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John 'jd' Dwyer
Sara Elizabeth Joyce: Making Movie Magic, Art and Storytelling
1 hour 40 minutes Posted Oct 15, 2025 at 7:00 pm.
Meet Sarra Joyce
Purpose: Make Art in All Forms
Becoming an Artist and Coming Out
Early Film Obsession and Identity
Learning Every Crew Job
Producing Features and New Projects
Storytelling, Deals, and Debt
Indigenous Storytelling’s Influence
Land, Fire, and Respect
Cyberpunk Roots: Machete Girl
Hacking vs Cybersecurity
RF Hacking and SDR Experiments
Politics, Media, and Activism
Sensitivity, Gen X, and Resilience
Mentors, Mistakes, and Self-Reliance
March Forward: Personal Mantras
Kryptonite: Vapes and Public Health
The One Book: Stainless Steel Rat
Quotes, Philosophy, and Watts
AI as Tool, Not Substitute
Resin Art, Letting Go, and Legacy
Closing Gratitude and Links
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A movie producer and director who’s built 15 features. An ethical hacker who loves RF puzzles. A poet and resin artist whose tables glow in the dark. Meet Sara Elizabeth Joyce, whose life makes a single argument: when in doubt, make art and keep moving forward. We start with purpose—why Sara creates across film, poetry, and visual art—and how coming out in 2014 turned down the noise and turned up the signal. She takes us through learning every crew job before producing, the high-wire work of...