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Cultural Conversationalist Warren Etheredge to Host FILMTalks Program with Special Guest Director Michael Verhoeven

Thursday, March 18, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm

About FILMTalks Special Guest Host

As founder of The Warren Report, Warren Etheredge - America's premiere cultural conversationalist - curates and hosts over 200 events every year, a podcast and television series. The Warren Report promotes "slow culture" through commentary, outreach, events and education.*

Warren has conducted over 1,500 interviews - in print, on camera, on stage - with a wide range of filmmakers, personalities and smarties including Amy Sedaris, Darren Aronofsky, Michael Pollan, Charlie Kauffman, Naomi Watts, Salman Rushdie, Robert Duvall, Alexander Payne, Nora Ephron, Augusten Burroughs and Chuck Palahniuk. Additionally, Warren is one of the founding faculty of The Film School, along with Tom Skerritt, Stewart Stern, Rick Stevenson and John Jacobsen.

For six years, Warren served as the Curator for the 1 Reel Film Festival (at Bumbershoot), before that, he worked with the Seattle International Film Festival. Warren has staged over 40 plays in New York, published five books, written countless magazine articles and recently completed a feature-length documentary, HUMOR ME. He is the host of Words & Wine, The Good Life and the Biznik Innovators Series, conversation series with A-list authors, and is a regular contributor to PubliCola and Seattle's premiere public radio station, KUOW.

He speaks at festivals and conferences nationwide including The Screenwriting Expo, The NAMAC Conference, CASE VIII Conference, The Austin Film Festival and Conference, Bastyr University's Founders Weekend and Gnomedex.

Join Warren Etheredge as he hosts The SJFF 2010 Shemanski Trust FILMTalks Program screening of Nasty Girl with special guest and honoree Director Michael Verhoeven in dialogue with high school students.