My guest on this week’s episode is drum and bass producer Stranjah, who started producing music in 1996, over his twenty five year career so far he’s released music on well respected labels such as Metalheadz, 31 Records, Hospital and Renegade Hardware. And he’s just released his six-track ‘Monkfruit’ EP on Worst Behavior back in October 2020. We jumped into Stranjah’s experience of growing up in Toronto, Canada and discovering drum and bass music for the first time, why he started his record label Deviant Audio in 2016 and the importance of his mission to demystify music production so that virtually anyone can succeed at making music. ? MUSIC LINK You can checkout Stranjah’s music, production kits and music tutorial videos at Stranjah.com right now - https://www.stranjah.com ?PODCAST LINKS Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCORhDimQTXldJdHrCmTzjOg Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/iwasjustwondering Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4AUKZtEjjiMbkMfcTL9sv8?si=RSHA-VZTR_K7sXgEv6Ko0Q Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i-was-just-wondering-with-tom-salmon/id1457161378 ? BITCOIN TIP JAR Bitcoin Wallet - 36qhTH8h7BGKxZGUD64ZEsVUtv8facrQ5L ? WEBSITE LINKS https://roobla.com

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S2 Ep 12: Stranjah

My guest on this week’s episode is writer and producer CJ Walley, who wrote his first feature-length film Break Even (2020) starring Tasya Teles, Steve Guttenberg and James Callis. The film tells the story of four thrill seeking friends that find fifty million dollars in cash on a remote island, only to discover it was left by the DEA for a ruthless Cartel in a rogue deal gone wrong. We jumped into CJ’s experience of how his mental breakdown in 2012 lead him to follow his life long passion for screenwriting, why he started the free screenplay sharing website Script Revolution and what’s it like working and collaborating with Hollywood director Shane Stanley on Break Even (2020) and Double Threat (2021). ▶️ FILM LINK You can checkout CJ’s screenplays, short film and feature film work on cjwalley.com right now - https://cjwalley.com ?PODCAST LINKS Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCORhDimQTXldJdHrCmTzjOg Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/iwasjustwondering Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4AUKZtEjjiMbkMfcTL9sv8?si=PHiS3go1T-eFYMdOMYFpWQ Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i-was-just-wondering-with-tom-salmon/id1457161378 ? BITCOIN TIP JAR Bitcoin Wallet - 36qhTH8h7BGKxZGUD64ZEsVUtv8facrQ5L ? WEBSITE LINKS https://roobla.com

S2 Ep 11: Break Even

My guests on this week’s episode are director Anthony Nti and writer Chingiz Karibekov, the creative team behind the award winning short film DA YIE (2019), which tells the story of Matilda and Prince’s life-changing road trip from Ghana’s vibrant coast to its inner city streets plagued by crime and gangsters. We jumped into Anthony and Chingiz experience of how they first met studying film at the Royal Institute of Theatre, Cinema and Sound in Brussels, how Boaz Yakin’s film Fresh (1994) influenced their shared creative vision and what’s it like being European based filmmakers shooting a short film in Ghana. ▶️ FILM LINK You can checkout DA YIE on Vimeo On Demand right now - https://vimeo.com/ondemand/dayie ?PODCAST LINKS YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCORhDimQTXldJdHrCmTzjOg Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/iwasjustwondering Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4AUKZtEjjiMbkMfcTL9sv8?si=PHiS3go1T-eFYMdOMYFpWQ Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i-was-just-wondering-with-tom-salmon/id1457161378 ? BITCOIN TIP JAR Bitcoin Wallet - 36qhTH8h7BGKxZGUD64ZEsVUtv8facrQ5L ? WEBSITE LINKS https://roobla.com

