In conversation with director Vicky Jenson: Spellbound, Shrek, Shark Tale, Post-Grad, director jail

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Vicky Jenson's directorial career got off to a hell of a start. As co-director of Shrek, she went to the Cannes Film Festival, she won an Oscar, scored a massive box office hit. Then Shark Tale followed, another hit. Then a live action movie, Post-Grad - but that didn't hit. And she paid a career price. This story gets better though, as Jenson's now made the animated feature Spellbound, which is available on Netflix. And she's chatting to us for this special episode of Film Stories. Hers is quite the story... ---- Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/fspn It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2	Hello, this is Simon Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome
0:36.3	to a very special episode of the film
0:39.4	stories podcast come with me and i show you how deep the rabbit hole goes and movies movies that
0:47.9	had stories that the story just sucks a man this is just the beginning. We would be honoured if you would join us.
1:01.1	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew. I am Simon Brew. As always,
1:07.5	it's absolutely everything you need to know about me. The aim at the podcast,
1:14.5	though, well, it's given away by the title. I'm here to talk of the stories of films, and I tend to talk about development stories, production stories, marketing stories, behind-the-scenes
1:18.9	stories, or the ingredients, really, that go towards making the films that we know and sometimes
1:23.5	love, the films that we know and sometimes love. The films I tend to cover on this podcast
1:28.8	lean more towards the mainstream than anything else. They're films I'm interested in or invested
1:33.0	in to some degree. I try not to do snark. I try not to punch down. This podcast is a celebration of
1:38.9	cinema and a real appreciation that somehow, somehow films managed to get made.
1:45.2	What you've happened upon here is one of my occasional special episodes of the podcast
1:49.3	where I bring in a filmmaker to talk about their latest release and stroke or their
1:53.7	body of work. You're getting a bit of both here. I've not heard many long-form interviews
1:59.6	with this particular person.
2:01.5	It's the Oscar-winning director, Vicky Jensen.
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