USA Film Festival 2016

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It is the 22nd of April in the year of our Lord 2016.
Season 6, Episode 37, 341 times.
This voice has welcomed you to the Clubhouse podcast.
We are normally live every Sunday night, 70's during four Pacific.
But not today, my friends.
We are doing two different live shows tonight.
This is show number one.
We are live at the Angelica Film Center at Mockingbird Station in Dallas.
As the USA Film Festival is getting underway.
We are glad that you are here, whether you are listening live right here on your stream,
whether you are listening on our archive or listening on iTunes.
You are listening and that is all we ask.
My name is Rob and things are going to slow down a little bit here in a couple days and that is not a bad thing.
But I am not alone for this particular episode.
Joining me to my right as he tends to do whenever we do a live show somewhere is my co-host.
And a man that is working a motif tonight.
And if you have met him for an hour, you know what that motif is.
He is chatting welcome sir.
Good evening, my friend.
It's been a rough couple of days.
It's been a crazy week for sure.
Do you across the desk from him or the table in this case is the official fact checker of this show.
And a man that is feeling pretty limber.
He is going to be doing a lot of running around over the next few hours.
You may know him as fun, don't go.
But his mom and even done for what I am going to call him done for the welcome sir.
Where are you in the other one?
Here is the thing I have to do.
You know what I do for a living.
I am an OJT instructor.
I have to wish Bianca Bookman a happy birthday.
Well happy birthday Bianca Bookman.
I have to say that two or three times I promised to start through the night.
But happy birthday Bianca.
Wait, wait, wait.
You say phone festival over here first time.
We are here.
We start every show with corrections.
We only have one from last week.
For some reason I thought wicked was starting yesterday.
I was wrong.
It started Wednesday.
So was it Tuesday?
No, it was the 20th.
Okay.
I just my math was a little bit off.
We are live right now at the USA Film Festival.
We are upstairs for the first time.
Broadcasting the show at the Angelica Film Center.
We have been here a few times before.
Do you want to introduce our first guest?
We've already got a guest on the show.
Yeah.
What we have is a long time member of the USA Film Festival.
Tell us about what's going on here.
And what's like to be a member for how many years have you been a member?
Let's be talking right on top of that.
Yeah, right.
I've been a member at least ten years.
Okay.
It could be this year's name because we're audio medium.
Alright.
My name is Roslan Miller.
Roslan how are you?
I'm well.
I live in Dallas.
Okay.
So ten years is a member of the USA Film Festival.
I guess the first question I have to ask is the pair.
No, no.
Why?
I mean, don't think that was a beautiful thing.
But talk a little bit about how it's changed from then until now.
In the sense of how the film festival operates.
Just in general, just the general feeling of the festival from.
Well, the film festival, the films are gotten broader.
The quality of the films is better.
I think because actually the members are more.
Particularly.
They've got.
Thank you.
They've got.
They give good feedback.
I just totally lost my train of thought.
I kind of blew my wheels up there for a minute.
Now, I just, you know, this is our first time covering this particular festival.
So if I were somebody coming in from just for the first time,
checking out the festival.
What, what, what should I expect out of the festival?
Well, with the festival, we run.
Okay.
The film festival is just a program that runs for four or five days.
Started last night if I'm not mistaken.
It runs through Sunday through Sunday.
Okay.
All right.
But it happens actually operates throughout the year,
where we bring in movies.
That are not normally seen through the year.
So they, they, they, they, you get previews.
Some are picked up.
So you've seen movies that are not mainstream normally.
So you have an opportunity of seeing up and coming.
The directors, producers that may take a few more years before they become mainstream.
But that's a pretty awesome thing because you're getting a chance.
You actually can be a sounding board, in some case, for the studios,
to how well their films can do and where their films are going to go.
I'm going to put you on the spot a little bit if you don't mind.
Right.
Off the top of your head, can you name me a film that you saw at the USA Film Festival
that you thought should have done better than it did?
Well, actually there's probably many, but you know, I can't actually think of one.
But you know, you'll come away with a lot of thoughts and topics of conversation,
things to talk about and talk up up in controversial.
I mean, they're often movie topics that that won't sit well with perhaps just the general.
The average movie goer.
Yes.
How, I mean, you talk about how this goes all year round and their screenings a lot.
How often do you see screenings with the festival that are not during the festival?
Oh, several times a month.
Oh, wow. So this is, I mean, this is a thing.
Oh, yes.
It's not just a once in a blue moon.
There's regular events that happen.
So you get an opportunity to pre-screen a lot that do get released,
that do get picked up by the studios,
which you're having that opportunity to see it before the general public.
Do you have to necessarily be a cinephile to be a member or is it kind of kind of anybody can come around
and they kind of just all commune together?
Well, you've purchased a membership.
There's different levels of memberships that,
but so no, but you have to have,
and then you've got different, you know,
some, you know, it helps to have a certain modicum of knowledge and not necessarily have to have it.
Oh, okay.
Great.
Let's go to the movies.
And who does it?
That's right.
You know, I mean, this is a medium that made me part of who I am.
Yes.
You know, I mean, grew up going to movies.
I worked in the movie theater high school.
Yeah.
And it's a great opportunity to, you know,
to get out and go with a friend or go with family and go to the movies.
Anything you're particularly looking forward to this weekend at the festival?
Well, I did see the one last night,
Little Man.
I thought that was excellent.
I thought the tribute to Alfred Malena was spent.
Big Alfred Malena family.
Oh, God.
Love Alfred Malena.
162 odd movies.
Wow.
That was, that was,
I don't know that I have a 162 of anything.
That was incredible.
When I heard that, I mean, he just,
and he was so engaging as just as a person at person
into, I mean, to be talking and sitting in the same room.
He was just, he was incredible.
That's awesome.
I mean, just as a person.
So that was last night.
So what, what would you do?
And so that's an opportunity as a person.
I mean, as a film festival person,
you get to see that.
All right.
We're going to let you go and enjoy the festival.
Thank you so much for stopping down and hanging out with us for a little while.
Enjoy the opportunity.
Oh, enjoy the rest of the weekend.
Come and see some movies.
Absolutely.
You kidding me?
We also, we have another guest already lined up.
But I'm going to let him introduce himself as I take a breath.
Sure.
My name is Steve Kachanas.
The right of on top of that thing, if you would.
My name is David Kachanas.
I'm the director of a movie called Country Portraits of an American Sound.
Just a documentary about the history of country music.
It's told through the images taken by photographers over a 90-year period.
Any specific, because country is become such a widespread and broad definition.
Is there any specific era or any type of genre within the genre that you're focused on?
Or is it more of a general history?
What we really did with this film was say, let's look at the image of the country music artist.
We all know the music and as the music evolved, how did the image change with it?
Why did they wear rhinestones, suit, fly, did the outlaws decide to look like hippies and why
then nowadays, do they look like pop stars?
So the idea was, what can we learn about the music and these artists by understanding how their
images change?
How they control their image and project their image?
So in that case, to answer your question, it sort of allows us to go into different areas of the music.
What brought you to the subject?
We were interested in the historical and photography angle actually saying, you know, well, if we looked,
literally looked at music, what would we get from that experience?
In Country in particular, it's so tied, I think, to American culture.
You know, it's southern roots and it's international influence.
Now that we thought it would be really interesting to, you know, look at it from that perspective.
Any subjects within the documentary that surprised you or was it pretty much
standard fair from what you were expecting?
Now, I think I was surprised at almost to a person.
We interviewed about 20 country music artists, some legends in this piece that would
kept coming back was this idea of truth in storytelling that, you know, country,
different than say rock and roll is more about, you know, how,
how maybe how hard life is versus the fantasy of how rich I'm going to become or how
famous I'm going to become.
It was more, you know, simple stories about real people.
And that kept coming back in the conversation.
And I thought that was really interesting.
If somebody sneak it up on us here, bar wise, we love him.
So you talked, you talked about interviewing subjects from different areas.
Was there one that you just, you saw on the page and went, wait a minute, we got this person?
There are a couple.
Okay.
One was Merle Haggard.
Now, unfortunately, the lead girl.
Wow.
So you too, this is going to be fresh on everybody's mind.
Yeah.
Merle's in the film.
He did a rare interview.
Merle didn't do many interviews.
He might sit down and talk about his show.
He was coming to Dallas.
He would sit down with you and tell you where he was doing.
But to talk about his legacy, he really didn't do that kind of project.
And that's what we were really much interested in.
Was, what can we learn by talking to Merle that his biography, his life story.
And then what that tells us about that part of country means that he represents.
Another person who we're going to see tonight at the screening here in the USA Film Festival is Charlie Pratt.
A local.
Yes.
And that was one of those words.
Like, well, if we're talking about image, we got to talk about Charlie.
Absolutely.
You know, an African-American country music star.
You know, that took the film from being just being about taking snapshots and pictures to what image means and what we think of that musical genre.
Is it really white music?
You know, that came up in the story.
And I think what that is really interesting because it tied into civil rights and just learning about.
And hearing it from him, you know, his perspective on that whole.
I'm not whole, take this really interesting.
That had to be a conversation where he was like, I could just sit here for hours because he knows the Dallas area.
And he's just, and if I'm not mistaken, because one of the things we normally talk about in our show is sports.
If I'm not mistaken, he was an original Dallas Maverick season ticket holder.
The rumor that I always heard was that he grew up in my neighborhood.
Oh, really?
Literally.
We've talked about that in the scene.
Yeah.
I could live right down the road from me years before I think we moved into the neighborhood.
If we get a chance to talk to him, I've really got to ask him.
I got to ask him to confirm that.
How hard was it to draw the line between when you're interviewing subjects like this?
Because there's so much you can talk about to try to draw that line to try to keep the thing on the rails,
where we were talking more about the history of it.
But you kind of want to get there background at the same time.
Was it easy to keep those two things where they needed to be here?
Did you kind of have to move things back onto the rails every once in a while?
When you're doing an interview, you sort of feel your way through it as we are now.
You're absolutely right.
And that was good about this piece is that I wanted there byography to be the history.
I didn't really need them to comment on their own story, but just tell me their own story.
And then depending where their interest was, based on our research or how the conversation went,
we could go into other areas and learn what a specific artist thought about even photography.
Like we found out doing this process that Kenny Rogers has been shooting like really high quality professional photography for 30 years.
And we actually have some of his images in the film.
Awesome.
He would shoot country artists in the part of our interview was talking to country to country legend Kenny Rogers.
And then talking to photographer Kenny Rogers.
And I think he might have enjoyed that part of the interview even more because who talks to him about that.
He may not be able to talk about that part of him much because I didn't even know that.
And his work is pretty amazing.
He did, he one time shot.
I think in the 90s he was hosting a show, you know, a country musical word show.
And he realized all these country musical artists are going to be there.
I'm going to set up a little photo studio offstage during rehearsals.
And I'm going to shoot people like Faith Hill and church music.
And he did it.
We have some of those shots in the movie.
So he's placed tonight right here at the Angelica 715.
You're literally an hour away.
