NICKSAV Film & Music SHOW

Laura Cayouette has over 20 years of experience and has appeared in some well-regarded recent shows like Treme, True Detective, and Now You See Me, but she is best known for playing Laura Lee in Quen…

The short film Forever Waves is a testament to the power of collaboration. The film is directed and co-written by Jeff Roedel, a former editor of the Baton Rouge magazine, 225. The other co-writer is…

Together Michael Barker and Grant Haua form Swamp Thing, a bluesy swamp rock band all the way from New Zealand. Recently they paid a visit to Louisiana through a cultural exchange made possible by Er…

Phil Klay‘s book Redeployment was awarded the 2014 National Book Award for fiction. In the style of The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam-war classic, Redeployment is a compilation of storie…

Bo Burlingham is an editor-at-large at Inc. Magazine, but he is best known for writing Small Giants, the business book that grew into an international movement now represented by the Small Giants Com…

Mac McClelland is an award-winning journalist who has written for publications like The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Wired. In her latest book, Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story, she gives an…

Some of the stories Rick Bragg has covered as a journalist include the Oklahoma City bombing, the unrest in Haiti, and the Elian Gonzalez case. Rick earned a Pulitzer Prize while writing for The New …

Quixote P.A. Bootcamp trains aspiring filmmakers to work on set as assistant directors and production assistants. The Executive Director of P.A. Bootcamp is Jody Brockway, a producer and former Vice …

Michael Lyle is an Emmy-winning Foley artist who created the distinct sounds of the Minions in Despicable Me. Some of his other notable credits include Battlestar Galactica, House MD, The Soloist, Si…

Bradley Greer from Kyotocolor recently came on The nsavides Podcast to talk about his collaborations with various directors of photography. We discuss his work on films like 12 Years a Slave, Lee Dan…

Scene Magazine covers the entertainment industry in Louisiana, Texas, and Georgia, and they also put together some of the biggest fashion shows and parties around town. Editor in Chief of the magazin…

Composite Effects (CFX) is a Baton Rouge company that makes some of the most realistic and expressive silicone masks on the market. They’ve done work on films like 2 Guns, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hu…

In this episode I talk to Matthew Schwartz, the creative force behind Pacifico. “Pacifico is not a band. It’s an idea.” That’s the first line you’ll see on Pacifico’s website. Talking about ideas is …

Our guest for this podcast episode is David Armand. David’s style as a writer has been compared to that of Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O’Connor. His first novel won the George Garrett Fiction Prize,…

Stillmotion is a company known for capturing stunning visuals while being fanatically focused on putting story first. They have shot footage for the NFL, have worked with some of the world’s biggest …

In this episode I interview Jonathan Brilliant, an artist who builds sculptures out of thousands of coffee stir sticks. We discuss his work and his Baton Rouge sculpture, The Red Stick Piece. We also…

In this episode, I talk to Patrick Mulhearn, the founder of Louisiana Film and Entertainment Association, a key organization that lobbies for the local film industry, and the Executive Director of Ce…

In this episode, I talk to Mike Seymour, an Emmy nominated visual-effects artist and one of the founders of fxguide. Mike talks about some key traits of a good visual-effects artist, how tax-rebates …

This is the very first list featured on The nsavides Podcast! Exciting, right?! In it I share some lessons I’ve learned from the various film and video projects that I’ve worked on throughout the yea…

Executive Director of LA Film Prize, Gregory Kallenberg, talks to The nsavides Podcast about why the festival he leads is so unique and why it is a great opportunity for filmmakers in Louisiana. The …