Reel Owl 2024

For posterity sake it is 915 on the west coast it is 615 on the 915 on the east coast is 615 on the west coast We don't edit this goes out the way it is. It is the 18th of May in the year of our Lord 2024 season 14 episode 3664 times You have been welcome to the clubhouse podcast or one-stop shop for all things sports entertainment pop culture and pro wrestling normally live Every Thursday night at 8 o'clock Eastern, but this week we're doing things a little bit differently on an audio only medium Welcome my name is Rob. I am the executive producer of the clubhouse podcast.

My voice is a little scratchy It's been a it's been a long day. It's gonna be a long weekend, but that's okay Alex out on assignment tonight. We'll talk more about that on the normal show Thursday night But with me here live on on location Is a man who did not dress in the theme?

But that's okay. You may know him is Igboonu, but his mother name him Don Ford. I'm gonna call him Don Ford.

Hey man. I Really don't have too much Barbie stuff. I don't either, but at least I wore a pink shirt.

I don't have a pink shirt I'm gonna go to the store. I ordered this from Amazon It's my you got it right ahead of the thing. Yeah, there you go.

John Cougar pink houses. That's a great song Remember MTV gave away a pink house And then the person just automatically just sold it. Well, I didn't know.

Yeah, they did not keep it very long Yeah, they probably repainted it real fast. No, they didn't they just sold it Because somebody's gonna buy it because it's a pink house. It's done by John Mellon campus Let's talk about what's going on We are in the cafeteria at Garland High School in Garland, Texas For the 18th is I think this is 18.

Oh 19th annual Real owl cinema film festival For those of you that may be hearing this particular edition of the show for the first time This is something we have now done nine. This is our ninth time. Did I get that right?

I think so don't check. Yeah, Don is saying nine Uh Garland High School has a film department And headed by the great Mr. Schubert and every year all the kids work on All year long they work on their films and then on this night each year is always on a Saturday night They take all the films put them together in about a two-hour block So everybody can see what these kids have been working so hard on these young men and women And we have been for the ninth time not only been asked to do the podcast here But also to be industry judges because somebody thinks we're in an industry.

I was gonna say we got them pulled on Hey, you know, why did we stop it now? We're at the point in the lie where the lie has become the truth You tell us it's like they're I call it the Rick Flair syndrome You tell somebody something long enough. They're gonna believe it because that's not a pretty band But he told you he was so much you believed it But we're gonna be interviewing some of these the students as this time goes on now We just finished the film festival Don and I have cast out votes votes are locked in Actually, I'm finished mind up.

I have like two left, but I came a little bit later. Don't they don't know that just roll with this Okay, it's the ear of the mind, bro. Okay But so what we're gonna they're gonna have some they got some for freshmen setup while the votes are being tall You better hurry.

You only got 15 minutes, bro. Yeah, and then we will go back to the auditorium Where they will be avoiding now they will be awarding The prizes and a bunch of different categories and we will be presenting awards Yeah, which we've done that was it the second time we started doing that? Oh, no, I think this is like the third No, I'll talk about the first time we present it was our second or third show here I think was under second and we've done it every year since except the year of COVID because we that was all online Yeah, it was we were watching the festival on by TV.

Yeah, but we were there. Yes, we were we were judge Alex also was a judge. He had could not be here tonight But he was able to watch the films online and cast his votes He wanted to make sure that he was involved You're casting your votes now.

I finished mine over in the lobby of the auditorium And even they even had our like logo up there before the show. Yeah, that was cool And they do it every year, but every year it's still cool. It's the family.

Hey, that's us and they put face name on the screen. Yeah, they put shape on there this year Yeah, she was like that's me that's me I can't look a celebrity thing for it. Remember we got the fantastic before we got in the show one time for his team in the knee at the Pants that counts just like my wife's been on the show twice technically.

Yeah for a total of about nine words But my wife has been on the show. She's now an official judge too. It's so she's always judged you That's that's nothing new you've been doing with that woman over seven years She's been judging you.

It's like I told you the Grammy over Metallica. That's well, you know Because Jethro tell his metal Well, they are see that's why I that's why I always get concerned at the airport right because They have metal detectors and I am so metal. Yeah I don't have the buttons this week.

Yeah, but we have we're not in the studio. No, we have the uh No, I said that's it. Yes, but we have the global entry now.

So we get that pre-check See, I've got TSA pre-check. Yeah, and I love it Yeah, so well when we did the global entry it's a little bit more you get to pre-check with it Well, and I think be with you have to have global entry because you travel international. Yeah Yeah, this is the riveting radio.

Yeah, it says everything to do with the phone Yeah, but it only had $15 more than the regular so nothing wrong with it Yeah, so nothing and it's is is it seven years like this pre-check? It's five years. BTS is seven.

Okay Well, yeah, yeah, but they send you a letter when you want to renew it's kind of cool But when we did it last time in Atlanta when he came back from Serbia I mean literally he was looked at a machine push the button and they go let's go to the counter And they got looks at me goes mr. Ford. Yeah, okay.

Welcome back boom. Well, let's get let's get back to the matter in hand here During the festival itself mr. Schubert said they were they were planning on 600 people In the auditorium that has to be the biggest crowd we've seen that the real Allison on the film festival I was sitting up in the balcony because people just have coming in.

Oh, yeah, they're they're How this thing is growing every year and and the films are getting better and better better every year Is how but what they're saying about the The class is is there so many lower class of freshmen and sophomores that are up in cumbers this year So you can imagine what this can be like in two or three years. Oh, I mean this you think about it This is our ninth time. Yeah, we have seen a freshman to senior class cycle through twice That's our third cycle.

