Podcasting has gone mainstream and is vital for authors as a platform and a way to build their brand as an author. It’s a way to connect with an audience that prefers listening to their authors as the human voice connects and builds trust. It absolutely should be professional, sound good, and be packaged right.

Christina Kotlar, founder, writer, producer, and host of Film Festival reViews (2006-present), is a seasoned professional in  following trends in independent and art house films, filmmaking, music in film, film festival circuit and festival operations, and marketing a movie strategies. She searches out conversations with filmmakers and industry professionals on current trends in film and television in and around the film festival circuit worldwide,  highlighting women in film breaking through the cracks in the celluloid ceiling. Attending regional, national, and international film festivals, Christina moderates panels and one-on-one conversations and was a regular co-host on herFlix. With over sixteen years of podcast love, she records and edits the show and offers support and training for new podcast hosts and their shows, helping organize the story to invoke a human connection with their listeners.

Yuri Turchyn employs different recording methods and mediums to create original compositions for intros and outros. Dedicated to pursuing excellence in music performance, which spills over and influences life itself, he has pursued music as a language that defines all aspects of life by writing songs with lyrics or without, instrumentals for a variety of settings and ensembles, and sundry other projects for hire or personal expression. As an audio engineer, session musician and producer, Yuri brings an uncanny sensibility to the project whatever it starts out as until its completed evolvement.

As contributing producer to many Teatro-Si Productions, Yuri worked on programs with Raul Juarena, master of the Argentine Tango and among one of today’s most prominent bandoneon players, Carolina Jaurena, iconic Argentine performer Carlos Gardel, Tito Castro, guitarist Francisco “Pancho” Navarro, Flamenco singer David Castellano creating unforgettable evenings from an evening of Spanish Gypsy Flamenco to a musical love story in a 1950s Havana cabaret; drama, comedy, dance, music and spoken word, the programs present a wide array of cultural events. Teatro-Si, is a not-for-profit theater arts organization whose mission is to promote, innovate and preserve Latin American and Spanish culture through the theater arts.