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Directing ATLA with Giancarlo Volpe

Avatar: Braving the Elements

Nickelodeon

Animation & Manga, Tv & Film, Leisure, After Shows

4.92.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Join Janet and Dante for a fun and informative conversation with longtime ATLA Director, Giancarlo Volpe! Hear more about the early experience of working on ATLA from the Directing side, including very cool details about the animation process. Learn about Giancarlo’s background and what art has inspired him. And find out what final shot of a particular episode Giancarlo felt was missing… and the satisfaction of seeing how it ended up being created by a fan afterwards! And yes, more talk about… you guessed it… The Great Divide! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, friends, benders and non-benders alike.

0:22.5

I'm Janet Varney.

0:23.7

And I'm Dante Bosco, and this is Braving the Elements, Nickelodeon's podcast about all things, Avatarverse.

0:28.9

Now, Bosco, this is a person that we reached out to a while ago.

0:33.0

He is perhaps the busiest man in show business.

0:36.0

We wanted to talk to him because this is someone that you have worked with many times,

0:39.5

not just on the show, but on other shows,

0:42.1

and is known to be a wonderful human being, a talented one with a great heart.

0:48.2

And we finally got him.

0:49.5

It's almost the end of the season.

0:51.1

Finally graced us with his presence.

0:53.3

Ladies and gentlemen, can I introduce you to John Carlo, the director of the Great

0:58.1

Divide Volpe?

0:58.9

Hey!

1:01.0

That's the only episode he ever did.

1:04.9

It's just that the Great Divide become something that I would kid about just because

1:07.9

it's so polarizing of an episode.

1:09.6

And we've had long talks about the episode.

1:11.9

And I'd like to talk more about that episode

1:13.6

because that episode's actually grown on me so much over the years, John Carlo.

1:17.9

Let's talk about it.

1:19.0

John Carlo, we had a recap of the episode where Dante and I talked a bunch about it.

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