Dreamers2Makers Films

08/01/2025

Years in the making and announcements are imminent.

09/10/2024

Return of the Hounds: Alumni Masterclass+ Festival
EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY - DAY 1
Emily Howes Heilman (Voice) Valerie M. Trujillo (Piano)
Classical Music “Guest Artist Recital” | Sept 10 @ 7 PM Buchanan Hall

ENMU Masterclass Landing Page
http://enmu.edu/Masterclass

ENMU Mirabal Concert Ticket Page
http://www.enmu.edu/mirabal

AssignmentUniverse
https://www.assignmentuniverse.com/

08/30/2024

(T-minus 12 days)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (PORTALES, NM – August 24, 2024)
Eastern New Mexico University Announces Arts Festival Headlined by Alumni

Eastern New Mexico University and the ENMU Foundation will host an inaugural music, arts, film, and masterclass festival on the Portales, New Mexico campus September 10-12. Billed as the “Return of the Hounds: Alumni Masterclass+ Festival.” the event will bring back some of the university’s most notable alumni
for a 3-day event aimed at inspiring a new generation of artists, musicians, and journalists.

As the festival finale, a free community concert on September 12 will feature 2-time Grammy-winning artist Robert Mirabal of Taos Pueblo.

“This is absolutely a ‘not to be missed’ event,” ENMU Chancellor James Johnston said. “It will bring outstanding artists and experts to ENMU and our community. Students will benefit immediately from the master classes and mentorship.”
Full details and a schedule of events can be found online at: enmu.edu/Masterclass

https://www.enmu.edu/.../fine-arts.../fine-arts-masterclas2

08/24/2024

Hello my old friends. It has been quite a long time. But Assignment Universe is back in a huge way. A project seven years in the making. A hint: High Plains of New Mexico

10/07/2023

Two years ago "A Song For Ruth" mini-documentary was premiered in partnership with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. This film celebrated the life and career of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the DSO held a world premiere celebration. Truly a worldwide production.
⇩ Watch "A Song For Ruth" mini-doc ⇩
https://www.dreamers2makers.com/

10/06/2023

What do you think changed with the industry that a filmmaker as talented and dedicated as you just can’t make the films that they want?

“Well, the industry is over,” Scorsese said….Studios, he said, are not “interested any longer in supporting individual voices that express their personal feelings or their personal thoughts and personal ideas and feelings on a big budget. And what’s happened now is that they’ve pigeonholed it to what they call indies.”

Now 80, the legendary director is on one of the most creative runs of his career— and consumed by the challenges (and opportunities) of all that he has left to do.

08/06/2023

Daniel Lanois' secret sauce includes Pastor Brady Blade, father of world renowned musicians Brady and Brian Blade. Enjoy my retrospective 2017 interview with Brady Sr. as he talked about Aretha Franklin, early days as a radio star, and raising his boys that became world renowned musicians. Extraordinary insight into the Blade family. https://open.substack.com/pub/thesynthphonicpianist/p/dreamers2makers-pastor-brady-blade?r=711eu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

07/21/2023

20 July 1969 - Apollo 11 landed on the Moon. In 2019 I interviewed on the Dreamers2Makers podcast author David Chudwin. His book "I was a Teenaged Space Reporter" chronicles his own experiences as a journalist in 1969.

Listen now | From Apollo 11 To Our Future in Space [EP013 2019]

07/16/2023

July 16 1969 - NASA's Apollo 11 and its astronaut crew left the Earth. On the expedition's 50th Anniversary Brandon Fibbs and I interviewed Stephen Slater, who is one of genius filmmakers behind the extraordinary documentary "Apollo 11." Listen again to my Dreamers2Makers podcast to revisit the excitement of humans traveling Earth's Moon.

Listen now | Stephen Slater | Archive Producer for the documentary film "Apollo 11" | Interview by Brandon Fibbs (Wikisurfer, Cosmos, Nine Days in July) [EP010 2019]

07/04/2023

My friend Pranvera Hyseni is a unstoppable force of nature. Her dream has been to build an astronomy observatory and planetarium for her home, the nation of Kosovo. That dream is now a reality but when I interviewed her in 2017, it was still a dream in the making. I have reposted my entire interview with Pranvera at Dreamers2Makers Project | Substack
https://open.substack.com/pub/thesynthphonicpianist/p/dreamers2makers-pranvera-hyseni-ep008?r=711eu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

07/03/2023

Hello my old and new friends,
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Over the next several weeks I will be posting the rest of my podcasts that were originally broadcast in 2017 through 2019. As I reviewed and prepared the Substack queue, I’ve been reminded how diverse my interview subjects were back then. My one man band production team interviewed musicians, journalists, and filmmakers. I had no idea that COVID-19 was just about to emerge and I would find myself making documentary films and television. All of us that worked for decades as musicians had to find new and safe ways to continue our creative life when stages lowered their curtains.

06/28/2023

Latest time machine Podcast featuring Jazz legend Dan Haerle | A deep dive into the life and career jazz pianist/educator and professor emeritus of Jazz Studies at the University of North Texas. Dan was THE music teacher that changed everything for me at a Jamey Aebersold jazz camp decades ago.

Listen now (107 min) | Dreamers2Makers Project | Dan Haerle JAZZ HALL OF FAME / JAZZ EDUCATORS NETWORK - 'Legend of Jazz Education' [EP007 2017]