Live From Asian Film Festival Dallas 2018

It is seven o'clock on the East Coast, it is four o'clock on the West Coast, it is the
21st of July in the year of our Lord 2018. It is season nine, it is episode two. Just
getting season nine underway. Oh boy, we are loud tonight. Let me get this thing adjusted
just a little bit so people aren't freaking out when they're hearing me and now I'm not
talking loud enough. This is just kind of a hair trigger going on with this thing. There
we go. That's a little bit better. How many times have I said this now? Let me get
to 449 times. So our next episode is going to be a milestone. Okay. Well, you're not
on yet, Don. I know. The clubhouse podcast is live on the air, normally Sunday night,
70s from four Pacific, but this is one of our road shows. Second year in a row, we are
lies. This is our third year. My God, where does time go? For the third year in a row,
we are live at one of our favorite places to be at the Angelico Film Center in Mockingbird
Station in Dallas because it is Asian Film Festival in Dallas weekend. We are here live,
which means we'll be off tomorrow night. Tonight also kind of a closing of a chapter. This
will be our last show on you stream because you stream things they want to take money
out of my pocket and I'm not going to let them do that. So IBM go pound sand. At least
after eight o'clock tonight. But my name is Rob. I'm the executive producer of the clubhouse
podcast. And if you ever feel like you're ever too cold, today is a remedy for that. So
I think I saw somebody put up a host on social media. So they put a tray of cookie dough in
the back of their car. And it was cooked by the end of the day. And I don't think that
was an exaggeration. But let's go around the horn. Sitting to my right is my co-host
and a man that no matter how warm I am has got to be that much more warm. But we all know
that fashion is pain. He is Chad. Welcome, sir. Yep. Turn your mic on. Oh, no, you're
this one. There we are. Yes. Yes. Yes. I've got the I've got the board on the floor because
we need more room for activities on the table. The drum gets back behind me. Yeah, exactly.
Sitting across from we're going to talk. Well, that will be a good segue for something
later on too. Sitting across from him is the official fact checker of this show. And a man
that if I'm not mistaken is what happened to it? Where are we not doing this? Oh, because
something happened on you stream. And of course, you stream doesn't want to work. Why would
it want to work on the last time we're going to be here? And a man, if I'm not mistaken,
is wearing something new? Would you agree with me on that, sir? I don't recognize it. He
is the official fact checker of this show. You may know him as fondongo, but as a mom
I mean, I'm done for it. I'm going to call him Don Ford. This is the first time I've
worn this. This is my anniversary present from the Fantastic Faith Ford. So going back
30 seconds, this is something new. Yeah. He's just terrifying it. Give him some
leverage. Yeah, Monday's the big day, you know, I know it. Paper anniversary with a triple
F. And I got our USA today. And she bought you a jersey. Good trade there. Ask me, ask
me off air why you should never refer to her as the triple F again. Okay, but the Fantastic
Faith Ford. Yes. We were at the pirate's game and she realized I don't have like a pirate's
jersey jersey. So, yeah, I don't know that I've ever seen him wear a pirate's gear. I don't
have much. I have a shirt. Yeah, but I think I think I've seen him rocking a T shirt,
but that's about it. But yeah, so this is my wedding present. Okay. Um, by the way,
you're at a birthday present, you mean? Yeah. No, that's what I said. Wait, I'm first
not. Okay, but here's the thing real fast. You said it's hot. What about our listeners
in like Belgium and Antarctica, their listening worldwide? It might be cold for them.
It could be cold for them. I'm going to say something. I was driving here to the
Angelica the other day and my car read 106. I know. I'm going to live mine. But what about
the listeners in Greenland in Siberia? Global warming. Yeah. Okay. Like you said, if they
ever feel too cold, come here. Okay. That's your boy. Here's the thing. That's your
boy. I'm sorry. Uh, I guess if there's popsicles, but if not, then I'm good. You know me.
I got to go. I'm going to end this madness. Yeah. Like we talked about a couple of weeks
ago without Don doing what he does. These remote shows don't nearly go as well as they
do. But we already have our first guest. And we're going to bring him on before we get
to updates and corrections. So go ahead and tell everybody who you are. Sorry you should
be up and running now. Hello, everyone. This is David Gibson. I am the programmer and
director of operations for the Asian Film Festival of Dallas. So thank you guys for having
me here. Oh, thank you for having us here. You kidding me? Now, David, let me ask your
question. You've been sitting here with us now for about 15 minutes. Oh, yeah. Is that
the most you've sat down at all in the last three days? Yes, it is. I would say the
last three months. We'll talk right into that. Thanks, everybody. Can you hear me? Last
three months. Because it's that time of year. So let's get to some updates and corrections
before we get into this. From last week's show, we hope you enjoyed extreme rules. Better
than it had to be. As a pay per view. I'm just saying. Stay with me. Where you're looking
at me for like, they don't know that. I know that. But they don't know that. The look
you gave me. I'm like, okay. Rich Juan was actually released from WWE on February 15th.
So it's a little sooner than we thought it was. LA said the possibility of a no contest
in a table's match, which I thought was kind of funny. And by the way, because I am
the smartest man alive. I did call the tie break in the Iron Man match. Thank you very
much. The other one that got points for that. And so we do have to make it adjustment
to scoring. There was some debate as to Don calling shenanigans in the Raw Women's
title match. I said originally you can't call shenanigans in an extreme rules match for
obvious reasons. And then I pivoted. But I'm going to go back with my original decision.
So Don's going to he won't lose points on the shenanigans. Okay. Because that's only
fair. I'm interested fairness. And we want to say a quick RIP to Adrian Kronauer for
those of you that don't know who he is. That's the guy that Robin Williams portrayed in
Good Morning Vietnam. Yes. He was also the DJ in a movie that shows up in the show periodically.
He was the DJ in the Street Fighter movie with Jean-Claude Van Gogh. Oh, that was such
a classic. I own that on LaserDisk. It's so terrible. I can almost see your tongue poking
through your cheek when you said it. Just a little bit. Let's see. But that movie gave
us a reason to watch Raul Julia choose scenery like it was a smorgasbord. Yeah. Unfortunately
that's the day Bison blessed upon your village. It was a day you will never forget. For
Bison, it was Tuesday. I mean, come on. What? That is last film. I believe it was. What
a legacy. So it's a lead to check out. We do want to send some love. We talked about
when did the thank yous a couple of weeks go to Big Don. Big Don was Don Ellison. I can
remember what his website is now. One time was race talk 39x.com. Don was very instrumental
in the early days of this show, kind of helping us along, trying to figure out what a podcast
really was. Kind of helped us birth this thing. He was diagnosed with colon cancer recently
and he started his treatment this week. So Big Don, we love you and we're pulling for
you and we will try to update everybody as much as we can. All right. So David, let's
get into this thing. It is Asian film. What's the year on this? 17th annual. So 17th, we've
covered three of them. I feel good about that. That's good odds. But everything here at
the Angelica this weekend, correct? Exactly. We were here for eight days. So we started
this past Thursday on the 19th and we will be here until this Thursday on the 26th.
How many films total in the festival? 31 features and some 40 some odd shorts. So a total
of 66 films that we will be showing this week. And we were here. I was here Thursday night
on other official business and this joint was packed packed. People were here to see the
brink and then also the closing night party afterwards, but the brink. It's awesome.
Great pictures from the show Raymond Garcia was at the party the other night. The beautiful
night for a party too. We had fire dancers with the backdrop of the city skyline. Oh,
can you imagine? I can't tell me Doc Strange got pictures of that. Please tell me he got
pictures of that. Oh, I didn't know Doc Strange was here. He was at the night party.
Would it shock you? Not at all because that dude's amazing. He's always everywhere.
So when we talk about the festival eight eight and eight or nine days full of movies coming
into the festival. Was there a movie specifically that you were like that this was the big
get for us besides the obvious being your opening night film. What was the big get for you
guys this year? And so we really do a great job of doing the opening night centerpiece
and closing night film, but the big get was a closing night film, which is by bust. It's
a pinot action film. If you don't like violence, do not show up for this film. Okay. Fair enough.
It is excellent. It's set in Metro Manila and these slum areas of Metro. And it's about
the drug trafficking and Metro and kind of how the cops are trying to clean it up with
this over the top swat team. But then it takes a twist to where they got to fight their
way out of the slums. And so it is awesomely violent. It makes me think of the raid redemption.
Yes, set in the slums. Because I love the raid redemption. That's a movie that if I'm
sitting on the couch, I'm like, I want to watch something that's one of my go to. Yes, this
director, he kind of took some, you know, direction from the raid by having these continuous
shots of just nonstop martial arts and action play. And you can tell that it was just like,
if you didn't get it right, it was start over because there is no break, no editing
and any of these fights. See, and I love when people can do that because first of all,
it's a bold move to make because again, you screw something up. Nope. Back to one. Wow.
You know, we're not doing any cuts. And you've got, again, your fight choreography has
to be solid. Right. Because, you know, somebody misses something by a mile. Back to one.
Yeah. You know, and you don't want to be the one to make the go back. Exactly. Because
then everybody just does that real slow head turn and just looks at you and you're just
like, yeah, that that was on me. I did that. There's not a hole in the ground big enough
for you to want to crawl into and hide. And you guys have had the media guide out now
for a couple of weeks because I picked one up here at the Angelica when I was at another
screening because I want, you know, got for a bit. I prepped for this show every once in
a while. I mean, almost every film that you've got is either a Southwest premiere, a US
premiere, a North American premiere or a world premiere. Yes. I mean, that's huge. That
is big because our direction now is how can we be the, get the best new films we can?
I mean, we do have our Repertory section where we played three to four older films that
everybody wants to see on the big screen. But I think that's the key to it. Even the
Repertory films are people that, you know, people want to see. Yeah. And so we don't show
anything over two years with the exception of those Repertory. And so it's a 2017, 2018
films. You will see them and they will be premieres. And, you know, since we are the fourth
largest Asian Film Festival in the area, you know, behind New York, San Diego and San Francisco
obviously, we have the ability to get these films in premiere in the Southwest area because
we are starting to gain traction in this area for Asian films. And one of the things I love
about this show is every year that we've come back to this show, this being our third year
now, we get to see all the familiar faces. Yes. And I love because it shows the dedication
of the volunteers to this festival that it's the same people all the time. And I think we
can say that about most of the film festivals we cover here in Dallas is you have this really
great core of volunteers and talk about your volunteers. So yeah, we're a nonprofit organization
so nobody gets paid and not even myself. And I've been here. This is my 14 year, exactly.
Oh man. But I have a day job. We all have day jobs. But our passion drives this film festival.
And then all of the volunteers along with the board and just regular volunteers and our
interns, they just, they're really committed to Asian films and getting the Asian culture
out to the Dallas area. And so they are just non-stop for like four months. All we do is prep
and just get ready to put on a great show for you guys to come out and see some of the
films. And so they're really committed and we thank them for that. So come next Friday.
How much downtime until we start planning 19? We will actually that Sunday will have
our closing meeting with the board. And after that, we have two months off. Oh wow.
That's a heck of a stretch for you. Yes. And we took weather cools down a little bit.
Get through the state fair. Yes. And let everything else die down. Get our brain back to where
it's supposed to be because it's like scrambled right now. But then in November, look out for
the call for entries. We will send out notification to all the filmmakers stating that, hey,
send your films if you want to be on our film festival for the next year.
Well, and let's talk about that because I know you've got to go shake hands and kiss babies
and all that good stuff. Give everybody where can work, give them the website, give them
the social media, everything they need to know whether they want to come out this weekend
next week or even prepare for for AFFD 2019. Absolutely. So when it comes to call for
entries and submissions, that is definitely going to be through without a box and film
freeway. And that's for the filmmakers. You know exactly what I'm talking about. And
so when it comes to all the people that want to see our films in the Dallas area, Asian
FilmDallas.com, you can find the schedule. You can get tickets. You can find more about us.
