Episode 404: Obsession

Featuring "Unhinged" with director Nick Stentzel and producer Diane Mayne, featuring "Obsessive Compulsive" with filmmaker Derek Pueblo.

Passion can come with a price--just ask a student filmmaker. The filmmakers discuss the obsessions of the characters in their films but also how their love of filmmaking has become an obsession of their own.

More About the Filmmakers:

Nicholas Stentzel is an award winning filmmaker and photographer. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a BA in Media Arts: Film and a BA in Photography. He can most often be found behind a camera - either directing the action or capturing stills of amazing sights.

Nick has traveled extensively, shooting documentary films and photography around the globe. He has spent time photographing the "invisible children" of Northern Uganda, hiking through the Andes Mountains in Peru, and wandering the streets of Singapore. He has also lived in Australia and Brazil for extended periods of time.

Please visit his website.

Diane Mayne did not grow up dreaming of becoming a filmmaker. The youngest of six children, she grew up on a cattle ranch in Colorado. She began her time at BYU as a Chemistry major but after two years realized that science was no longer her passion. In search of a completely new direction she took the Intro to Film class. It only took a single lecture for her to make up her mind and soon she was accepted into the BYU Film program. After graduating in 2008 Diane began working as a production manager for BYU Broadcasting on the series "The Generations Project."

Derek Pueblo is currently a student in the BYU TMA Program. Along with taking classes he teaches the Intermediate Film Production class. He is the recipient of the 2009 Kodak student filmmaker award and was director of photography on Inspector 42, which recently won a Student Emmy. Currently, he just finished shooting a feature length western, "For Robbing the Dead."