Yeah, of of students and it's outstanding. I'm always fascinated I mean they had this one. I was a kid.

I'd have been all for it Yeah, I want to give him a band, but I'd have been always like some of this parents always like yeah You're the people there every year, you know, they since they're a freshman It's like, you know, the recurring I ran into one of them at the Dallas International Film Festival Like here's a guy. Yeah, we're the guys, you know, so and Getting the opportunity to do this every year and watching all the the pride of the parents and of the dedication That these students have to their films. It's just it never ceases to fascinate me and some of the stuff we saw tonight um Don't talk too much.

Yeah, I know, but it's voting as an honest. I know, but it just shows the The talent of the future of the industry. I mean we know that when the trailer for the Robert Downey Jr.

Dr. Doolittle was released That was edited by a former student of Garwin High School and hearing Mr. Shuber talk about the things his former students I mean look at the look at the masses coming in right.

Oh, yeah, they know there's free food Yeah, hold it. Hold on one second. All right.

I'm not holding on you're holding on Because I got to keep talking because that's what we do. Faith is also here hanging out with Don She actually got to have a the putter name on the big screen, which was kind of cool We love doing this show every year and we want to make sure that everybody knows about our friend John Strange is here doing photography Doing the deal that he does But we want to make sure go out there and look for Garwin High School's real owl film Cinema film festival because we want you guys to donate help be a part of this thing for 250 bucks You can be a lifetime donor in this thing and that's not much and I saw that just for the first time You know, that's something I might consider to do that every year. Yeah, I mean, I've got I was a sponsor last year You see my little sticker on the on the mic case there.

Oh, I didn't okay. Oh, yeah I'm all for it because I am all for He's I say kids. These are young people like these are these students that are getting involved I mean with the way technology has advanced You know seeing like you were talking about seeing the improvement of quality Every year in this while we're waiting.

Let's uh, let's talk about a couple things. Okay We talked about this a little bit, but it's becoming closer and closer to reality Disney Hulu and max the bundle is coming this summer. We still don't have a price tag yet But I'm going to be very interested.

Okay, so I did Call Disney plus the other day, but you call them because we want it. We have the yearly Disney subscription right you do The plus where it's commercial free and all that And we said what about this Hulu thing? What if we want to add Hulu which I'm sure a tons of people are calling with that question You say how can we add Hulu for the year and all that stuff and the basically they said we'd have to end the yearly subscription Go back to monthly and then do a bundle for the time being and I don't think that because do they say what the bundle would be How much yeah the commercial free would be like $20 a month for Hulu and Disney But they haven't talked about max bundled in yet.

No, they didn't talk about that because that's coming because I'm interested in a hulu I am it because max I have hbl So you get the max with it. We get it We get max included with our cell phone plan. Yeah, so I don't pay for max.

Yeah But I do pay for Disney plus and we do pay for the ad free hulu We used to have hulu live tv And then realized it wasn't if the prices kept going up and the selection didn't so we're using youtube tv now Which I absolutely put to hulu. I'd be interested But basically we have to give up what we had and then they're saying how much hulu is just by itself a month It's like You know minds will just do the bundle, but we like the yearly thing. So hopefully Disney will do a yearly Give both for the year price.

That's fair Remember when we were kids When pay-per-view first started okay, there was that after close circuit because it was quite right There was a company called viewers choice. You remember this and they were the ones that through your cable they were the vendor That did pay-per-view movies and events like that later they would become in demand Okay, they are shutting down after 40 years at the end of 2025 Well pay-per-view has kind of gone to the way of Streamers are carrying them individually now. There are certain people like with wwe They still offer traditional pay-per-view for the majors.

Yeah, but not for the pleas in between It's only the majors really that it's because I thought I saw a thing or a w does yeah, but wwe is only the majors everything else is all the other pleas are through peacock and have been through the network um So it's kind of another one of those time passes us by because they've been a business for over 40 years I guess I remember seeing the little viewers choice logo You had the channel that had all the trailers for the movies they were showing ABC Has renewed the bachelor for season 29 If you can believe that you know they'll say I had that big thing of the golden bachelor and how oh you get another one Yeah, the big experiment and how this is gonna be forever and then after three months I don't think you made it that long three months did it I announced the see season seven of the Rosen Revival of the Connors will be its final season so they're getting get regeared to wrap that up They've now had American Idol for eight years So they've renewed American Idol Which would put an idol at like somewhere in the neighborhood of season 19 or 20 because there was a little layoff between Fox and ABC Uh, they're bringing back celebrity jeopardy Okay for season three and celebrity wheel of fortune for season five and they have canceled the show and uh Not dead yet after two seasons. Okay Um apple tv Okay, do you think Don is gonna go get us some guests to sit down so you don't have to listen to me run my app for the next hour Mr. Schubert looking very dapper this year's theme for the festival is Barbie I am wearing my pink Batman shirt because that's how I get down A mr.

Schubert very dapper very enough In his his can outfit. He's got the fringe. He's got the pink bandana.

He's got the hat With his super duper Mojo casa dojo house. I think is what they called that thing in the movie There is a ton of people in here. This is amazing We again, we are live to tape of course Audio only this week as we are at Garland high school in Garland, Texas for the 19th annual real hour cinema film festival We're gonna have some people sitting down with us.