You can become members. We definitely want you to become our member and pay for like the
privileges that the membership comes with. And then after that, you can go out to our
Facebook page, watch us on Twitter and all of that stuff and follow us because we do screenings
in the spring and in the fall outside of our festival to kind of keep touch with all
of our members and everybody in the community. So.
And what is the official hashtag for the festival?
hashtag AFFD 2018 hashtag. I got that right. I love subtitles. Yeah, that's one of the
t-shirts. Great merch this year, too, as I'm looking from here. I'm going to have to go
visit when we get done because you know, we always have to have our souvenirs, sir. Yes.
Yes. All right. Go enjoy the day, sir. Thank you. Because we're inside in the Arkansas
area. It did doesn't feel that way. Right now. But it will. We're going to be all right.
Thank you for having us. You're listening to the Clubhouse podcast. We're live at one
of our favorite places, the Angelica Film Center, Mockingbird Station in Dallas. Go
ahead and move that microphone around to you. We're going to let you. We have already our
second guest technique. Let's talk right into that thing. Tell everybody who you are.
That looks like I'm trying to now try it. I got to push a button. Hello. Get right
up on it. Hello. There we go. Okay. Cool. My name is Donna May Faranda. I'm a filmmaker
coming from San Francisco and I have one of my short films here at the Asian Film Festival
in Dallas. My first. Super shadows. Oh boy. It's your first time here. I mean, what's
in San Francisco right now? Like 78 and windy. Like a high of 70. I'm going to Ohio next
week and I'm just like the highest is like 84 years. It's like, it's like a third of
what it is here, right? It's an experience. I mean, yeah, I mean, it's your first time
in Dallas. Well, I will welcome you to our city, no matter what Mother Nature wants to
do to you when you're here. Yeah, I got you. I got you. Tell us about the film. Yeah.
So my film is called Soap and Shadows and it's actually a tribute to the fog in San Francisco,
which we've nicknamed as Carl. So Carl the fog. Carl the fog. And it's about a couple
that wake up from hearing fog horns. And instead of getting upset about the fog horns,
they imagine very whimsical things about it. And then those whimsical things project
as shadow puppets in front of them. When did you use film it? I filmed this and
November. Yeah. How long did it take you to shoot it? It took me, it's only five pages.
So it took us a day and a half. See, and we always talk about every time we do a festival,
people are like, how long and then you said how long is the film? I'm sorry. It was five
pages, but it's eight minutes. So eight minutes. They're like, oh, it's like, but it took
you a day and a half. You know, I mean, I just, I do very, very, very, very, very, very
amateur filmmaking for my job, my day job. Okay. And I just wrote, directed, produced,
and starred in a six and a half minute short that total filming time was probably about
18 hours. Okay. You know, and it's like, people don't understand like what goes into
this. Oh, for sure. Now, and then cutting it all and all that stuff. Although that's
one of my favorite things to do. Yeah. Getting to play with Adobe Premiere Pro is like
one of my favorite things in the world. It can be very frustrating, but it's a lot of fun
when you put pussy together. Um, I actually edited also because I lost my editor last
minute. And I'm like, I guess I'm editing it now. And so I just watched like a bunch of
YouTube videos about how to do certain things. Um, and time just goes by really quickly.
You're like, oh, it's nighttime now. I think the roughest part for me in the editing process
is picking the right take. Yeah. And especially if you have two really good ones. Uh-huh.
And so you're just walking back and forth and back and forth and back and forth. Yeah.
Now, since it's about to fog, were there any challenges in the principal photography,
were you able to put some effects to it to to pick up any slack from not having fog when
you needed fog? So it is about the fog, but it's mostly about the fog horn. So the
fog horn sound. Um, I think it was kind of difficult to because we obviously didn't have
the live fog horn when the actors were there. So they didn't really know when to react.
Um, so I mean, you had to use visuals like someone raises their hand like, hey, fog
horn's happening now. And it's like very repetitive. Um, but my actors were super great. And
I think they, I don't know, they really killed it. How many times have you screened it before?
I actually, um, this would be my fourth time. Um, I was in the main international film festival
last weekend. So you went from San Francisco to Maine to Dallas. That's it. It's been fun.
This being the fourth time tomorrow would want to clock if I'm not mistaken.
Are you at a point where you're good with it now? Or, I mean, at this point, can you still
watch it without going, oh, I should have done that. I should have done that. I've cut it
done that. Oh, I do that every single time. Everyone's like, oh, does it get easier? And I'm just like,
no, I never does it. So nervous every single. I don't think I breathe during my entire screening.
Oh, I'm glad it's only eight minutes. Exactly. I got it down to science now.
How well, I mean, from a directing producing standpoint, how many films have you done before this?
Oh, how many films have I done before this? Um, I focused on writing. I went to
Chapman University for screenwriting. And so before this, my other two films, I just wrote it and
then kind of handed it off to a director. And then I realized my vision wasn't exactly how I'd
like it. And so I'm like, well, this is only two people. It's one location. Let me try directing.
And I think, I don't know, it worked out well. So this is the first time you really kind of gone
full bore. Yes, this is the first time I've directed. Yeah. Is this something you think you want to
do more of? Or do you think I said, you know what? This was good enough. Let me just go back to the
writing. Yeah, I do want to try it a little bit more. My love is with writing. I like to say that
my idol is Charlie Kaufman. And I want to be the female version of Charlie Kaufman. But it's been
a really good experience. I'm actually, I created this film with this co-op in San Francisco called
Scary Cow. And we're just like a bunch of people who want to make films on the weekends or like
on or like time off. And there's like writing groups and pitch meetings. And it's great just to
meet different people from all walks of life, just wanting to learn how to make films. And then once
we do make a film together, we scan a screen at the Castro Theater in San Francisco. So that was my
first screening. Nice. Nice that I can bring it to different locations too. Who inspires you as a
filmmaker? Aside from Charlie Kaufman. Like who is like when somebody releases a film like
who would you say that you would go to site unseen? Okay. This person's doing the movie I'm there.
I mean, I would I guess like what Sanderson, I feel like I have to see everyone.
There's an obligation there. There's an obligation there. Yeah, it's just like have you seen it
go like, okay, I got to see it. I don't know. I feel like there's certain actors that I have to see.
Like I love Ethan Hawke. So I saw this last film actually at the main international film festival
that he directed. But he just dropped something, didn't he? Yeah. It was called Blaze. It was really,
like I don't really enjoy country music at all, but I enjoyed that entire film.
Something about Ethan Hawke. He's just one of those actors that he'll curve ball you. Yeah.
You know, what was the movie we saw from him predestination? Yes. I was just not to mention this.
Unbelievable. Good. And then you know, of course, boyhood is boyhood. Yes. You know,
of movies that are that are on the horizon, what are you looking forward to most right now?
Sorry, say that one more time. Movies that are coming out. What's what's the one movie that you're
just like, I'm ready for that movie? I want to go to there right now. Yeah, yeah. I know it's
already been out for a while, but I really need to see you. Sorry to bother you. Everyone's already
seen it. Don's screened. He thought it was a little strange for him. Oh, sorry to bother you though.
That Don's thoughts walking away. Don we've already got it. It's out there. Don't worry about it.
Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. You know, he can't. Yeah, we can't. It was interesting.
Yeah, that's different at that. Leave it at that. Listen to our exclusive number or whatever it is.
Well, we've just we're dropping two more, three more exclusives today after this show. A couple
of movies coming out this weekend. Don't worry. He won't get far on foot. Okay. Amazing. Okay.
Eighth grade comes out next week. I do really need this. We we screened it. Very enjoyable.
I can't talk too much about it because the embargo is not up yet. Yeah, but that was that's equal
wise or two. Yeah, equalizer two. We got we've got that one coming out and then Chad saw unfriended dark
web. I haven't even heard of that. I'm out. Yeah, I don't do scary movies. I just I have a thing. I
don't do scary movies. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm out. And according to Chad's review,
it's a little too real. Yes. Because it deals with the dark web and how. What is this called?
It's called unfriended. It's a sequel. There's a movie a few years are called unfriended. This is
the second. But this is called this is more like it. I wouldn't call it a sequel. It's more like
an anthology type thing. And it's deals more with the dark web. And yeah, it's it'll it'll it'll
it'll make you want to change all of his passwords. Yeah, I know that you've got stuff that you
want to do. We don't keep you too long. But before we go, we've founded this show on shameless
self promotion. Okay. So make sure to give everybody social media everything they need to know
about this film. Even before they get here tomorrow at one o'clock to see it during the short
block. Yeah. Well, obviously if you're on Facebook, we're at Facebook dot com backslash soap and
shadows film. I think that's all spelled out. Um, that's pretty much it. So it's soap and shadows.
Yes. Sometimes I can't I don't mind. It doesn't translate. So show up a shout out on Facebook.
Anything else Instagram Twitter for you that you want to promote. I mean, if you want to follow my
personal Instagram at I'm at DAW and you H and you want to follow my Dallas adventures. So I'm
here. How long you staying? I'm leaving tomorrow night actually. I'll say you got to point
the bunch of stuff you got to do. Yeah, you got to have some have some good barbecue while you're
here. Go just go drive around and see all the way. If you haven't been here at night, our
skyline looks amazing at night. I'm going to say that. I'm not just because I live here, but
our skyline is one of my favorite to look at. Especially and our sunsets are insane. Oh yeah.
I mean, living on the west coast, you get sunset every night. But there's something about the way
the sun sets here that I just it's just unlike anything I've ever seen. I can't wait to see it.
Well, we are so thankful that you came and sat down with us. All the best Q and A. I'm assuming
after the shorts tomorrow, one o'clock, the women's showcase shorts here at Asian Film Festival
of Dallas. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. All right. We're moving and shaking, sir. Yes,
we are. I'm trying to keep up. You want to go through some headlines real quick? Sure. Let me
kind of clean up the social media feature or what you're doing. A free form has renewed
cloaked dagger for season two. Have you watched the first season yet? I have not, but I've heard
good things. American Horror Story season nine is going to be called Apocalypse and it's going
to be a crossover with Murder House season one and then Coven season three. They're going to be
crossing those over for the other. Oh, okay. I thought you meant like with a dinner series. No,
it's going to debut September the 12th. I know that you were a fan of that show at one point.
Fox rebooting Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I saw that last time. Just Wheaton's involved. Yeah,
that that was kind of shocking. This is the weekend of San Diego Comic Con. So, you know,
there's plenty of stuff to talk about. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Let's see. Amber Tamplin has joined the cast
of, you know, because you know, FX is doing why the last man as a TV movie. Yes. Which I'm very,
you know, I love that comic. I've only read like a handful of issues of that. Uh-imaging Puts,
Dianne Lane, and Barry Keoghan also in it. Okay. Okay. Keoghan's going to play what? Play York.
What do we know him from? I've got 20,000 things in front of me right now. Okay. Uh-Sam Whitworth,
joining Supergirl as Agent Liberty. That's going to be one of your big bads this season. All right.
He's, uh, if you don't know who Agent Liberty is, he is a part of the human's first movement that
is developing on the sea in the, uh, in the Berlanteverse. Berlante? It's not the air. It's not the
arrowverse anymore. I'm just talking about Berlanteverse. Uh, Alice Eve is going to play Typhoid Mary
in season two of Iron Fist. You know, I love me some Alice Eve. Wow. Really? Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
Uh-shutter. Have you known who shuttered the channel shutter? Yes. They're going to be whole,
they're going to be, uh, showing a creep show anthology series. Really? I thought you'd be
assuming that. Uh, Nickelodeon will be reviving Rugrats, including a live action film. Yeah,
that's the part that got my interest was, I mean, I never, I never got into that show. No, me either,
but I'm like, how, how is that going to translate to live action? Uh, big news for people of R.
ilk, September 25th on Blu-ray for Fragile Rock, the complete series on Blu-ray. I'm still waiting
on my announcement for Batman and the anime series to say it's coming. So it's supposed to be this
year. Well, I thought you were going to say you're still waiting on your gobo cheap. No, I've got those.
I know. I know. Uh, Hulu is going to be developing a series based on Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles.
