Dallas VideoFest 29 Part 1

All right, so you know that thing where you go to do a live remote show and then you forget your iPod so you don't have music to play to start the podcast. Well, that's where we are.
Well, hold on, hold on, hold on.
It is, we can't do anything copyright. It is seven o'clock on the East Coast. It is four o'clock on the West Coast.
It is the 21st of October in the year of our Lord 2016 season seven, episode 15, 365 times. This voice has welcomed you to the Clubhouse Podcast.
As we've been telling you all week, we are live right now at the Angelica Film Center. It is Dallas Video Fest 29.
We're going to get the introductions done quickly because we've got somebody on. We want to get started.
My name is Rob. I am the executive producer of the Clubhouse Podcast and we've got some cool stuff coming up tonight to my right as he tends to be more on the road.
He is my co-host and his sunglasses are bigger than the wheels on my car. He is Chad. How are you, sir?
You know, you know, you're in via said those things. If that's what gets you through the night, fine. Across from him,
is the official fact checker of this show and a man who does not know what's about to happen. He is Don Ford. Welcome, sir.
We're doing a film festival, though. We are. That we are. But across from me is a guy that we hope and we're going to have more than once on this show because he,
when you talk about Dallas Video Fest 29, there is the one name that you think of first. He is the man sitting across from me.
He is one of our favorite human beings. He is Bart Weiss. Welcome, sir.
Well, thank you. There's nothing I could say after that.
That's it. Get that mic position so we can hear you. Nice and clear.
All right. That's a little high.
Hopefully we're going to book in just so we'll have you at the beginning of this one and then Sunday we're going to come back.
We'll have you at the end of that one.
I think by Sunday, if I'm able to utter anything that makes sense, that'll be your kind of miracle.
I call that any day that ends in why, but that's just me.
So this is night three technically, right?
Yes, absolutely.
The opening gala Tuesday night, or I'm sorry, Wednesday night.
I'm getting Tuesday and then last night was the sunrise with the Dallas Chamber Symphony.
And boy, was that an amazing experience.
I've talked to a handful of people and they were like, you missed it.
And I was like, I've been booked.
You know, it's like to experience a silent film in that kind of way.
And a way that was different than it was originally presented because like the music was just amazing.
And to see it in a community of people in this very beautiful expressiveness to film,
it's just an amazing night.
And then the next night with DJ Spooky.
And that's the Texas theater, right?
Texas theater.
Reinterpreting that very classless film, Birth of the Nation, into rebirth of the Nation,
and sort of reclaiming and mixing a sense of a brekkian device with hip-hop culture,
with trying to reframe some racist ideology and reclaiming it.
It was truly an extraordinary experience.
And for those of you just to be sure, this is the 1915 film, not the 2016 film.
Right, right.
This is an original work by DJ Spooky with the Synergy Quentin from SMU that was just really amazing.
It's one of those things that you're just never going to be able to see again.
But the last couple of weeks I've had, it bumped me out because I really want to see this.
These are events, and hey, we got a ton more coming.
I mean, I'm telling you, we are just like today, tomorrow, and Sunday, like Saturday,
we have another live event that's of one of a kind thing.
So I don't know if you've heard of your remember this group called Anne Farm.
There are a bunch of artists.
They made the Cadillac Ranch, you know, those Cadillacs in the dirt.
Oh, yeah, I know that.
It's okay, okay.
I'm with you.
Okay, so one of the guys who was part of that group, Chip Lord, will be here
to show this film called Greetings from Amarillo with the live guitarist.
Oh, wow.
And so that's like incredibly something.
We have some really interesting.
We have like three things about like the history of media,
the present days of media, and the future.
So the history is WFA Channel 8.
There's an archive that has the actual fish from the 60s and 70s that newsmen shot.
Not edited, but the original material.
And they've restored these to show what news used to look like.
Then we have, for those people that are here in the Metroplex, that's our local ABC affiliate.
They've actually been witness to very many things now as history.
A lot of the footage of the Kennedy assassination came from WFA.
So for people that want to really put it into context.
But there's a lot of really great stuff.
And then in terms of contemporary media, we have an editor who's been working on 60 minutes.
You know, the original show that was doing investigative journalism.
And she's going to show what the material came in like and how it got shaped into the story that you saw.
And this is like an opportunity to see like, you know, when people talk about what is manipulation of television,
you will actually get to see it.
For all those people that think we're out to do this or that or whatever else,
you can see how the sausage is made.
And that's like a rare thing.
I mean, people don't get a chance to see that.
And then we have an associate publisher from the New York Times
who's going to talk about why the New York Times has gotten into virtual reality,
how they do it, what it is, and why.
And that's so those three are all Saturday afternoon.