Don has has oh these right in front of me Lost track of you there for a minute Also want to make sure you're checking out the surprise special edition We dropped last weekend as I got a very last minute Unexpected conversation with the great judge Reinhold if you haven't heard that yet check that out It is available on our youtube channel it is audio only but we did put a graphic up there Which we may do with this one also remember we are now back available on apple podcasts on Spotify And on amazon music follow us on those particular deals And we also still have our facebook live our twitch and Our youtube channel keeping up with everything we got a lot of stuff coming in the near future Uh coming Monday You will get my review of the one week only theatrical run then going to prime video of the brand new Glen powell and jj abrums produced documentary about the blue angels I wouldn't saw that last night in an i max presentation You'll get my review of that on monday on the website www.theclubhousepodcast.com is where you want to go find out everything you need to know and some stuff you don't We've got please coming up that we'll be covering a lot going on in the next couple of months I will be working some shows as well. I've got Retro expo in plano come hang out with me for that June 13th and 14th I mean july 13th and 14th july 20th and 21st Is Greater austin commicon. I'll be down there if you're in the austin area come hang out and then the weekend after that july 27th and 28th Uh, we are looking to do some coverage at the asian film festival of Dallas which is going to be a lot of fun Are we doing the deal don't what do we got Don is saying hello He's not saying hello to me.

All right What are we doing? What are we doing? What are we doing?

We have a lot of people standing in front of me right now While these mics are sensitive we're catching everything don't say Have a seat in front of a microphone There's a lot going on right there's I was not told choreography would be involved tonight You're right on top of those microphones tell everybody who you are Hi, I'm Anila my name is farzine and my name is dars alam I know for a fact a film that at least two of you have done See I watched about I watched the last quarter last night because I had to get over here and ready to do the things right How many projects were shown by you tonight? Uh three three He has to count on his name checker Three three as well See this is the hardest part for me Because I've cast my votes And I I can't tell you what I voted for That's right because I always like to say I'm not judging you outwardly Tonight I am judging you outwardly Where are you guys at in your high school careers? Oh, it's that time.

Yeah, are you in are you in are you just coasting yet? Yes, what's the last day for you guys? Next week basically next yeah, yeah, so before the holiday Which makes sense because why would you come back after a three-day weekend?

Right now wins graduation though 30 first. Yeah, I mean Oh, wow, so it's just see for us. It was like we were done at the beginning of May I mean graduation wasn't to like the middle of June So we you know because I'm old That's right.

I'm always but I also went to school in a different area and we started later we finished later So when I moved out here, I was like wait, you have a what's a fall break? That was if that was a weird thing for me No, because we didn't start till after labor day Oh, so it was just like why have a fall break if you don't you know you start that late But what we also had like three weeks in winter and our our spring break didn't start till the week of Easter Sunday it was that week Yeah, so I moved out here and they're like I'm like it's not even same Patrick's day. What are we doing?

But let's talk more about what you guys are all of you four years? Yes Okay, so Don and I were talking earlier. This is the ninth time we've done this so you've had to deal with us That's right except for one year because if I'm doing the math correctly Go, but well, no, it was after wouldn't it would your freshman year have been the year after wouldn't 2021 22 23 24 We were in covid 2020 2021 freshman year.

So first semester freshman year would have been Yeah, well freshman year all year we were gone We didn't really go to school. Yeah, so Was that the year we did the festival virtually? Yes Because that was kind of weird.

Yeah, so what was that like for you guys because we didn't get to talk to you when you were freshman because we didn't get to do We were I was literally on my couch going this is weird Talk about that change of you were doing everything virtually You're obviously collaborating online because you couldn't be in person to now when you know the world's back open and we're doing the thing Uh Yeah, I mean the festival was both virtual and in person So some people didn't come and then some people did and we all had to wear masks And I remember it was just kind of awkward because There was nobody here. I was like one of the only people at the festival And it was nice seeing like my classmates in person. What about you?

Uh Yeah, I remember I remember I remember ROC freshman year Uh, I came here to hoodie Uh, but you were comfortable though. That's the important class is though I mean a lot of solo projects. We didn't work a lot together.

I mean we talked about working But I don't think nothing really that had to be virtually and just don't We did one film with it. Anila and I did a film together virtually on zoom But I was always amazed at the creativity during that time Sorry of people that were doing short films via zoom I mean there was a whole there was like a whole horror movie that was done If you remember yeah, and then they did a sequel to it Which was weird, but now Are you gonna pursue this after next week? I am where you going?

SMU Nice going to the smooth First I'm going to Dallas College after that you and T. All right staying with film or now? Video technology.

Yeah nice And I'm going to go to the and I'm going to major in business So I'm probably going to incorporate some of what I've learned Here doing production with it. You could be a producer Yeah, because he was a what is a producer. I don't know.

I can be a producer. There we go Is is there were you fans of film before you got into the program? Oh Or was it or did you foster that love through these four years?

You know, you know like you know every kid has a youtube channel Yeah, at some point. Yeah, that's kind of how I started I still like you know Make a little skits and stuff with my cousins or whatever I wasn't really like a big film there like I wouldn't watch movies. Oh wow the cinema to you know I wasn't all that but uh the creating aspect I think I've had that for a pretty long time.

Okay Um for me it actually started out my church because like they asked me like to do like videography for them But I didn't have an experience so like when I was going into high school and I saw like film as like As an elective I decided to do that to kind of like help me like also in church So now I do like both simultaneously nice Um, I've I mean, I've always been into art But I didn't really get into film until my freshman year when my dad suggested I'd join the film class Because he's a big film nerd and then I've just like developed that love Emerson Who is a filmmaker that you have learned to be a fan of through this program? And you can't say Schubert because that's that's the assumed Hmm That way we cover him just in case it's not him. That's right Like a director we've learned any kind of a filmmaker whether it's an actor whether it's a cinematographer whether it's art direction whatever That's a that's a really that's a very good question.

Was there a genre that you weren't into? Oh before before you took film. Oh here we go Um, Edward Wright You know, okay big fan of uh, we watched baby driver.