Has, is this the first time the film's been shown?
First time in Texas.
Oh wow.
So how are you feeling right now going into this particular screen here?
It's exciting because just having the public come in,
by I take it to see a movie that they're interested in.
And really not knowing what to expect.
I don't think the idea of looking at the visual image of music is an obvious one.
I think people will be surprised, though, and go down this sort of very risk walk through the history of country music.
And I think they'll enjoy it.
Where does the film go from here?
From here we're hoping into theaters and into a video on demand and all those services.
It's currently with a, it's been on the film festival circuit for about a year.
Okay.
And now we're with a sales rep.
But this is kind of a ghost indie film.
You get a sales rep.
They start shopping the film to distributors.
And we're sort of in that phase right now.
So, you know, I'm hopeful that it'll be able to be seen by anyone who wants to see it in the very near future.
Is it one of those situations where you might have some talks that you can't talk about?
Or are you still waiting for that conversation?
It's, I mean, sure there's some offers, but it's very early to, you know, it's very early.
Okay.
So on this show, we are all about shameless self promotion.
Okay.
So we want you to do before we let you go, get yourself ready for the showing.
Any website, social media, how can they get people get in touch with the film?
That may not be here of the festival.
Sure.
There's a country portraits movie.com.
There's the official website.
There's also, we're on Facebook.
We just start typing in country portraits of an American sound.
It'll show up pretty quickly.
And we do quite a bit on on Facebook.
So let people know what's going on with the film.
Best of luck tonight.
I don't think you're good and needed.
I think are you going to be doing Q&A after the film?
Yes.
Awesome.
So if you're in the Dallas Fort Worth area, you got an hour.
It's Friday, traffic starting to thin out.
Get down here to the Angelica and see the film.
Country portraits of an American sound.
Charlie Pride is he.
He's going to be here tonight, correct?
That is what I'm told.
I saw.
Yeah.
I snuck into the theater and saw his name on a seat reserve.
So.
That is back in the salmon.
I think he's going to do the Q&A as well.
All right.
Go enjoy the evening, sir.
We're looking forward to hearing the feedback later on.
Thank you.
Thank you for being on.
You are listening to the clubhouse podcast.
We're live normally every Sunday night.
But right now, we are live at the USA Film Festival.
We are upstairs at the Angelica in Mockingbird Station in Dallas, Chad.
How you doing over there?
I'm trying to make sure we're not having any technical glitches.
Oh, fair enough.
Fair enough.
I get that.
All right.
We've John has got us our next guests from another film.
These guys have a little bit more breathing time than our last guest is.
But I'm going to let you guys introduce yourself.
Talk right into those microphones if you would.
Okay.
Is this good for you?
It sounds great.
My name is Shane McGoey.
I'm the writer director of the feature link film called People.
And I'm going to stop a hair aside.
I'm an actor in that film.
People.
All right.
That is going to play tonight at 9.15.
Am I reading that correctly?
Yes.
That's correct.
I just learned a reason.
You're going to have to bear with me.
Tell our audience about the film.
The film is a dark comedy.
I'd like to call it a referendum on people.
And the medium we used to capture and portray their behavior, which is film itself.
Yeah.
It's supposed to be funny.
And it's about how terrible people can be and how they abuse each other and how they try to
control one another and how they make each other miserable and drive each other crazy.
It sounds like my dating life in high school.
It's probably all of our dating life.
That's a fair point.
So I'm always interested in writer directors.
Because when you have that to be two different people, it's always interesting to see the different
visions as a writer and a director.
How was the process for you getting from what was in your head to what was on the screen?
Well, for better or worse, I was in full creative control.
Which I like because I'm obsessive in a control freak.
But I also rely on nothing about that.
I also rely heavily on all the support.
Especially the cast.
And I don't like to...
Can I curse on this?
No, I can't.
Family friendly.
Okay.
I don't really like this too.
I like the actors to kind of take whatever is on the page and kind of do their own thing with it.
I think that's fun for me.
What do you think?
And as an actor.
That's what I'm saying.
As an actor.
We've relished those opportunities.
We absolutely love the moments when we get a chance to just kind of be.
You know?
Like, you know, so much of what we do is just like, hey, do this, do that, do that, hit this mark,
and look, this is your eyeline.
And, you know, that all of that is necessary.
But when it comes to like the artistry of it, it's very important to, you know,
kind of let artists be artists.
Well, Mr. Harris will brought you to this project.
Well, I auditioned and I got the part.
Do you know what?
The old fashion was, you know?
But, you know, honestly, like, I was very pleased to get this part because the audition was, it was six pages.
It was a six page audition.
So auditions in themselves are just kind of like, they're really, you know, there's a lot of energy
put into those two minutes.
Right.
And that space.
Right.
So to have six pages where you get a chance, it's work out.
You get a chance to work out.
And I was really, I loved the challenge.
I really loved the challenge.
I was very happy and fortunate to join the cast.
And believe it or not, he played me in the movie.
His six page audition was basically a tirade of the director justifying the film as it happens to the studio.
And the weird thing about it is, is like, for me reading those lines,
it all made sense.
Like, yeah, it was six pages, but I didn't really have a tough time memorizing those lines.
Because every response, it's a phone conversation.
Most of my work is a phone conversation.
And every line that I had to respond to was a visual line that I got every time.
Like, there was no need to, like, oh, well, this character's going to say this at this point,
because the other guy is saying this.
It was a visual response, and it was perfect.
How long was the shoot?
Six days.
Wow.
Yeah.
84 minutes and six days.
Yeah.
Every, it's, it's six, it's a series of it.
Yeah.
So it's six chapters.
We shot each chapter in one night.
Because that's how much money we had.
And that's how much time we had.
Is 84 minutes you feel it's right where it needs to be?
Is that the pocket you were looking for?
Oh, yeah.
Do you watch it and go, I really wanted more.
Or I want, maybe I could have cut this back a little bit.
I didn't want more.
I'm just, that's it.
That was what we spat out, and that's all that needs to be.
It's as long as it needs to be.
Yeah.
And you know what I love about it is like, uh, so, uh, you know, particularly my scene
was shot in two shots.
Mostly, you know, and then we had a bunch of other little ones.
But mostly two shots.
So that's like a 13 minute scene shot.
Two shots.
We came down.
What was it?
Five floors.
And then we.
Let's steady count.
Yeah.
It was beautiful.
But that type of, uh, it wasn't forced.
It was a very, uh, it was a natural kind of scene.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Definitely organic.
I love it.
Have you seen the film yet?
Yes.
Okay.
So this is not, this is not the first rodeo for.
No, no, no, no, no.
How about in front of an audience?
How many, how many screenings have you done so far?
Oh, we have one screening in New Orleans, and I went off pretty well.
You know, things get rowdy.
We, we welcome, you know, heavy drinking and.
You know, we want people to have a good time.
It's not meant to be taken that seriously.
It's supposed to be a comedy.
Yeah.
But it's, you know, I think it works on different levels, though.
It's not just a comedy.
Yeah.
Where's the film going from here?
Because it went from New Orleans to here.
Where's it going now?
Uh, that wasn't an official screening.
That was a screening just for, for, yeah, was a private screening.
Okay.
So we don't know where we're, well, we've got next hopefully.
Well, I mean, hopefully in my hometown New Orleans.
But, uh, you know, if anyone else would like to have us.
We certainly, well, that's, that's why we do this show.
Because we, we are one of the, we things we always talk about.
We are all about shameless self promotion.
Absolutely.
That's just what we do.
Uh, feel, you know, give, give out websites.
Social media.
How can people get a hold of this film?
Okay.
I'll do that.
I think I can do that.
It's Facebook.com backslashroom.
Is that the slash?
Is it backslash?
Facebook.com backslash people film.
And then there's Twitter, whatever backslash people film.
Yeah.
You know, just hashtag people film.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Instagrams.
Instagrams.
I just got into Instagram within the last year.
Oh, you're late.
I'm, I'm old.
That's why.
It's okay.
But, uh, and when he says last year, he actually means last month.
No, no.
I've had it.
I've been, my Instagram has been very active, sir.
I've taken more selfies in the last four months.
I've taken in my entire life.
I mean, I can't talk because I'm not into it at all.
But I like Instagram.
Instagrams kind of neat.
It's kind of, it's very stick and move.
Yeah.
It's one of the things I love about it.
You know, not too much bio.
It's just like, hey, here's a picture.
And the picture.
I mean, sometimes people will put, I mean,
and I don't want to mention any names,
but his initials are doing Johnson tend to write a book with their Instagram posts.
But you don't even have to read him.
Because the picture tells you everything you need to know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So anything you want to plug with your hairs?
Uh, no.
Uh, on Instagram at Mustafa Harris, on Twitter at Mustafa Harris.
Snapchat, move stuff on this prime.
Yes.
Yes.
Make it your own.
Yeah.
No, no, no.
That's a little bit.
That's cool.
Follow me.
Come aboard.
All right, gentlemen.
We're going to go let you enjoy yourselves here for a little while.
Thank you for stopping down and hanging out with us.
Thank you.
Awesome.
And that's a bluff this evening.
Thank you.
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Think about after five and a half years.
I'd have that down.
We already have another guest joining us.
And I'm going to let her introduce her.
She is so excited.
And I love it when our guests are excited because it means we might be doing something right.
I'm going to let her introduce herself.
Hi, Rob.
My name is Lisa.
I'm here with the film Porcupine.
Hi, Chad.
Hi, Lisa.
Your smile is when people actually know our name.
Her smile is lighting awesome.
Thank you.
Thank you.
All right.
So your film is a short.
Correct.
Tell me about it.
So Porcupine.
It stars double your old brown.
Most people know him from deadwood.
He's currently in Santa Fe shooting HBO's preacher.
Seth Rogan's preacher.
Oh.
Oh.
Is that different from the AMC?
Or is that?
He's talking about the AMC show.
Yes.
Excuse me.
Yes.
Because I'm a huge fan of that comic.
And I've been waiting for decades for somebody to do this on television.
So that's happening right now.
So that's where Earl is.
Tonight's actually our world premiere.
Which is really exciting.
I just flew in from LA.
And here we are.
So you're pretty sprite for just a gig.
Because that's not a short flight.
And it's not a fun flight more often than not.
It wasn't really fun.
I have some flighting side.
But I was so excited to be here.
Last night was the opening night of Newport Beach film fest.
And we actually screened there tomorrow.
Some flying back early in the morning.
Good night.
I know.
Do you even reset your watch?
No.
I'm just almost there on Pacific time.
I'm here.
I'm going to have some ribs.
I'm going to have a great time tonight.
And I'm so excited to be able to stay here.
She's got a plan brother.
Do you have a recommendation for a good place for her to get those reaps?
See, I'm a barbecue kind of sore.
I'm very, very picky.
That's why.
So first of all, we have to ask, what kind of a time frame are you looking at?
Because certain places are only open until certain times.
Yeah, I need something that's open late because I'm planning on being here, being with
the filmmakers, seeing some screaming.
Relay barbecue.