Is that going to be here at the Angelica?
Everything is everything for now on here at the Angelica.
And by the way, if you get a full festival pass,
we have this really cool lounge that you can hang out and have, say, an alcoholic beverage
and maybe some food and talk to filmmakers.
And it's right outside where the Angelica is.
If you've been here, you just go right downstairs and that's where the lounge is.
Great. And it's a great space too.
It's an awesome space.
And we thank the Dallas Film Commission for letting us do that.
A couple other things.
For people who are really interested in film directing,
we have this song called The Art of Directing, Frank Capra.
And I think everybody in the world has seen a Frank Capra film, right?
If you haven't, you're not really a film lover.
If you haven't, you may not be an American.
You know.
I mean, what do you do at Christmas times?
Yeah, I was like, you see one at least once a year.
Right. Sometimes not even much.
So the AFI used to have this series back in the 70s
where they were bringing famous directors in to come and talk to their students.
And this guy, Alan Holtzman, found the one-inch videotapes of these.
Oh wow.
And so he found the one with Capra.
And he inner cut that with Capra's films.
So you really hear him talk about from silent comedies
onto all of his classic films, how he made decisions about things.
What, how he works with actors?
How he casts, there's this one beautiful moment.
We talked about how, since they shoot out of sequence,
how do you get your actors like up to the moment?
So he said he got them to record the audio onto disk
and play that back for the actors.
So they could sort of respond to that.
So it's like, there's no place else where you can learn this.
I mean, it's like this amazingly wonderful experience that we have.
And when is that?
That is Saturday afternoon.
So a lot going on tomorrow.
There's a lot going on tomorrow.
And the festival goes through Sunday, but here's the thing.
Go ahead and get your weekend pass now so that you've already got it out of the way
so that when you get here to the Angelica, you can make your schedule out.
Know where you're going to be.
You don't have to worry about anything else.
And not only that, once you're here,
if you've never been to our festival and you're walking around,
you'll see me because I'm always walking around.
Or if you don't ask somebody, they'll point you out to me.
You open up your program book and I will circle in what you need to see.
See, there you go, because Bard is the man of the people.
And for those of you that are keeping score at home,
this was the very first festival that ever led us broadcast live.
So we will always be eternally grateful to you, sir.
Number one, number two, this is our fourth year in a row.
Really?
So, and next year, of course, is the big one because next year is going to be 30.
Oh my god.
So, you know, we're already putting our hat in the rain.
We're going to be here for you next year too.
And we'll be here until you kick us out.
So, speaking of longevity.
So, you know, this is our 30th year of our festival.
We are, we have a guest here with us and he's been with us for a couple of days.
And we'll be here through to the end named Gordon Quinn.
And most of you don't know who Gordon is, but he's, he was one of the founders
of something called Cartemquin Films in Chicago.
And you might say, never heard of that, but you have heard of hoop dreams.
Oh, absolutely.
So great film.
Right.
So they made hoop dreams and tons more.
This is somebody who's been making documentary films for 50 years.
I mean, think about that for the second.
Think of the history of documentary.
Think of what he's been through and seen and done.
So, we're showing hoop dreams tomorrow morning.
We have this film called The Trials of Muhammad Ali
that he worked on tonight and then another short film of his tonight.
And then there's a contemporary film that was just been released from Cartemquin
called Unbroken Glass that we're showing on Sunday.
So you can see this whole arc of this collective of people in Chicago
who've been doing incredible documentary work.
And like so much more.
My favorite film.
Okay.
Let's do this.
All right.
And I hesitate to say this because they're all my favorite films.
They're like my children, which one is the best one?
Well, you know, anyway, so there's this film that I really, really like
called Two Trains Running.
And it's playing this evening.
So if you're hearing this, get your ass on down here.
Get down to the Angelica.
So this film mixes the Civil Rights struggle in the 60s with these two guys,
one in New York, one in California.
And they're both really into country blues.
And they each separately are interested in finding this person,
this blues artist who has sort of disappeared.
So they get a bunch of guys together
and are driving from either New York or California to the South.
Unbeknownst to each other, correct?
Unbeknownst to each other, looking for these blues singers.
And at one point, they're like two towns apart from each other.
And they have no idea about each other's existence.
And it's this real sense of both obsession, the value of music,
and sort of what this era was like trying to sort of find these missing people.
And it's so beautifully done.
I mean, it's just an incredible one.
I want to say we talked about that in passing a few months ago
when we ran into each other at a screening.
Because this, this sounds really familiar.
It's right in your wheelhouse because number one,
it's narrated by common.
And you know I'm a fan.
And the soundtrack features one Gary Clark Jr.
I am such a Gary Clark Jr. fan.
And he was just in town two weeks ago up with Casino up the road.
