last Interview' is her long-awaited memoir. In it, we read about Kaye's music-related early life wrapped around that day in December 1980 which Kaye spent with John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the legendary Dakota apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

On December 8, 1980, while working for RKO Radio, twenty-something rock journalist Laurie Kaye co-conducted an interview with her longtime idol, John Lennon. It was to become Lennon's final interview on what tragically turned out to be his last day on the planet.

That evening, John Lennon was gunned down by a man Laurie Kaye had encountered just hours before. Lennon's 25-year-old assassin (whom Kaye refuses to refer to by name) had blocked Kaye's path outside the Dakota, harassing her with questions right after the interview such as, “Did you talk to him?” and “Did you get his autograph?", and in the following years, Laurie Kaye has continued to beat herself up over her failure to recognize that this creep had posed a danger and should have been reported.

As we approach the anniversary of John Lennon's death, Laurie Kaye reflects on how she rose from teen runaway from a dysfunctional family to an expatriate studying Balinese dancing in Indonesia to journalist, writer and producer. Along the way, she interviewed titans of the music industry including John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Grace Slick, Talking Heads, The Ramones, David Bowie, Mick Jagger (whom she put on hold so that he could listen to her newscast before getting down to business) and many more.

But it was that December day she shared a loveseat with John Lennon and watched him push his iconic granny glasses down the length of his nose and smile at her in agreement that remains most indelibly etched in her mind, making it, as she says, both the best and worst day of her life.

Learn more at https://www.confessionsofarocknrollnamedropper.com/

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