In this episode we explore the creative mind of Jenny Waldo, a Houston based film director, writer and producer. She is also a film professor at Houston Community College. Jenny shares all the juicy advice she would have wanted to hear when she started her career as a film director. She emphasizes how life experience really helps while creating new stories and how enriching it is for her to have produced other people’s work and nowadays being part of helping her students to find their voice and understand what goes into filmmaking.Jenny Waldo got her start in the documentary/educational industry of her hometown, Washington, DC. Over the years, Jenny produced various scripted and documentary short films as well as writing and directing her own award-winning scripted projects. Her short film, Acid Test, based on Jenny’s own tumble through self-discovery as a 1990’s Riot Grrrl, was screened at festivals all over the world in 2022, with great reviews and transformed later into her debut feature film. Jenny also reminds the audience to have in mind that as a filmmaker and writer-director, the goal is to communicate something, a feeling, an idea or a character, and every decision we take has to be based on that. We also talked about the next challenge of distribution, projecting and making the necessary plans to enter the films into festivals and then the whole networking that comes with festivals.Waldo´s producing credits include the indie feature The Preacher’s Daughter which sold to Lifetime , and the feature documentary The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing. Her next project in development is also based on a true story: Martha's Mustang.You can find out about future screenings of Acid Test or just the development of it and in which platforms it is being screened, at www.acidtestfilm.comAlso at her professional website www.jennywaldo.com you’ll find a tab for Martha's Mustang with updated info. You can follow Jenny Waldo on social media as Jenny Waldo on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.**Visit www.nickymondellini.com/podcast and download the ebook “Learn to handle the NOs of the industry” for free, and subscribe to receive La Pizarra's monthly newsletter with news about new episodes and various resources for the best development of your artistic career*Squadcast is the best platform to record your podcast or virtual meetings with up to nine guests with professional sound quality. You can download your audio files already mastered with Dolby sound.Choose your membership level after trying it free for seven days at: https://squadcast.fm/?ref=lapizarra *Canva Pro has thousands of templates and images to bring your creations to life, now you can use the calendar to plan the posts you want for the entire month, plus all the tools to create any type of project. Try it free for 30 days at: https://partner.com/canva/lapizarra Don't forget to subscribe to La Pizarra to have access to all the episodes, download them and share them on social networks, your comments are well received too!** Visit https://www.nickymondellini.com to learn about the work of actress, host and broadcaster Nicky Mondellini.Nicky Mondellini is an artist of international stature with more than thirty years of artistic career, her voice is heard in commercials on television, radio and digital platforms worldwide. She is the host and producer of La Pizarra with Nicky Mondellini since 2020.Her work as an actress includes more than twelve telenovelas, several classical and contemporary Spanish plays, short and feature films, and the hosting of morning shows in Mexico and the United States, as well as image commercials, and advertising and corporate videos.Follow Nicky on:Instagram @nickymondelliniTwitter @nicky3ch_nickyFacebook https://www.facebook.com/nickymondellinivoiceover LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/nickymondellinivoiceover