Telling you, this film is like incredibly awesome.
It is just really great.
And just another sports film.
I don't know how big of a fan you are of basketball.
But if you ever heard of Spencer Heywood.
Okay, so Spencer Heywood is the person who essentially sued the NBA
so that we were able to have free agency.
But his story is so much deeper and complex.
And this was a film that was made by AMS Pictures here in Dallas, Texas
at full court, the Spencer Heywood story.
And Spencer Heywood will be here Sunday.
I think it's around five o'clock.
And he is an incredible inspiration.
Not only for what he did in basketball and getting to that.
And do you want to look in there and tell him who narrates that film?
Oh goodness.
Chuck E.D., I'm trying to.
Really?
Oh, sorry, what?
Chuck E.D.
Really?
Yes.
Because it doesn't say it in here.
Or if it does.
But it does.
The chance of looking through the media guy.
That's another thing I wanted to say.
You could kill a small animal with this media guy.
It's so big this year.
I mean, you want to talk about a lot going on.
Like this media guy's got to wait to it.
And not only that, but all of that design and the inside.
That was done by UTA students.
Really?
Universe Texas, Arlington, just down the road to peace.
Yes.
Where I teach.
I love the cover this year.
I'm a big fan of the...
Is this the logo that's on the t-shirts, too, if I'm not mistaken.
Yes.
I love this logo this year.
You know, for us design is really kind of important.
Because what we do is like all over the place.
But to me, all of this comes down to his film set.
The ability to change your life.
And they're inspirational.
And they mean something to you.
And the design element should also.
It shouldn't just be like, hey, we're going to come here.
But it sort of resonates in a kind of way that is kind of expressive.
Guys, I've got a festival to pull on.
I've got a...
We actually do.
And we hope to see you Sunday night.
Towards the end of the show.
If not before, I will definitely come back and talk later.
Thank you guys.
Barwais, this is a whole new time.
Thank you, Dan.
When it comes to Dallas at Video Fest, 29, one of our favorite human beings in the world.
You are the scene of the Clubhouse podcast.
Go enjoy yourself, sir.
I know you will.
We have to...
We always start...
Normally, we start our show because we want to get barred on.
So we're going to push corrections to right now.
A couple of corrections from our last show, a couple of weeks ago.
Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton cannot compete in Hell in a cell because it's a raw pay-per-view.
So we want to put that out there.
Also, we did not talk about the Eight Man tag on the show because it was not in the card
until the last minute, but I'm giving us credit for that anyway.
We're going to talk about those standings next Sunday because next Sunday is Hell in a cell.
Before we get to that, while we're waiting for Don to get back, I want to say a special thank you to the Empire
who has kind of come out and forced a little bit.
For those of you that do not know, last week, I came back home to about two-thirds of my house under water
due to an exploding hose in the guest bathroom right outside the studio.
And that's why we did not have a show on Sunday because my house...
Granted, my house is still a disaster area, but it's a more organized disaster area.
I want to thank everybody that's reached out and just checking on me and making sure that
what I do have left of my sanity is still intact.
Things are going to be touching go for a few weeks as we get the studio back under control
and get it back up to abnormal.
We are not going to miss any shows.
They're probably just going to sound a little different.
Basically what we're going to be doing is using our road rig in a...
Probably in the green room and doing the show that way.
So things are going to be...
Wheels off for a few weeks.
However, it'll give us to make sure everything's up and running for November the 20th.
It's a big date, sir.
Yes it is.
WWE Survivor Series.
We're going to be live at the Henderson Tap House in just off Central and Henderson in Dallas for the Survivor Series pre-show.
Not too far from here, actually.
Not very far from here at all.
Just a couple of legs that's up the freeway.
And we're on the same side of the freeway.
That's convenient.
Okay.
So it's just east of Central on Henderson Avenue.
We're going to be doing our live pre-show there.
It's a great facility.
I had a chance to go talk to the management out there.
Great people.
They're very excited to have the Empire come out and force.
Right now they only want to do the majors, which we get that.
Yeah.
But if we can show up and show out well enough, they're going to add more shows to it.
So we want to make sure everybody shows up at Henderson Tap House on November the 24th.
WWE Survivor Series.
Don's back.
So we're going to turn his microphone on.
You're not doing anything.
We're doing something else first.
No, no, no, no.
No, this is very important.
This is very important.
This is very important.
This is very important.
Kelly, tell him this is very important.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
My show.
My show.
Our show.
But yeah, let you go.
Eight days ago was Don's birthday.
A week ago yesterday.
Forty-fourty-five.
So I told Don that I did order his present.
It is here.
And I told him that there is no, if I gave him a hundred guesses,
he would, Chad, I think you would agree with me here when I say this,
he would not be able to guess what I have in this cardboard box that sits at my feet currently.