Going back to that? Well, again, okay. I mean, isn't this like the third time we've done that?
Well, I mean, how many films did they do until, I guess just two, right?
Yeah, because Queen of the Damned. Yeah, they did interview the third one.
They might have done like a straight to video now, production of some sort, but
did you hear anything about the CW dropping their heroes montage at San Diego today? No.
First appearance reference to Batwoman. She's going to get her own series. Oh boy, it's the CW.
They're, I mean, that's kind of what they do because she's going to show up on Arrow because
apparently the crossover this year is good. They're going to go to Gotham. Not Gotham. I was going to say
really. Don't give me started. Let's see. And Star Wars. The Clone Wars is coming back.
Saw that trim of the on Disney streaming service, but I will not buy.
It's just for that one season. Apparently, this is going to just tie everything up.
TV on DVD and Blu-ray this week's Steven Universe. We talked about that a couple of weeks. Go
seasons one through four in a box set. And Gravity Falls, the complete series. I was pretty
popular around the Disney XD there for a minute. Yeah, I never saw that. Should we talk about our
next episode? Because next week we're going to be off, right? Because why would we do more than
two episodes in a row? Because next week, Grace Descending will be live at Curtin Club in Dallas.
You can join us on our Facebook page on the Grace Descending Facebook page. We're going to
stream that live. And if you want to come out tickets are 12 bucks. We're going to play about 8 o'clock.
We need, we need as much support as we can get. This has been a tough, tough show for us because a
lot of people out of town, things of that nature. But the week after that, which I believe August
the 4th, did I do the math on that right? August the 4th, August the 5th. Whatever that next
Sunday is, we get to my wife's birthday. We are going to be live at a place we were just at about
three weeks ago. And I'm just hearing about this like right before the show started. Well, we just
locked it down like three hours ago. We're going to be at Cidercade in Dallas where we had my birthday
party this year about my hour birthday party, where we had Ragnarok, friend of the show Belinda
Wong who's helping out with who needs sleep. She's helping book all the bands and everything else.
It's her birthday party and she's calling it who needs cake. And so we're going to do our show
live at Cidercade that night, live the tape at this point. And we're going to be raising money for
who needs sleep. Trying to figure out where we're going to set up in there that's not going to get
like tons of noise. We'll figure it's not going to matter. I mean, we'll be able to cut through
the noise. That's true. Yeah, because we can be louder. But if you don't know what Cidercade
is, this is a place in Dallas right in the Mockingbird 35 area where you pay ten bucks. And it's
a full blown arcade. No, not Mockingbird. Well, it's Irving Boulevard, but you can get there from
Mockingbird. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I forget how long that street is. But games from like the dawn of
man to the brand new stuff like Killer Queen. You played a lot of Killer Queen when we were there.
I got to be doing our show live. We're going to be helping raise money for who needs sleep.
That's going to be a donation stop. That's Sunday because we're getting ready. We're about a
month away, sir. We had a board meeting today. And by the way, you are talking to the President
of the Board of Directors. You saw my eye. I'm now officially official. My card.
And we are officially at the point now like we were at the point of Devon calling me last
year and saying, I have an idea to show you how close we are to who needs sleep. September
1st at 8 a.m. to September 2nd at 8 p.m. We're going 36 hours again live. Who needs sleep.org is
where you need to go. So you can donate. Be a part of this thing. We had so much fun last time.
We're going to do an hour of our show. Kyle's here. Friend of the show. Kyle Connisses in the house.
And co-host of the next issue podcast. How are things going with the next issue? Come sit down brother.
You know, you're always welcome to. I know, but I never, you know, just never know what I should jump in
or not. And Kyle also very active in who needs sleep. He's going to be helping us out again this year.
Yes. Had a board meeting today. Things went really, really well.
I hate to ask this, but are we still going to be where we're supposed to be?
It's going to be a little bit different this year. All of the interview segments will be in
Russ Martin's old studio. Okay. Okay. All of the bands will be located in the big studio.
Okay. Where was I? And we still have the podcast studio.
Which you guys didn't use last year on my show. No, we were alive on this. I think I had to do
with some of the streaming, but yeah, we were having issue with the street, but we're going to have all
that worked out. Nice. But I know next issue is going to be there. Just a second. It's going to be
back this year. They were back to back last year. So maybe we'll space it out a little bit for you.
Got some really cool stuff coming out. We're going to have a DJ play in the middle of the night.
Nice. The three-hour set. We're going to have cosplay dancers.
It's really going to be amazing. And we are raising money for two North Texas cancer research
charities, one being cancer support communities in North Texas, the other being cook children's
Fort Worth. And we're looking to we're we're set our goal at $25,000. Because last year we raised
13. We put it together in five weeks. I think we made 14. I think we made the 14 mark.
So we figure if we can plan that in four weeks and four months, we can do double that. So
whether you want to donate, whether you just want to watch all of this madness,
we're going to have some great auction items to bid on. And if you follow us on social media this
week, we were able to make a huge announcement about who needs sleep and some of the the cool auction
stuff we're going to be have people bid on during the telek during the telephone. First and foremost,
one of the things that you can bid on. And these are high ticket items. So be prepared. Don't get
sticker shock when you see these items. Airfare for two hotel accommodations to Chicago and two
tickets to see Hamilton in Chicago is one of the packages. Another package that we're offering.
Airfare for two accommodations and two tickets to a 2019 Chicago Cubs game to sit on the roof at
rigley. Nice. And if you don't think I've already told Marcus you're out here, you're out of your
mind. Marcus knows also a roundtrip airfare for two and accommodations to Kentucky to go on three
different bourbon tours. Makers mark is one. These are big names. These aren't mom and pop shops.
Yeah. And then something you'll be interested in. I don't know if you saw this. No. But I want you
to go. You can probably go to the Who Need Sleep page and there's an eBay link. And I want you
to look at something because it's something that I've never seen before. And I was hoping maybe
you could give some light to this. Okay. It's and it's it's one of the oddest things that I think I've
ever seen. Friend of the show Clay Harrison was there today. We showed it to him and he's like,
that's cool, but I don't know what this is. I will tell you that it was it was made in 1977.
If that leads you anywhere. Yes, it should. I don't know if the link is there or not.
Where do we find the link? Go to the Who Need Sleep Facebook page. Okay. I was going to the
Whips and I was going to eBay. No, we don't. It's it's there's an eBay link. I don't know if
if it's the eBay link will work. Let me see if I can pull it up on my phone as well. I said,
this must make this for fascinating. Oh, well, that's why I'm narrating as we're going, sir. I
may be dumb, but I'm not stupid. So I actually, I'm going to try to pull it up on base camp so you
guys can see it. Where is the link? Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, internet kind of slow.
That's why I'm on my own network. All right. So I'm going to there's okay. This is
page. Where are we? Super. I'm going to show you guys right here. The super, the Star Wars 1978
teaching kit. I've never seen this before. And I'm showing you guys as it goes. There's two cassettes
in this thing and a film strip. Interesting. All right. And this is original with teaching cards
that you can use. There's a comic book involved. And I'm not sure what it's teaching. Let's see,
1978 Star Wars teaching kit from, oh, of course, that's a very, very small print. I can't read it.
From Pendulum Press, one film strip, two audio cassette tapes, three copies of comic book style
student books, one teacher's booklet, one folded classroom poster, mimeograph worksheets,
with five sets printed and stapled, standard black and white worksheets for copy use and great
condition. And the original box, I believe this is a video of a film strip and audio tapes,
but I don't want to handle a film or play the cassettes to confirm. But this is original. Like,
this is serious. Surprise. They're cassettes and that ain't tracks. So, I mean, oh, here's the
makers, Mark Jim Beam and Stitzelweller are the three. So again, these are high ticket items.
But if you're somebody that's a got money to burn or b needs money to write off some taxes,
we are a 501c charity. So, and we will supply you everything you need to do to write this off of
your taxes. We are a nonprofit. We were talking earlier that, you know, I am as the president of
this organization, I don't get paid. This is all volunteer work. We're all volunteers. Every single
one of us come join us. You know, you can buy tickets and you can be part of the studio audience,
which is kind of part of the fun because you get to see all the madness that's not on camera.
It's funny of it. Trust me. I'm hearing rumors of a possible D&D game that will happen during
the telephone. That could be happening. There's a lot of really neat things. We're going to do one
hour of our show again as well this year. My bands actually going to play this year. Very cool.
So, Grace Descending will be involved. Bad karma. Chances band is coming back this year.
I've got, there's a couple of other bands that I can't quite talk about yet because we haven't
got it locked down, but I'm very, very excited. I'm really trying to get Doc to put the go-bows
together for this thing, but he hasn't committed to me yet. So, I am now calling him out on air live
because, you know, Doc's so good at succumbing to peer pressure. Yeah, sure. But now, we want every
go-to-whooneatsleep.org. That is the website that we want you to go check out. You can find out
all about us. You can, we have little bios for everybody that's on the board, whether it's
Devin Pike, who's our executive director and the brainchild of this nightmare.
It's not really a nightmare, but we like to call it that. You've got myself as the president,
Donna, C.C. Joseph, who's our vice president, Jen Rome, who's, you know, part of this show.
She is our secretary, and we have Linda Becker, who is our treasurer. We have some great people
involved with this thing. Again, we're all volunteering because we believe in this. Everyone at
some point or another has been affected by cancer, and we want these to go to cancer charities.
That's what we do. Now, let's both my parents to cancer. So, I mean, I can't strive enough. I lost
my father to it, as well. Yeah, so it's like, come on, guys. It's like one week and other time. It's
I can't think of a better chance for you guys to donate or give back to you. And it's labor-neil weekend.
You're going to have Monday off, anyway. Exactly. And I have a title to defend. And the great
thing is we're a telephone online. So, you can be on vacation. Disney is still streaming
lives. Well, and we talked about this last week. There are very strong rumors, and we can't
say who yet, but we are talking to a number of establishments around the Dallas-Fort Worth area
that are actually going to carry the feed in their establishments as well this year. That was my
idea. But I'm very excited about that because it's going to give us the opportunity to cast that
net even wider. So, if you are a proprietor of an establishment that has televisions that you
can hook a laptop up to, please let us know so that you can help carry the stream live because
we want to get this signal as strong as possible on this telephone. I was the only person that made
it all 36 hours last year without sleep. So, I didn't need it. So, we're going to see if I can
defend that title properly. You did when it was over with. Well, we tell this story too. Like,
it didn't hit me. Like, I was cool. Like, we did all the tear down. Well, you got some
gone. Yeah. And I got to the Wendy's drive through by my house and that's my body went,
you're done. I thought you went to water purge. No, it was Wendy's. Okay.
I didn't wanted Wendy's. Okay, because I remember you were on the phone with me and I literally
heard your batteries die. Like, I hit the wall. He's like, oh, dude. I was like, it just happened.
It just happened, dude. But it was so much fun and we're going to do it again. We're going to
have stuff that you'll be able to bid on live too. We're going to people like say at this point,
if you want to give, who first person to give 50 bucks, then somebody's going to have to do a
costume change. So, I'm going to have to bring a suitcase with me. A costume change? Yeah.
Why? Because we can. There might be a karaoke wheel of death. You don't know. Oh, good Lord.
I am so excited about this thing and I was talking to the board today and I was like, guys,
I am so encouraged right now because of what's about to happen here in five weeks. It's,
it's going to be amazing. And I wish I could talk more about it, but there's a lot of things I
can't talk about just yet because they're not set in stone. I can just talk about the stuff
we're doing. Just from when I know that Kyle and his crew were doing. Since we got Kyle here and Kyle
is this, you know how you say that I've forgotten more about professional wrestling than you'll ever
know? That's Kyle and comics. Yeah. Like, I like to consider myself a comics guy. Like, I'm kind
of out of the loop at it because I had to, you know, but Kyle is like that guy. Like, he is the
comic encyclopedia. Anything out of San Diego that's got you all jazz that you've heard. Yeah.
