Steven Samblis

Amidst a time of war, Armenia has proudly announced that Arman Nshanian’s (in his feature film directorial debut) visually arresting and emotionally stirring historical drama SONGS OF SOLOMON as its official submission to the 93rd Academy Awards in the International Feature Film category. Written by Audrey Gevorkian, based on the true story “The Past Unsung”…

In the spirit of the season, please enjoy The Furniture, a play written by Marc Warren, directed by Joel Zwick and produced by Victoria Sayeg. The Furniture is a dark comedy for adults about, sex, lies and upholstery starring Mark L. Taylor, Teresa Ganzel, Rakefet Abergel, Giuliana Carullo, Ashely Dulaney and René Peña. The video…

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When I recently got an email from a PR firm talking about a movie being available in Virtual Theaters, the subject matter of the email read “Opening in Virtual Theaters and VOD in August.” I had to ask the PR person what a Virtual Theater was. She did not answer, so I did the google…

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It was 1971 and Phil Knight was supplementing his modest income from Blue Ribbon Sports Inc. by teaching an accounting class at Portland State University. There he met Carolyn Davidson, a graphic design student, who was working on a multi-perspective drawing assignment in the hallway. He offered to pay her a couple of bucks per…

Do you remember the “connect the dot” puzzles?  Sure you do! They were fun, but most of the time you could tell what the outcome was going to be before you even started drawing the lines. Anyway, while facilitating a recent workshop, it dawned on me that sales people should be better at connecting the…