#14 - Interview with Larry Laboe, Co-Founder of New Filmmakers LA. - Pt 1

Welcome to Pitch, connecting storytellers with the world. I'm Leah St. Marie. And I'm Angel. And today, we have a special guest with us, Larry Labeaux, and I have a bio that he gave me. So Larry is cofounder and executive director of New Filmmakers Los Angeles, and he's gonna talk all about that on the podcast today. It's an organization championing filmmakers and storytellers worldwide. Larry's also a member of the Producers Guild of America and has been a faculty member at the San Francisco Art Institute and L Art University. He's a board member of BRIC Foundation and Film Festival Alliance and as a committee member of oh, I don't know this one. SAG Indy. That's so cool. Larry's produced content directed by talent such as Joseph Gordon Levitt for some of the world's leading brands, networks, and studios, including Disney, NBC. Is it pronounced Vivo? Yep. You got it. Awesome. Dailymotion, MTV, Defy Media, Comedy Central, Verizon, Amazon, Complex Media, Mountain Dew, Samsung, Coca Cola, Verizon, and Smucker's. And these productions have been official selections at top festivals, including South by Southwest and have won major awards, including Banff World Media Festival Rocky Award. Welcome, Larry. Oh, thank you so much. You make that sound so impressive. I love it. It is impressive. It's it is impressive. And you should, have all of your dinners include a bio like that when you walk through the door, like how they used to announce, royalty. Right. My my dinners my dinners with a bio like that and a and a can of Mountain Dew. Perfect. Like a true American. Yeah. So I've I've been thinking about different questions to ask to make sure that the interview isn't too much of the same as the interviews that I've listened to you, and I have a challenge. Are you ready? Yeah. Yeah. I'm up for it. Can you pitch New Filmmakers LA in one minute or less? Absolutely. Yeah. We are a nonprofit organization. So they're in that alone. You should be excited. Right? Yeah. And as you said in your opening line in my bio, we are an organization that supports emerging filmmakers from all around the world throughout the year. We have education programs, workforce development programs, diversity and inclusion programs. We work with young, very early career filmmakers as young as high school. We work with mid career filmmakers. We bring all kinds of opportunities from cash to product to services to the hardest one of all, access to industry professionals. And we have something for everybody. We have public facing monthly film festivals. So something for everybody as in both audiences, filmmakers alike, as well as industry professionals. And I think, you know, a place for those who are looking to just sort of bridge relationships in the industry overall. So in short, that's definitely, I think, under a minute, and that's how I would kinda intro us. Well done. I was incredible. Well, well done. And …