I was a very big very big fan of that Uh, I love that movie so much. I have the soundtrack. That's right because that soundtrack is insane I'm a big action guy.

Okay. I love action movies and Stuff with like, you know kind of intense. We also watch the game Uh, Michael Douglas uh, yeah, David Fincher.

So I love like the grittiness the darkness that David Fincher has, but like also the color that was used with uh, what did I mention before What did I mention before right Edward Wright and right and that sound quality it was it was just really good. Have you seen the fall guy yet? The fall guy I heard it was so good.

It's so good You need to because it's a lot of fun I think like going into high school like Get right up on that thing. There you go. Going to high school.

Mine is probably like romance or drama It was kind of like typical, I guess, but then like when I started getting to film like Mr. Schubert He's not a big romance guy like he is not so he didn't really show us the romance so every time I asked him He was just you just laughed at me so I was like okay, so you know that like there's a formula you go with it Um for me my answer is similar to farzines and anilas actually I was a really big like rom com person. I think I've watched every two thousand rom com ever And then it was when I got into film that I started like exploring other genres and I really like David Fincher Um, and I also really like one car why when I did my independent study on him on the like Films outside of America.

I really like developed an appreciation for him and the stories that he tells because it's like a different type of romance It's not really typical, you know rom com. Well, I love I love Asian film too You know, he's very he's the the guy for Asian film festival a Dallas and we cover that as well because The storytelling is different the cinematography takes a different flavor and I like that Um, I've actually You guys know the departed right? Yes, that is based on a trilogy of films called infernal affairs That is getting a 4k re-release so I need to go back and revisit those because I haven't watched them in years But stuff like um the raid If you haven't seen the raid redemption It's like of it's a video game in reverse So it's this big building big apartment building it's owned by these drug lords And this cop has to go in the front and work his way all the way up right and it's some of the greatest action you'll see What kind of like of the films that you worked on?

What's the one you're most proud of? Oh, that's right. Take your favorite child.

I said it like senior year like of this festival that showed tonight. Oh, man Oh, I'm asking. I'm asking Okay, not me first.

Okay. I say soft lunch. Um, I was a director but actually so it was really fun And I think I learned like a lot like about directing and also like cinematography through that experience So it was I wouldn't say I was necessarily like it looked look the best.

We sounded the best like just for me Look though. I feel like it like grew me as like a cinematographer and like a director. All right.

Yeah I don't have to go with showtime the final one we did Uh, it just like you know quality wise looks the greatest and like So I wrote it right. I showed the scripts mr. Schubert.

He was gassing me up So good you guys you guys better execute this so well And I think I think we did an okay job and uh, I'm really proud of it Um, for me it's going to be pomegranate and not because it's the like I think the best film that I worked on But more so it was the first time that I really ventured into filmmaking outside of class and wanted to do something like in my own time Overwinter break So I just reached out to one of my poetry friends. She writes poems and I just adapted one of her poems And I dug that especially how you had the the poem at the end That kind of show like you still did a lot with it But it showed the source material I will tell you the very first film I watched last night as I was preparing for tonight was soft launch The screenshot can we talk about the screenshots for a minute? Oh Because I laughed out loud and went this is genius My wife came out of the bedroom and she's like what do you I'm like no, I'm rewinding this and my you you made by wife laugh And my wife has to deal with So making my wife laugh like Was that something that you just kind of like worked through because you didn't want to mess with the video editing part of it Was this necessity being the mother of invention?

Okay, so basically like in our past films uh, we always just like Like actually had like the phone out And like just like video tape that but mr. Shebert like hated it And he's like it was just like sloppy a little lazy So he's like this time you have to do something different So like he likes to just that I would do like like stuff and like in real life So we came up with that. We're like okay.

Let's just do cardboard cutouts Because that was that was brilliant I thought that was amazing and I was like that like this is the first film I'm watching So and there's like a bazillion of these I have to watch in the next 24 hours That's right was that yeah, I don't tell him we got to wrap this up Go enjoy the evening Because then we got to give out hardware here in a little bit So thank you guys so much for sitting down go get food go eat eat for me We are live at Garwin high school for the 19th annual gimme my book back done Real owl cinema film festival don took my book away And this was the first year that the book was like this is like bound and staple This the book is thick this year. All right. We got more people Get right up on the microphone tell me who you are and what you work down Right up on that thing right up on that thing.

I was the editor and actor and showtime. All right Hello, my name is Michelle Huang. I was the director for showtime Showtime very close to the end Because I watched it last night because I had to watch the last half hour before we came over here So we had to be ready when you guys came in the door We were talking to the students before you guys about writing the script and putting it together How close when you watched it tonight how close was it to the vision you had going in Um, I would say that was pretty close But I was hoping for it to be like more dynamic, I guess how so um I guess because I feel like um Like Like the viewers couldn't really see like how like stressed out like a the like I guess the director of the show was And I wanted to really emphasize that And to like build up tension um to like the ending where he's like making a joke that I'm like Oh, he's like just loves the show more and such.

I'd I cut yeah You're right because the punchline kind of happens and then there's a little bit more after that And I want people to actually go out and see it this thing at some point But I you guys did a great job. How much time total were you actually shooting it? Wish like we shop for like almost like two to three out two to like around two hours a day, right for how long um For like maybe like It was over like the span of like more than a month But maybe like like actual days would be like around like fourth like seven to four to you See I because I'm always fascinated by that because people think with short films you just go when you do the thing And it's like no, there's a lot of time that goes into this Was there one particular scene in the film that you had to do more takes of than any others?