I don't know if that kind of thing.
Yeah, I'm not sure if that's a thing.
See, in that way, we have like the late night taco stands open.
Yeah.
Well, there's stuff that's open late.
I mean, don't get me wrong.
But you're not going to be able to get good barbecue.
Yeah.
Like, if you're, if you want a burger, if you're in, have you been here before?
No.
Okay, so here's the deal.
Here's the deal.
I know where you're going.
You're in Texas.
There's one place you have to go.
Where is it?
Waterburger.
That's all you need in your life.
It is a burger that is a religious experience.
But if she's got the time, center to the root.
You know what?
The twisted roots.
Not a bad idea.
And that's in deep element over there on the arts district.
So that's kind of a cool little area to hang out in.
But yeah, if it gets really, really late.
Waterburger's the perfect thing for the middle of the night.
I'm not kidding you.
And I think the root might be up a kind of late because it is over at that part of time.
And it is Friday night.
Yeah.
So it's probably able to at least be Friday night, sir.
Doesn't mean anything to me because, you know, I'll be in bed quickly.
I'm going to be good off the air.
So, you know.
So you've got two showings in the same weekend.
Yes.
Has it screened before tonight?
No, it's our world premiere.
How are you feeling?
Oh my god, I'm so excited.
I'm thrilled.
I'm so, I'm so proud of this film for two reasons.
Because I love country music.
And W. Brown, who's our star, is a total country music.
You know, everything.
So, you know, we talked about him.
But we didn't talk about what the, what the, for sure it's about, I don't think.
I think we did that part.
So it's a father-daughter story.
It takes place in Nashville in the 70s.
Oh wow.
And it's about a young woman who's basically orphaned.
And she tracks down her daddy.
And she finds that he's this world famous country music singer.
And I'm not going to tell you anything more than that.
Yeah, don't spoil it.
We don't want you to spoil it.
You don't people go out there and see it.
Which short block is it during tonight?
Short narrative one.
Short narrative one.
Oh, so it's almost time.
Almost time.
And you'd actually took that time to sit down with these two slubs.
And talk a little bit.
And now I learned where I'm going to eat lately.
There you go.
Because she already knows about Jack in a box show.
She already knows about in the mouth.
Because that's what I was talking about.
I'm Italian.
Watch out.
We got good.
No, you do.
I'm just saying.
You're talking late night food.
You don't like to eat.
It's there is a baker's.
There is a baker's ribs down there.
I don't want to eat.
I don't want to eat.
I think you're on the open tonight.
That's really good barbecue.
Bakers ribs.
And not just because I know the family that owns it.
But that's really good eating over there.
What's another place.
It's probably going to be closed by the time.
We finished this serious pizza.
No, no, no, no.
The barbecue place down.
Oh, yeah.
You talking about the peacock launch.
That's probably closing here in about a half an hour.
That's what I'm saying.
The peacock launch is a place that's so good.
Like they run out of food and they shut it now.
And that line will wrap around the building.
Man.
And I'm granted.
Bring your checkbook.
But it's worth every penny.
If you've got the time.
If you're going to be here like tomorrow through tomorrow.
She's flying home to Mars.
Well, I'm just saying.
For the next time I come back.
Okay.
Just for future reference.
Bear those.
Put those in your middle row of the X.
How many shorts are in the block, you know?
There's six.
Do you know where you sit in the block?
I think we're fifth.
Oh, so you're kind of batting clean up.
Which is kind of a good thing because you always remember the last thing you see.
Yeah.
I think so.
So I hope so.
Any thoughts of turning this into a feature or.
We have had some interest in doing that.
Because, you know, it is.
Father daughter stores.
They touch.
That's a little bit.
That's a little bit.
Got a family.
People can't see.
But I'm pointing at my broadcast.
Because his daughter is my god daughter.
And that no person.
She was what three.
Two or three.
Thereabouts.
Yeah.
And she's 23 this year.
Yes.
So yeah.
Thank you for that painful reminder.
You're welcome.
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
So, you know, anybody who.
Has children.
We've noticed that it really resonates with a male audience.
Which is interesting because we're a female film making do our directors.
Female Sabrina Doyle.
I wish she could have been here tonight.
And myself, which is pretty rare.
And yet, it's got a very strong dominant masculine lady.
And really speaks to.
Because if you're going to hit a man where he lived, you tell a story about a father.
But we're going to father and daughter.
Yeah.
I mean, that's, that gets my attention.
That's straight money.
Yeah.
Thank you.
So, do you have anything else on the burner?
Anything else coming up that you want to plug?
Um.
That's a wonderful.
So, so we're, we're screening a new part of each film festival.
And we're off to Ferraran.
Italy.
We're going to be doing our European premiere there in about a month.
And I'm really, really thrilled about that.
I'm working on the subtitles in Italian right now, which is hilarious.
So, you can have one for me to text us to California to California to Italy.
That's right.
That's how we do.
And this is just the beginning of our festival run.
So, we're really thrilled.
Um, you can visit porcupinethefilm.com.
You can also follow us on Twitter at porcupinethefilm and Instagram or find the film.
And you can also reach me at Lisa.create.
That's my handle.
Absolutely.
I'm the producer.
And this is my first time producing.
I'm so thrilled that we're having, like, kind of appreciation that we are so far.
And I can't wait to produce it.
And I'm already shopping scripts for my next project.
And we're excited that you're here.
Thank you.
All right.
Are you going to be doing any Q&A afterwards or?
Yes.
Awesome.
Awesome.
So, you've got 12 minutes.
Oh, my God.
So, we're going to let you go get settled.
All right.
Thank you so much for joining us.
So nice to meet you, Robin.
Pleasure to meet you as well.
Thank you for being here.
All right.
We're going to move on because I've got the button pushed.
I got the button pushed.
I know what I'm doing.
Go ahead and introduce yourself to everybody.
Hey, my name is Mitsuyomi Azaki.
I'm a filmmaker from Los Angeles.
For where we begin.
Another short film, tell me about it, please.
And the story is a story about a woman who is moving on to the next life in her
chapter in her life.
And she's remembering what happened in the past.
And everything her past has been told through dance movements.
Oh, wow.
One dialogue in a movie.
One dialogue in a movie.
Wow.
It's a visual piece.
And that to me is one of the toughest things to do.
Not only as a performer, but even as someone that's a writer or a director.
Because you really have to get them to bring them to bring themselves out of it.
Yeah.
How hard was that as a director?
You know, I'm very ever since I started making film, which is about seven years ago.
I went to film school in LA, USA, film school.
And from that point, it's always been about visual expression.
So I think it is to challenging because there's no dialogue and to explain what's happening.
But I think we can do a lot through actors and their emotions and how they portray the characters.
Yeah, through what they're going through in their mind.
And I think our cast in a phenomenal job.
Which short block?
We're in the short block, huh?
Oh, so it's about to happen.
Yeah.
How are you feeling right now?
I'm so excited.
Is this the first time it's been shown?
No, actually, we put me out with Tribeca in 2015.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, so just chill.
It's just Tribeca.
It's just an arrow.
It's wonderful.
I love how just casual.
Yeah, we were a Tribeca.
No, that's a great.
We were so honored to be there.
And it's been amazing festival circuit.
And I'm so happy to be here.
This is my first time in Texas.
Welcome.
Yes.
And I just had a barbecue.
And it was awesome.
And you got here right before the heat did.
So that's good news.
You're going to be out of here before it turns into the actual sun.
No.
So she got barbecue before Lisa did.
Oh.
You might want to ask her where she went for her birthday.
Where do you go?
I went to the one in downtown.
It starts with peep.
Peep.
Peep.
They were the peep.
I haven't even gotten to the peep on launch.
Oh, you sure.
It's so good.
There are listeners that may be having good here because we're all over the world.
Right.
Just subscribe the atmosphere that you're feeling right now as you're getting ready
to go into this thing.
Oh, there's so much energy going on here.
I think a lot of people are excited to be here.
Filmmakers as well as supporters and film lovers.
And I think it's so great to be here in a place where everybody loves watching films.
Film festivals are such a cool thing.
Yeah.
They just really are.
Film festivals are just a different.
It's a whole different vibe.
It's not just going to the movies.
You get the chance to meet people.
You get the chance to to network.
Where's the film going after it leaves here?
We're going to be playing at Newport Beach.
And then we're going to be playing at New York City International Film Festival.
And I think if we have five, six more in the coming up.
We'll go to short shorts in Japan next month.
And then a couple of places.
So we're so excited.
Right or director producer.
Did you cater it to?
I mean, how many hats can you wear at one time?
You can wear quite a bit.
You can wear quite a bit.
I think whenever we have a passion for, you know, to making a film.
And you feel like there's there's a reason behind it.
You know, for me it's like changing the world to a better place.
So that's always my passion.
So when that happens back off your head, you do everything.
Which of those three hats is your favorite?
Directing.
Everybody wants to direct.
I get to show up in a cap, in a t-shirt.
I just have to just do what I do.
Everybody leaves me alone.
And I think writing and directing comes together.
Because everything I write, I make is I write.
So it comes, you know, from my creativity.
Creations.
In my head.
And then comes to the page.
And then to the picture.
So I value everything.
Where in the block are you, do you know?
I think when the short block one.
But we're in the block.
Oh, wait a block.
I have no idea.
Okay.
So I'm always interested to find out.
Because some people know and some people don't want it out.
They just want to, I know I'm in the block.
And when it shows up, I'm like, okay, there's my movie.
Yeah, right.
I think it will be probably either in the middle or Torsten.
Okay.
This is the, yeah.
It's a really emotional piece.
So.
Are you sticking around for Q and A after?
Yeah, of course.
I always wonder how does that work when you have so many filmmakers together.
Do you call it?
Do you guys just kind of tag team the thing?
Or do you just kind of go with the flow on it?
Because there's so many filmmakers at one time in one place.
Okay.
I think we just go with the flow.
And you know, whatever the moderator wants to hear or the audience wants to find out about
our film.
And then we just go with that.
So we just go with the flow.
Okay.
I want to have too much of your time.
You have six minutes of the block starts.
Shameless blogs.
Give me sense for me to give me websites.
Everything people need to know about the film.
Sure.
And my website is www.wherewebegamefilm.com.
My website is Mitsuyo.
Miyazaki.com.
And we also have an Instagram.
Twitter.
Everything in www.seadansfilm.
Those are the hashtag.
Those are the ones.
Yeah.
I do.
Okay.
Go ahead.
Take a deep breath because it's about to get moving.
Thank you so much for sitting down with us.
Enjoy the evening.
Have a good night guys.
You too.
We're going to keep you.
I'm going to press this button over here and press that button over there.
We have another short filmmaker with us.
And I want to be in stature.
I mean in length of actual work.
Go ahead and introduce yourself.
You can say right there.
It's a microphone.
It's ready for you to go.
Yep.
You're good.
Put the headphones on so you can hear yourself.
Talk right into that thing.
It's close as you want to.
Just tell us who you are.
Hello.
I'm Paloma.
