The Stephen Savage Show

On this 2022 epsiode from the Archives, Savage talks with actor-directors Oscar Torre (Tyler Perry's The Haves and Have Nots, The Hangover III) and Manny Martinez Hernandez (Better Call Saul, Cobra Kai) on navigating careers in film and televison, the growing recognition of talented Latino filmmakers and actors in Hollywood, and working both in front and behind the lens.  

On this short but informative edition of the Podcast, Savage gives a sneak preview into what we can expect at the 16th Annual Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema, coming March 4-8, 2025. With 150 films representing 20 countries from around the world. 

On this episode from 2021, Savage takes a call from actress, model, television personality and sportscaster, Bonnie-Jill Laflin about her acting and broadcasting career for FOX Sports and ESPN, her years as a former Dallas Cowboy's,  San Francisco 49ers, and Golden State Warriors cheerleader, and how she became basketball's first female NBA scout, working with the Los Angeles Lakers.  

Archive repost of the 2023 podcast with Savage's longtime friend, the great Angus Macfaydyen, who talks one on about his many great film roles, including Braveheart and the new Kevin Costner epic, Horizon: An American Saga, as well as his many memorable roles in such series as Outlander, Turn: Washington's Spies, and Spartacus. And he and Savage talk about their week long pub crawl in Edinburgh, and their mutual love of fine whiskey. 

On this extended (2 1/2 hours) epsiode, Savage interviews six of the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema Spotlight Filmmakers for 2024. These include the writers and directors of the feature films Nocturne, The Uncanny, and The Nanny, as well as the 15 year old creator of an amazing documentary entitled Tranq, the writer and director of the wonderful short film Life Of Riley, and Blacksmith Rose, who's music video, They Don't Make 'em Like Willie Anymore, has been tearing up the film festival circuit across the USA.

On this episode, Savage takes a call from renowned director and script supervisor Faye Brenner. Faye talks about her work on some of the most iconic blockbuster Hollywood movies of the past few decades, why film festivals are still so vital to finding new film talent, her role as the newest Grand Jury Member for the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema, and her own favorite Hollywood directors. 

On this episode, Savage announces the Official Nominations for the 2024 IDY Awards, the Idyllwild Intenational Festival of Cinema Film Awards. 

On this, the first episode of 2024, Savage welcomes to the podcast for his second time around, actor, screenwriter, and director Duane Whitaker to chat about writing, acting, and navigating the New Hollywood norms and dillusions regarding men, masculinity, and female empowerment in movies. Duane also gets into his beginings as a Texas playwright and actor, and how it all manifested into his many film roles, including his iconic turn as Maynard in Quentin Tarantino's classic, Pulp Fiction.   

On this, the last edition of the podcast of 2023, we play an archived interview from 2016, where Savage interviews legendary songwriter Candy Parton on working with some of the biggest artists in the history of recorded music, producing and writing the first ever demo Johnny Mathis every on, and having so many songs in play that Frank Sintara's recording of one of her songs completely escaped her knowledge. 

Part 1 of Savage's interview with the great scottish actor and director Angus Macfadyen on portraying Robert The Bruce in Mel Gibson's Braveheart and as the title character in the 2019 epic of the same name. He also opens up about his turns on great television series such as Outlander, TURN: Washington's Spies, Sparticus, and Criminal Minds, and his great films, The Lost City of Z, Equilibrium, and Tim Robbin's The Cradle Will Rock.