Podcast
How I Got Greenlit
Hosted by Next Chapter Podcasts · EN
How I Got Greenlit is a podcast about how movies are made, who makes them, and what these stories mean. Each week, Alex Keledjian, creator of HBO’s hit indie filmmaking reality series "Project Greenlight," is joined by co-host and fellow film fanatic Sam Levine to discuss both new releases and must-see classics, and how these movies both shape and are shaped by our world.
Go to youtube.com/@NextChapterPodcasts to watch the show every Thursday!
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"Marty Supreme" (2025) Review: It's Timmy Time In Tinseltown
Jan 800:52:10Tap to summarizeThis week on the show, Project Greenlight creator Alex Keledjian and his movie nerd co-host Sam Levine find very few, but still some glaring faults in Josh Safdie's "Marty Supreme" (2025). And they anoint the first true movie star in a generation. Drop a comment below and let us now what you thought of the movie! Follow How I Got Greenlit on Instagram: @howigotgreenlit Follow Alex on Instagram: @akeledjian Follow Sam on Instagram: @moderately_quick Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or at youtube.com/@NextChapterPodcasts Inquiries: pete@ncpodcasts.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Competency Porn and Medical Prostitution w/ Dr. Agnes Scoville, MD (ER)
Dec 1901:03:45Tap to summarizeThis week on the show, Project Greenlight creator Alex Keledjian and his movie nerd co-host Sam Levine are joined by medical drama "atmosphere consultant" Dr. Agnes Scoville, MD. And they problems TV shows like "The Pitt" create in parsing out fact from fiction in modern healthcare. Drop a comment below and let us now what you thought of the movie! Follow How I Got Greenlit on Instagram: @howigotgreenlit Follow Alex on Instagram: @akeledjian Follow Sam on Instagram: @moderately_quick Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or at youtube.com/@NextChapterPodcasts Inquiries: pete@ncpodcasts.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"Jay Kelly" & "Train Dreams" (2025) Review: The Relatability Spectrum
Dec 1501:01:10Tap to summarizeThis week on the show, Project Greenlight creator Alex Keledjian and his movie nerd co-host Sam Levine compare the wildly divergent human experiences on display in "Jay Kelly" & "Train Dreams" (2025). And they come to the conclusion that you can't have the beautiful timelessness of one without the tone deaf narcissism of the other. Drop a comment below and let us now what you thought of the movie! Follow How I Got Greenlit on Instagram: @howigotgreenlit Follow Alex on Instagram: @akeledjian Follow Sam on Instagram: @moderately_quick Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or at youtube.com/@NextChapterPodcasts Inquiries: pete@ncpodcasts.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"The Running Man" (2025) Review: Rage Within The Limits Of The Machine
Dec 401:05:48Tap to summarizeThis week on the show, Project Greenlight creator Alex Keledjian and his movie nerd co-host Sam Levine try to cut through the confusion around what exactly "The Running Man" (2025) is trying to achieve. And they lament all the under-utilizing of great casting. Follow How I Got Greenlit on Instagram: @howigotgreenlit Follow Alex on Instagram: @akeledjian Follow Sam on Instagram: @moderately_quick Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or at youtube.com/@NextChapterPodcasts Inquiries: pete@ncpodcasts.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"Death By Lightning" (2025) Review: The Return of the Miniseries?
