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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.

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TeaFlix Interview with Dr. Susan Shumsky

Susan has dedicated her life to helping people take command of their lives in highly effective, powerful, positive ways. She is the author of 20 books in English, published by Simon & Schuster, Random House, Red Wheel/Weiser, and Skyhorse Publishing. She has won 45 prestigious book awards and has 36 books in foreign editions. A pioneer in the human potential field, she has spent several decades teaching thousands of people meditation, prayer, affirmation, and intuition. Her books have been published in several languages worldwide, and several were #1 Amazon.com best sellers. They include: Divine Revelation, Miracle Prayer, How to Hear the Voice of God, Ascension, Exploring Meditation, Exploring Auras, Exploring Chakras, Instant Healing, The Power of Auras, Awaken Your Third Eye, Awaken Your Divine Intuition, Color Your Chakras, The Big Book of Chakras, Third Eye Meditations, Earth Energy Meditations, Prosperity Meditations, The Inner Light, and her memoir Maharishi & Me.

Shumsky is a highly respected spiritual teacher and founder of Divine Revelation®—a unique field-proven technology for contacting the divine presence, hearing and testing the inner voice, and receiving clear divine guidance. For two decades, her mentor was Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, guru of the Beatles and of Deepak Chopra. She served on Maharishi's personal staff for six years.

A sought-after media guest and highly acclaimed professional speaker, Shumsky has done over 700 speaking engagements and over 1300 media appearances since her first book was published, including Woman's World, GQ, Cosmopolitan, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, nationally syndicated and network TV, Alan Colmes on FOX news, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, and William Shatner's Weird or What? She is featured in the movies Three Magic Words, The Illumined Ones, Superpower: Ignite Your Divine Intelligence, The Beatles and India, and The Maharishi Archives.

Learn much more at https://www.divinerevelation.org/

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TeaFlix Interview with Debbie Gendler

Hosted by Dr. Angie McCartney & Ruth McCartney Debbie Gendler is a 4-time Emmy® nominated Talent and Development Executive and Producer formerly at CBS New York and Los Angeles, and ABC, and who also served as Women in Film’s (LA) first Executive Director. Debbie is responsible for developing over 9,000 episodes of television with Weller/Grossman Productions for thirty-six broadcast and cable networks including the launches of HGTV and the National Geographic Channel in the United States. Identifying talent and building show concepts is Debbie’s expertise with many of today’s notable hosts and experts being introduced to networks by Debbie. As an “original” Beatle fan who was in the studio audience for the group’s first appearance on The #EdSullivan Show, Feb 9th, 1964, she has given countless interviews on television, radio and podcasts including the CBS Grammy 50th #Beatles Anniversary Show where her interview traveled around the world as part of a Grammy® Exhibit, and on the accompanying DVD to Ron Howard’s feature documentary on the Beatles. Debbie’s book published in 2024, I Saw Them Standing There is included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Archives and Library. For Sir Paul McCartney’s photo exhibit “Eyes of the Storm” Debbie was asked to narrate three of his personal photographs for the Brooklyn Museum’s audio guide where her name was displayed on a plaque in the “New York” room as part of the exhibit. Now sixty years later Debbie works as a research consultant and co-producer at SOFA Entertainment, owner of The Ed Sullivan Show. Debbie is a magna cum laude graduate of Boston University’s College of Communication and enjoys the non-house

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TeaFlix Interview with Robert Rodriguez

Hosted by Dr. Angie McCartney & Ruth McCartney Robert Rodriguez has written extensively about The Beatles: five books so far, including Solo in the 70s and 2012’s acclaimed "Revolver: How The #Beatles Re-Imagined Rock ‘N’ Roll." He is the host of the "Something About the Beatles" podcast, has contributed numerous articles to Beatlefan magazine, and has been a regular interviewee on radio and TV about the group. Rodriguez is also the creator of the FAQ book series for Hal Leonard, the world’s largest print music publisher, and he maintains a daily archival page on Facebook where you can learn about the rock world the Beatles inhabited. / robert.rodriguez.148 Robert's latest book ~ of which he is a co-author (with previous Teaflix guest Jerry Hammack) is "Ribbons of Rust" available now on Amazon: https://a.co/d/38DzOQU Learn more at https://ribbonsofrust.net The story of The Beatles has been covered thousands of times in books, memoirs, discographies, and academic tomes. And yet, many of these works focus on their history with little regard to how they experienced their own times. The artistic entity comprised of John #Lennon, Paul #McCartney, George #Harrison, and Ringo #Starr, along with producer George Martin, did not operate in a bubble: they were inspired and challenged by the sounds going on around them. Ribbons of Rust: The Beatles' Recording History In Context presents their story like never before, interactively immersing you in the sounds of the music they listened to and created along with the times they inhabited.

