Alan J. Porter - Writer

04/05/22 • 82 min

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Alan J. Porter, writer, and podcaster, likes to talk about stuff and makes up stories too. With over 30 fiction and non-fiction book publishing credits and hundreds of magazine articles, he covers the worlds of Pop Culture, Comics, High-Adventure fiction, Movies, Music, Business Strategy, and more.

His pop-culture non-fiction work has featured properties such as Batman, Star Trek, The Beatles, G.I. Joe, Battlestar Galactica, and James Bond. He can also be found podcasting on a regular basis about James Bond, The Beatles, and pop-culture in general.

He has also written comics for Tokyopop, BOOM Studios, Marvel, Disney, and Kid Domino, as well as produced a series of educational comics in partnership with the University of Texas and NASA.

He has written original adventures featuring classic characters such as Sherlock Holmes, Allan Quatermain, Houdini, The Musketeers, Wild Bill Hickok, Gideon Cain, and private eye Rick Ruby; as well as his own New Pulp adventurers, The Raven and The Lotus Ronin.

His other online activities include the comics history blogs: Batman On The Cover (Tumbler and Instagram) and Racing Comics: Motor Sports In The Comics (Tumblr).

He is a regular guest and speaker at various comics, pop-culture, and science-fiction conventions.

Website: http://www.alanjporter.com/

Twitter: @alanjporter

He has also written comics for Tokyopop, BOOM Studios, Marvel, Disney, and Kid Domino, as well as produced a series of educational comics in partnership with the University of Texas and NASA.

His other online activities include the comics history blogs: Batman On The Cover (Tumbler and Instagram) and Racing Comics: Motor Sports In The Comics (Tumblr).

He is a regular guest and speaker at various comics, pop-culture, and science-fiction conventions.

Website: http://www.alanjporter.com/

Twitter: @alanjporter

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Joe Stillman - Screenwriter, Author

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Joe Stillman co-wrote “Shrek” for Dreamworks which earned him an Academy Award® nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Annie and BAFTA Awards. Other produced features are “Beavis & Butthead Do America”, “Shrek 2”, “Gulliver’s Travels”, “Planet 51” and “Joseph King Of Dreams”.

In television, he was co-producer and writer on “King of the Hill,” for which he received two Emmy Award® nominations. He was a writer and story editor for Nickelodeon’s “The Adventures of Pete and Pete” and a writer on MTV’s “Beavis and Butthead”. More recently he worked on Nickelodeon’s “Sanjay And Craig” and “Kirby Buckets” for Disney. Other TV credits include “Albert” for Nickelodeon, “The War Next Door” for the USA Network, “Clueless”, “Doug” and “Danger And Eggs” for Amazon.

Joe is currently working on a “Curious George” feature for streaming on Peacock.

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Instagram: joethestillman

Twitter: @JoeStillman1

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Bella Maori - Writer, Actress, Model, Filmmaker

Bella Maori is a Southern California native and was raised in Los Angeles. She started writing at the age of eight. Early in her career, she worked as a model and later starred in her first feature independent film, "The Internship Games," in 2015. In, 2021 she appeared as the lead model on the album cover trailer for Grammy-nominated Hip Hop rap star Baby Keem's debut album, "The Melodic Blue." Bella has written and produced multiple independent projects. Bella's current project is a pilot for "Ugly," which she wrote, produced, and directed. "Ugly" is a story about color-ism's effects on an African American actress's black identity. The pilot episode of "Ugly" was nominated for Best Web and New Media, Best Web Series/TV Pilot, Television - Pilot Program, and Best Series-Web-Pilot by LA Independent Women Film Awards. In 2021 "Ugly" also won an award for Best Pilot-Series from LA Independent Film Channel Festival.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Tim Holloway

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Website: https://bellamaori.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bella.maori/