Heilman & Haver - Episode 17 (Guest Danny Bilson)

Welcome to Heilman & Haver - Episode 17.  We hope you enjoy the show!

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Danny Bilson

Danny Bilson comes from a long line of writers, from his Grandfather George, who was a producer/writer/director and head of the trailer department at Warner Brothers, to his grandmother Hattie, who interviewed stars for fan magazines and wrote shorts for RKO. After a long television and film career at Warner Brothers, Disney and Paramount himself,  Bilson served as a senior executive in the video game industry at both Electronic Arts, and THQ.  Danny has experience developing properties in film, video games, TV, theme parks and comic books. Bilson currently has a major motion picture, Da 5 Bloods, directed by Spike Lee, available for streaming on Netflix and front and center in this season’s award chatter. Danny has consulted at Walt Disney Imagineering as well as Tencent games where he runs the Tencent Spectrum training program for their senior producers and developers twice each year.  Bilson has been on the faculty of the USC School of Cinematic Arts since 2005, where he teaches screenwriting, narrative design and  Advanced Game Production.  Danny is Chairman of the Interactive Media and Games Division and was recently appointed Director of USC Games, where he leads the joint program shared by both The School of Cinematic Arts and the Viterbi School of Engineering.

Connect with Danny:

Web: www.dannybilson.com

Twitter: twitter.com/dannybilson

 

COMING UP NEXT WEEK: Next weekend, we’ll be joined by Tim Conway Jr. - talk show host at KFI in LA, the No. 1 news/talk radio station in the country, and, as you might have guessed, eldest son of Tim Conway, legendary comedian and star of The Carol Burnett Show, McHale’s Navy, and who could forget, Dorf.  Tim will share stories from his career in broadcasting and childhood growing up a Conway.