And I'm the writer director of the short film The Schoolboy.
In which block?
It is block one.
So we've got to talk to you.
Because you've got to get in there.
I've got to get in there.
Tell me about the short.
All the short film is my graduation film.
From Miami and directing.
And I can't reveal too much.
You know, because it's a short film.
So the reveal is actually what it's about.
But I can see some a little bit of a clue.
So it's about a traumatic event of a teacher.
We have to return to school where all her trauma originates from.
So she's going.
It's sort of like a dark drama.
Another taking picture.
She's walking right in the picture.
They're taking a picture right there.
You just walked right through.
Okay.
Is this the first time the film's in show?
No, no, no.
We had a few screenings before this.
Okay.
So is it easy?
Is it get easier?
The more times you show it?
Does it get more intense?
Does it kind of just level out?
Because the first time you're just.
You've got to be just going out of your mind.
Like this is the first time.
But does that wear down?
Or is it still just intense?
Now is it was the first time you show it?
It's always very exciting to watch it with new audience.
Because every audience like, you know, we absolutely different.
So I'm always nervous before.
I don't think it will ever get rid of that.
Do you know where in the block the film is?
I have no idea.
I don't know where to go.
Again, you'll be like, there it is.
There it is.
That looks familiar to me.
Okay.
I don't know if it's one or two or three.
I have no idea.
The surprise I had.
Okay.
Cool.
I just lost my train of thought.
So is the film, where are you going to take it from here?
Well, from here, I'm not sure where I'm going to take it to.
Because I mean, all the doors are open from, you know,
but hopefully a lot of people get to see it in the future.
And I mean, you know, it's been out since a year.
So I've been doing the first festival circuit for a year.
And it's just been amazing, you know, the response to it.
So I want to continue doing it.
But, you know, there was a time where you just have to stop and do something to you.
So that's going to be very soon.
And I'm going to have a new project coming.
Do you want to turn it into a longer narrative?
Is it where you want it to be?
Oh, I would love to make a feature out of the short film, definitely.
I mean, definitely.
That would be the ideal dream, really, to just make it into a long film.
But, you know, would you rather go to something else
and then maybe come back to this as a feature?
I mean, I would like to kind of clean the power a little bit.
Yeah, I would always want this to be a feature film.
But I also want to explore different themes, you know, in different stories.
So, you know, it's very open at the moment.
All right.
So, well, curtain comes up in three minutes before you go, because I don't want to keep going.
I want you to be in there when you're ready.
Absolutely.
Websites, social media, everything, tell our audience.
Well, if you want to see some of my work, you can go to www.plomaLomal.com.
Or just enter the schoolboy and Facebook.
We have a Facebook page where you can see all the screenings that are going on
and basically behind-the-scenes pictures and everything that's related to the film.
Okay, well, let me let you get in there before the lights go down.
Yeah, absolutely.
Enjoy the festival.
Thank you for sitting down with us.
I'm just struggling to keep up with all the social media.
Have a seat, sir.
I'm just struggling to keep up with all the social media.
Have a seat, sir.
Hit that over and hit both of the word of two people, okay?
Okay, I got you.
I got you.
All right.
Go ahead and talk about this.
Just like this.
Yeah, just right on top of the video.
It's everybody can hear you introduce yourself and what you represent, please.
I'm Jamie Kirkpatrick.
I'm the director of the short film Squeeze.
I'm Don Dylan, the writer of the short film Squeeze.
I'm very jealous of Don's Radio Voice.
Yeah, right?
This is much better than mine.
You had a career in advertising before.
See, there you go.
Are you guys in short block one?
We aren't.
Okay, so we've got to do this quickly.
Yeah.
You just about time.
I apologize for the wait.
Tell us about the film real quick.
Go, Jamie.
The film is it's a narrative short film that basically deals with the issue of gun violence.
And we're obviously pretty excited to be premiering here.
You're definitely not been four years in the hotbed.
Yeah, correct.
You know, as we like to say, it's our film is not specifically political in any way.
It's a story about characters who find themselves in a bad situation as the result of a gun.
But, you know, but we also understand that there's kind of a zeitgeist right now in the country that this is really become a very hot button issue in a political year.
Are you intending it more as a conversation piece?
Well, it's actually to stimulate a conversation.
We think that this whole, the gun violence thing is a part of, it's not about gun ownership.
It's about gun violence, which is a separate subject.
And a lot of people don't understand it.
That is too separate.
It's almost too separate sports.
No question.
Yeah.
So that's why this is designed to keep the conversation going about why we've allowed gun violence to continue
when we could do something about it.
As Jamie said, we don't take a stand in the film.
We just show what happened.
That's all.
What brought you to this?
Was there anything specific that brought you to want to make this?
Well, that three years ago, I was reading a paper and I saw that Tennessee had allowed open carry loaded guns in bars.
And I went, oh my goodness.
I could see how that would be concerning.
Yes.
So I wrote a short story about it and then I found a very good director who could make it come to life.
So this is the first time it's being shown.
That's correct.
Yeah.
Do you have any other show in schedule?
Uh, we are hoping to.
Next month, a couple of festivals that we're pretty, we think we're going to be getting into.
But this is the premiere.
Yeah.
All right.
I know it's time, but I want to make sure you get your plugs out there.
I wish we had more time, but I don't want to miss anything.
So show me your websites.
Give it all to us, please.
Uh, you can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, all on squeeze the film.
Uh, and our website is squeezethefilm.com.
Um, all the information needed is right there.
And you guys are going to be involved in the Q&A after the short block as well?
Uh, if there is one.
Absolutely.
All right.
Gentlemen.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
All right.
I'm breathing now.
Thank you, gentlemen.
We appreciate you.
I am breathing now.
I think we had more guests in the last half an hour that I think we've had in whole entire
shows.
We've done it.
Are you calling it lightning round?
You were not, you were not.
I feel like I'm preparing for a marathon tonight.
I know what's going on.
You are listening to the clubhouse podcast.
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We have another guest.
I'm going to punch the button.
There's the button.
And I am going to let you serve introduce yourself.
Hi.
Hi.
I'm Alonso D'Raldi.
I'm the film reviews editor for the rap and co-host of the Lonelli and my podcast.
So you don't have a lot going on.
You're not a busy man.
It's just like a two of my eight draw.
I always say I've got three jobs, but one of them pays me.
One.
You're ahead of the game.
Welcome to the show.
Thank you.
Thanks for having me.
Part of the USA Film Festival.
Are you doing anything specific in the festival?
Or are you just here to watch the movies and review them?
Well, I'm kind of a consultant for the festival.
I was artistic director here from 95 to 99.
And I have not missed a USA Film Festival since 1989.
Wow.
I like to come back.
This may be an unfair question, but I'm going to ask it anyway.
Oh, shoot.
Anything that you're really looking forward to.
What about the festival right now?
It's pop.
This is a film I have to watch.
If I only get to watch one film.
Oh gosh.
You know, I would hate to play favor.
So I would say the thing that I'm most looking forward to doing it.
The festival is that on closing night on Sunday.
I am doing a Q&A with a bit stillman.
Very nice.
After the screening of Love and Friendship.
And I've been a huge fan of this.
And when I was at the USA Film Festival.
He was always on that list of filmmakers.
I was trying to get here.
So I'm excited.
They finally got him.
And then I get to talk to him.
It's going to be great.
You have a list of festivals since I was in high school.
But describe how the festival has evolved since 18.
And you talk right into that thing.
So I was in here last time.
Sure.
Absolutely.
Well, you know, I think that the whole world of festivals has changed a lot.
I mean, when I was doing this.
You know, when I was living here and programming it.
The internet existed.
But it wasn't a place where people watched movies.
It was too slow.
We all know.
Two hours.
Dost props.
Pretty much.
Yeah.
Really.
Yeah.
So I think that we're looking at a completely different mentality now.
There's a whole generation coming up that that, you know, they perceive films as being something
that they stream and something they watch at home with friends or whatever.
So I think that it's really important that film festivals sort of keep the communal film going
experience alive.
And I think one of the things that USA has always been really great about is making sure that as often as possible,
we have guests coming in with the films.
Absolutely.
I mean, if you don't see it here, even if the movie eventually opens or lines up on cable or Netflix or whatever,
you will only have had that experience of hearing the filmmakers and the actors knows folks talk about the work
if you came and saw it here.
And so I think it really kept that alive.
There's obviously a great deal of focus on shorts, which is really great because I think.
And we for a long time short films, while they sort of thrived in the festival world,
they didn't seem to have much of a life outside of that.
But now with YouTube, I think short films really people see as a very viable thing.
And they're always, you know, they remain a great calling card for filmmakers who are just getting started to kind of show
what they're capable of and that allows them to eventually graduate into future films.
And the technology has moved so fast.
Oh yeah, no question.
I mean, I remember, again, when I was here, it was all 35 millimeters, 16 millimeter.
We would rent a giant barco projector for like one night.
And we would show all the video stuff.
And now it's going to complete opposite.
I mean, I work at outfest in Los Angeles, and we have maybe one or two 35 millimeter films a year.
And they're always something archival.
And as wonderful as a technology is, and you go back and you watch something like,
we actually got to see a digital copy of the 70 millimeter print of the hate flight.
Oh, okay.
And you forget the beauty of that.
Like, I spent three hours just going, this is something the most gorgeous film I've watched in years.
And as you forget on how much more room you get with that 70 millimeter or how much deeper
some of the colors get to be with that 35 millimeter.
So I think there will always be a place for film.
But it's everything just moves so fast.
People want to get it out there for identification quicker.
Sure.
You know, I was talking to you about this last night.
I think a couple things that are happening with film is, I think for the one,
on the one hand, for a lot of younger viewers who are growing up with DCP,
I think 35 millimeters eventually going to become the new vinyl.
This thing that has been outmoded, but they realize has it's been,
I'm starting to get back into vinyl myself.
So I know exactly where you're coming from.
And then I think also for archival purposes, you know,
just archives, you know, you talk to people in that world, and they'll tell you,
just because your movie is one's and zero, so it doesn't make it any easier to preserve
than a physical negative.
And in fact, you know, if you are living in terror of the imminent electromagnetic pulse,
I'd say having an analog copy and not a bad thing.
You know, let's go outside the festival just a little bit because you're,
you are a film critic.
We are film critics.
Oh, great.
We're all poster.
We're a podcast.
That's true.
We have a lot of coming here.
We're almost a third of the way through 2016.
Yeah.
What has just, as there have been any film or films that have absolutely melted your brain
at this point in the year?
You know, some smaller stuff.
I don't know, kind of major studio productions,
but although I actually, I think I liked whiskey, tango, fox,
rotten, more than most.
Actually, I'm looking, I haven't had a chance to see that yet.
I actually really, I'm a big team of faith fan.
So I think it's the best film she's done.
So really?
Yeah.
Absolutely.
I mean, you know, that she's been more principally involved in.
And then, you know, there's some really, some great foreign films like,
Chris did all throughout of my head, the moment you asked me.
That's the story in my life.