As of right now, the Alchemist trailer. I had she had watched and pre-show. I haven't
checked it out. Holy crap. I mean, I hear he likes to talk to fish. Yes. Okay. But I mean, it's
more than just talking to fish. But I mean, like, if there's a, not even the Justice League trailer,
even the good one that maybe got shown, made you kind of hyped up. I mean, I know DC doesn't
not have the greatest track record when it comes to their films outside of Wonder Woman.
Well, plus they're not convening with Marvel this year. I know. Because he just said, no Marvel,
no Star Wars. So it's like DC. This is your shot. Yeah. I'm a little terrified. I got to give
it time. It's a teaser trailer, but I'm a little terrified by the Shazam trailer because Shazam's
always not even Shazam. It's Captain Marvel. Captain Marvel. He's always been one of my favorites.
Shazam? He'll sound the thing. Exactly. But we'll see how it goes. But I think he looks great.
I was used though. I was enthused. I was enthused. I was enthused. I was enthused. I'm a
Zach Lee by Mark. No, no, it's so much. I got to give it time because the emblem looks like a
neon light-up sign. And that's where it kind of gets. What are the pictures I saw? It looks like
they can't touch it. He goes, you know, he goes. Oh, can I? Yeah.
See, and when I took from it, it came off as very, as I told Rob in pre-show, it comes off like the
enchanted of the comic book. Exactly. It knows what it is. He's kind of like, he's kind of like
poking fun at itself. Yeah, and that's where I think of my half-unbiz. You've got to realize
he's Billy Bastion. He's a 10-year-old, and maybe in the movie, 12-year-old, but he's a kid.
Real good. He's an adult. Billy Bastion. Yeah, and so it's like, I may have to let it go.
It's a teaser trailer. I'll come in on the other hand. God bless me. There are two films
I'm now looking forward to during Christmas. That's one, and I don't care how much, and I said it.
I hate Michael Bay. I hate the films, but Bumblebee looks amazing. It looks fun. I am reserving
exactly. It looks fun. Some things don't have to take the bad taste out of people's
mouth when they walk out of axle like this. You know Don's not going to see it. Of course,
of course he's not. There's one chain as it is. Get over it. He's a BW bug. It feels like Bumblebee
from Generation 1 in a lot of ways, and that's where I'm like, okay. Well, when I saw that teaser
trailer, I was like, yeah, that's the Bumblebee I know. Yeah, exactly. And that's where I'll go.
Yeah. I'll just, I've been so burned. I think it's going to be a fun film. I'm hoping.
Because I've been so burned by that franchise. I still haven't seen the last night. I won't touch
these guys who can, I will sit here. I can recite the 1986 animated film line by line.
And I could you know, I could do one act. I got the 30th anniversary blue right at the house.
I have the Japanese, uh, because you've got to touch there. I have the original VHS copy, the Canadian
VHS copy, which has a certain word edited back in. See, I have the Japanese blazer just,
I have the blue right. I have all every release. I remember when the DVD came out because,
you know, that was the first time when I think chapters had names, and one of the chapter was
actually the S word. I was like, oh, that's where it is. But we also want to talk about why Kyle's
here, because Kyle just didn't have to be strolling by. That dude's wearing a badge, sir. No, no, no,
juror for another year. That's right. Oh, that's right. Because we're at Asian Film Festival,
Dallas. We should talk about what we're doing and why we're here. Kyle is a jury member. So he
gets to, I mean, how many of the movies do you, are you required to watch? Because let's talk
about it from a jury member standpoint. Well, I am a member for, uh, David, I'm a juror for the
shorts, and there are a lot of amazing shorts. But if I had to deem one bracket out of all of them,
the documentaries, the documentaries, good God. I'm always fascinated by documentary shorts,
because you have to take a lot of information and press it. And I always wondered what it was that
made like a documentary is short. And they says as long as it's within, like, I guess, an hour,
like, you know, you always like, you realize a sitcom, you have to do 22 minutes to do a half hour.
You have, I think it's 45 minutes or 44 minutes to get like an hour, but as long as it's under an hour,
I think that's where the short kind comes in. And there's, there's some really good ones. It's hard
to choose this in that bracket. When are they going to reveal the winners? Uh, it won't, I don't think
we're jury until Monday. So it won't be until probably near somewhere in the middle or near the end
of the actual, like, I don't know. I can't, I can't talk for them. So I don't know. I just know we're
we're going to be meeting on Monday. So, you know, but there's just a lot to go through. Talk about
the process. And you say we're getting together. Are you bringing a ballot to the table? Is this a
group discussion? No, it's a group discussion. They bring all the jurors together and we sit down and
I mean, I have a small notebook, my bag and I write every, the name of every film that I'm watching
at every bracket. Like, I mean, just the late night bracket alone was two hours. So it's like,
there's a multiple different shorts. And so I write and then I rate them, you know, check plus,
check, check or minus. And then I kind of, and I go from there and we discuss what we liked.
Sometimes somebody might bring, like, like, if there was a film I didn't like, somebody else did,
they'll bring their point of view. And so we can't even go here. Your, your ideas of why you like
a film or just like a film might change in that whole discussion point. Are you required to watch
them live in the room? Or do you watch them beforehand? Oh, no, you watch them beforehand. Like,
we got sent, we got sent all the videos beforehand. Like, I've had them two weeks before the
festival I've been started. So seeing it with a live audience, do you think that would change
your opinion on certain films? I don't know. I don't know. And that's, I mean, sometimes I don't
get to make it to all of the short just because I've seen them already. And so I like, I want to
spend the rest of my time watching the, the features and everything else. Like, you know,
that's where I come in. But like, I've sat through some of the shorts in past showings and it's
sometimes it's, I don't know, it's, it's, I think in my old age, I think I've just kind of
the point where it doesn't phase me with, you know, if it was my own piece, that might change it
because I had more in more invested. It's exactly invested. But because I'm watching them and I'm
watching what what people think about them and they're in their opinions, I don't, I don't, I know,
it just because it's kind of hard to change my view. But now sitting down and discussing it,
that's another story. But people's reactions, I don't think so. How many jurors are there?
There are, if you're kind of the person in charge, I think there's four of us. No, three,
three volunteer jurors that got brought in and then there's a fourth one who's in charge of
everything. So is there one for shorts, one for features? Yeah, there's a, there's a bracket of
jurors for the features and a bracket for the shorts. So we're separated. And so, but they're not
broken by genre. It's either shorts or dot or I think there are, I think there's at least one
or there's I think two or three different genres that we vote for everything out of for the jurors.
I'm not totally sure for the features. Okay. So, but you guys are all talking about the shorts
together. There's not like, you guys are going to handle the documentary shorts. You guys
know, no, no, no, we watched all five brackets and then we come down and sit discussing who,
who's going to win. So, I think they said there was what? 60 something shorts. Probably, yeah.
There was a lot to go through, but how long did it take you to get through them once you got
through the links? I just, I took time. Like, I would take like a, I think I would break down a
bracket per night. And so I was like, you know, choosing out a watch like the dramas and then
Sunday night I would watch like the late nights and then I would watch the women's and then we have
documentary and they have the experimental. So there were five of brackets to go. So how, I mean,
how long did that take you? What was it? What's total runtime? About two, three hours? No, I mean,
if I remember correctly, I think drama was about an hour and a half a late night and
women's, I think we're an hour or two hours a piece. I mean, I think the shortest one was a
experimental, which I think might have been an hour, but then that through usually an hour and a
half to two hours. I totally lost my train of thought because I really, this is the first time I
think we've had a juror on the show that we got a chance to talk to that process because a lot
of people don't understand like, there are certain things that are audience awards, but there are
people that are brought in that are evaluating. And that's the majority of film festivals. You
actually have people, they, you know, whether you're guest or just, you know, France or you have a
background of the film area in some form or fashion, you brought in to kind of go through and judge
these films, you know, these pieces of art that people have taken to, you know, make themselves,
and that's sometimes the hard part because you're realizing, you know, there's a film you don't
necessarily like, it's you're cutting out what might be somebody's pride and joy. And that's actually
the question I was going to ask because it came back to me. Do you make an effort to not talk to
the filmmakers? I don't. I mean, there are sometimes like, you know, I know they bring a couple of
filmmakers in and whether or not you get a chance to make it to the Q&A or if they're still outside
when you leave, do you get to say hi or ask them questions? I think in my, I don't know how many years
now I've been judging the shorts. I don't know how many times I've, I think maybe once or twice I've
gone to talk to one of the filmmakers other than that, I just kind of like, I don't, I don't know,
unless you contact some of these guys via online, it's kind of hard to get their, you know, point of view.
Do you feel that that would change you at all if you did? I don't know, maybe, maybe. And sometimes I
think I just, I don't know, it's, it's a really hard to, I think I'd have to go back and actually
maybe talk to a few of them ones and maybe I didn't wasn't totally sure about a rate of that high
to kind of get their point of view. And then I have talked, I mean, I've talked video and film
classes before and I've gone back and I've, you know, done critique with the students and I wasn't
sure why they did some, you know, certain decisions, but they edit stuff or where they produce it.
And then I go back and talk to them and they go, this is what I was trying to go to when you go
back and realize you're like, well, okay, maybe the implementation wasn't the greatest, but you
understand where they were trying to go for and that kind of changes your viewpoint on it a little
bit. What, what's the process to become a juror? It's, I guess, just kind of, in your experience.
I just experienced. I've done it for some of years. I think I'm just kind of one of those people
because I've helped out with so much with the, I'd like to think it is because I've helped out with
so much with the film community, whether it's teaching or during or helping just with the, you know,
I've worked with so many of the different film festivals here. I like to think it's just because
people know me and they know I have an expertise. We know in this area that they just kind of think
I might bring a good, I don't know, kind of viewpoint to the table.
What was the movie that made the film that made you go, oh, this film, it makes me a fan of film?
Oh, Jesus. I mean, it's just growing up and just watching film, you know, I mean, if I really
want to go back to my earliest childhood, I mean, Star Wars, you know, I mean, or Indiana Jones,
we're getting into like the independent part of filmmaking where you realize, you know, anybody can
do it now, you know, Kevin Smith, you know, I think, I think the one film that I think still holds
up and whether or not you love him or not hate him, it's chasing Amy. I saw it. I have it on
my list or disc. I saw the film six times in the theater when it first came out in Dallas. I saw
at one time as I got a free, I was ready for the newspaper, Brookhaven Community College, and I got
a free advanced screening to go watch it. Something clicked, I mean, I was working at a comic book shop
at the time too. So it resonated with me and I saw it five more times in the theater when it hit.
And so it's what's a newbie.
I almost
because that's all we on it. Oh, yeah.
But that's always been your thorax.
Well, it's always been my favorite. And I don't know if you saw, but they actually had a Kevin Smith
cosplay contest as a Diego. Yes. At the IMDB boat. I have been, is the IMD boat.
They're actually the seriously. Yeah, they call it the IMD boat.
Uh, for, you know, and in Kevin Smith is one of those clerks is the, it was the first film I watched
multiple times in a day in its purest form. See, I saw the trailer because the buddy of my
worked at Blockbuster and they had it on the trailer loop. I would not have known what clerks was.
