Jan. 1, 2026
Unraveling Mysteries: Jeremy Norrie's Journey Through Strange Phenomena and Filmmaking
Send us a text In this captivating episode of Living the Dream with Curveball, we sit down with filmmaker and producer Jeremy Norrie, whose independent documentaries have mesmerized audiences worldwide. With nearly 50 films under his belt, Jeremy delves into the intriguing realms of strange phenomena, including Bigfoot, UFOs, and alternative medicine. He shares his personal journey from a wild youth in the cannabis industry to becoming a sought-after storyteller, revealing how his passion for...
In this captivating episode of Living the Dream with Curveball, we sit down with filmmaker and producer Jeremy Norrie, whose independent documentaries have mesmerized audiences worldwide. With nearly 50 films under his belt, Jeremy delves into the intriguing realms of strange phenomena, including Bigfoot, UFOs, and alternative medicine. He shares his personal journey from a wild youth in the cannabis industry to becoming a sought-after storyteller, revealing how his passion for the unusual has shaped his filmmaking career. Jeremy discusses the surprising success of his Bigfoot documentary, the art of balancing entertaining narratives with controversial topics, and the unique approach that sets his work apart from others in the industry. Listeners will be fascinated by his insights on the impact of documentaries in shaping public perception and the potential for positive change. Also, get a sneak peek into his upcoming projects, including explorations into alternative medicine and the world of astrology. Join us for an enlightening conversation that inspires curiosity and a deeper understanding of the extraordinary. Discover more about Jeremy and his work at www.theskyisland.com.
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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Welcome to the Living the Dream podcast with Curveball. if you believe you can achieve. Welcome to the Living the Dream with Curveball podcast, a show where I interview guests that teach, motivate, and inspire. Today's guest is a filmmaker whose work is. Has captivated millions around the world. Jeremy Nori is a producer and a filmmaker, and he has produced nearly 50 independent documentaries that has appeared on platforms such as Apple tv, Amazon Prime, Fox, cbs, Roku, and more. His work dives into the fascinating world of strange phenomena, covering things like Bigfoot, UFOs, mindfulness, martial arts, as well as alternative medicine. So we're going to be talking to him about his films and everything that he's up to and gonna be up to. So, Jeremy, thank you so much for joining me.
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> Jeremy Nori>Thank you for having me.
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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Why don't you start off by telling everybody a little bit about yourself?
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> Jeremy Nori>Sure. I live in California. You know, I grew up in, the southern part of California, near Los Angeles. It's, called the San Fernando Valley.
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> Jeremy Nori>And, you know, I, I actually, I wrote a book that tells a little bit about my younger years because I grew up kind of nerdy at first, but then in high school, I started partying and I had pretty wild life early on. And, I ultimately was in the cannabis industry, and I did all kinds of stuff in that world, and that led me to becoming a filmmaker. So that's kind of a condensed version of my life in a little bit of a nutshell.
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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Well, you produce nearly 50 documentaries, so what drew you to the strange phenomenon genre? And why do you feel like audit audiences connect so strongly with that?
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> Jeremy Nori>Well, I grew up being interested in all that kind of stuff. Like, even as a little kid, I loved space, I love Star Wars, I love all that kind of thing. And then as I sold weed and what have you, I watched every documentary and every TV show about UFOs and Bigfoot and anything like that.
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> Jeremy Nori>Monster Hunters, I watched all those shows. So I got kind of like a, an education, if, if I dare say it, from all those shows. And, when I was working on Cannabis Project, the co producer that works with me now, he mentioned to me that we could do other topics other than cannabis, even though that seemed to be my expertise. If I had other interests, maybe I could work on projects like that. And he mentioned kind of some of those things like ghosts and. And what have you, that those projects sometimes earn money, that he had, data from the district. We use a couple different distributors. And so one of the distributors he had data from. And they had kind of told him what topics were doing really well on their, platforms.
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> Jeremy Nori>And so he mentioned all these things. I was interested in a couple of those kinds of things.
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> Jeremy Nori>So one of the other ones was extreme sports.
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> Jeremy Nori>That's why we did martial arts. And, I also did a women's wrestling thing. And not everything is hit. I have a lot of interests, and I've done all kinds of movies based on my interest. But the UFO ones and the, ones about Bigfoot, those did really well right away. And so that's part of why we keep going back to those topics, because the audiences really like them.
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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Well, out of all the topics that you cover, was that one that surprised you most during production?
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> Jeremy Nori>Oh, I mean, the third movie we made was about Bigfoot, and I did not expect it to be as popular as it was. You know, I thought we would have, like, a gradual increase on our movies. So I made two movies about, that I thought were really important topics was about how cannabis can be used to treat cancer and other diseases. And I thought I did really good job on both those movies. But they didn't, like, go viral or anything. They. They got, you know, some views, enough to, pay for how much it cost to make them, basically, but not a ton of money. and then, I made this Bigfoot movie, and we kind of just. It's not a phenomenal movie in my opinion. It's pretty simple. two people we interviewed that were quasi experts on Bigfoot. One had Diek, a Bigfoot YouTube channel, and knew quite a lot. He was well spoken, and. And then the other one was more sciency. And, you know, together we complemented them and made this Bigfoot movie. And bam. It got hundreds of thousands of views, like, right away.