Oh, well, okay, a lot of them bombs.
Certainly one of them.
I thought that was really great.
That's going to get a wide release here, very soon, isn't it?
I would hope so.
I mean, I think the one sheet is up.
Yeah.
I immediately took my right to my left.
It's my left.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, it's the first English language film from Joaquim Crier, who did Oslo,
August 31st and reprise.
But it's got, you know, a name cast in it, you know, just the Eisenberg
and get real burn and is a bell affair.
That's a really terrific film.
There's, oh, as Joaquim Crier has a new musical mountains made apart,
that's really terrific.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, I've seen some cool festival stuff.
I think it's going to hopefully emerge later in the year.
Obviously, that's always the deal.
But, you know, the spring is always kind of weird.
A great, you know, you're kind of damping until the can film festival
comes along and then that stuff we don't usually get until at least,
you know, the end of the year, if not later.
But, you know, in the next couple of weeks, I'm, I'm seeing Captain America,
which I hear good things about.
I'm seeing the lobster, which I hear good things about.
So, I'm also seeing Mother's Day, but, you know, whatever.
You've got a screen of all.
You've got a screen of all.
You've got a screen of all.
You've got a screen of all.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Is there any films right now that you are championing?
Championing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm a big fan of sing streets.
I love this movie.
Yes.
I saw it last weekend.
So charming.
Joe Carnies, I've seen three of his films out.
You've seen all of them.
Well, I, I looked at some of his stuff on IMDB and I'm like, boy, he's got some other stuff
that's a little out there.
But, loved ones.
Yeah.
I liked to be getting again, but not as much as I liked ones.
Sing streets, my favorite of the three.
Wow.
Okay.
This film, and I was telling Chad because he didn't get to come to the screening with me.
If you lived in the 80s, there is at least one section of this film
that you will look at and you will hide your eyes because you know you did that.
You know.
And it's, he captured that era so beautifully.
How would you say he can, like, compare to, like,
Crow's almost famous apples in orange.
Well, I'm just saying that, you know, that was Crow's love letter through the 70s.
Is this his love letter to the 80s?
It's more his love letter to the things we do for love.
Okay.
This isn't about the capital M capital I'm music industry as much as it's about.
Yeah.
Guy who starts a band to get a girl to talk to him.
Okay.
But it is definitely infused with that 80s music.
And those 80s fashion choices.
Which sometimes stemmed from that 80s music.
Which was one of the cutest things about this film to me.
It was kind of, it could be like the spiritual junior to the commitment.
It's almost.
Okay.
Which is one of my favorite.
And also Irish.
No.
I'm a big fan of young people who discover music loopies.
You know, I love that we are the best.
I love that.
That was a film that should have got more recognition.
Oh, absolutely.
I love that movie.
You know, ladies and gentlemen, the fabulous stains.
You know, Joe's in the pussycats.
Whatever.
There's a lot of those movies that I think are really like.
You know, we actually did screen that.
Do you remember that?
I was, I was, say, if he says,
Jeff on the Hall of Grants of an upset his chair.
I didn't hate Jim in the hall.
But you're the one.
You're the one.
But it was no Joe's in the pussycats.
I'll be the only thing I remember from Josie in the pussycats was when they were talking to Parker Poezy.
And they were like, why are you here?
She's like, because I'm in the comic.
What?
Nothing.
Missy pile likes.
Where has that line?
I was in Missy pile.
Okay.
That's a, that's a, if you haven't seen it in a while, see Josie in the pussycats again.
Very underrated satire about like,
you marketing and consumerism.
Because none of the product placement that movie was paid for.
It's all.
It's all there as a joke.
And it is a joke if you're paying it.
Films that you are looking forward to as the summer is slowly creeping itself upon us.
Well, you know, whenever there's a new pedromodovar movie coming out,
I'm like when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when,
So I'm very excited about that.
As far as big summer stuff,
I have no idea.
I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I try not to watch trailers because I like to go into movies as cold as possible.
So I don't really know.
Well, I get myself a moratorium at a certain point.
Like, I'm at the point now.
I don't want to see any more of civil war.
Hmm.
Because I really, I need to go into this thing as clean as possible.
But I'm not as jazzed as I thought I would be going into it.
Yeah.
Um, suicide squad.
I'm still on the fence.
Because I'm waiting for DC to prove to me that the bacon,
they can mail a tone here. You know, I, I love the actual comics.
I was always a DC reader.
But boy, these movies are bringing me down.
It's such a weird dichotomy.
How Marvel seems to get the formula for film.
But DC seems to get the formula for television.
And they're shouting to me.
This is true.
Yeah.
I'm, although I do have high hopes.
I hope this happens.
I know it's, it's, it's in, it's in development.
But Marvel is doing a TV show of damage control.
Yes.
As a, a half hour.
Which, you know, which is genius.
How have we not tapped into that particular type of story?
For years when people would ask me, oh, what's the comic book property?
You want to see a that that I would always say damage control.
So I, you know, be careful what you wish for.
Well, I'm excited for preacher.
Yeah.
Next month.
Finally, I've waited since the mid 90s for that.
Um, I would really, there's a lot of like smaller titles.
I think we're really ripe now.
Because we can talk deep stuff too, because we do.
Sure.
I think image needs to be have more of their titles tapped into.
I think that with a lot of the, the fantasy stuff.
They wrote like, fathom, the darkness.
I think we could take another crack at which blade.
Now that the technology's better.
I thought that was top count.
Is that top count?
Yeah.
That is top count.
Yeah.
But some of these other other companies that should get the shot.
Because I think fathom would look absolutely gorgeous with the technology they're doing now.
And give a chance, because especially, and he, my partner here is a huge fan of the darkness.
And my wife, my wife.
I think that I think that we're now at a point where you could pull that.
Off live action, because I just don't think, but until now, we have the technology to make it work.
Right.
But I also worry about the over saturation too.
Well, yeah, you know, there was a, there was a great piece.
Nearly times, some time ago, and I still think it's prophetic, where they, they talked about the reason
that there was a potato famine in Ireland was because they became one crop economy.
And when the belt blade, when the potatoes failed, everything failed.
And super heroes are becoming Hollywood's one crop.
And so, if at some point, and it's inevitable, because these things always happen, audiences get sick of them.
We reach critical mass.
Then what?
You know, what's, what do you got, what's your backup?
Because we got tired of vampires and zombies and, you know, whatever else.
And eventually, the day will come where, like, men and tides are not cutting it anymore.
And that's what film festivals are for.
But men and blacks can across over with 21.
Oh, sorry.
God, I hope that works.
All right.
We're not going to keep you too much longer, but we do want you to give shameless applause for everything you're involved in.
So, everybody can find out what you're doing.
Oh, great. All right. Okay.
You can read myself at theRAP.com.
I do reviews at YouTube at what the flick on the young person.
Nice.
Nice.
I co-host Lenolin.
My podcast, LenolinM-knife.com.
And this summer, I come to see me out fast when I'm a senior programmer in Los Angeles, out
Pest.org.
Thank you very much.
I'll also draw that.
Thank you for joining us, sir.
And enjoy the festival.
We're going to keep moving because we have not only do we have critics.
We have producers.
We have directors.
We have writers.
But we have dignitaries, sir.
We have people with titles.
And we have one of them right now.
And I'm going to let her introduce herself.
It's very important.
And I'm just going to sit here and let her do what she does.
Wonderful.
My name is Kristen Shore.
I'm president of the USA Film Festival.
The festival's been here for 46 years now.
And we have just got a great lineup starting from last night.
Going through Sunday of all these wonderful films that we're showing.
How long have you been involved with the festival?
About 12 years now.
Mm-hmm.
Do you still get the butterflies you got the first to go around?
Or is it more like I kind of think I know what I'm doing more now?
You know, every year's a new challenge.
But now it's fine.
This is a first year I've served as president.
But I've served many positions in between.
And so with each position you get new challenges and get to meet wonderful people, directors.
Actors, writers.
And really, by meeting them, you really see that they're just one of us.
And they just want their art out there.
Exactly.
So day two or four.
Day two of four.
My man is correct.
How was last night?
It was wonderful.
We had Alfred Medina here and he had such a fan of Alfred Medina.
It's ridiculous.
Yes.
Like he's that.
That's all right.
I was just kind of letting it go so that it didn't catch.
He, his work is so just like you can't pigeonhole him into a role.
And that's what I love about him.
And you guys got to do a tribute to him.
And he said himself last night.
He said someone asked him how many movies had he done.
And he said all about 40 years.
So someone said, no, it's a 167 because.
Wow.
Maybe that's why I'm so tired.
So, but we did a tribute.
And he said, watching that.
He was like, oh, my, I remember that.
And oh, what, you know, just the different stages of his life that he was going through
and so forth.
And it was incredible.
I didn't realize so many of the ones that he had done that I'd seen.
So it's just he's, he's that guy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You go through his IMD page.
You know what?
Oh, that's right.
He was in that.
He's got the distinction of having the first line.
And the writer's a little lost arc.
That is true.
And that was his first movie.
So he's like.
So think about that.
Raiders just passed 30.
81 is when it came out.
So 35 this year.
Right.
A hundred and sixty something movie.
And 35 years.
What that's in.
That's that average is almost what?
Just a little over five movies a year.
That's in.
Yes.
I don't know that there's anything that I can do for five times in a year.
You know, sometimes I have to stretch that out to two or three.
Of course, as the president of the USA film festival and you've been involved with the film festival for so long.
You see movies all the time.
Like you make our movie watching look amateur.
What right now in the festival is the film that you would say is going to surprise the most people.
In a good way.
In a good way.
Um, I would probably say the one that's going on tonight.
It's, um, it's the one.
Oh, excuse me.
Oh, excuse me.
I'm sure I get the the name right here.
Um, the witness is what it is.
That's in, oh, that's that starts here.
That's just started.
Yes.
Okay.
The witness.
Because it's based on the true story back.
We did read about this earlier this week.
Yes.
And so.
That that's what speaks to me because it's you know, I love I love movies that.
Yeah.
Perfectional and so forth.
But when you can actually take a true story and and bring it to life and it just seems more real to me.
Well, what's the film you're most excited about?
Um, I had to say it was the one last night.
We're going to have somebody split time with you if you don't mind here for just a second.
Because we set the bars or we're about to set the bar.
Yes.
Right now.
Yes.
I'm very, very excited about what's about to happen.
Me too.
This is where I'm supposed to be.
Watch this.
Okay.
Joining us now.
Just talk right into that microphone, sir.
Joining us right now, a kid with a dream.
A young man who's making a name for himself.
Sir, would you like to introduce yourself to our audience?
We would love it if you do that.
Yes.
Make it your young man, I'm Belly Williams.
And the wheels are gone.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Charlie Pride is sitting right in front.
Welcome.
I know we've just got a couple of minutes with you.
We're very excited.
Country portraits of an American sound starts in less than ten minutes.
Have you seen the film yet?
No.
So you're going to watch it for the first time with an audience.
Yeah.
Talk right into that.
So we're going to.
Yes.