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TeaFlix Interview with Al Sussman

Hosted by Dr. Angie McCartney & Ruth McCartney A member of the generation transformed by the ‘60s Big Bang of The Beatles’ appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, Al Sussman has been writing about The Beatles, music and pop culture since the fall of 1968, first as a town newspaper columnist and then via a “Collectors’ Q&A” column in Sounds Fine in the mid-‘70s. In 1979, he became a contributor to the fledgling Beatlefan Magazine, first as New York correspondent and as Executive Editor since the early ‘80s. Sort of a jack-of-all-trades for the magazine, he’s contributed news stories, commentaries and, in more recent years, historical perspectives. That led to his first book, Changin’ Times: 101 Days That Shaped a Generation, a look at the transformative period from Nov. 22, 1963 through March 1, 1964, available as an ebook at Amazon. As well, Sussman worked in the retail record business in the ‘70s and ‘80s, has participated in various capacities for Beatlefest/The Fest For Beatles Fans from its beginnings in 1974, and was a radio analyst at ASCAP from 1991 to 2006. He was part of the panel for the Beatles podcast “Things We Said Today” from 2014 to 2017 and, while continuing to write for Beatlefan, Sussman has been part of Bruce Spizer’s team for his Beatles Album Series since 2017. A native New Yorker, he now lives in Pittsburgh, Pa., and can be contacted on Facebook at Al Sussman or via Beatlefan at Beatlefan.com.

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TeaFlix Interview with Scott Freiman Hosted by Dr. Angie McCartney & Ruth McCartney "Deconstructing The Music" from the man of the hour Scott Freiman who may be the only person to have sold out Carnegie Hall and been a Finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year. He is also a leading expert on the music of the Beatles who has appeared in several films and TV series about the Fab Four. Scott is the creator of Deconstructing The Music, a series of unique multimedia lectures on the songwriting and production techniques of musicians. He has presented his lectures to sold-out audiences at theaters nationwide and has spoken at colleges, universities, and corporations, such as Pixar, Google, and Facebook. In the Fall of 2012, he taught a semester course on “The Beatles In The Studio” at Yale University. He co-hosts the monthly Fab Four Master Class with fellow musicologist Kenneth Womack with whom he leads annual Beatles-themed trips to Liverpool and London. Scott also writes about music and "deconstructs" songs and bands for Culture Sonar (culturesonar.com). Scott is featured in eleven Deconstructing the Beatles films currently showing in theatres and available on DVD and streaming. His six part series, Deconstructing the Beatles, premiered on Maryland Public Television in February 2024 and will be airing on PBS stations nationwide in early 2025. His first non- Beatles “deconstruction” (on Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon) premiered in August 2024. Scott was the co-founder and CEO of Qwire Inc., a technology company creating software to integrate the work of everyone involved with music for picture. The company’s software has been used to streamline music tracking and rights management for large studios and music companies, such as NBCUniversal and SESAC. Scott was a co-founder of Credit Management Solutions, Inc. (CMSI), a leading financial software company where he served as CEO. A Finalist for Ernst & Young’s Maryland Entrepreneur of the Year, Scott helped lead CMSI’s successful public offering and orchestrated the sale of CMSI to the First American Corporation. In 2001, after fifteen years of running a public company, Scott embarked on a new career as a composer, music producer, and studio owner. His first film scores, written within months of leaving CMSI, were performed by an orchestra live with picture at Lincoln Center in New York. Scott composed music for more than ten films, and contributed music to the Emmy®-award winning eleven-part BBC/Discovery series Life. He also acted as sound editor and mixer on many films, including the first 3D made-for television film, David Attenborough’s Flying Monsters, and the award-winning films Encounter Point and Budrus. In September of 2005, his original music was performed at a sold out Carnegie Hall concert that featured a 17-piece orchestra, a children’s choir, and a George Bush impersonator.

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