Would you remember because you're the main actor Honestly, I'm kind of out of it. Okay You're still coming your cup the drones wearing off because you were in the seeing it in that huge screen in there Where are you guys are both seniors? Yeah, we're both seniors.

All right, so what happens after next week? Where are you going? After next week because you know next week last week of school, right?

Yeah, yeah So where are you going after that? Oh for college. Yes.

Oh Well, I'm going to UT Austin. All right Major um, I think about doing computer science, but I don't know if I want a double major or not right now Are you going to do any film while you're down there because you're in Austin? Yeah, I really do want a double major in film But then like I grew to have like an interest in biomedical engineering too, so I'm just trying to like UT not a bad school for that either I'll actually be down there.

I was just may in a couple of months because I work greater Austin Comic Con down there Which is over in Cedar Park, which is an outstanding show. What about you my friend? I'm going to the Paul university.

It's all right. Yeah, sir major major in film Were you guys and I love asking this about the students were you guys film people before this or did you a Developed that love for film through these four years because you did all four correct. Oh, I only did two Okay, but that's at least half that's the majority Well, I In like eighth grade, I really got an interest in it and Yeah, so it's kind of been my main goal for the past like five years Was this mainly comes Um, I would say I developed like my love for film during the program because beforehand I did art and since my friends were in the program I was like oh, I might as well like try out to do that too because I think like Um, I don't know classes in art kind of like drains me.

So like I just wanted to try something new It's summer movies season officially now has been for a couple weeks. Is there any movies that you really really really looking forward to seeing right now? Or ones that are maybe out that you haven't had a chance or like I have to do this now Yeah, I could think of anything either because I don't know I want to Oh, I mean, I guess it's an animation film, but my friends and I we're planning to watch spy family like Code I think white or something Yeah, that's the the brand new one that just came out right yeah That the angelic I think had that at one point That's he and that's another thing anime has just Because I'm old school anime.

I'm you know starblazers Voltron those things and before you know when it wasn't cool And now like my niece who's 14. She's full on it. She loves academia.

She loves all the things What about you anything coming up you're looking forward to um or something that you haven't seen that you're like I still need to see this No All right, no, that's all I guess that you're still coming down off the thing Do you have you exhale yet because you're like okay the film is shown I need to eat something I mean, I'll exhale would be graduate And because that's all just bang bang bang for you guys because this next week's last week school graduation the week after Are you gonna do anything over the summer or you just kind of kind of just decompress and get ready for college? That's for me. I was on a train the next day and I was counseling summer camp for seven weeks So I never got that chance to kind of catch my breath after graduation I mean like I guess film wise like I guess my friends and I were joking about this But one of our other friends like her niece of mine.

She like she does like rock music and stuff like that I really joking about like making a music video do it You guys have the tools. Yeah, it's really talented Because I mean people are filming whole films on iPhones now soda bird didn't entire movie shot on iPhones And then something else I saw oh monkey now with dev Patel They ran out of money and so they shot a lot of the fight sequences that they hadn't shot yet on iPhones So you can do that especially like now the new one. I think you can shoot in 4k So yeah, do that All right, so Don just told me you guys have to go eat and and be merry So thank you guys for sitting down looking forward to handing out hardware here in just a little while So all right.

Thank you guys. Thank you all We are live to tape at Garland High School in Garland, Texas for the 19th annual real owl cinema film festival This is one of the coolest shows we do every year after and we just did it right after the diff Which was right after the USA Film Festival like I think we've done what this is our fourth remote show in the last five weeks I told y'all this was our busy season and it is our busy season After this we'll be back in the studio Thursday night to my knowledge As my watch telling me I need to stand up. I'll do that here in a minute Where is Don?

Don has disappeared on me you guys sitting down. Come on sit down I got a number time or until they tell me we got to go back over See the shirt I recognize so I know one of the films you worked on You're right up on those microphones. Tell everybody who you are Get right on it like it here.

There you go now you get somewhere. Okay. My name is Colin Thomas I like was the cinematographer for the film for which one burger be all right I meet them Vasquez.

I was one of the main actors burger beats I'm Greyhuff. Is it good? Yeah, you're good.

Yeah, I'm Greyhuff. I was the mayor rapper of burger beats I've got to ask about the song first What came first to script of the song That's great. So that's the song so you are like we're gonna do a thing about a rapper We're gonna guy film in the video and they have a fight But then they make up at the end because So how do you get to burger beats as a song?

How do you get there? You know That was so Colin sent us the beat Yeah, he was working on that so you wrote it not wrote it. Okay, he did the lyrics.

So you co-wrote it Yeah, I just produced the beat mostly and the idea was to have like um kind of like a rap song But with terrible auto tune really bad and it ended up being pretty good. So Yeah, I ended up I was on a call with one of my friends and I was I spent hours just in one night And I was like how can I make this really funny But still work for our movie And and then you're like well, I'm a vegetarian. So now we have a whole different issue right now.

I'm kidding So Did you write the an entire song or just like a verse or two that you knew would fit into the short And all of the lyrics because you know you have to now produce the song and you have to release the song Because I can guarantee you you release that and do the full video it will go viral I'm just saying I'm saying it now Because I'm in the back that's because I watched some of the films last night Because I had to get over here and I didn't want to be trying to race you guys over here But that was one of the ones I hadn't seen and I'm just I'm in my seat and I'm just I'm giggling. Yeah, like this is This is one of the funniest things I've seen When you guys watched it tonight did it live up to your expectations of it because you probably like You probably watched it a few times, but this has to be the first time you watched it on a screen that size We um, we did see it at like dip. Oh, they played for you guys guys Yeah, the seniors they picked like a few films.

They picked ours Nice. How was that? That was good.