How excited are you right now?
Well, I'm just glad I found out.
I had my parked along where she didn't bring her.
You mean to tell me nobody brought him to the front door?
All right.
I want to move to my car.
You had no kidding.
I would have gone down there.
Got him.
Well, what did they think?
They were trying to find it.
We came up Hillcrest to.
To know the.
Was this highway?
Yeah.
To know across the over.
And the line was about.
From here to Austin.
And then.
I don't know the other side.
So we.
We had.
We had it punched into the.
DPS.
Yeah.
The GPS.
DPS.
I don't know what to call.
But it said do it to you.
And we come back.
And we saw the sign out there.
Just on the outside of Mocking versus.
And they name it all a face that was on the.
Advertising.
And then said Angie.
I said.
So we didn't turn right near.
And you're here.
Now we turn right on next to.
I'll.
Turn right next to.
To 75.
I mean, all the way back down.
You didn't.
Oh, no.
I'm parked way over.
Back in the ski practically.
So are we completely.
Other side.
For the people that are getting ready to see the film.
Are you going to be sticking around after for some Q&A?
I don't know.
I.
I.
Looking here.
They tell me what to do.
I just.
You know, that's the easiest way to do that here.
And they say.
The lady.
My wife said do we get to.
Take it.
So whatever.
So the baby.
No.
There you go.
So.
So.
Well, we would love to sit and talk to you forever.
But the movies about the start.
We want to make sure that you're seated in there.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Charlie.
You're not.
No, no.
I.
People have confused me with Billy.
Williams.
I'm Rob.
This is Chad.
Robin.
Thank you so much sir.
I'm.
I'm Kristen.
Sure.
With the.
You was.
They feel festival.
She's a president of the festival.
So we're glad you're here.
Thank you so much sir.
And we got popcorn for him.
He's ready to go.
And I see he's got what he needs.
Look at.
This needs to be a video for the first time.
So awesome.
Are you done?
I know.
We can say as long as you want.
Do you have stuff?
Oh, that's right.
You got to go to because you got to eat.
You're a movie.
Anything you want to plug before you go.
If you're looking for a schedule or ticket information,
you can go to Facebook and it's USA Film Festival.
And it will have a full schedule of what's coming up.
And how to get tickets.
Awesome.
Wonderful.
Thank you for having me.
Thank you for being through having us here.
Enjoy the festival.
Wonderful.
This place is getting bold.
It is wonderful.
Thank you guys so much.
We are.
It's our honor to do so.
Dude.
Dude.
I know.
Dude.
That just happened.
I didn't get to ask him my question though.
That's the only thing I'm bummed about.
I'm not.
I'm bummed.
Oh.
I don't care.
I mean.
Can we pry?
Dude.
That was awesome.
That was cool.
That's going to stick with me for a long time.
I may have to isolate just that part.
Or just the part where he actually says our names.
Because we need to start doing that.
We need to start getting the liners from people because that would be awesome.
We are live right now.
The USA Film Festival at the Angelica Dallas Mockingbird Station.
This is our first time doing this particular festival.
It's flying by.
Dude.
We're already over an hour in.
Homes an hour 10 in.
These shows.
We have other dignitaries here.
You come sit down.
You come sit down.
We have very important people here sir.
Oh my god.
It just hit me.
Put headphones on so you can hear yourselves please.
We have two of my favorite people joining us right now.
Jim and Monica Bragel.
Hello.
Festival.
As the kids like to say.
He's focusing.
He's focusing on the shoe.
Got to get my radio voice on.
Are y'all having some fun?
We.
You guys just missed Charlie for hiatus in here.
Oh my god.
Did you hear the vibe?
We said right where Jim was sitting right now.
You're still smelling his popcorn.
That's right.
This has been this show has been a whirlwind.
I mean it's been insane.
People like it was like this very very quiet when we started.
Then it was just like.
Everybody was.
Everybody.
Yeah.
What are you guys seeing tonight?
Hi rise.
And I think that line.
That's your line.
Yeah.
I think that's the line we're supposed to be in right now.
Okay.
So I just wanted to make sure you guys got on.
We've got a lot of stuff coming up soon.
Awesome.
So we're going to have to talk about that.
I had to go.
But you guys get ready for your movie.
We have to take your time.
Okay.
Jim and Monica Bragel on the show right now.
Bye.
Enjoy your show.
Just because I wanted to do that.
When I have when when our friends drop by.
We have to have them here.
Okay.
Let's do some headlines while we're waiting on our next guests.
Just found out today.
Game of Thrones has been renewed for season 7.
There's a shock.
We are less.
Just a little over 48 hours away from the day from the season premiere of Game of Thrones.
I'm a little more excited this year than I've been in a long time about the Game of Thrones.
That was more excited last year for some reason.
And I should be just as Jack.
If not more so for this season.
I don't know why there's been a lot of really good buzz.
Our president has already seen at least the first episode.
I've read rumors he's seen more.
But he's the president.
He gets to do that.
Yeah.
MTV has renewed the Shinar Chronicles for season 2.
I don't know where up.
Bragel is not here.
Monica's a big fan of that show and so is Jim.
So it did.
MTV has given it a second season.
And someone who are a big fan of is on that show.
The great Monu Bennett.
Oh really?
Part of that show.
Absolutely.
For fans of the Ethics Show.
Tyrant.
The season 3 is going to debut on July the 6th at 10 Eastern.
And on June 30th, the Dennis Leary Show.
Sex and drugs and rock and roll returns for season 2.
I really enjoyed the first season of the show.
I know you're a fan of that show.
Also fans of this is a show that had a lot of a lot more buzz than it normally does.
This year itself by Southwest.
Mr. Robot.
The USA show.
Uh-huh.
Season 2 is going to debut for a July 13th.
There's going to be 10 episodes of that show.
I have watched an episode or two of that show.
I have not.
I have not.
Neither of I.
More debuts.
June 10th, which is my wife's birthday,
will be the debut on Netflix of Voltron legendary defender.
What are your feelings on this?
I'm cautiously optimistic.
And here's why.
It looks really pretty.
Uh-huh.
But the last iteration of that show that I believe Cartoon Network did.
It wasn't bad.
But it wasn't great.
It wasn't Voltron.
It didn't have the magical spark that.
That the one that we grew up.
But it wasn't the cars.
Now, yeah, that there's that's the one upside that I can point out.
Uh, HBO has set debuts for season two of ballers.
You're a fan of that show.
Yeah, I liked it.
I'm hoping season two is better.
July 17th, and will also be the start of the new Danny McBride series that debuted
at Southwest this year called Vice Principles.
So is this like a higher level of bad teacher or what?
And kind of sort of not really.
If that makes any sense?
Uh, let's see.
But speaking of the rock, he announced this week a couple of big projects.
Number one, he is production company called Seven Bucks Production.
Doing, I think, called the greatest movie show of all time this week.
For MTV this week.
This week.
We're going to be a lot of people promoting films kind of.
It's kind of an entertainment show.
It's a show.
So it's a free show.
So it's like this is his take on entertainment and pop culture.
IE via like John Oliver last week tonight kind of thing.
I know I would love to see it done that way.
Yeah, that's kind of how I got a picture in my head.
Also being on order.
Crackle, which is the online platform ordering a series based on the guy Richie film
whose name makes you go.
So I'll let you figure that one out.
A lot of announcements of day views and series in production this week or in pre-production.
Idris Elba is going to do a showtime series.
This is interest you.
Absolutely.
It's going to be called Gorilla.
It's a love story with 1970s unstable London as the backdrop.
And that is good.
Gorilla.
Yeah.
Just for clarification.
G-U-E-R.
Sci-Fi is close to ordering a pilot for the DC Prequel Crypton.
DC Prequel Crypton.
Didn't they already do that and call it Smallville a couple years ago?
It's before that.
Well, I'm just saying we've already done a Superman Prequel series.
It seems kind of weird.
Yeah.
It's sci-fi network.
I guess that's it.
Well, if Batman can do it with Gotham we're going to do it with Crypton.
Okay.
Humans, which was a show that had its first season this past year.
I believe that was a sci-fi show.
Was it not?
What was it USA?
I think it was sci-fi.
Uh, I think it was sci-fi.
Carry-in, Mosh, joining the captain, that show.
How?
She's a little busy with, uh, well, I mean, she was already ready to do it.
I'm just saying, she's, didn't she tie to put Jessica Jones?
Well, I mean, they don't film that all the time.
Yeah, that's true.
And, and news, it's a little weird for me.
Yeah.
We talked earlier about Snapchat.
I'm not a Snapchat guy.
I can't, I can't, like Instagram is where my,
online present stops.
Yeah.
MTV is going to be bringing back cribs, but it's going to be a Snapchat show.
That's a show.
I don't know.
What?
I read it today.
I don't know how this is going to work, but Snapchat, I don't know.
It's one of those deals.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, we have another guest joining us right now as we finished
up TV talk.
His timing is impeccable.
I'm sure he actually has a name.
Well, we're going to bring, we're going to get you a mic to talk on.
We're going to start with you, sir.
Go ahead and tell everybody who you are.
Hi.
I'm a Ken Mader.
I'm the writer, director, and producer of Displacement.
Displacement is going to be tomorrow night.
Correct.
At seven o'clock as part of a tribute.
Yes.
To Bruce Davis.
Oh, such a fan.
Yeah.
Bruce is great.
It's, uh, tell me about the film because I haven't had enough time to read about it.
It is a time travel story.
A story about a young physics student who is trying to correct a quantum time anomaly to save
her apparently murdered boyfriend.
Time travel has become, is kind of had a resurgence in the last few years.
It has.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a pretty popular genre right now.
So we, it kind of reminds me that the film that we saw at the beginning of last year.
Yeah.
And that was one of the films that when we reviewed it, I said, wait a minute.
I've now seen two Ethan Hawk films that I actually enjoyed.
You know.
Yeah.
Right.
But you know, you got, you get Bruce Davis.
So he ought to, you ought to back, we get points with me.
Wow.
Awesome.
Thank you.
Yeah.
He's great.
And we also have, uh, if you remember the old Superman movies.
I just saw her name on the IMDB page.
That's where I saw her name because I was doing a little bit of research as I was trying
to read through the film.
Yeah.
Let's see.
And also.
122 minutes.
Yes.
Is it where you wanted to be?
Could it be longer?
Could it be shorter?
Um, it could be a little shorter.
We're probably going to release a shorter version when we actually release it.
So this is what I'm calling my extended cut.
Okay.
Um, so we're taking, it'll be about eight minutes shorter.
So we've got a little bit of extended footage in this.
I've also got about 20 minutes that hit the editing room floor.
So it originally was almost two and a half hours.
Is this the first time it's been shown?
This is the fourth time it's been shown.
We've been in three festivals prior to this.
And we've won actually a bunch of awards.
We're a real proud of this.
Nice.
Best science fiction film.
And best supporting actor for Bruce Davis and in the Hollywood independent film festival.
Very nice.
As well as a colonel not time travel award in the Boston science fiction festival.