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> Jeremy Nori>And even still, I mean, that movie's got millions of views across various platforms. So it's. It's crazy. The ones that take off, sometimes you. The ones you least expect.
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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Well, how do you balance telling stories that are both entertaining, incredible when the topics might be mysterious or controversial?
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> Jeremy Nori>Yeah, that's. That's one of the things that's hard. You know, I like to give the audience the ability to make their own decisions. So I do try to ask the controversial questions. even if somebody is a true believer or they kind of already have their mind made up on what perspective they're taking on this subject matter, I will give them the counter and try and present the counter argument in the film so that the audience isn't just getting a story from one perspective, that it's, you know, this is what we think about this subject. we give them the ability to kind of see, oh, there's multiple perspectives on this thing. You know, it could be a variety of things.
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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Well, you've won 30 plus awards. So talk about, what do you think that sets your filmmaking style apart from others in the documentary filmmaking space?
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> Jeremy Nori>So I've been told that what I just mentioned is something that other filmmakers don't do. I've interviewed quite a lot of people and every now and then I'll get a pretty nice compliment. And I, that happened to me recently from someone who had, I know they'd been interviewed by CNN and they've been interviewed by all the major players. And I asked, what do you think? Why, why did you give me this compliment, that I'm a good interview, or director or what have you. And so he told me that I gave him the ability to speak, that a lot of other directors are feeding them lines like re, say this thing, or can you say this for me? And or say it again, but say it this way and that kind of stuff. Or, or they're combative there. That was the other thing that they mentioned is that they're, they can be argumentative, trying to get, you know, a rise out of them so that they can get this kind of hot footage. And I'm, I'm not really going for that. I'm going for the true story. And so from my perspective, I'm not trying to influence their answer in any sort of way, but I, can react questions and kind of dig deeper if I'm missing, if they're not complete thought or something. But yeah, I think that's the thing that makes me different, is that I'm a little bit nicer to the, people I'm interviewing.
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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Well, let's talk about your book. Tell the listeners about your book, what they can expect when they read it and you know, talk about how your experiences in the cannabis industry shape your expect your perspective on filmmaking.
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> Jeremy Nori>Sure, sure. So I did write a book. I make movies that are generally positive, but like I just said, a lot of people are going for the negative. And so I have all these crazy stories from my days in the cannabis industry that people like to hear. And it's kind of, you know, exhausting to tell some of these stories. I don't like reliving these moments especially. And so there was the opportunity for me, I had like, some time kind of open up and I Wrote this book. I started it when I was young and I didn't finish it for 10 years. And then I kind of stumbled upon how to finish it and then it all became my book about all the terrible things that happened in my life, in the cannabis industry. So it is all the times I got home invaded, all the times I got robbed, all the times that I got arrested or nearly arrested. And they're all together in this book that I, that I wrote called Jack Moves.
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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Well, that's what I was going to ask. You should share one of the dangerous moments that you experienced while trying to film in the semi illegal cannabis event.
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> Jeremy Nori>Sure, sure. So, one of the, one of the dangerous moments M. Well, I was home invaded numerous times. So I have two home invasion stories in the book. one of them I just woke up and people were in my house and the other one was people, that I was selling pot to that I was a little bit kind of suspicious of. So I prepared a little bit, you know, in a way for that one. And that one got kind of it. I was fortunate that it didn't get more serious because it was pretty dangerous. There was, there was a moment where it seemed like I might get shot. You know, I was fighting back and kind of, it was a scary time. You know, what can I say?
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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Well, talk about the American Autoflower Cup. You know, it's a unique product so, a unique project.
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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>So talk about how what inspired you to create it and how it ties into your creative journey.
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> Jeremy Nori>Yeah, absolutely. So, the American Autoflower cup is my current event that I produce in the cannabis industry. I became a director because I was doing these like very prominent events in the cannabis industry. And that's kind of where my career in cannabis, ended as these events ended with legalization and rules that we previously didn't have. and ah, a more competitive scene. I kind of lost my identity in that world and I thought I would never produce another event. But some companies from Europe presented the opportunity to do this event called the American Autoflower cup.
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> Jeremy Nori>And it is primarily focused on a certain type of cannabis called autoflower. traditional cannabis is based on the sun. So a lot of growers will recognize that they have a vegetative period and they have a flowering period. When vegetative period you have a lot of light that you can give your plants. when it's flowering period, you change the light sequence and that pushes your plant into flowering and then you're giving them a much lower Amount of flower, light during that period of time. Autoflower. That's not how it works at all. They can take 24 hours of light even from the day they come out till the day they're finished. And they grow based on their maturity.
