Bond on Cinema

Bond on Cinema

Veteran Television host Ward W. Bond brings you the in-depth interviews with the top film directors, producers, screenwriters, editors, composers, actors and more. Learn about the art and beauty of filmmaking. Meet award winning film professionals as they tell their side of the creative journey of movie-making. The ”Bond on Cinema” podcast is interviews with filmmakers for filmmakers. Bond on Cinema is also available on Prime and YouTube

Episodes

July 14, 2025 30 mins

My guest today is both a Grammy nominated recording artist and a Billboard Music Video Award winning filmmaker.

He began a career as a recording artist that has spanned decades and garnered him two Grammy nominations for "Meltdown" and "Squint." 

In the process, he made history as the only artist to twice win Billboard Music Video Awards for self-directed music videos. 

Steve also fronted the MCA-signed alternative rock band Chagal...

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My guest today is actress Ashton Solecki is a rising force in film and television, known for her grounded intensity and magnetic screen presence. 

Originally from Montana, Ashton took an unconventional path to the screen—trading a background in neuroscience and product management to pursue a creative life both in front of and behind the camera. 

Her roles showcase both emotional depth and fearless range, and is quickly emerging as ...

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My guest today is writer/director Virginia Root. 

In 2024, she won the George R.R. Martin Screenwriting Competition with her sci-fi pilot Deserters, received a grant from the non-profit New Mexico Writers, and became a Stowe Story Lab fellow in the New Mexico New Voices program. 

Virginia’s original pilot scripts, The Sisters Morrigan and Deserters, were second-round finalists at the Austin Film Festival in 2021 and 2023, respectiv...

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Actress and dancer Arielle Bodenhausen's Hollywood journey began through the art of dance. Originally from the Midwest, her passion for movement inspired a bold move to California, where she transitioned from dancer to actor.

Arielle began her acting career in a series of short films, which ultimately led to her breakout role as Wendy, a lead character in the feature film Roswell Delirium. She can also be seen in the latest season ...

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THE WAR BETWEEN  is set in the Arizona Territory during the early days of the Civil War, THE WAR BETWEEN is a survival Western, that follows a Union soldier with no memory, a paroled Confederate private, and an exiled Chiricahua Apache as they navigate the unforgiving desert and confront the beliefs that divide them.

Many of you know that I love period films and heavily character-driven films and with THE WAR BETWEEN, we get both. 

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Ladies and gentlemen, Aaron Lemle’s BAT BOY is about Andre, a young man on the autism spectrum, is passionate about the bats that live in the highway underpass next to his house in East LA. When one day the bats go missing, he enlists the help of a jaded biologist to find out what happened.

I just fell in love with this film that I watched more than once. The emotion this film evokes is captured perfectly on film. You are taken for...

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Troy Van Leeuwen, a guitarist whose name is known by musicians across the globe.

He has appeared on the albums of many different bands, including Korn, Coal Chamber, Deadsy, and Crazy Town, when he was approached by Maynard James Keenan to join A Perfect Circle. 

Troy stayed with A Perfect Circle for an album and a half, Mer de Noms and Thirteenth Step, before taking the second guitarist position with Queens of the Stone Age on the...

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Ladies and gentlemen, THIN PLACES is about Birdie’s sister Tama’s untimely passing. Birdie learns that the bond between them is stronger than life and death. In between states of memory and heartbreak, Tama and Birdie show how we can continue on in a different way if we are willing to listen.

I’ve done many interviews on the subject of grief. Talking with experts, but also many filmmakers. Brit Hensel’s THIN PLACES is one of the fe...

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Actor Mark Feuerstein has had roles in What Women Want with Mel Gibson, Rules of Engagement with Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson as well as numerous television appearances. 

We are here to talk about his newest role as Rabbi Mo in the suspense thriller GUNS & MOSES, he’s carrying a Glock and lighting up more villains than the number of candles on a menorah.

Ladies and gentlemen, GUNS & MOSES is a suspense thriller wit...

