Tj Sebastian & Brian Plaideau
104 episodes listed below
New Orleans film talk from the working room.
NOLA Film Scene with Tj & Plaideau treats the New Orleans film community as a working neighborhood, not an abstract industry. Guests trade stories about studios, auditions, base camp, convention culture, replica cars, and the odd ways a screen career takes shape.
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NOLA Film Scene with Tj & Plaideau is a conversational map of the New Orleans screen world. It favors working stories over polished takeaways. Episodes often begin with banter, a remembered set, or a guest explaining what they are known for, then drift into the practical realities behind a creative life. The show is especially good at making local film culture feel like a network of people who keep crossing paths. Jason Wackenspack’s appearance opens out from The Ranch Film Studios in Chalmette into a wider discussion of Film Louisiana, production companies, location choices, and why some work leaves the United States. The conversation stays grounded. It turns big industry movement into something people on nearby sets can actually feel. Grace LaRocca’s episode works on a more personal scale, circling first-feature intimidation, audition risk, base camp experience, and the social unease of entering an established crew. Emily and Chris bring in a neighboring form of entertainment through Artemis the Impala, their Supernatural baby replica. Their episodes mix convention logistics, photo ops, restoration decisions, aftermarket air conditioning, paint concerns, and the pleasure of turning fandom into a small business. Bill Harris’s episode adds a reflective acting thread, with kindness, experience, and inspiration treated as real parts of the craft. The show can wander. It usually earns the detour. A joke about a movie role may sit beside a serious point about preparation, luck, or staying consistent. The result is warm and specific rather than slick. For listeners curious about regional filmmaking, sets, actor journeys, and the overlap between screen work and fan culture, it offers the room tone of a scene that knows itself.
Made for: Best suited for actors, filmmakers, crew members, convention regulars, and film fans who like practical local stories more than celebrity polish. It also works for outsiders curious about how New Orleans screen culture actually feels on the ground.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its proximity: guests are not treated as distant industry figures, but as people already moving through the same sets, studios, conventions, and creative circles. It captures the local connective tissue around film work as much as the work itself.
A podcast about acting, filmmaking, and the improv scene in New Orleans.
A film-set chat that lets you trade audition nerves for George Washington boots without losing the plot.
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A local-film conversation that links studio work, screen-production costs, and a few behind-the-scenes stories.
Jason Wackenspack gives a grounded look at Louisiana production work, drawing on time at Ranch Film Studios in Chalmette and his work with Film Louisiana, Neutral Ground Films, and Full Armor Productions.
A practical, warm look at how a convention loss and a stubborn paint job shaped a screen-accurate Impala project.
Artemis the Impala sits at the center of a grounded conversation about fandom, cost, and the work of keeping a screen-accurate car alive. T.J.
Emily and Chris turn Artemis the Impala into both a convention centerpiece and a practical everyday ride.
Emily and Chris come across as a striking pair with Artemis the Impala, which works both as a convention attraction and as a car they can still use around town.
A loose, warm conversation about Bill Harris, from a Midwestern start to acting in New Orleans, with plenty of on-set detail.
William E. Harris, or Bill Harris and Billy Harris, comes across as plainspoken and easy to listen to. He moves from a Midwestern upbringing, where he played trumpet and sports, into acting work in New Orleans, and the path feels lived in rather than polished.
Strength talk for body and identity.
Awards math, festival heat, blunt film talk.
Career retrospectives with Hollywood memory and context.
Jason Waggenspack describes the Ranch Film Studios in Chalmette, Louisiana as a 28-acre property with over 300,000 square feet of production space and five sound stages.
Grace LaRocca joins NOLA Film Scene with Tj & Plaideau to discuss audition risks, self-tapes, and her work across acting and film crews.
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NOLA Film Scene talks with Emily and Chris of Fandom Natural about Artemis the Impala, a 1967 Chevrolet Impala four-door hardtop built as a Supernatural replica.
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