Nov 2801:07:58Tap to summarizeThis week on the show, Project Greenlight creator Alex Keledjian and his movie nerd co-host Sam Levine come back from the brink of cinematic void that is modern Hollywood. And they pray "Death By Lightning" leads to more of its kind. Drop a comment below and let us now what you thought of the movie! Follow How I Got Greenlit on Instagram: @howigotgreenlit Follow Alex on Instagram: @akeledjian Follow Sam on Instagram: @moderately_quick Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or at youtube.com/@NextChapterPodcasts Inquiries: pete@ncpodcasts.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"Predator: Badlands" (2025) Movie Review: The 'Boba Fett Effect'
Nov 2001:02:25Tap to summarizeThis week on the show, Project Greenlight creator Alex Keledjian and his movie nerd co-host weigh the original versus the latest installment in the franchise with a review of "Predator: Badlands." And they hope for future versions of this crab-faced creature that are still rated R. Drop a comment below and let us now what you thought of the movie! Follow How I Got Greenlit on Instagram: @howigotgreenlit Follow Alex on Instagram: @akeledjian Follow Sam on Instagram: @moderately_quick Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or at youtube.com/@NextChapterPodcasts Inquiries: pete@ncpodcasts.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Revenge Of The Nerd - Frankenstein (2025) Movie Review
Nov 1301:03:57Tap to summarizeThis week on the show, Project Greenlight creator Alex Keledjian and his movie nerd co-host Sam Levine ponder how you can get such a classic story so wrong. And the extol the virtues of Mary Shelley's 1818 masterpiece. Follow How I Got Greenlit on Instagram: @howigotgreenlit Follow Alex on Instagram: @akeledjian Follow Sam on Instagram: @moderately_quick Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or at youtube.com/@NextChapterPodcasts Inquiries: pete@ncpodcasts.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Return to Your Roots with Gordon Farrell (The Lifespan of a Fact, Girls Who Smoke)
Oct 1, 202401:20:46Tap to summarizeIn our season finale, the importance of reinvention is never clearer than in the stories from playwright Gordon Farrell's career, where he had to keep coming back to what drew him to writing in the first place in order to continue moving forward.Gordon Farrell's play, "The Lifespan Of A Fact," starring Daniel Radcliffe, Tony-Award winner Cherry Jones, and Emmy Award winner Bobby Cannavale performed on Broadway from 2018 to 2019. It was co-written with Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell, directed by Leigh Silverman, and produced by eight-time Tony Award winner Jeffrey Richards. Gordon was trained as a playwright at the Yale School of Drama and went from there to work with major Hollywood studios, initially as a story analyst for Warner Brothers and Columbia Pictures, and eventually as a screenwriter. He has written for hire and sold screenplays to Universal Pictures, Warner Brothers, MGM and ITC. He has worked with Robert Simonds (producer of Big Daddy, The Wedding Singer); Neil Moritz (producer of XXX, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Fast and Furious) and Bruce Berman (producer of Matrix, Three Kings, Mad Max: Fury Road). Working in independent film, Gordon has written for and sold projects to NYC indie producer Norman Twain (producer of Lean on Me, Boycott, Scar, My Dog Tulip). Gordon's first independent screenplay, Girls Who Smoke, premiered in 2011. It went to be an official selection at over a dozen film festivals, ultimately winning the Audience Choice Award in Seattle at the Post Alley Film Festival. As a playwright, Gordon developed a trilogy of monologue plays for women, The Red Anthology, on New York's Lower East Side from 2009 to 2014. He developed it into an immersive walk through theater experience which ran Off-Broadway in 2024. His plays have also been produced in San Francisco, at the Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo, at the Yale School of Drama in New Haven, and at Primary Stages in New York. He authored the book for a series of award-winning musicals based on the life and death of Sherlock Holmes, which ran for three seasons in Buffalo, NY. He is the author of The Power of the Playwright's Vision, published by Heinemann Press in 2001 which has been translated internationally and is now a standard playwriting text on four continents.Gordon FarrellIMDBAlex KeledjianAlex Keledjian is the creator of Project Greenlight, a documentary television series where executive producers Matt Damon and Ben Affleck gave first-time filmmakers a chance to direct their first feature film. In 2018, Alex wrote and directed the film High Voltage starring David Arquette and Luke Wilson. MAX launched the latest season of the Emmy-nominated TV series Project Greenlight from executive producer Issa Rae and Miramax Television in July 2023.How I Got GreenlitInstagramTwitterPodlinkCreditsAlex Keledjian, HostPete Musto, Producer/EditorJeremiah Tittle, ProducerExperience more of How I Got Greenlit via nextchapterpodcasts.comFor guest inquiries, sponsorships, and all other magnificent concerns, please reach How I Got Greenlit viahowIgotgreenlit@gmail.comFor inquiries and more information on Next Chapter Podcastsinfo@ncpodcasts.comNew episodes go live every Tuesday. Please subscribe, rate & review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, wherever you listen to podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Go After Every Opportunity That Comes Your Way with Eric Balfour (The Offer, Six Feet Under)