We had to go to re-audience reaction. The only movie that got a laugh Hey, take it Because we were at the dip, but we weren't there the same nights When you found out they were you were going to be able to watch it on a screen at the violet crown Were you just did you go were you going nuts leading up to it or you just like it's gonna be a thing Because I would be losing my mind in that theater I honestly would like it as much as they do to be honest. Why not?

I don't know. I knew it was good But I definitely didn't see it living up to the way it's gone so far. So yeah Um, I didn't go nuts, but like I was definitely very excited because Like we're like there's only like two sophomore films that were picked so It was exciting to see it at dip.

Yeah What year are you guys in? We're all so far. All right, so you've done both of you're so far.

Yeah, you're gonna go all four I will see you maybe Because Shoebird is an amazing unit Let's just be real. The guy's an amazing unit. He's I don't know how he does.

He's like 90 different things Is there a genre that you are drawn to comedy Any favorites favorites like like movies. Yeah Um When you when you put me on the spot. No, but that's my job Uh What's one that you like what you have a go to That you probably either streamed or put in the player more than you because I gotta say both now.

I'm a physical media guy, but that's just me There's I there's a name. There's one movie that comes to mind, but I can't think of the title. All right, tell me about it Because I might be able to help you.

It's it's Adam's Adam Sandler is the dad and he has like two like three sons and then there's A woman and she has like three daughters blended blend it that one was funny. Yeah, that was a good I like that movie. They just announced this week that they're doing a sequel to happy Gilmore That's gonna be on Netflix Oh for me.

Yes, genre genre film Um, I really like sci-fi movies personally. What's your favorite? I saw interstellar really recently and I like blew my mind Chains my whole day so you had to block out a day Yeah to watch it because Christopher Nolan can't do things not three hours long and then another day to like think about it Yeah, yeah, what about you my friend My favorite.

I don't know. I don't have a favorite genre. My favorite movie right now is pro fiction for sure It's a great film.

Yeah, I've been I've been going through the Tarantino catalog Have you done the thing where you sit down and you try to put it in order? No, it's it's too much. I really wish they had released a version of it that's done linearly Because I've seen that film a bazillion times.

It's like a memento. Have you ever seen memento? Yeah, where it's told in reverse Yeah, but I feel like that film is hard you wouldn't want to do it because of the way the story unfolds But pulp fiction I would like to see Dunel in the early.

I'm looking forward to his next film The the film critic is what it's called Because I wasn't a big fan of once upon a time in Hollywood They kind of got off the rails for me, but Where's if our dogs pulp fiction like two of my favorite films? of Is there anything that's coming down the pike you guys are waiting on Anything else that's got your attention that's coming soon to theaters or that's out now that you haven't seen that you want to see I'm excited for periosa like this summer. That's this coming Friday.

Yeah I'm very excited for that one I'll tell you if you haven't watched Fury Road the black and white version It completely changes the film for me because it looks and they did the same thing with Logan They did the black and white version and it looks great Not at the moment. Okay, I don't like not anything that comes to mind. All right, Fair enough.

What's it called? Is it free guy? Free guy was a couple years ago with a fall guy fall guy's fantastic fall guys awesome.

Yeah, stay through the credits From saying there's a post credit scene on it, but yeah, now fall guy is great And yeah, cuz I'm old enough to remember the TV show. It's based on So and it's not it's It's kind of like it's not really a remake of it because there's elements there It's kind of it's own it's kind of like they're starting with the Roadhouse remake with Joe and Hall It's not a remake It's kind of a you have to check that because it's not Amazon time. Check that out.

It is It's a lot of fun and Conor McGregor is living his best life. It's insane Don tells me you guys have to go Thank you guys so much for sitting down. We're gonna see you here in a little while But cost the way we hand out some hardware.

All right. Thank you guys. Thank you.

Thank you All right, we again, we are live at Garland high school for the 19th annual real owl cinema film festival I'm saying this so many times you will not forget it by the end of it We got mute mute music that they're Did you know? No, but now it's snippet That is done master of the English language. I think testing once you hear me.

I can hear you find you are directly into my ears right now That's a good thing You do now. Yes. Yes God love him somebody has to Get right up on the microphone.

Tell me who you are and what you worked on oh me We're gonna go right across the way. I go left to right. Okay my left anyway.

Oh, okay My name is Aaron Curtis. I worked on getting the band back together and I are a phobia. All right My name is a true story.

Get right on top of that thing now Yeah, my name is a true story of an ego. I wrote worked on getting the band back together artificial idiot and hungry Sam My name is commendary Buchanan. I worked on a doll's a doll's story and getting the band back together I Moments like these is very difficult for me because I'm a judge So I can't talk to you about like How much I loved what you did because you know then it might give stuff away, but I really dug getting the band back together because as a guy who has a band I get it Um, and I was a kid.

I was in band in high school. I mean I've been a musician my most of my entire life But you worked on doll story too, which I thought was fan. I'm a big fan of when people can do animation well And all of the animated features this year were fantastic Especially when you're doing stop motion because it's like we're now in day 14 and we've gotten three seconds of this But getting the band back together that was all original like the you guys wrote the songs, right?

Yeah Let's vote in quotation marks. Especially yours because Be but it's it's the comedy rule of three right the third one is the hammer and I'm sitting up in my seat and I'm like okay. I'm seeing what you're doing here Where did that idea come from for the third one just just for the whole just to do that particular short Like who was like we're gonna do a thing where we were in a band and then we're gonna Do a band and it's gonna take over place over like three hours and it's all gonna go go to pot We were trying to come up with ideas for this project and he was like the only way I could think of this is if it's like three different genres And they're trying to decide on one so we kind of want that the third song is actually the one that we made first oh Really the one we conceptualized it is actually there's a whole story to that one action go for it Well, we have this thing.