So you guys, I think you just have what.
Somewhere in the Dakotas and you've got all four corners covered.
We're pretty good.
We're getting close.
We're getting close.
The frequent fire models.
How long have you been taking a shoot it?
A little over two years.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
It was a long process.
This was one of those that we kind of shot at piece mail and raised money and shot a little more and raised money.
And which was really certainly a challenge for my lead actress Courtney Hope who's actually from here.
She's from Plano.
Oh, very nice.
Just up to about 20 minutes from when we are right now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And she's actually doing great right now.
She's if any of your listeners or gamers might know.
That one right there.
Yeah.
Well, you might not want to break.
That just came out last week.
I'm familiar with it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
She's the lead female Beth Wilder.
She plays Beth Wilder in the game.
So her career is about to.
She's blowing up right now.
Yeah.
It's great.
So when you want to make another movie.
Remember what I did.
I hope I can afford her for the sequel.
And we talked to a couple of people that are kind of in the same role you are.
I'm always fascinated by people that write and direct their own material.
How is that for you?
Just are you able to move the hats back and forth or does that line get the blood for you?
Because as a writer in your head, you know what you want.
But sometimes as a director, what you're seeing through the lens isn't matching what's in your head.
How do you separate those two hats?
When I'm on set, I fire the writer.
Could you do that kind of fair enough?
Because I can't.
Yeah.
No, it really is.
I think you have to separate it.
You know, because things happen.
You have to allow the production to be organic.
Things happen in the moment.
And whether it's, you know, a technical issue or something with the location.
You have to change your plan.
Or something the actors do that just blow you away.
You know what?
No, I'm going with that.
Don't let's just throw it throughout the script and let's work with that.
Now that said, being a quantum physics time travel story,
there are certain things in the script that we have to maintain.
We're no pun intended to continuity.
Exactly.
Yes.
But the science.
I mean, I was very specific to try to get the science right.
At least as right as it can be in a fictional story.
So the physics are pretty close to what reality would be in a story.
It's 52 years to shoot it.
How long did it take you to write it?
Because there's a lot going on here.
It was about a four-year process of writing that we were going to be attacked.
Oh, okay.
Perfect.
Okay.
Take a brief breath.
Get the wheels back on.
Yeah.
It was about a four-year process of writing.
How did you have to kind of just write some of it and then just get away from it and clear the pallet or did you kind of...
Because everything that's going on here, because again, you have to make sure that everything's in line.
Because in a film where you're talking about time travel, you really have to be a stickler to, again, the continuity.
Right.
Was it...
Was it one of those deals where it's like, I wrote 10 pages and then I had to take a couple of months away from it to kind of clear my head.
Or did you write it and then you just kept refining it and refining it and refining it until you got to what you wanted to be?
I think it was more of the second part.
It was more of a refining process.
And it was also interesting in the sense that the time travel is only part of the story.
It's almost really my way into the story where the heart of the story is actually real personal to me.
It was a story about my mom and her passing.
Wow.
And so that is actually the real thrust of the plot.
And it's kind of what drives the lead character through the story.
And her desire to basically turn back the clock.
And I'm seeing Mr. Davidson's going to be here tomorrow night.
He is.
As is Courtney Hope.
Oh, that's right.
Now I see her.
I just learned her lead.
That's right.
That's right.
So I'm assuming Q and A afterwards.
Yes.
Yes.
So I have Q and A afterwards.
I think there's going to be a bit of an interview portion during Bruce's tribute.
Because we had the Alfred Molina tribute last night.
Yes, tribute will be tomorrow night.
Exactly.
So it'll be similar to that.
And in that they'll do the tribute before the screening.
The little screen and then do a Q and A after.
What is the one question you've gotten while bringing this film, the festivals that kind
of means you go, OK, hold on.
I have to think about this for a minute.
There was actually in the last festival.
There was a guy who came up to me and asked about the continuity, the time continuity, at the end,
the toward the end of the film that I actually had to think about a little bit.
Because it was, you know, it's being as close to it as I am.
I had to kind of step back and go, no, I know we worked all that out.
You're doing the equation.
I'm doing that.
Exactly.
And I'm pretty sure we got, we straightened out all the paradoxes.
But that was an interesting one that actually made me step back a little bit and go, oh, yeah, no, OK.
So here's how that worked.
And so it was a fascinating how audience or what an audience will take from it.
You know, or what they catch, what they pick up on.
Have there been any time travel movies that were the biggest influence on you writing this film?
Certainly somewhere in time.
Oh, very nice.
Yeah, always a good one.
Always a classic sir.
But, you know, everything from primer, primer was influential.
You know, to back to the future.
I mean, this isn't a comedy, but back to the future is probably like one of the most perfect scripts ever written.
And they're enough.
Yeah, you know, and certainly from a time travel standpoint, you know, it really hits all the beats and, you know,
and solves most of the paradoxes.
I mean, I know there's a couple of things in it.
But, you know, you can't get much better than the original back to the future.
And, you know, of course, I'm a big James Cameron fan, so the original Terminator films.
You know, I want to have a headline about that coming up if we get to movie talk.
Well, you just say now, Amelia Clark says she's not doing any more of them.
Oh, really?
Yeah, she said she's out.
Interesting.
So before we let you go, shameless self promotion is what we're all about.
All right.
So give a social media, give us websites how people can get to the film.
People can go to the website is displacementthemovie.com.
Displacementthemovie.com.
All our social media is connected there.
We're on Facebook at, I believe it's slash displacement.
And on Twitter at displacement13, the number 13.
So displacement13 on Twitter.
All right.
Plus you're having you here, sir.
Thank you very much.
I really appreciate it.
Go enjoy the festival.
All right.
Can it's a major director of displacement's going to go to screen two Marlowe night.
Very excited about that.
Looks like the cavalcade of stars keeps coming.
It keeps coming.
I'm going to push that button.
Press that button.
Thank you, sir.
How you doing?
Sit down.
Sit down.
Put on your headphones.
Grab a microphone.
Let's do this thing.
All right.
The second.
Actually, technically the third person that we've had from this film.
That's nice.
God, you guys are here early.
I talked right into that thing.
Tell everybody who you are.
Yeah.
Jonathan Delorio.
I'm here with the movie People.
Yeah.
We're here early to see a friend's film, short film.
Just actually watch it.
It was fantastic.
Which one was it?
It was.
You know what?
Forgive me.
Don't actually remember.
Okay.
Fair enough.
We've had your director.
We had one of your actors here earlier.
That's right.
And you guys are getting ready.
You got what?
Let's see.
If I can do math correctly.
Our in 45 minutes.
Our in 45 minutes.
Our in 45 minutes.
Our in 45 minutes.
Our in 45 minutes.
Our in 45 minute.
What is that?
God.
Let me want to have this as a dialogue between.
We want to see her Brian Dark was it the focus on watching it.
Thank you.
I talked about it.
I'm not the victim.
I'm not the victim.
A lot of yourkanes in years.
I'm going to ask him to let me hear rock music in front of us.
Press the limits.
Again.
You had to make it happen, right?
Yeah, we jockey around a few things, but for the most part they made it, you know, Shane made it happen.
A different kind of a concept, a bunch of vignettes together.
Yep.
He's a Shane label that as a dark comedy.
That's pretty accurate. That's pretty accurate.
Yeah, it's pretty dark. It's not a ha-ha comedy, it's definitely a dark comedy for sure.
Is it the kind of thing that the were you're going with? Why am I laughing at this?
Or is it...
You might question yourself, you might question yourself.
I call that Tuesday.
So...
What brought you to the project?
Actually, I've known Shane for a long, long time, and, you know, he's really the creative mind mind this.
But at the end of the day, you know, who knows? He came with this idea, this crazy idea to make this film.
And I was on board from the beginning, so...
Sorry, my brain just locked up.
That's okay.
Are you going to be part of the Q&A after the screen tonight? Are you going to call out to me?
I'll do it.
I'll do it to them.
Fair enough.
Is there anything that you've got on the burner now that you want to promote?
Or are you just here for this thing?
Yeah, I might just here for people, you know.
I'm here to promote people, you know, if you're building your head in front of our
opportunities.
I'll show it to you, sir.
You're just on the radio.
I didn't actually know where you'd have some film here.
Yeah, we got, you know, Facebook.com, backslash people film.
We really want to kind of get the word out about the film.
Really want most people to see it.
You know what I mean after you see it.
It's a great film done on a tight budget, which they really kind of stretch it to make it as good as it could be.
How many times have you seen it now?
I've now seen it twice.
So this will be number three tonight.
I thought, well, both were in kind of more private screenings.
Right.
So this is the first time I've been in more public.
This is the world premiere.
Technically, yes.
Because they were New Orleans and now we're here.
New Orleans, like, a little bit more of a private screening.
And yes.
So now is the world premiere.
Do you are you catching things and repeat the things that you didn't catch the first time?
Do you know a little bit a little bit?
I think having read the script and then read the script again and seeing it and been on set.
And then seeing it, the screen wants to be seen it in private.
Another time.
You know, I feel like I've caught everything, but, you know, you learn something new every time.
And you see a little bit different angle every time.
So of course, as the producer, you have to read the script point in because you want to make sure.
How does it, how does it translate from what you saw in your head to what you saw on the screen?
You know what?
That's why I love shame because, you know, what I see in my mind when I read the script is not what I see on screen.
Really?
And I don't know that I could have translated that the way he has, which, you know, that's why he does what he does.
And I do what I do.
So I say, you know, sometimes it's like sometimes I'm in a band and sometimes I just have to let my guitar play a guitar.
No, you're playing.
No, you're playing.
Exactly.
He tells me to show up here in a tuxedo and everybody else is in jeans and T's.
You know, you're so up in a tuxedo.
But you know what?
Everybody got in a remember.
You can start the track.
You know what?
Exactly.
Exactly.
Do you want to do any of the plugs for the movie?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Everybody.
Yeah.
They plugged them already, but I know they're trying to promote through Facebook.
Facebook.com.
Backslash People Film.
Twitter.
Backslash People Film.
Instagram.
Backslash People Film.
And a last shout out to DJ Savage.
Part of the film.
Oh, okay.
Fair enough.
There you go.
Thank you for sitting down with us, sir.
No.
That's a lot of you guys tonight.
And we're looking forward to hearing the feedback.
Looking forward to it, man.
All right.
Appreciate it.
That's ours.
On her.
Don't sit down.
I have to see happy birthday to be on.
Again.
I said three times.
Something's happened on the U stream page.
I'm going to do a refresh.
I got to figure out what's going on here.
I'm just going to do a refresh on.
I mean, we've got everything going.
Uh, did it, did it, did it, did it, did it, did it, did it, did it, did it.
See if that's fixes it?
I don't know what's going.
Are you streampages locked up.
Oh, I'm sure what's going on.
But we're still recording and that's all that matters.
I need to take a breath.
Because on, we had Don has been just role-in-it-out tonight.
I can't type his face as he's bringing people over.
We're going to let you introduce yourself, man.
Hi.