S2 Ep 10: Da Yie

My guest on this week’s episode is Peter McCormack the host of the What Bitcoin Did podcast, twice-weekly Peter interviews the brightest, boldest and most influential voices in the Bitcoin community. Launched back in 2017, What Bitcoin Did has gained a huge global following over its two hundred and eighty three episodes so far, becoming the number one Bitcoin podcast in the world. We jumped into Peter’s experience of buying Bitcoin for the first time, how Alex Winters's 2015 documentary Deep Web explored the controversy around the trial of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, what are the major pit falls of the modern financial system and his love for Bedford Town FC. ▶️ SHOW LINK You can checkout the What Bitcoin Did podcast right now at https://www.whatbitcoindid.com ?PODCAST LINKS YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCORhDimQTXldJdHrCmTzjOg?view_as=subscriber Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/iwasjustwondering Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4AUKZtEjjiMbkMfcTL9sv8?si=jsusMJUWRkyrzp3uM5PrVw Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i-was-just-wondering-with-tom-salmon/id1457161378 ? WEBSITE LINKS https://roobla.com https://www.subscribestar.com/i-was-just-wondering-with-tom-salmon

S2 Ep 9: What Bitcoin Did

My guests on this week’s episode are writer & director Paul Spurrier and producer David Allen Cluck, the creative team behind the three part television series Eullenia (2020) starring Alec Newman and Vithaya Pansringarm. Eullenia tells the story of wealthy businessman Marcus Hammond and his dark obsession to find the perfect deal in Bangkok, Thailand. We jumped into Paul and David’s experience of how they first met in working in the Thai film industry, how the dark side of successful businessmen like Steve Jobs influenced the characters and story of Eullenia and what’s it like filming at the famous aeroplane graveyard and avoiding Bangkok jail. ▶️ FILM LINK You can checkout Eullenia on Amazon Prime right now at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eullenia/dp/B08CQ9LJ32 ?PODCAST LINKS YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCORhDimQTXldJdHrCmTzjOg?view_as=subscriber Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/iwasjustwondering Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4AUKZtEjjiMbkMfcTL9sv8?si=q83VNVw4TiC5knbUTVCHIA Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i-was-just-wondering-with-tom-salmon/id1457161378 ? WEBSITE LINKS https://roobla.com https://www.subscribestar.com/i-was-just-wondering-with-tom-salmon

S2 Ep 8: Eullenia

My guest on this week’s episode is Xinyi Zhu who directed her latest short film Kindling (2020) starring Jill Renner and Nicole Falk. The film tells the story of childhood best friends Piper and Celeste, who are forced to reassess their relationship as they drive across America to a small-town abortion clinic. We jumped into Xinyi’s experience growing up in China and falling in love with filmmaking by secretly watching films on her iPod Nono, how studying psychology at UCLA influenced her approach to storytelling and what’s it like writing a new feature film screenplay in the era of Covid-19. ▶️ FILM LINK You can checkout Kindling and Xinyi’s other short film projects on Vimeo right now at https://vimeo.com/xinyizoo ?PODCAST LINKS YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCORhDimQTXldJdHrCmTzjOg?view_as=subscriber Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/iwasjustwondering Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4AUKZtEjjiMbkMfcTL9sv8?si=0A9bSrwwSXW35xsZBitjkQ Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i-was-just-wondering-with-tom-salmon/id1457161378 ? WEBSITE LINKS https://roobla.com https://www.subscribestar.com/i-was-j...

S2 Ep 7: Kindling

My guest on this week’s episode is Quinn Armstrong who directed, produced and wrote his first feature-length film Survival Skills (2019) starring Stacy Keach and Vayu O’Donnell. The film tells the story of Jim, the perfect policeman and the subject of a lost 1980s training video detailing his attempts to resolve a domestic abuse case outside of the law. We jumped into Quinn’s experience working with the police as a domestic abuse volunteer that inspired him to write and direct the film, the pitfalls of nineteen-eighties nostalgia and what's it like directing the Hollywood legend Stacy Keach. ▶️ FILM LINK You can find out more about Survival Skills right now at https://www.survivalskillsmovie.com ?PODCAST LINKS YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCORhDimQTXldJdHrCmTzjOg?view_as=subscriber Soundcloud - @iwasjustwondering Spotify - open.spotify.com/show/4AUKZtEjjiMbkMfcTL9sv8 Podcasts - podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i-wa…on/id1457161378 ? WEBSITE LINKS www.roobla.com www.subscribestar.com/i-was-just-won…ith-tom-salmon

