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Sep 26
1h 45m

In conversation with Michael Kurinsky | ...

Simon Brew
About this episode
Well, where do you start? Michael Kurinsky is a man whose built a career that saw him drawing enormous pictures of The Beatles, to a dream of working for Warner Bros, to years with Disney, years with Sony Pictures Animation, and then the jump to the place he was in awe of. His Warner Bros experience saw him working on the film Scoob!, and then he was offe ... Show More
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