Hi, I'm Amanda Day, star of the movie Madtown.
All right, Steve Campanella producer of the movie Madtown.
Madtown, that is tonight.
That's a minute from now.
Directed by Charles Moore.
I've read a little bit about the film.
I think I know enough to be dangerous.
So I'm going to let you tell us about the film.
The film centers around it.
Talk right into that thing.
Doesn't everybody hear you?
I'm sitting around a gentleman named Denny, played by Milo Ventimia.
Milo.
Yeah.
And I am Madison.
I am Denny's brother.
I'm sorry, Denny's sister.
And Madison gets released after serving 20 years in prison
for double homicide into Denny's care.
And I guess things go a bit haywire from there.
Yes, Denny wasn't expecting her to get out.
And he finally, after 20 years, has like become settled in a routine
that he's enjoying, meeting many people.
So it's the twist in turns of discovery of who both of them
are after Madison's release in prison.
Solid two hours.
Yes.
Have you seen the film yet?
I haven't.
Oh, because he's going to mess up my next question.
Have you seen the film yet?
Oh, yeah.
Is that solid two hours where you think the film needs to be?
Does it need to be more?
Does it need to be less?
Or is it right there in the pocket?
Well, the director actually edited the film himself.
Oh, wow.
And actually did a great job.
We've had great response.
One, the local heroes award in Ohio at the Cleveland International Film Festival.
Very nice.
These from Ohio was shot in the Cleveland area.
But if you, you have to watch the film.
Everybody is surprised with the twists and turns.
And I think it's a little unexpected to how most people think the movie is going to come out.
So we need the two hours.
Cool.
I'm kind of reading a little bit as I'm listening because I really want to get a grasp of the,
Yeah.
I'm going to say not exactly the field good movie of the year.
I wasn't going to say it.
I was going to get an impression.
This is not heavy.
Yeah.
It's a pretty heavy dramatic piece.
Absolutely.
I would agree with that.
Is that what drew you to it?
Yeah, I'm the character of Madison.
Obviously drew me to the fight for Madison.
I would say for a good four or five months during the casting process.
I was sent the script by my manager and fell in love with it immediately.
I think it's because Madison is so far from who I am as a person that portraying her as an actor was just too much fun.
And here, USA Film Festival in Dallas, you have roots here.
I do have roots here.
How was that feeling for you just to have your world premiere here?
I mean, it's super exciting for me.
Obviously, I'm sad that my dad can't be here with us here.
Yeah, do we want to talk about that?
Okay, because sometimes it gets a little touchy.
I don't know.
I want to go any deeper than you wanted to go.
But I'm going to let you tell that story.
Yes.
My father is meatloaf.
The great Marvin Lee a day.
Born just right down the road here at Baylor Hospital.
Oh, no.
He just wanted Baylor Parkland.
One of the two.
Down.
Down to town.
I was a DJ for 21 years.
So I happened to be using him with me because I was born in Baylor.
So as was my daughter.
But yeah, unfortunately, he is on tour right now.
And so he couldn't join us.
But it's definitely really exciting for me to be here in his hometown.
Yeah, it's a great film festival like this.
This is the first time we covered this particular film festival.
But we cover other film festivals too.
How are you feeling right now?
I'm excited and I'm nervous.
You know, I haven't seen the movie yet.
I know the work that we did on it.
My little myself and Rachel and John.
Everybody involved.
Charles.
I was very proud of all the work that all of us accomplished at the end of filming.
So now actually getting to see it is finished product.
It's very exciting.
Mr. Corey Frost has also joined us as well.
You're going to have to kind of share the microphone a little bit there.
Is this the crew or are there more of you coming tonight?
This is it for tonight.
We actually are in several festivals at the same time.
That's pretty awesome though.
You know, that's not a tough problem.
You know, so what other film festivals are you guys showing you?
We're opening tomorrow night at Newport Beach.
We've actually had a couple of shorts directors that are going to be there.
Tomorrow night they flew in today for tomorrow.
I'm like, I can't even imagine what that adjustments like.
I'm like, I wouldn't even move my watch.
I was like, I'll just stay on Pacific time and just do the math.
That's what I'm doing.
I fly out first thing tomorrow morning to make my way down to Newport.
Are there any distribution that we can talk about?
Okay.
Well, we've kept all options open at this point.
No, you know, at the moment, just exploring every possible option.
Charles Moore, the writer, director, is a very, very patient person.
And he will, he will, he will, he will, he'll look for the right way to make sure people get to see this person.
Yeah, right now we're really enjoying the festival circuit and letting these audiences see the film in these theater settings.
I'm always interested because you said this tonight's going to be the first time you see it.
And that just to me is one of the coolest things because you get to see it with it with an actual honest to God bona fide.
We paid to see this audience.
Yes.
And so it's no not seeing it in a 20 seat screening room or seeing a screen or copy at your house.
You get to be that with that live audience.
Is that a nerve-wracking thing knowing that you're going into it?
It is just kind of like this is going to be awesome and I'm just going to roll with it.
Absolutely, it's nerve-wracking, but I've been told, you know, nothing but wonderful things about the film.
And my other co-stars who have already had the opportunity to see it.
There were screenings and Cleveland.
They, you know, everybody laughs at the right parts and, you know, the the gasps happen at the right parts.
So that would be the thing that would drive me the most crazy is are they going to laugh when they're supposed to laugh?
And when that doesn't happen, I think I would just like, my brain would just explode.
I know that parts funny, you know.
And I guess because I would be just so invested in what I was doing, but how do you separate yourself from that?
Well, I learned with films like this or projects of this nature, you know, I tend to take on a lot of dramatic roles.
And so sometimes whether it is meant to be a laugh, it's not necessarily, you know, over the top comedic moment.
It's a darker moment. And I think sometimes people are sure whether or not they should actually laugh at, you know, in the context of what's happening.
So, you know, if people don't express the emotion audibly that, you know, we hoped for.
Well, that's, you know, there I think that they're still absorbing and taking in what they're seeing, you know.
One of the things I love about film festivals is when you have the filmmakers and you get to do the Q&A's, which I'm sure you've done at least one.
Honest question you've gotten from a Q&A, not counting this one because, you know.
Sure, the most honest question? No, honest, ODD.
Honest question.
One that made you go, okay, hold on.
Actually, it was actually a compliment to Amanda. I was just telling her this, had a woman come up at the end of the film and said,
the woman, how did you get her to be so scary and look? And, you know, you know, not understanding the, you know, acting part of her skill.
And actually, we have some great performances in this film.
I think the ensemble of talent that we have is phenomenal. So, it's well worth coming out to see it.
We had great response in this three screening so far. It's going to be fun to see this tonight in a non-home town,
because we shot this in Cleveland. We have actually over six hours and followers on Facebook.
That's awesome. So, it's going to be interesting to see how this goes.
I've just, we've been doing this now, like, it's been rapid fire for almost two hours.
And I've been at, at life since about five o'clock this morning. So, my brains a little fried to have to forgive me.
From here, we are the next screens, besides Newport.
That's the only one that we have scheduled at this point. Okay.
We are probably going to set something up in New York and I lay apart from those.
Because we want to make sure that the available, but people know that the availability is there.
Well, if they go to Facebook and I don't have the address, if they go to Matt Town movie,
and do a search on Facebook, they can find us and they'll be kept a prize that we're going to be.
I've actually got a link to on our Facebook page as well. So, I've already found it for us.
For both of our followers. For both of our followers. They're never mine.
Okay.
What do I encourage, Matt?
You know, we've got to be realistic. Remember, we are just a couple of Shlobs at a podcast.
So, you've got now an hour and 20 minutes.
Are you just going to go get some fresh air?
Are there any other films that you're interested in checking out that are in the festival?
Or are you just kind of just laser focused right now?
So, night I think we're laser focused on.
Blaze, if I just got off at six week tour with Dad, so I'm sort of in it.
Oh, hi.
I'd rolled off a tour bus onto an airplane into a hotel here in Dallas and, you know,
roll onto an airplane.
And you get to be here right before this place feels like the surface of the sun.
Yeah.
Because we had a horrible winter, which means it's going to be really, really, really, really, really hot here in about six weeks.
So, LA will be no different.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
All right.
So, is anything else you want to plug beside the Facebook page?
Is there a website?
Anything else?
Or just a Facebook page?
Right now, just go to the Facebook page and follow us and we'll keep you a prize of everything
that's happening with Madtown, maybe.
Tonight at 9 o'clock in Jellica in downtown.
I'm not only downtown, but it's at Mockingbird Station here in Dallas.
We cannot thank you guys enough for sitting down with us.
Thanks for having us.
We're looking forward to hearing all the feedback.
Thank you so much.
It was a couple of breaths and exhale and relax a little bit and then the train leaves the station.
And it's probably going to leave the station full throttle.
I'm sure.
Excellent.
You do the same.
You do the same.
You too.
Enjoy at night.
All right.
Don says that is our last interview of the evening for the USA Film Festival.
I need to switch of my tasty beverage.
Oh, man.
How are you feeling over there, sir?
I'm wounded.
I don't know what's happened with the Ustream page.
I'm hoping it's all there.
If it's not, we can upload it anyway.
Don's sitting down.
I'm going to take a little break for himself here.
Happy birthday, Bianca.
I promised her.
Well, we know you really have to start the countdown.
Starts in less than about a week and a half.
We start the countdown.
Oh, that's right.
It's summer ban 43.
Oh, boy.
That's right.
It's at that time of year, guys.
It was my birthday present from last year.
You still never got me.
I thought I'd do it.
No, you said it's on the way, but you're broke.
Oh, you know what it was.
I found something I was going to order for you.
And I went when I had the money.
I went back to get it.
And it like.
Oh, don't worry about it.
It's like at least 20, 20 fold in price.
And I was like, hello.
Is this happening?
Oh, don't worry about it.
This is the story of my life.
This is what it is.
All right.
What you got to think.
Please do.
Carol.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
They're so good to us.
And everybody here at the market.
I mean, Angelica.
How great is Adam and everybody here to us?
I mean, USA film festival.
I mean, not just film festival.
We come to the Angelica quite often.
Yes.
We do.
And they're always so awesome.
Yes.
Exactly.
Take care of us.
And the.
That's the reason that soon.
You have so many film festivals that have showings here at the Angelica.
Because the Angelica is so welcoming to film makers.
They're welcoming to film festivals.
They're welcoming to talent.
The USA film festival people have been nothing but wonderful to us.
They've been doing this for 45 years now.
We have to kind of.
Yeah.
And I kind of dip your knee on that.
Yes.
Exactly.
I mean, you got the picture.
Are you sent you guys the pictures of Mr. Charlie?
Yeah.
I haven't had a chance to do it.
I'm going to check it up.
You know, so.
Okay.
I had to get pictures of that.
Oh, no.
Totally.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, what?
That's at the bargain.
It's one a year every year.
Yeah.
You're not going to lie about that, sir.
All right.
Show.
We go ahead.
Yes, we go.
We got to get things moving.
Yes, we do.
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