If it wasn't for the fact, I was down visiting a friend in Houston and we're over to boyfriends
and I watched Mulraths. And they tell me, oh, so you saw Mulraths before you saw her. And they
told me about course. And I go to premier, not premier, it was an update. Uh, no, it was in
farmers branch, but I came over to the name was, but I went and rented a clerks and that even
brought a whole new name. I started going to all the, like, you know, back before we had,
back before the re-eventivate, sorry, renovated the, uh, Inwood theater back when it was still
had all the original stuff. And then I was watching, like, you know, going to see Ghost World or, uh,
the dangerous life of ultra boys and stuff like that. All the IMDB goes down, which I saw here at
the Angelica. Yeah, I know. I was, I was in a, from like 98 to 2005, I was a huge, I had to
see everything independent. It was just coming out. And now it's like, I mean, I don't think it's an
unfortunate thing. But independent film has taken such a different role now. Because in the digital
age, when you have so much access to stuff, Indy film isn't that niche thing anymore. And that's
a good thing. I think, you know, it's like, you know, independent film used to be for theaters
like the Angelica. Now they're showing stuff like Iron Man and the Avengers. Here, like,
a lot of the independent films and big budget overlapping and your independent stuff is stuff on
demand, Amazon Prime, you know, Netflix, you get in there and that's the kind of stuff where you
show it now. Even like, uh, Vimeo has its own on demand format. There are people are putting their,
you know, films out on there. It's so easy for a filmmaker. You know, whether or not you get picked
up one thing, but be able to distribute your own stuff is so much easier these days. And I love,
you mentioned that about the Angelica. How the Angelica really kind of that then diagram is
very interesting because there's going to be films here at the Angelica or down the street at the
Magnolia that are going to have their own run, but you're still going to be able to have access to
some mainstream films too. And now, you know, with their, their retro series, you know, I'm going to
be here for Top Gun next month because my sister, Charlotte's like, can we go see Top Gun? That's
an absolute. There's, I love the ammo draft house, but the lots that they do. I mean,
I mean, one of my favorite things they used to do, I haven't done it in so long, but these
to do every like one Saturday out of the month used to do like a two hour Saturday morning cartoons
and the serial press. Yes. I was like, I remember your PJs and now they do movies. Well, you know,
let's we can talk about something else we forgot to talk about when it come when you mentioned the
Alamo. You need to mark August the 15th on your calendar. Lost Colinas, the Alamo there. Uh-huh.
Who needs sleep will be doing a charity screening. So tickets are $15 and two thirds of that
go straight to the charity. But what what film? So little, it's this little indie film you might
have heard of called Army of Darkness. Jesus. I don't suppose they're bringing Bruce Campbell in by
chance. Are they? I will neither confirm nor deny anything that's being said. But we're going to be
doing a screening of Army of Darkness and we're going to have it. We're going to be raffling some great
take prizes off. I've got it. I think I've got that. It's too. Yeah. But it's going to be a great time.
It's only 150 seats. Yeah. So if you want to get in tickets, go on sale Monday.
For it'll be Alamo Lost Colinas, which is a it's probably one of the smaller Alamos, but I liked
the Alamo and Lost Colinas because it's so small. We went for the great opening. They showed us
Infinity War. Nice. And if you're a fan of Bruce Campbell, if you're a fan of the Evil Dead series,
you know, sure you may have watched Army of Darkness, a hundred times. But to see it in a theater on
a big screen, it's a whole different deal. I'm very, very excited for this. And I mean,
unfortunately, I will not be I'm going to be out of town that week. But go on out. You'll be able to
meet everybody involved except me. But that Devon has made mention of putting doing a head on stick
thing for me. God. And if you know anything about Devon Pike, I don't say ever say that man won't
do something. He will. And that you know how much I love him. But it's and it's going to be a
fundraiser for the charity. So if you can't give to the charity or whatever, go see a movie.
Go see Army of Darkness. Come hang out with us. And it's a brand new theater. It's a beautiful
theater. One of the things speaking we were talking about about Infinity War, Mark Bernardon on Fatman
made a statement last week. But did you know that he's one of the writers of Castle Rock? Yes.
Yeah. He made a statement last week. And I need this to happen in the worst way.
He said, I would pay money to watch the entire saga. You know, because you know what the
Alamo did, they're previously on the Avengers. And they give you the entire time on this. Yes.
If we could do that with Michael penis character from Ant Man on the Wasm telling the story and
everybody doing the lip sync thing, he goes, I would pay good money to watch that for an hour and
a half. That would be genius. I would buy two tickets. I want that now. Well, you know,
what else I would I want to happen right now? What? Tell me and I know we're maybe getting into a
different area altogether. Tell me you saw the fan film that Philian revealed. No, no, no, no, no,
I'm charted. Yes. I heard about it. Oh, dear God. It's Phillion. That's all you need to know. I mean,
if ever a video game movie has translated perfectly to a film medium, it's this. I feel like
Phillion will not rest until he has all of the geek cred between him and Tudyk. They're like in a race
right now. Like just combine your powers. Take it over. Well, you watched it, right? Yes. Okay.
When he dove through the window. Yeah. And they went into straight up over the camera,
third person game mode. Yes. They nailed it, dude. I mean, like, you know how, you know, how hard
doom took a swing at it and completely flubbed it. Oh, yeah. When they went into that three minute
I did see I did see that part of that film. Okay. And it was all my minutes. Yeah.
But they they completely captured the essence of that game perfectly. He was born to play that
role of video game movies. I don't know if you saw the tweet that AJ Lee sent out a couple of
weeks ago. Well, apparently she saw the Alicia, Alicia Vikinder Tomb Raider for the first time.
Uh-huh. And she's like, this is literally watching like uncut scenes from a video game.
It should win all the Oscars. I'll fight anybody. Okay. Okay. We know you will. But I mean,
you, but you guys enjoyed that film. It was different. It was, it was, it was better than it had to
be in Europe. It was, it was better than the Angelina Jolie films. Yes. Yes. But that's not
the same thing. Although the screening we were at for the first one was great because it was
the screening by the tickets. We all got to go. Okay. And this one, she's a different character.
Because you know, in what I mean, the game, she's a different character. Yeah. Now in this,
in this one, she, she doesn't live the rich lifestyle. Oh, okay. She lived real humbly.
And so it had that different aspect from that. And so they tried doing a different route on her
past and everything like that. Still looking for dad and all that. But well, since we've got Kyle
here, we can talk some movie headlines. Comcast now out of the race for Fox.
Kind of knew what's going to happen. So they finally had to stop holding Disney's beer.
Yes. Wow. So you saw the villain has been revealed to Venom. Yes. It will be riot.
Is that one? Okay. And this is maybe one of points while me may fail on the comic. Is that
one of the other symbionts? Yes. Yes. That goes from person to person. Right. Gotcha. Okay. Okay.
So when we used to the screening of equalizer two, they actually showed the latest trailer of
Venom. That's first time I'd seen it. So possibly they weren't too, like, I know there was that
image online where people were like, there's a small image, what you think might be carnage's face
and like the small lower case of Venom's eye. But no, I'm not not carnage. I'm cautiously optimistic
about this movie. It's got to be better than what we've got to for grace. Again, not a high bar,
I know Jennifer Connolly and talks to be the female lead for Top Gun 2. I'm already out of that
one. I thought that was already a done deal. I saw this morning that said in talks. Okay. Are we
excited to see Top Gun 2? Not really. A little too late. But you know, but you know, I can watch
Jennifer Connolly read the phone book. So she has one of the greatest, one of the greatest scenes
in a trailer, not in a movie ever. And it was from career opportunities. Is she riding the horse?
No, no, where she says to him, she says, would you touch me if I was sweating? And Frank Whaley says,
I would touch you if you were covered in spiders. And it never, I'm like, how did that not make the
movie? Let's see what else we have here. The preliminary cast for the film version of Cats has
been released. Yeah. I saw that this morning. I liked the Taylor Swift. Okay. James Corden
makes sense. Ian McCallan. Can you see? Jennifer Hudson. Can Ian McCallan say? I bet he can.
You can do anything. But do I need, do I need this? No. Is this the thing I need in my life?
No. Okay. No, it's not sure. Birds of prey. Have you heard that news this week?
Supposed to deal with a black and airy. They're going for a hard R. Yeah. Which I can see that. I can,
I'm okay. Black and airy. Huntress Cassandra Kane. Renee Montoya. Harley Quinn. That's your
person. They're going the Titans route. I'm still not that excited about the trailer for that.
Me either. It looks like a high school production. Yeah. Let's tell you something. Dick Grayson.
Don't ever say that two word phrase about my boy. I will take you. I knew that would tick you.
You have one thing on top gun, too. Okay. Miles Teller. Love him. Yeah. Big fan. Yeah. We're
plash. Incredible. Playing, playing the adult son of, of Goose. Yeah. Here's a problem.
The movie was at least in 86. He was born in 87. And the sun was already like three or four
years old. Don, you ready? Yeah. Movie logic. Thank you. God. It's age. I mean, come on. If you
want to go back to the old days of Beverly Hills, now to 1.0, half of them are all in their mid-20s
planes. But that was a level. There's a level playing field, though. I'm not going to play here.
You're your Joaquin Phoenix Joker origin story set for October of next year. Zazzy Beats joining the
cast. Right. Domino. Yes. Okay. I might be okay with this. I don't need a Joker origin story.
I know what I need to know. I don't need one. You know what you need to know. You're the exception.
But now we're going to have competing ones too. So everybody's doing origin stories now.
I mean, where are they talking Star Wars? Are they talking Boba Fett now?
That is it. I don't, let's see. What have I always said? We already have the Boba Fett
origin story. It's called episode two. Yeah. We don't need an origin. Just give me a, like,
you know, and speaking of which, my wife last night watching Rogue One. Look at that. Wow.
I'm just waiting for the game. My wife, her viewing habits are very, very strange.
Like, my wife has seen Pack Rim like 15 times. Her favorite movie of all time is that thing you do.
I could respect it. Okay. Okay. But I will walk in as I'm walking through the bedroom sometimes
because she watches TV in the bedroom. Her viewing, she's, she has been binging and I mean,
binging longmire. It's not that bad of a show. I've seen episode. It's not that bad.
But to see my wife, I'm like, what, she's like, I don't know. It looked interesting. I started
watching. Have you thought of maybe trying to turn around to select some Gundam anime or something
because no, I can go through the first Transformers is one of her favorite films. That's why I'm saying
she knows Pack Rim and Transformers. So, yeah. Okay. I don't know if she would get into
animation. I can talk Gundam in here 24 or 7. I mean, we're getting that live action film.
I know. I know. I know. I'm okay with that. It's legendary. I know they're gonna do Max
right. They can do another road warrior. You heard it. I don't know. I gotta hope so. I hate to say it.
I'm not the biggest road warrior fan. I was, I was, I actually like to do that. It was a good film.
I just, it's not the franchise that really excites me as much, though. Yeah. Me either. Me either.
Until I saw Fury Road. I'm like, oh my god. Because all of these origin stories I'm saying is
Disney, Milk and Star Wars. I'm waiting for the day when I have a Jar Jar Banks origin.
I'm waiting. Keep waiting. You don't think they'll do that. All I'm gonna say is to all the
Star Wars haters get off your fucking couch. Easy, easy, easy. Sorry, but I, when I heard the story
about the guy almost committing, you know, how much stuff he went through and then just that it's like
haters stop. There will always be haters as long as the internet exists. I know. Sorry. I didn't
get me to go there, but it's okay. That just, like I said, I like Rogue One. Yeah.
Rogue One was amazing. Solo was good. I hated episode 7. I thought Solo was probably not going
there today. Today ain't your day for that. But, uh, but I, I, I have enjoyed, I enjoyed episode 8.
I had no problems with episode 8. I truly enjoyed episode 8. And all these haters are like,
go pounce me and dude, like to all the haters out there with the original trilogy. I have to
like, I'm so one the best. Episode one to me. I've said this a billion times. You and I have
this question. Episode once the first chapter of a book. Yeah. And for everybody that hated on
Jar Jar, when you get to episode two, it's all his fault. You know, it's, it's he's the one that
starts the whole ball roll. Criterion. Did you see this announcement this week? No. In honor of what
would have been Ingmar Bergman's 100th birthday, they are releasing a 30 disc 39 film blu-ray
box set. Is this the first box set? I've never known that. They've done box sets before,
but they don't do very many. I just don't like Ingmar Bergman that much to want to own that.
I'm still waiting for Criterion. It was a, I think it was earlier this year. They were supposed
to have been released in a whole bunch of the original Godzilla films on like one of the stations.
And then we released in all like 14 redone edited on blu-raying DVDs. And I'm still waiting for
those to come out. Well, speaking of error, they didn't do Godzilla movie now. There's a new one
coming out. The show is already out. The trailer dropped today. Yeah, I saw the poster drop in.