S2 Ep 6: Survival Skills

My guest on this week’s episode is Nick Sadler, a producer and talent executive at First Flights Media, which is part of The Goldfinch Group, a London based film, television and video game production company. First Flights has just launched a new short film fund that supports emerging filmmakers to create bold and ambitious short films with the potential to be developed into feature film projects for a global audience. We jumped into Nick’s experience working with filmmakers to financially support and market their films to a global audience, why he thinks short films are so important for an emerging filmmaker’s career and what are his top tips and advice on applying for the First Flights short film fund. ▶️ FIRST FLIGHTS SHORT FILM FUND LINK You can apply for the First Flights short film fund right now at https://www.first-flights.com/short-film-fund/ ?PODCAST LINKS YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCORhDimQTXldJdHrCmTzjOg?view_as=subscriber Soundcloud - @iwasjustwondering Spotify - open.spotify.com/show/4AUKZtEjjiMbkMfcTL9sv8 Podcasts - podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i-wa…on/id1457161378 ? WEBSITE LINKS www.roobla.com www.subscribestar.com/i-was-just-won…ith-tom-salmon

S2 Ep 5: First Flights Short Film Fund

My guest on this week’s episode is HanXiong Bo who wrote, directed and produced his latest short film Drifting (2019), which tells the story of a young man struggling with his gender identity after being raised as a girl in China. Drifting has it premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival in 2019 and was nominated for the best short film award at the festival and was a semi-finalist at the 2019 Student Academy Awards. We jumped into HanXiong's experience being a Maths student in Beijing and making his first no-budget zombie short film City of The Dead (2012), how he found his filmmaking voice studying at UCLA and what it was like working as a camera operator for one of American cinema’s most celebrated film auteur's Francis Ford Coppola. ▶️ FILM LINK You can watch the trailer for Drifting on HanXiong's Vimeo page right now! https://vimeo.com/bohanxiong ?PODCAST LINKS YouTube - www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJErXP5rWmA Soundcloud - @iwasjustwondering Spotify - open.spotify.com/show/4AUKZtEjjiMbkMfcTL9sv8 Podcasts - podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i-wa…on/id1457161378 ? WEBSITE LINKS https://roobla.com www.subscribestar.com/i-was-just-won…ith-tom-salmon

S2 Ep 4: Drifting

My guest on this week’s episode is Jimmy Olsson who directed, produced and wrote his latest short film Alive (2020) starring Madeleine Martin and Eva Johansson. The film tells the story of Victoria, a disabled woman yearning for intimacy and her over protective care assistant Ida, who reluctantly sets up a Tinder profile for Victoria with troubling results. We jumped into Jimmy’s experience writing Alive’s screenplay in under ninety minutes in an airport lounge, his thoughts and feelings on disability and online dating and the secret to shooting mundane yet a visually inviting locations. ▶️ FILM LINK You can find out more about Alive on Jimmy's website right now! https://www.regissor.com ?PODCAST LINKS YouTube - www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJErXP5rWmA Soundcloud - @iwasjustwondering Spotify - open.spotify.com/show/4AUKZtEjjiMbkMfcTL9sv8 Podcasts - podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i-wa…on/id1457161378 ? WEBSITE LINKS https://roobla.com www.subscribestar.com/i-was-just-won…ith-tom-salmon