There's this smart board in one of our g-town periods, okay And every every time Aaron and I are in the same g-town And so every time that we go over there I will there's a button on there that makes the screen just go black and I'll go over there And I have this whole bit where I press it and it's like it corrupts me or something And so we were just laughing about that and I was like hey, what if I sing about about corruption and Tax evasion What we did we made an entire list of things he's like obsessed with they're like Silly about and we just kind of like Made into a song and only uranium and tax evasion made it in but like whatever Yeah, that's two things. Yeah, that is two that is two things both of the projects you worked on were so vastly different Was there one that drew you in more or are you just like I want to be as diverse as possible because those are two completely different ball games Yeah, I wanted to like Just get it all out there because I didn't really know what to do But then getting the band back together was really fun, but then a doll store. It was It was it was fun suit because you got to like you know actually like Move this stuff and like how to put it there and like so And you were doing with the wooden mannequins too, which is got to be even harder Because of the points of articulation in those things.

Yeah, talk about that Just like I don't want to talk about it. I can't relive it It was it was like actually it was kind of easy because like we had to because like moving them because I had like Because like I used to draw it like moving them and like putting it like there It was like really easy, but then like yeah, it's like put it back to like a southern Because like when we stopped filming and then go to go back to film me We had to like put it back where exactly was and that was kind of hard to doing it. Oh, absolutely finding different place like like to match it up and it was kind of like Yeah, but it was really fun doing it.

Where are you guys at in your high school careers? Well, you got in your high school careers, right? All right.

All right soft morse So You're gonna continue on got two more years your halfway there One of the things I like to ask the students and I ask everybody Were number one were you a film fan before this? I mean, I like watching movies. That's that's fair What's your favorite kind of movie to watch?

I really like action movies when I like because like when they explode like randomly It just gets me in there. Do you have a current go-to But Bulletin train was really good love and that's the same guy that directed fall guy really Yes, same director. Okay, it's great.

Fantastic I'm a huge fan of dude I am I am waiting until the second part hits max and then I'm gonna want because I haven't watched the first one yet I see that the original was when I was a kid the David Lynch version So I am waiting until they're both together and then I'm just gonna block out a day and turn off my phone and say everybody Need to leave me alone for the next seven hours I think I'm gonna do that as well even though I've already seen it Yeah, cuz I really want to watch cuz I didn't want to watch just half of it and knowing it was gonna take three years to get the other half You know So I did not hear the question because it was really loud near that's cool. Is there is there a were you a fan of film before you got in the film program Oh, okay, so kind of what got me into it is my dad teaches journalism and photo journalism So I was kind of exposed to that like technical aspect of it beforehand So I got interested in that and then filmed through that So that's that's really how I got there is there a genre or a film that you is your go-to Just like a favorite. Yeah, um, I really like the movie mid-summer Um, it is oh It's intense Yeah, and they're re-releasing the the director's cut in theaters So again block out a day because the director's cuts like four hours long.

Oh sweet. Yeah Um, yeah, I would like to send a photography in it so I'm gonna go back and watch it like take notes because I So I have a buddy because I don't do horror type films because I have a policy. I live by a code I refuse to give somebody my money or my time to try to make me pee on myself So but I have a buddy who does this for because his wife loves horror films So she'll tell him in advance.

We're watching this movie and then he goes and he reads the Wikipedia page So he knows what to expect. I read the I got halfway through the Wikipedia page from mid-summer and I said Hard pass That that just reading uh, I was like this this makes my brain hurt like I can't put myself through that It's but it's man. Oh Is there anything coming out that you're looking forward to?

Oh, I have a tar series. I'm I'm gonna wait for that I'm gonna wait even if I have to like I'm just gonna wait. I really again block out a day Like the first the first one it really got me but then I actually I thought I watched the um the And it was really good like they had more scenes that were cut out from the actual words and I actually that I've seen multiple times But then when you watch the Senate version you see oh Wow They got really I was like wow.

I did not know that that scene was cut out. I was like wow. Yeah, what two more coming Two or three more coming I think three Because James Cameron doesn't have enough money.

Oh my god See for me Cameron. There's only there's one movie and it's terminated too I was in college when that came out. I remember the theater.

I saw it in and it just how it just melted our brains What's coming out that she's looking forward to Is it an original if I like say they went into free production for doing three no Because if you're a fan you're a fan right? Yeah, and they're I think they're doing a series too With the three sisters. I thought the series was just the original.

No, they're gonna actually do they're doing the third film But they're doing a spinoff series with the three sisters Um, I don't know that's all right. I'm not up to date on anything. That's all right don't tell me you guys have to go Great job tonight guys.

We're gonna see you here in just a little while across the wave and we give out the hardware Go enjoy yourselves. Thank you. We got more people sitting down I need to take a sip of my tasty beverage here.

I'm doing a lot of talking Or don't go who's sitting down what are we doing I Don what am I doing? What am I doing? What am I doing?

Does we're getting close to that hour mark? Don's directing traffic. I don't know And his his day job is an air traffic controller.

I think is what's going on. I have no idea Don what do I got what are we doing? What what what what are we doing?

What are we doing? People are sitting people are sitting They're they're flipping coins to figure out who has to go So much sitting down. Okay, do you write up on those microphones tell me who you are much it worked on Hi there.

I'm Peter Aaron and I worked on caught in her web and offline I'm Alessandra Bunn and I worked on four films. I worked on beanstalk loser farewell through red midnight and getting ready I'm Alex Walsh and I worked on caught in her web and there was another one too Something about a band. I'm just saying You're like the central character in that thing So where are you guys at in your high school careers?