I saw the teaser. I saw like the teaser. Yeah, extension from the King Kong or whatever. Yeah,
so it's the way it goes. It's, we already had Kong. It's King of Monsters and it's going to be
writing to King Kong versus Godzilla. And I got to say, the monsters, they, I mean, what we see
of Rodan and Mothra and the little shadow Eska out of the, out of the smog with Ghidorah.
Which one's the three? Oh, that's like that. Interesting announcement that I didn't put on the
run sheet and I should have. It's okay. You're the only one that can see it. That's why we do the show.
Oh, Netflix. Hello, ultra man reboot. Really? Really? Yes, sir.
Next year. Okay. I'm so is it going to be Japanese done or is it going to be American done?
All I saw was a teaser poster, but not only it's because the new animated Godzilla movies are Japanese.
They didn't get really some Netflix. I'm just going to care. All I've seen is a teaser poster. And I am such an ultra man series.
I love the group. And I'm so excited for this. Well, let me ask you this. What did you like?
What did you enjoy more the Godzilla re-reboot or Shin Godzilla from a couple years ago?
Could you know Stephen love Shin Godzilla? Yes, oh, yes, pretty much as people hate or as much as I
talked to people that hated upon the American 2014 reboot, I still liked it because I knew
what they were trying to do. They were trying to play homies to the original like Tojo stuff.
I still enjoyed it, but Shin Godzilla, it was them redoing remaking Godzilla after the 10-year
hiatus. They said they wouldn't do after Final Wars. And then basically coming in and it was
interesting. It's not my it's not my favorite Godzilla and I don't think I don't want to
sequel to that Godzilla, but it was a different interesting tape because he's not like a he's
not a monster. He's like an organ that just evolved out of like the way he's getting a sequel.
Are we? I didn't hear the way they ended it. They have to. It was a cliffhanger ending.
I've heard they were just anything right there. I think I've been like about that 2014 version was
there wasn't really much of Godzilla in that. In 1999. Yeah, I'd only had 10 minutes of
of fight at the end for two-hour movie. I didn't drag that to wait until I got this we got more of
Kong out of Kongsko Island to make it to Godzilla. I haven't seen that either.
Really? I like it. I mean, it wasn't high on my part of it. Oh, no, it was a lot of fun.
I think you liked it. I thought you liked it quite a bit. I know you and I have talked about this,
but Kyle, have you heard of this film called Blackbird?
It's coming out later this year. No. I have four words for you. Action star, Michael flatly.
I hate to say this. I don't know that name. Lord of the Dance.
Nope. The guy that helped invent River Dance.
Eric, Eric, um, Roberts is in this. Okay, now you kind of got my interest.
This is going to be right bad. I saw this poster on IMDb and I'm like, is that Michael flat? That's
Michael flatly. I can't wait to get Dennis Leary's take on this. Have you ever seen an old, uh,
1970s martial arts films called Jim Cotta? I love Kong. No, that's the 80s, sir. And it was a
family guy reference. No, no, no, but you know, the guy lives here in Frisco. Does he really? Yeah,
he owned a genesto in Frisco loved Jim Cotta. We need to get that guy on the show. Oh,
1985. Yeah. And the thing is he's going through like an old medieval town and he finds a
palm horse in the middle of the town. It's right. I'm like, but they did that. How does he
beat Richard Norton in this film? They did that in Family Guy. That's right. They did.
They did because Stewie told Brian he wanted to teach him Jim Cotta and he had the,
the palm horse in the middle of the fight. The movie is greatness. And I was, I was like,
I actually tweeted. I'm like, did I just get a Jim Cotta reference on Family Guy? That was amazing.
Yeah, he's the coach of like, I think a couple gold medal winners on the Olympics.
And you mentioned rent earlier. Did you see that? That news this week. No, what's the name?
Lin-Manuel Miranda has is going to be directing the, the story that the guy that wrote
rent did before rent called tick tick boom. That's going to be his first film. He's directing. Wow.
Okay. To that came down this week. So it's only one big DVD new release this week. And I don't
know if it's really that big because you know how I feel about this film. Which film?
Ready Player One. Yes, it's a big film. Regardless of how you feel about it.
You're like you just a spillover. I shouldn't have read the book first. Oh, no, you should.
I haven't read it. So that's not the movie's fault. For me, that, that book would have been better
served if they did it as like an eight part mini series. Okay. Because they change. I understand
like you could, you weren't going to be able to do that book justice the way I wanted it to be done.
But there's, there's stuff that they cut out what I felt unnecessarily. I don't know. I mean,
I got to give us, I mean, you haven't seen the film yet. This is just small spoiler. But having
mobsick Gundam versus mech Godzilla at that last battle scene. I was all about that scene in the book.
I know. I know. Somebody told me what it was in the book. I would love that too.
Just the way that the whole thing unfolds in the book. It just, you know, I mean, and people,
it's actually available digital. I think now. Yeah. I think it's been a couple of weeks now.
Oh, I mean, I actually have to get going. All right. Kyle, always good to talk to you. Sir,
we'll, at the latest, we'll see you in about a month. Yeah. Who didn't sleep? I will be there.
Make sure you check out a next issue podcast and justice sack as well. Two of our two friends on
both of those shows because there's not enough podcasts in the world. Good to see you, man.
I can never have enough podcasts. I agree. I like to know what the numbers up to at this point
from an iTunes standpoint. Yeah, no kidding. Nothing really going on the world of entertainment
this week. Some music new releases this week. Quite a bit. Boss Skags is back. What? You know,
it's called out of the blues. Cody Jinx, he is a country guy who releases lifers,
Dautry, new album this week. He's going to be here in December. And if you buy two tickets,
they're going to give you the album for free. They're doing that bit. Where have I heard that before?
He's not the only one. He's just a designer. He's called for the love of metal. I'm wondering if
this is a cover album. Let's see. See if I can find a track list. Uh, face to face.
It's the name we haven't heard in a long time. They're releasing hold fast acoustic sessions.
Also a hailstorm. You know, I'm a big fan of Lucy Hale and hailstorm. I have a brand new album
this week called Vicious. Kenny Chesney with a new album this week called Songs for the Saints
and Underworld and Iggy Pop teaming up for tealtime dub encounters. Do you have that going for you?
Done look like a cover album because I'm not recognizing any of the tracks on here.
And to say, Dees Knighter hasn't aged in 20 years. I don't know if that's a compliment or not.
Well, because he always looked like a fox. That's true. But he's still out there getting it done.
It said that it's a passion project for him. Okay. But it doesn't really, it doesn't look like
it's any kind of a cover album or anything. Okay. All right. We have a guest, sir.
Clean up a living room. We have a guest. Tell it to everybody who we are.
I am Teresa Winn. I'm the publicist for the Asian Film Festival.
One of our favorite people. Teresa is always so good to us when we're here.
How are things going over there? Great. Now that I'm here, I'm great.
I will take that because there's just, I mean, there's a lot going on tonight.
What's the one thing? Like we asked this earlier, what was the one film that was announced that
you guys were going to have at the festival that you went? Okay, that's the big score for me.
Hmm. You know, I always like to know what we got first. And in this case, we have our first
Kashmiri film. So that was exciting for me. Tell everybody about it. Oh, it was the first
Kashmiri film. I don't know. People will not know what that terminology means. Oh, a Kashmiri.
So Kashmir is like what in between, okay, I could, I want to be completely wrong. I didn't take
geography, so I'm going to believe you. But it is by India. Okay. If there's only some kind of a
tool on my phone that I could probably look that up, some kind of pedia of wiki, if you will.
The women's showcase and all of our filmmakers who are in town right now are female,
except for one. So that's exciting. A lot of a lot of a focus on women filmmakers this year,
which I was really thought was cool. It's in between Indian Pakistan. Right. See, I got the
India right. I didn't want to say the other one. That's close enough. You're right area.
That's right. So first film from there. Right. This year. And is that,
has it shown or is it about to show? It has already shown yesterday, screened yesterday,
half widow. So which is the director and the producer should be here shortly. So they're going
to be on air. Awesome. To talk more about it. Yeah. How is it received? I heard a lot of they
really like it. It was very well done. That's what everyone was telling me. Is there anything about
that style of filmmaking that makes it unique unto itself? Or is it more in line with everything
else that's in the festival? I think it's more in line. I think we're more celebrating. It's the
fact that we have a film from that region. Okay. Or from that. You know, we also have like
Indonesian film this year. I did see that in the guy the other day. Filipino film. And so we
always like to celebrate films that come from different countries that we typically wouldn't
risk it. And you've got something showing tomorrow that was being highlighted by our friend,
Deb Shapiro. Shalom Bollywood. Yes. Talk about that a little bit. Okay. So from what I understand
what and Deb can tell you more about it, pointers. If we can get a hold of him. So it tells you the
history and the background of Bollywood. And what people don't understand is a lot of the women
actresses in the in the Bollywood films originated were Jewish women who are playing,
who are playing change their names in those cases too. So it would sound more than like you're
in line with the culture. And that's going to be tomorrow noon. Am I correct on that I think?
New Nish. Let me see. There are 33 feature films. Yeah, noon tomorrow. So it's hard for me to know
every single one of them noon tomorrow on that one. And that's a that's a just over an hour. Right.
So and that's something that I know Deb was really excited about because he put people to Facebook
add up for it. What other things are you looking forward to? Is there anything that you're like
chomping at the bit for or do you get a chance to see the films beforehand? I don't. I see
you know I'm working the working the festival. So most of the time I see two films and I always
look for the comedies because not a lot of comedy. I know this in the lineup this year which it's
they're very heavily drama. There's two that I'm excited about three feet balls and souls.
And we make antiques. We make antiques. I didn't see that. That looks really fun. Yeah.
Basically there's something shows up and there's a there's a couple involved in this.
Is it a couple or is it brother sister? I remember reading about this and he realizes that the
things aren't as quite as they seem. Where is it? I mean I read about this in the in the in the guide.
I should probably pay more attention to sometimes. But I mean these things seem to be going well.
Right. You got a good steady group of people coming in. We were talking earlier one thing I love
about this festival and most of the festivals we cover is you come here and you get to see the same
group of volunteers that you get to see all the time because it's people that have a passion
for what goes on here. For people that want to get involved what's the best way for them to do that?
Well they can reach through the email that's on their website. So asianfilmdallas.com they can
sign up. They can become a member. They can get a festival pass. They can just simply come to
the parties. They can pick from one film or all of the films. And they start doing that in November
for next year correct? No they're recruiting for volunteers all year round. Okay good.
But more so when it gets closer to the film festival. So so the volunteers will be just specifically
for the film festival. So people that want to be members. Is it an annual do? Is it okay so there's
an annual membership for people that want to be a member of this is because you guys do stuff in
the off season too. So you were talking about earlier you got stuff in the spring you have stuff
in the fall when maybe it's not a billion degrees outside. And the fact that the the Angelica is
such an amazing place to come to. And they're so they're so gracious as bit partners in business
of of giving you guys what she because on a weekend like this there's quite a few big movies
that are opening. Right. But the fact that they still give you guys the room that you need so
that the festival can be a successful. Talk about that partnership a little bit. Yeah Angelica
I think we've been here now for. So I've worked with the Asian Film Festival now for seven years.
And this is 17 right? The festival has been around for 17 years. Okay. Yes. But I've been working
with them for seven years. And I think we've only moved here for the past five years we've been here.
And it's been incredible. It's because the Film Festival is growing and we needed a theater that
can support that growth. And now we're in what four different theaters during the film. That's half
of the Angelica. I know that incredible. And I guess that they're such great gracious business
partners. They really are. You know we've we've been coming seeing movies in Angelica now for what
almost five years now. Give or take. Yeah. Where we do screenings here quite often. And it's just
I've I don't know that I've ever had a bad experience at the Angelica. Everybody's always so nice.
They they they corral us in the correct directions. So we don't wind up in the wrong place. And
especially when you've got a you know the festival is going on. But they've got their stuff going
on too. And everything seems to just all work together. Which is kind of tough to do because you
guys you have your own box office up here as well. So there's that balance that strike. And that
strikes that balance really really well. Yeah. Angelica is a great partnership. And they're very
flexible and open and how they we can make this a better film festival. Come come next Friday.