S2 Ep 3: Alive

My guest on this week’s episode is Alex Magana, who wrote, produced and directed his latest feature film What Love Looks Like (2020), which tells the story of five couples living in LA and their ups and downs finding love and happiness in 2020. We jumped into Alex’s experience directing and editing music videos, short films and web-series over the last decade in Los Angeles, why he choose to self-financed What Love Looks Like and what keeps him creatively motivate as an independent filmmaker. ▶️ FILM LINK You can watch What Love Looks Like on Amazon Prime right now! https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B083ZQ3CPG/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r ?PODCAST LINKS YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJErXP5rWmA Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/iwasjustwondering Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4AUKZtEjjiMbkMfcTL9sv8 Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i-was-just-wondering-with-tom-salmon/id1457161378 ? WEBSITE LINKS https://roobla.com https://www.subscribestar.com/i-was-just-wondering-with-tom-salmon

S2 Ep 2: What Love Looks Like

My guests on this week’s episode are Noel Smyth and Fergus Grady, who directed and produced their debut feature documentary film Camino Skies (2019), which tells the story of six strangers walking the 800km Camino de Santiago to overcome personal trauma and tragedy. We jumped into Noel and Fergus’s experience casting the six strangers walking the Camino, capturing their dramatic ups and downs along the trail and the technical and physical challenges they faced making their first award winning documentary film. ? YOUTUBE LINK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpM3DLLPRrE ▶️ FILM LINK You can watch Camino Skies on Curzon Home Cinema right now! https://www.curzonhomecinema.com/film/watch-camino-skies-film-online ?PODCAST LINKS Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/iwasjustwondering Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4AUKZtEjjiMbkMfcTL9sv8 Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i-was-just-wondering-with-tom-salmon/id1457161378 ? WEBSITE LINKS https://roobla.com https://www.subscribestar.com/i-was-just-wondering-with-tom-salmon

S2 Ep 1: Camino Skies

Hello everybody, what’s up? You’re listening to Roobla Presents: I Was Just Wondering With Tom Salmon. The podcast that dives into film, music and games and everything else in between. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to do a 36-hour gaming marathon for charity, making DIY pop-music in a second language from your bedroom or playing Keanu Reeves’s stepdad in a film. This is the podcast for you and your friends! Each episode I give a talented and diverse voice from around the world a platform to share their creative journey so far. More voices. Better Stories. You can like and subscribe to I Was Just Wondering With Tom Salmon on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Spotify and YouTube, maybe leave a comment or review if you like? And you can support the podcast on SubscribeStar at www.subscribestar.com/i-was-just-wondering-with-tom-salmon right now.

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My guest on this week’s episode is Oliver Harper a film critic, documentary filmmaker and the creator and presenter of Oliver Harper’s Retrospectives & Reviews that has over one hundred and fifty three thousand subscribers and thirty million views on YouTube so far. We jumped into Oliver’s early days of creating his film retrospectives, how he works with Hollywood distribution companies to clear copyright claims on his videos and why he directed and co-edited his first feature-length documentary film In Search Of The Last Action Heroes (2019). You can subscribe, like and watch Oliver Harper's Retrospectives & Reviews on Youtube - www.youtube.com/user/ollyh82/featured and support his content, film commentaries and documentary film projects on Patron - www.patreon.com/oliverharper right now!

S1 Ep 15: Film Critic & Documentary Filmmaker Oliver Harper

My guest on this week’s episode is Caslean an independent singer, song writer and producer from China studying at Goldsmiths, University of London. She released her first DIY album Strolling Along The Beach in 2017 and last year collaborated with the ambient musician Brian releasing the EP Summer Ring. We jumped into Caslean’s experience of teaching herself music production from YouTube, how she collaborated with her friends to shoot the music video for her latest single Chrismas Without You and what it is like being a DIY Chinese musician in London in 2020. You can like, subscribe and listen to Caslean's music on Bandcamp https://caslean.bandcamp.com and YouTube www.youtube.com/channel/UCaJDKA_IcVlN56l-Osqr2WQ right now!

S1 Ep 14: Singer, Song Writer & Producer Caslean

Hello everybody, what’s up? You’re listening to the Roobla Podcast with me, Tom Salmon. The show that dives into music, film and games and everything else in between! New episodes will be dropping on Mondays so make sure you like and subscribe.

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