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Join us for an insightful interview with Pierre Rehov, where we discuss his experiences as a journalist and filmmaker. He shares his thoughts on the Middle East and the challenges of journalism today. Rehov also shares behind-the-scenes stories from his career covering events such as islamic terrorism. My guest today is filmmaker Pierre Rehov. With more than 10 documentaries to his credit, Pierre made serious waves with his politic...

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Ladies and gentlemen, Paul Syrstad’s TESTAMENT is the Book of Acts explosively reimagined in an alternate-modern era.

A resurrection sparks a movement that turns the world upside down, spreading hope amid chaos. As the followers risk everything to preach the Good News, the Temple races to silence them before the oppressive Imperium regime retaliates. But public miracles, unburied secrets, and fractured loyalties force both sides to...

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His newest feature film, the terrifying horror thriller THE SOUND, where a group of top climbers are granted access to the Forbidden Wall, a mysterious rock wall previously closed for decades. What happens on that mountain, needs to stay on that mountain.

So let’s welcome filmmaker Brendan Devane and his new film THE SOUND to the show.

Ladies and gentlemen, THE SOUND is a suspense thriller doesn’t give you a moment of rest. A group...

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Acclaimed actor Kayden Brenna Tokarski is known for portraying a young Julia Roberts as Martha Mitchell in the Emmy and Golden Globes-nominated Starz original TV series "Gaslit." 

Kayden's notable filmography includes "Love's Fast Lane" on Peacock; "My Professor's Deadly Secret" and "Killer in the Wood”s on Lifetime; "Apocalypse Love Story" on Amazon Prime and Apple TV; and "Roswell Delirium" alongside Anthony Michael Hall and Regi...

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My guest today is legendary actor Anthony Michael Hall. 

He began acting in commercials at the age of seven, and his breakthrough role was as Rusty Griswold in National Lampoon's Vacation alongside Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo. Following the success of Vacation, he entered the defining period of his career, starring in three John Hughes classics: Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Weird Science. 

In the 1990s, he starred i...

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Salvador Litvak's GUNS & MOSES brings a new superhero of sorts in Rabbi Mo.

RABBI MOSHE “MO” ZALTZMAN runs a small synagogue in High Desert, CA with his wife HINDY and their five children. At their annual fundraising gala, the honoree is solar farm entrepreneur ALAN ROSNER. As Alan begins his speech, an unseen sniper attacks the event, firing into the crowd and causing death and devastation. After this apparent hate crime, Rabb...

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The story of the iconic electronic music group Yello and the phenomenon of their 1980's hit song, OH YEAH! Explores the song's cultural impact and its enduring place in the American psyche.

His latest documentary film OH YEAH! Premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and is our topic today.

Award-winning Director and Cinematographer Nick Canfield's first film, the feature music documentary The Reverend, which many of you saw the inte...

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For the first time in television history, entertainment and ministry come together with the incredible new series THE MERCY SHIPS brought to you by Angel Studios.

Did you know over 50% of the world’s population lives near a coast, the Mercy Ships are the best way to reach people in need with safe, state-of-the-art medical care. In places without access to medical care, there are children and adults suffering and dying from treatab...

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LEMONADE BLESSING is an incredible coming of age film. A mixture of adolescence, innocent, religion, morality, parenting and even mentorship. When parents have kids, they are never given a manual on how to raise them. They’re given an empty canvas and told to wing it.

LEMONADE BLESSING shows this perfectly, but we see the other side of things with John and Lilith pretending in the art of love, but end of finding themselves or break...

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Set in the heart of a rapidly gentrifying west Los Angeles neighborhood still reeling from decades of guns and gang violence across the four corners near Venice, a working-class single mom desperately tries to wean her 17 year-old son Freddy away from a veteran gangster who has become a father figure to him. "Die Like a Man" explores the rites of passage and codes of masculinity that are at the forefront of our current era's zeitge...

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Connor Doyle’s newest short, IN THE FLESH, Ted, an unlikable office manager, is one day kidnapped by Jeremy and forced to play-act his dead brother David. Slowly gaining Jeremy's confidence, Ted discovers his captor's true intentions and makes a plan to escape.

This is a psychological thriller keeps you on the edge of your seat. Nothing is given away in this film. You are taken along on a man’s disturbing actions to prove what he d...

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