How long do you sleep? Oh gosh. I don't sleep much. But I don't sleep much. But I love being a part of
the film festival. So I feel like for for for about nine days you see this place more than you see
your own house. That's true. Take a picture of it at the daytime. So you remember what it looks like.
You're right. Right. And I carry my laptop with me. So work is with me and everything's with me.
But it's fun. It's fun to be here. It's a reunion for me every year to see the volunteers
and and the board members together. And then you blink in its next year. Right. You know it's
and that's the weird thing too is it's like it's not like we don't try to keep up with everybody. But
it's just like we turn our heads and here we go again. Yeah. So it's festival circuit starts all over.
Yeah. And I like especially in a town like Dallas. There's not really there's almost no festival season
because they're they're stuff going on all the time. It seems like it's a year-round thing.
You know from USA to to the diff to here to Texas women to video fest. It's a perpetual cycle.
And it keeps us busy and it keeps us out of trouble. I don't know if it keeps us out of trouble.
I don't know if it causes it. Like I say you know I don't go looking for trouble. It just always
knows where I am. How many film festivals are you guys apart of? All the ones who just went along.
Yeah. Give it a take. Yeah. Yeah. Our the very first one we ever did is almost six years ago now
was Dallas video fest. Oh yeah. That was the first one we ever covered. Yeah. Yeah. With Bart.
But he is one of the greatest humans on God's green earth. We love Bart Weiss and
Yeah. Can we just talk about Bart? Can we just tell me whatever you want to talk about my friend?
Yeah. Bart's amazing. He's he's you want to talk about a treasure trove of film knowledge. That dude
is. He to me I always tell people that he is the Dallas film icon. He is the beating heart of
the Dallas films. If you're involved with film or anything with film you need to know Bart or
you are probably already know Bart. And this this community of people is such an amazing group.
Like the other night I was here for a screening and it was for opening night for you guys and I saw
James Faust. So I got to talk to him for a minute and he's and the one of his and the
shoe works are here. Any any any excuse I get to hang out and talk to the shoe works is always
a good day. We actually worked their film festival the last couple of years at Garland High School.
We were actually judges for that for the last couple of years. I know that's been a lot of fun.
And this year their theme was a like a Jurassic Park theme and Schubert walked in in one of those
T-Rex costumes. No. That was absolutely. I got a picture of it somewhere. Flailing arms and all
that. Yeah. It was pretty fun. And I gave him credit because he sat in that costume for like 10
minutes. I would have been dead after like 30 seconds. That's so fun. It was one of those inflatable
clothes. Yes. Yes. Okay. Okay. That's fun. So what other other stuff do you get to do during
the year when you're not hanging out here? Well, besides the Asian Film Festival. So most of my
clients are lifestyle brands. Okay. So I represent a restaurant in town and I have a salon called
Pink Petty. Salon. They're the non toxic non chemical. And where is that at? That's a Sylvan
30. What's Dallas? shameless self promotion. Promote as much as you want my friend. Well, they're great.
They're great because they're the only ones that are completely chemical free, toxin free. So you
go in and doesn't spell like nails. Yeah. They there's is it. It's healthy for you. You walk through
the mall and you go. Yeah. Salon. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And the yoga center, the Dallas yoga center is a
kind of mine and they've been around since 1989 and I work with them and yeah. Restaurants. What kind of
films are the stuff that you tend to graduate, gravitate towards comedy and romantic comedies?
Is there a go-to for you? Like if you're at the house and there's nothing really on,
is there a movie that's like, you know what? I'm gonna pop this in and watch this. I you know what?
I don't even own a TV. I yeah, I know. Wow. Really? I don't have to anymore. It's all on your
phone or your computer. Netflix is my friend. I watch a lot of Netflix and what what they're
gonna own the world. Right. They are. They are. I mean, it's just the stuff that they're
there's producing some great stuff too. And their business model is incredibly aggressive. I love
that show with Jerry Seinfeld. The comedians of cars getting coffee. That's another thing
my wife's been binging lately. I love that. Really? Because they're showing it on Netflix now.
Okay. All right. I walked in and it was the episode where it was him and Tracy Morgan.
And I asked my wife at one point to Tracy Morgan and say he was going to get somebody pregnant
because that's his bit. Jerry I'm gonna get somebody pregnant. That's my Tracy Morgan. I think
it's dead on. He gets on my nerves. I think he's calling. You know what? I'm telling you, you know
what we'll turn you around on him is 30 rock. No, him on 30 rock. That's what turned me off.
Him on 30 rock between him and Alec Baldwin. And a friend of mine does a quote from Alec Baldwin
all the time where he talks about Alec Baldwin's character walks in in a tuxedo and Tina faces.
Jack, are you wearing a tuxedo? He says, one minute five o'clock in the Tuesday. What am I a farmer?
God. My wife loves that comedians and cars getting coffee.
Oh, I love it. My thing with Jerry Seinfeld is I respect that man like there's no tomorrow,
but I can only take him in small doses. There's so much of this. I can do it.
So that's how I feel about Tracy Morgan.
But Tracy Morgan stand up is very stream of consciousness. That is definitely an acquired taste.
Is there anything coming up that you're looking forward to, even from a mainstream standpoint?
I have not been following what big films are coming out, only because I've been fully concentrated
on this. That's fair. That's fair. Yeah, you know,
yeah, there's two. I like also watching besides the Jerry Seinfeld film on Netflix. I was like
watching Will Smith's wife. Jada Pinkett has a show called Red Table. I love that.
Oh, I would tell me about this. I don't. There's been a lot of like soul bearing on that show.
I've never liked a dinner for five kind of a thing. No, no, it's it's mainly her just having
family discussions with family members and they bring guests in on vacation. Usually her mom's
on there and her daughter. Yes, so three generations on there and then they invite different guests
like you said and they just have these great conversations. Issues that very deep personal issues
that they deal with like addiction and depression and just the things that they've gone through as a
family and helped each other get over. It's it's kind of surprising because I wouldn't expect that
from Jada. No, I didn't. I didn't expect that it was so it was going to be so deep and
but she's been kind of quiet in recent years. Not anymore. Not on this. I mean, this is like she's
all her. She's found her platform. I think this is what she needs to do. Is that a Netflix series?
No. What what is that word? I think it's just streams online on Facebook. Yeah, so it's like
Facebook live or where they call that Facebook TV or whatever like that. I just yeah, I've only
I've never seen an entire episode all the way. Facebook watch. I think that's what it is. But like
from what I've seen, just the clips that I've seen like you get like two to two to five minute
little bites of it. I'm just like, wow, I wouldn't expect it to get that deep and and reveal
that much personal information on. So there's just kind of just quick quick bursts. Right. Okay.
I think it's really emotional. Like I've seen them break down several times talking about the topics
that they discuss. Fair enough. Yeah, it's nice. It's nice just because it's it's it's real.
It's not reality TV is just more real discussion. Yeah, I'm just I'm so over cutting and I'm so
over reality TV. I just am. Oh, I just speaking of it, we're talking about Netflix. There's a bunch
of new episodes of the Joe MacKale show with Joe MacKale but dropped last weekend. I got a
good show. I love that show. Yeah, that was a huge fan of the soup. Well, I love him. Yeah, I
love him on soup. So he has a show now. He is called the Joe MacKale show with Joe MacKale. It's
on Netflix. Okay, okay. They just I think they dropped like eight episodes on one in one day
because it used to be weekly. Okay. They did like eight episodes on a weekly and then they just
dropped a bunch of them. What happened to him? Like after he did some he did some sitcom working
on CBS called The Great Indoors and he's done a few movies but now he's he's got this show and
then basically it's the soup on Netflix. Oh great. And it's and it's so funny. It's really,
really good. I very much enjoy. So you have to look on your face. What's going on over there?
Something popped up on the feed. Somebody commenting on the weather and I'm sure it's probably an old
an old joke but someone said not saying it's hot outside but too hot. It's just through a ring
into my backyard. Yes. That's this I'm telling you we better have a good winter this year
with as hot as this summer is is I had better be able to fire up that fireplace come December.
This is an unusual hot too. A couple of years ago. We get hot here but not above a hundred.
Not record breaking hot again. I'm going to be in Ohio a week from Monday and I am ready
because the highest of the highs that I've seen is like 84 and I don't care that it's all
thunderstorms. I don't care because it's keeping the the weather cool. I'm looking forward to after
this film festival and a couple other big projects I'm working on to go somewhere cold. See I
cold that means 80. I'm hoping to get back home in September maybe right after the telephone.
I'm from South Florida. So I'm looking forward to maybe going home for a few days after we're
doing an internet telephone a labor day weekend. Oh that's fun. And I'm after that and after I
sleep because we're going to be on the air for 36 hours straight after I sleep for a while.
I think we could use her because she says she never sleeps and you know the name of thing is
who needs sleep. So benefiting to cancer charities in North Texas.
Right. We're going to be raising money. It's going to be amazing. We did it over the holidays
and it was a lot of fun. Yes invite me. Go to hoonysleep.org and go to the Facebook page because we
need volunteers. We need people are going to help out. It's going to be a lot of fun.
And we have a lady you were just talking about is joined us now. So go ahead and give her some
headphones and we're going to let her okay Mike is up. We're good there. And we're going to let
her introduce herself because I am ready to talk about this. Please.
Gaia Bola. Get right up on that microphone right about here. Okay how about that? Excellent.
Okay Gaia Bola the producer and the writer of Half Widow coming up tomorrow. We're very
very excited to be here. And this is the Southwest premiere of the film. It is. It is. So tell
everybody about the film. Well coming from me even if I say so myself I think it's a creative
masterpiece. Hey you know what we'll take it. If you haven't seen it you must. Tell us about it.
I want to hear about it. All right so this is one of the few right up on the microphone
so everybody can hear you. So far I know the only really authentic movie coming out of Kashmir.
And we were just talking about your film just a little while ago. Oh you were.
That this is the first Kashmiri film in the Asian Film Festival Dallas so we're excited.
We're very proud of that. We're very very talented director Danish Renzu who comes in from
Kashmir and I wrote this screenplay with him and we produced it together. It has an all Kashmiri
local cast. Oh fantastic. So it's authentic all the way from the music. You will see in
Newer Muhammad. He has his big instrument that he made himself. Oh wow. 16 strings.
And he actually roams around on the streets of Siddinagar singing. We captured him very well
in our film. So the music is extremely Kashmiri and we've had calls from everywhere for us to
screen the film worldwide which has been very very heartwarming for us. Like I said if you have a
chance do see it. It's about the human heart. It's our contribution to world peace. I hope
you feel the difference that it will make in your heart. And I think that's where we start.
We have a particular love for Kashmir and Kashmiri people. And we hear all the time now that they
know where Kashmir is. They know what Kashmiri culture is like. We were talking about that too.
Just as we were waiting for you to get here we were actually talking about that. What brought you
to this project? Well I have my own personal love affair with Kashmir and my husband is Kashmiri.
But I spend much of my childhood years there. I love everything about that. I love the poetry.
I love landscape. It's one place you'll never forget if you've gone there. And if you know any
Kashmiri is you know how much they love their land and they think about it every day. Believe me
I'm not making that up. They think about Kashmir every day. Is the film what you feel a good look
into the life of the Kashmiri people or is it just more about the story itself? The story itself
is a universal human story about about the heart and we all want the basic things. We want
home. We want to save home, love and affection, closeness, bonding, all of that very essential to
our survival. But the Kashmiri culture has been depicted in its total authenticity. So you get a
flavor for the music, the people, how they think, how they move, how they act, what's happening
over there. I don't want to give away the film too much. Okay fair enough. It is a very brief
description in the in the in the media guide. So how many times has the film been shown before
before I was just tomorrow it's showing? It's showing tomorrow tomorrow. Okay. I think it's
two thirty or three o'clock. Half with a three thirty. Three thirty. Here at the Angelica. Three thirty
Dallas Times. Yes ma'am central time. Central time. Do you call it central? The central time zone.