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> Jeremy Nori>They've been kind of bred from these equatorial or, kind of northern, climates where they have long periods of sunlight and these plants adapted to their long periods of, of sun that are present in these various different areas. And so that genetic has been kind of bred into all these different kinds of cannabis. And we do a competition amongst all the growers who are at the pinnacle of this autoflower thing in the United States. Ah, I feel very lucky to be doing it.
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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Well, talk about the role that documentaries play on shaping public perception when it comes to misunderstood or unconventional topics.
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> Jeremy Nori>Oh yeah. So documentaries can actually change things. It's really interesting how that works because it's so difficult to fight certain things the traditional way where you're, you know, maybe filing paperwork or going through the proper laws and doing things the way that they're kind of designed to be done. A documentary can generate so much attention to a subject matter that it can create action. one of these things that's really common is when people have seen maybe a crime documentary where it's a murder or some sort of thing that exposes some sort of ah, thing that maybe the authorities missed and they can reopen the case and look into some of these things that the documentary suggested. That's a really powerful moment in ah, life. And a lot of times it's environmental. You know, maybe a documentary brings up something about fishing, or the way that our food is being made and it inspires progress in all these different ways. So hopefully documentaries can lead to positive change in life and otherwise they're just entertainment. And that's a good thing too.
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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Well, looking ahead, are there any other phenomena, untold stories you're looking to tell in the future? What projects are you working on, upcoming that listeners need to be aware of?
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> Jeremy Nori>Absolutely. So I just wrapped a bunch of projects.
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> Jeremy Nori>So I have a, a series of alternative medicine projects that are going to be coming out. I interviewed a ketamine clinic expert and a red light therapy expert and a mycologist, a couple of mycologists. And I did a cambo ceremony. So I did all these things in the alternative medicine world. I even interviewed yoga instructors and a lot of mainstream types of perspectives. So, it's a ton of footage. We're probably going to have a bunch of projects that I make out of that stuff.
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> Jeremy Nori>And then I also have some more out there stuff. I did an astrology thing. I shot an astrology documentary five years ago and this year it started making money out of nowhere. So me and my partner decided it would be a good idea to tackle astrology again. So I interviewed five different astrology teachers who have similar but different perspectives on this subject of astrology and why they did it and what they get out of it and all these different things. and so we're doing that and then I am doing the story of the Raelians, which some people say is a UFO culture. And I thought they were very nice people. I interviewed three different Raelians, including the main Raelian, Thomas in the United States. And that's going to be a really interesting project. So those are all wrapped and they're over at the co producer in the post production process. I am going to start some new projects next year. I might do a Bigfoot project. I'm going to do an experiencer project with a bunch of people who have like either been abducted or they have experienced UFOs or aliens or entities of some kind and they've got stories to tell. So we got that. I'm going to try and follow up with Paul Hynek who is the son of the famous Dr. Hynek from Project Blue Book and we're going to try and tell that story. And he has some interesting interests himself so we might get into some of those subjects too. I got a bunch of stuff to work on this next year. I, I actually I, I know another guy named Gene who is a UFO expert on these Russian projects. And I don't know enough about it to really speak on it, but I think I would really love to learn from him and do a project with him in the next year too so.
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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Well, when it comes to UFOs you might check on podmatch.com and interview a form a veteran that I just interviewed. His name is MD Silicon. I've never heard of him. Yeah, he is Michael Silic. he talks about UFOs and I just recently interviewed him and dropped this episode.
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> Jeremy Nori>Cool. Yeah, those are the kind of people I like to talk to.
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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Yeah, I'll see if I can look up his information and get it to you but throw out your contact information so listeners can keep up with everything that you're up to.
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> Jeremy Nori>Absolutely. My website is the skyisland.com. and that has links to all my business social, pages.
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> Jeremy Nori>So my Instagram, my, Twitter and all those things, most of them are just at Sky Island Storytelling, that's the name of my production company. And, we're making all these things. So you can go on IMDb, and look up my name, Jeremy Nori. And that will take you to my film, my Filmography. And everything except YouTube is on there. So you'll get links to where you can watch all the various different films if there's anything you're interested in. And, then you also get all the names of the film. So if you wanted to see them on YouTube, pretty much everything I've got is also on YouTube. You can look them up by name or there is a filmography section with links to most of the stuff. I'm a little slow at updating, but it's all on my website as well.
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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Absolutely. So, ladies and gentlemen, follow you into Strange Phenomena. Follow Rate Review Share this episode to as many people as possible. Check out Jeremy's book, check out his films, check out his website, keep up with everything that he's going to be up to. And for more information on the Living the Dream with Curveball podcast, please visit www.craveball337.com and share the website and the show to everybody you know. Thank you for listening and supporting the show. And Jeremy, thank you for all day you do. And thank you for joining me.
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> Jeremy Nori>My pleasure. I appreciate you having me.
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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>For more information on the Living the Dream with Curveball Podcast, visit www.craveball337.com until next time, keep Living the Dream.
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