This week's show, broadcast Tuesday March 13 from 1-2pm Central Standard Time and rebroadcast Thursday March 15 from 8-9am Central Standard Time, will feature:

1:OO – 1:30pm – Ellen Chenoweth.

Ms. Chenoweth is one of Hollywood’s top casting directors. Ellen was raised in the Midwest & South, attended college in Virginia. She moved to NYC where she started working in theatre. After a short period of time, Ellen landed a job at the Actors Studio where Lee Strasberg was the artistic director. Under the tutelage of  Mr. Strasberg, Ellen became skilled as a casting director and started spending time in Los Angeles.

She got to know Barry Levinson and eventually cast his first movie, "Diner". Some of the films she has been casting director for include: My Favorite Year, Terms of Endearment, The Natural, Ruthless People, Broadcast News, Bugsy, Toys, A Bronx Tale, Six Degrees of Separation, Wag the Dog, the Horse Whisper, Analyze This, Liberty Heights, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou, Meet the Parents, and dozens more films.

Ms.Chenoweth has recently been working with the Coen brothers and George Clooney. Her next job will be a Coen movie called "Burn After Reading" with George Clooney & Frances McDormand. After that, the movie version of the Broadway show "Doubt", which will star Meryl Streep.

1:30 – 2:00pm – Ms. Mahen Bonetti.

Ms. Bonetti is the Founder and Executive Director of the African Film Festival, Inc (AFF).

Born in Sierra Leone in 1956 and sent into exile in 1970, Mahen received her graduate degree in communication from New York University. In 1993, concerned by the lack of understanding and appreciation of African culture, Ms. Bonetti, founded the AFF.

The main goal of the Festival is to use African cinema promote and increase knowledge and understanding of African arts, literature, and culture. In addition, to develop a non-African audience for African Films and to expand the opportunities for the distribution of African films in the U.S. In recent years, the Festival has been hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.