We have four time zones and we're the second one from if you're going east to west.
Right. So we've had a lot of response for it. I'm looking forward to hearing that the response
for it. How many times have you been able to show it before tomorrow? Well we've been selected in
several different festivals in New York. We won best picture. Very nice. We've had two best
pictures so far, two best directors so far. In New York it was the phone wouldn't stop ringing
for tickets and emails were coming in. The movie had started. People were still queuing out the
door. So we definitely had that. We've had several other showings also. It's going on. Now we're
actually getting requests for as a producer does it get any easier for you the more of the more
screenings or does it get more nerve-wracking as you go into a screening or you kind of at the
place where you're good with it you just want to watch the audience react to it. You know I think
I watched it maybe a hundred times. I cry every time. I really love this film and it came from our
hearts and it's just something with which we grow every time we watch it. I don't know how to explain
that to you. It is so genuinely what we wanted it to be. Good. Nice to see it appreciated. We've
also had mixed audiences from all over the world which has been amazing and when we have
showings we have found people flying in from different cities coming in to see it which has been
very very heartwarming for us. Have you been able to do a lot of Q&A sessions after some of
the screenings and if so what has there been a question that you've been asked that was that you
found most fascinating of the questions you've been asked outside of this interview because this
has got to be the best one you've ever done. Tell me. I like to express myself totally. That's
what we want you to do but what kind of is there a question that sticks out to you is like you got
asked and you're like wow that's a question I wasn't expecting in one of the Q&A sessions.
I think in some of them we had some Kashmiris who actually weft. I remember this one man that's
high praise if you're coming from people that know that culture that's amazing. He hasn't been able
to go back in 22 years and he just wept because he knew every road, every bridge, every turn,
the trees and I think we all broke down when we saw that but I have to tell you something that
the crew because they're all local Kashmiris they broke down many times in the making of the film
and we had to stop and just be with them because they've been through all the ups and downs that
that's amazing and I think that's why it's so authentic because they've lived it and they showed it
and they felt it and we didn't go for big actors from some way to act to scene these were people
that were living through it and that gives it a better feel you don't you don't have to teach an
actor about a culture these are people that live the culture so it's more I guess more for lack
of a better term organic when you film yes it is but the actors are also very very talented we
have Nilufer Hamid who was also in the Valley of Saints which went to Sundance local Kashmiri
Shanavas Bhatt who won best actor for Haru in Dubai Film Festival super talented and me
server who has gone on to become quite big in Bollywood now a very very talented actor we were
very fortunate that they were local people as well has there been any talk of larger distribution
of the film yes actually there is quite a few people have approached us we haven't approached them
they've approached us that's them that's awesome that's been again a gift once we finish the festival
round we will make a decision we hope to really get it widespread because we can see from the
response it is one of those films may I say that's appropriate for this time it's a historical
piece it's a cultural piece it's an artistic masterpiece and it's very relevant to what's
happening in the world today has as well as the film been received is that something that surprised
you or did you expect this on a certain level I don't think we created any expectation we were too
busy making the film okay fair enough and we certainly had a number of challenges making the film
so it had to be done in four schedules and that took our whole attention and we weren't quite
sure where it was going from there but when the final cut was done we knew it would reach the
hearts of people and it did how long did it take you to film it it took four schedules I think it
was a total of 21 days okay we had to break it down just to work around everybody was it was it a
location issue for scheduling or was it a cast issue or was it both safety issue okay to know when
to place it I did work very well because we actually have all four seasons depicted in there nice
sashimi is very beautiful in or four seasons so it's a very wholesome comprehensive film I'd love
to see more of the films here to see where we fit in but it's so exciting to be here and to be
part of this we're happy that you're here as well do you have anything coming up in the near future
that you're working on that you want to talk about yes my my pictures are mostly about social issues
so I have another one coming up which will release in January and then I have another film that will
be filmed next September I'm very partial to social issues and people being able to understand
what human beings of a certain strata might be going through which remains unexpressed
so this is this is definitely the number one and those and those voices are so important in film when
we're seeing a lot of the same kinds of stories but to bring these new kinds of stories to film I
think is very very important and the work you're doing it from what I hear is is paying off dividends
and I love that about it and before we let you go because we always want to make sure that
everybody gets their self-promotion in if people want to get a hold of you because where this goes
all over the world people want to get a hold of you talk about the film give any websites
social media anything that you want to plug that so people can get to you if they need to yes we
do have a Facebook page called half widow and I would also just like to put out my personal
please do please do gaya g a y a nine zero nine at gmail dot com the half widow Facebook page
and gaya nine zero nine at gmail dot com I would like to say that to express these kind of films
is a work of courage and for what we are getting back from the audience thank you thank you thank you
because it took a lot of courage and here it is and we thank you for being here and and bringing
this film to to the Asian Film Festival of Dallas and we have talked to a number of people that are
very very excited for this film tomorrow at 3 30 so right here at the Angelica we hope you enjoy
the evening enjoy your time here and all the best to you as this film goes on thank you for a lovely
interview thank you for joining us you can appreciate it so much it's our honor to do so
all right go enjoy your evening thank you that was awesome it's a great interview I like it when
interviews go well it makes me feel better about myself we are live at the Angelica Film Center it's
Asian Film Festival of Dallas 2018 this thing's going on I mean we just then just started two nights
ago so this is a nine day film festival because I saw it just blowing up on social media as it should
friends at friends of the show that have been to events here for Asian Film Festival of Dallas there's
a ton of stuff going on don't think that just because when we're going off there's things over this
thing just you know no no no I mean we've got to go get sleep at some point I'm gonna store it
my sleep for who needs sleep I think I've found the the working title of the project she's working
on next on IMTB okay it's called the Safran sky and it looks like she's working with a director
that she worked with on halfway before the for the Safran sky and here's the basic I mean I'm
telling you if you see this is a three and a half line bio on this film amid the backdrop of the
Kashmiri conflict a young woman must go come to grips with the disappearance of her doding husband
and embark on a harrowing journey of self-discovery look at the rating on IMTB 9 out of 10 that's user
rating that's not even critic rating just doing what we do glad to see yeah sure at this time
oh okay I'm like do we do we don't see here we are wrapping it up well let's sit here and talk
for just a minute as we're getting when because you know we people are filing in man it's Asian
Film Festival of Dallas I thought this is our third year where does it go dude I think about the
fact that come come fall Dallas video fest that'll be the sixth one Holly I can't even wrap my head
around that Don modeling his Pittsburgh Pirates jersey very nicely my anniversary gift that's right
paper let's talk about that for a minute yeah one year ago on Monday we were all sitting in a
parking at us in sweat and death and we we live streamed that on our Facebook page a year ago
which I got to admit her family overseas thank you so yeah that understand and we say this all
the time family takes care of family yeah you know and and we talked about this on the season finale
for season eight that's it's one of those relationships that we have that we can pick on each other
but no one else is allowed to pick on you know yeah and the fact that this family is what it is
and that we've built for for eight years now it's it's crazy to think about the fact that next the
next show we do which will be live at Cider Kate in two weeks yeah that's gonna be episode 450
God did I say that right I don't know if I said that right let me check that yeah that's gonna
be 450 and we done iTunes number four oh something now I know we're almost to 410 because we
recorded three new iTunes exclusives today we're gonna record three more next week and then we still
have one that we watched this week that we haven't had a chance to record and that doesn't come
out to August the 10th you know something just occurred to me what's that I got married in an outdoor
wedding in extreme cold he got married in an outdoor wedding in extreme heat I got married on
New Year's Day I was you got married in late July you know you're still nice out there I mean the whole
that was a beautiful venue yeah and you got to met the dinner after that was all gone I still
I have no saw had not had an opportunity to go back to that particular establishment since then I
English Mariano say give us one heck of a deal Marge on the bomb do you know I remember what in North
Park and I have I know that's what kills me that's like in my backyard man when they sat down on
the zonny I remember Rob said he goes oh that's what I'm talking about right there for real I'm a
huge fan of Italian food so I've never been more impressed by stuffed mushrooms that stuffed mushrooms
and I was that night and I'm not even a mushroom fan yeah boy how many plates of calamari did we go
through and I don't know yeah I don't like four times just like just keep it coming home well if
people don't know that Mariano's they have a 10 course family style meal where you get two
appetizers two salads two pastas two entrees and two desserts and then you're taking out of
there on a hand truck yeah and they yeah it's like a set amount per person and if you run out of
like Calmari just say we want more and I'll still keep it coming you know so you kind of got
to pace yourself because after like the fourth course you're like okay I'm getting full by the time
you finish the entree and the pasta you're like and I said this I am not a cheesecake fan that
cheesecake was a I did not know that I'm not I know that you were not a cheesecake now sir that alone
would be enough to make me want to come to you lie pie yeah yeah my attention I don't care what
chick McGee says all he says is the great taste of the air freshener pie or is it tiramisu I think
we have that tiramisu but I'm just saying it's just in general yeah yeah yeah no next time
one though maybe who knows all right so next week we will be off because I will be
otherwise occupied grace descending live at curtain club next Sunday nights telling you we're
we're gearing up we're also going to be playing at who need sleep this year and where are you
I don't know we are playing we're doing an hour at who need sleep uh may have to go acoustic we
have to talk about that but for those if you've been to a grace D show before we're adding some
new stuff okay got a couple of new songs that were put in this set so and the opening song will
be completely different but this the song we're opening with we've only played once live and it
was at a gig that none of you could have been at because we were playing at a youth lock-in okay
on the north side hey hey I want to besides I got to do a request for your next gig you're not playing
cowbell no no no no besides skinner you got to play thank you Jesus tell me that's on your
thing that's that's that's a that's a staple okay that's the very first song that's like margarita
veil for that's to me that's the very first song we played as an entire band really I did not
because that's actually a rewrite of an old zz top song that my original guitarist who I talked
to last night Ken Belcher he rewrote that it's an old zz top song called sure got cold with the
rain fell and that was the very first song that we learned as a band interesting even before the
current we even I guess that's been what seven years now so and it was just Kenny and myself and
we had a bass player named Ed and he's he's passed away a couple of years ago we miss Ed very much
that was the first song we really played together and so that song will always be in the set okay
if you feel it all right will always be in the set just because of what it is so what who needs sleep
you're gonna be doing it we're gonna be playing an hour who need sleep okay so it's gonna be a lot
of fun we're doing the show correct we're gonna be doing our of our show as well bad karma's back
again this year so I can't wait to see chance in the boys there there's a lot going on for who
need sleep this year and I'm very very much looking forward to this I like I said earlier I was
talking to the board today and I wanted to make sure that they understand how encouraged I was
we've got some really amazing things and if again you can donate five bucks you can do
me five thousand dollars our goal is twenty five thousand dollars labor day weekend and we're gonna
do it I'm gonna try to Iron Man it it's not for the week of heart brother I know I could say
that much if any time to fill up maybe I have told I have told them to make sure that the Coke
zero is stocked and a plenty if any time to feel maybe I could just stop the old viola or no
no no no no you will not be playing a viola we're concert we'd rather hear you skipping rope
than where we're looking for viewers trying to turn them away hey you never know all right so we
ready to wrap this up oh no we know so again no show next week we'll have some iTunes exclusive
reviews going up next week though for to to pass the time then the week after that August the
fifth I believe is that Sunday we're gonna be live at cidercade doing our show we'll be
live to tape at that point but come on out the cidercade it's an amazing place if you've never
been there that's where we had a Ragnarok this year we're gonna be back there in a couple of weeks
for who needs cake celebrating Belinda Wong's birthday and that's going to be a donation stop
for who needs sleep as well so come on by play some video games drink some cider listen to us do
this madness for a couple of hours that'll be and that'll be just our normal abnormal show okay
not won't be a lot of guests that'll just be us cutting up and being stupid like we like to do
that's but we're always serious and then two weeks after that summer slam and believe that
so much going on all right so we're ready to do the plugs let's do it all right make sure you
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