Uh, I'm a freshman. All right. I'm a sophomore.

I'm a freshman So fairly new to this process. How has it been for you so far? Shesful Kind of scary Yeah, um, it's it's been a lot but uh so far it's been fun What brought you to the program?

I was actually just kind of putting the class but it actually You were just putting the somebody told me to go in this room. There was stuff Hey We questioned not the gift we accepted the gift What about you guys brought you to the film program? Mr.

Schubert in middle school he walked into our uh get right up on that microphone Sorry, there we go. He walked into our theater room and he was like guys You should all join film and he showed us like a bunch of films and we were like, oh those are kind of mid They're kind of lame but okay, whatever. So kind of films.

What was he showing you guys? Um Gosh, there was like one about like this puppet I can't even remember was it was it Were they films of past students that he was showing you? Oh, okay, okay I think I know what you're talking about.

Was there like a grandma in that one? Yeah, look I was uh, I remember because they showed you the last year at the film program What about you my friend? Um for me uh, well at first it was an alternative to taking the NYP class Okay fair enough But I remember going to the uh ROC film last year as an eighth grader and I think I think that might have given me the film book I think that was when I kind of was like oh my gosh.

I really want to do this Well, this is our ninth time doing the festival That is easily the biggest crowd I've ever seen For this festival. What was that like having that many people in a room with you watching the stuff you'd worked on? It it was insane uh for me hearing the loud reaction to cotton her web was Beautiful, but also terrifying the web design line almost got buried It almost got buried I caught it so the reactions are always the best part like I didn't film last year because I've been filmed too And so I did it last year though reactions Like people laughing at your film was always like the best part when is it stressful when when you know the moments coming and you're like Yeah, hit the beat hit the beat hit the beat for sure It was so nerve-racking because like I was like counting down like to when like the film was gonna be showing guys like Oh my gosh, everybody's gonna hate it You're you're looking at the you're just watching the list get shorter and shorter and shorter Are you already planning your films are gonna work on next year or do you not?

Is it or do you have to wait on those assignments? Um, I mean if we're doing the musical next year. I've definitely got some ideas in mind.

Okay I'm not doing film next year Yeah, I don't have to ruin my schedule but I mean You can definitely plan ahead if you want to see like you can get upper classmates to like let you know what the assignments are in advance So you could play I usually just like wait for the assignments But like at one point I would really like to just make my own film for funsies. What kind of film would you want to make? Probably a horror one.

I really love horror. It's a favorite genre. That's that's him.

I did not my jam Not my jam When I was a kid it was easier for me Like but I see so the the detail now it's just There's certain like like films are considered horror films like ready or not I'm a big fan of if you haven't seen that one Your next is a really great. It's basically about a bunch of people that rent like an Airbnb for the weekend And there's people like coming for them. It has one of the coolest kills.

I've ever seen and I'm not gonna spoil it Look up your next because I believe we're getting a sequel So it's also summer movies is it when I love to ask this question Is there anything coming out or is out now that you're looking forward to going to see? Um, so there's a movie coming out that I already saw at diff, but I can't wait for all my friends to see it It's I saw the TV glow Don saw that last week wait, which one called I saw the TV glow just as Smith is in it I saw that on the like roster for diff and I want to see it. They did like three screenings of it Which is crazy, but when you get the late night Saturday slot That's a very very for horror films.

That's a very very prestigious slot Because we've been doing that for a long time. That's how we got this gig. That's how we met the shoebirds was through diff Let's come out.

What you want to see What what about you? What's what's out now? We're coming out that you're looking forward to Okay, so you're like I'm gonna piggyback off him all right Okay, so at the USA Film Festival there was this awesome film called The Trouble with Jessica It was like one of the funniest movies I have ever seen Okay, I know the entire audience is like laughing my mom was like a wheezing beside me It was so funny All right, looks like we're starting to wrap up and get everybody back to the auditorium and Don's telling me you guys have to go So Congratulations on tonight.

We're gonna go back there. They let us give out hardware Which is like this is my favorite show of the year for that reason because I always say I'm not judging you outwardly Tonight I'm judging you outwardly. Thank you guys so much.

Go enjoy the evening Don says that's our last guest to the evening All right, you guys go you'll have fun to see the minute Don comes have a seat so we can wrap this thing up Almost to the one-hour mark. I think it's all right. Yeah, we're getting close.

I'm here Nine years on this I guess the ninth year nine which means next year we hit that we as long as I'll have his back Of course more. Yeah, we hit the decade and it's so great to see the passion And the care that these kids put into their projects And then get to watch the glee as they see it out because that's a huge screen in that auditorium I think it was one of my favorites was done by freshman which it's the I think the talent and the future of these kids is incredible It's an incredible thing I'm gonna talk to the fantastically for it. I think we're gonna become members good good.

Why not? Excellent. Get our thing into maybe when we meet up next time with them.

We'll get the What talk to the best is why not but this is an incredible event How they want that you know call us presenters and all that stuff it's incredible honor, but It's right here that I am a judge. It used to say industry professional I remember the fact but let's do the plugs and get out here so we gotta get back Excuse me across the way Make sure you visit our website www.theclubhousepodcast.com Find out everything you need to know with some stuff. You don't Follow us on all your social medias We don't only have the QR code, but we don't have the video tonight, but everything except I gotta figure it's everything except Jeez twitter and twitch is the clubhouse podcast those two are clubhouse show Make sure you follow us when you can get the audio version of the show on apple podcasts On Spotify and on amazon music the video version you can get on twitch You can get on facebook live and you can get on youtube Just look up the clubhouse podcast.

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