Sep 24, 202401:22:24Tap to summarizeOpportunity may only knock once. But if you open the door without asking second-guessing yourself, then the phone may start ringing off the hook. And you just might find yourself with as long and respected a career as actor Eric Balfour.Eric Balfour is a true Angelino, one who embraces everything the City of Angels has to offer. As a lover of the ocean he is an avid surfer and supports many environmental causes. His charitable endeavors include Surfrider, Oceana and Sea Shepard. As a lover of fashion he's built an incredible sustainable clothing company Electric & Rose made in Los Angeles with his wife Erin. Its namesake is an homage to the cross streets in Venice where they called home. And lastly his acting which he may be most known for. As a creative force in both film and TV, Balfour continues to play interesting and captivating characters. He will next be seen in the Amazon series Wilderness. He was last seen in the Paramount Plus series The Offer. Other notable roles include the acclaimed Six Feet Under, 24, Ray Donovan, Haven, Country Comfort and many others. On the big screen, Balfour can be seen in a laundry list of films among a whose who of Hollywood. Notable films include Texas Chainsaw Massacre and indie and award winning films like Quention Tarantino's Hellride Ariel Vromen's RX and Clement Virgos' Lie With Me. Balfour lives in Los Angeles with his wife Erin his two sons Oliver and Romeo and his dog Coconut. When not on set you can find him at the beach with his family.Eric BalfourIMDBAlex KeledjianAlex Keledjian is the creator of Project Greenlight, a documentary television series where executive producers Matt Damon and Ben Affleck gave first-time filmmakers a chance to direct their first feature film. In 2018, Alex wrote and directed the film High Voltage starring David Arquette and Luke Wilson. MAX launched the latest season of the Emmy-nominated TV series Project Greenlight from executive producer Issa Rae and Miramax Television in July 2023.How I Got GreenlitInstagramTwitterPodlinkCreditsAlex Keledjian, HostPete Musto, Producer/EditorJeremiah Tittle, ProducerExperience more of How I Got Greenlit via nextchapterpodcasts.comFor guest inquiries, sponsorships, and all other magnificent concerns, please reach How I Got Greenlit viahowIgotgreenlit@gmail.comFor inquiries and more information on Next Chapter Podcastsinfo@ncpodcasts.comNew episodes go live every Tuesday. Please subscribe, rate & review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, wherever you listen to podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Tell the Stories You Can't Stop Thinking About wih Pete Jones (Hall Pass, Stolen Summer)
Sep 17, 202400:52:11Tap to summarizeThere are an infinite number of stories to tell, an infinite number or worlds to explore. But sometimes one just burrows into your brain and won't let go, squirming into every daydream and idle conversation, demanding to be brought to life. And writer-producer Pete Jones believes those are the ones worth pursuing.An up and coming filmmaker who got his big break thanks to the Miramax sponsored competition "Project Greenlight," Peter Jones went from production assistant and insurance salesman to director and screenwriter almost overnight when he was awarded $1 million with which to produce his debut feature "Stolen Summer' (2002). He's since gone on to write multiple successful comedy films, including "Ricky Stanicky," "The Greatest Beer Run Ever," and "Hall Pass."Pete JonesIMDBAlex KeledjianAlex Keledjian is the creator of Project Greenlight, a documentary television series where executive producers Matt Damon and Ben Affleck gave first-time filmmakers a chance to direct their first feature film. In 2018, Alex wrote and directed the film High Voltage starring David Arquette and Luke Wilson. MAX launched the latest season of the Emmy-nominated TV series Project Greenlight from executive producer Issa Rae and Miramax Television in July 2023.How I Got GreenlitInstagramTwitterPodlinkCreditsAlex Keledjian, HostPete Musto, Producer/EditorJeremiah Tittle, ProducerExperience more of How I Got Greenlit via nextchapterpodcasts.comFor guest inquiries, sponsorships, and all other magnificent concerns, please reach How I Got Greenlit viahowIgotgreenlit@gmail.comFor inquiries and more information on Next Chapter Podcastsinfo@ncpodcasts.comNew episodes go live every Tuesday. Please subscribe, rate & review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, wherever you listen to podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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