I did have a hand in this.
Is it a mail order right from Russia?
No, I thought you had that taken care of already.
No, no.
Number two.
So an eight ball of crack cocaine?
No, I can't, I couldn't order that from Amazon.
Although you can, you can get pretty much anything from Amazon.
You can't get that.
But while I do this, Gordon's going to be our next guest.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
Fair enough.
We're going to get, we're going to hit the ground and run in.
So don't remember?
This is an audio medium.
Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick.
You're going to have to tell people what it is.
Is it going to explode when I open?
Not as far as you know.
Okay.
It might burn you.
Oh, my lord.
The alien queen.
The pop.
It's the Funko pop, yes.
That is the alien queen.
Dude, thank you.
There's no way you wouldn't know I was in that box engine and it's and it's and it's a it's one of the larger Funko pop figures
It really is and they also if you look on the back
They do have the regular alien and they also have the the Ripley so you can get you can collect the whole set there
Well, it's too late to get Ripley since it just got her signature while you know you just don't get the figure though
So happy belated birthday to you sir oh
That's right because you you weren't here for
Um
Don got you something else as a belated birthday gift. No
This Don with the expert work of the four-learn gift bag
We just named scratched out and Chad's name written on it. Oh, okay. I thought this was gonna be a bit
No, I thought it was a bit. No, it is not there was a bit. Okay. What do you have there? I don't really consider this
Oh, that's right. You did tell me about that. Tell people what it is. This is an audio medium
This is a oh, I'm trying to get it turned around. I want to make sure I got the the genre ride
I wasn't sure which era trooper this was it is a classic stormtrooper piggy bank and
Thank you, sir. You're welcome and of course you got the other gift before that. Okay. Okay. Yeah, but
You know me. Okay. Yes. I knew there was a big gift
I knew there was a big gift because he told me there was a big gift when I saw me other night
I love his wrapping paper. It's a maze runner
Don't like to use some of the many posters. We get its screenings for wrapping paper
It's kind of genius if you ask me. I don't have a drink of my tasty. Oh, he doesn't know what this is
No, he'll probably laugh. So let me finish my water then. Okay, we're good
Let me see let me see
It's a novel by Max Berry called lexicon and if you don't know why that's funny go back to the last episode and you'll figure it out
Don was walking lexicon. Oh my god
Better you than me. It's all I'm saying. Better you than me
That's meta. That's that's funny. That's funny dude
You've outdone yourself this time. Oh no, I already got your Christmas
Oh god. Yeah
He's already got wheels and oceans there. You thought honey booboo was bad. Oh
All right, so while we're waiting
Yeah, you know me. I gotta go bye. Let's talk some television headlines. Congratulations to the CW. I don't know if you saw this
Happy birthday, but thank you. You took a couple of weeks ago from the super girl premiere
Best numbers in how long? Yeah last year the season premiere of my crazy ex-girlfriend had that same time slot
Supergirl tripled its ratings. You haven't watched it yet. Yes, I have I watched the first episode
I watched the second one yet. What did you think? I liked it
I think all four of those shows about supergirl flash arrow and legends of tomorrow have started out pretty strong
I got to say
That's pretty much my favorite show of those supergirls. Yes, it is. I really liked the way legends of tomorrow started out
Although I wish they would have dragged that out a little bit, but
Yeah, yeah
Kind of like how they're kind of letting
um
White canary do her own thing. Yeah, that was pretty funny
But it is it's it just it looks like the the transition from CBS to CW hasn't heard supergirl at all
I knew I knew it wouldn't if anything. I think it's helped
Also, we have some news from AMC by the way this Sunday is the season premiere for the walking dead
I will tell you apparently the script has leaked. Oh really
I read the spoilers that I'm not saying word
Uh, because I don't watch the walking dead. So having those spoilers doesn't really do anything for me
Yeah, my wife however, a different story making a b-line from here on site
AMC announced I did get caught up on halt and catch fire this season finale
Not as cool as the last one, but next season season four will be the last season for that show
They did a lot of time jumping this season. They they covered about five or six years this season
So I did hear that I couldn't I couldn't remember it was this one or Silicon Valley that was getting still still a great show still enjoyed it
um
There were a couple of plot points this season that I thought was me kind of met for me
But overall a great season. It's a great show and I think I think season four is probably going to be good enough
Yeah, I thought for it. I was kind of afraid that with that concept you could only go so far with that show before you ran out of steam
So have you heard this rumor out of ABC?
Which one that they have won the bidding war for a new sitcom
About a family who finds their dream home, but they can't afford it
I just heard about this in the way over and so the only way they can afford this dream home is that the when they move in
The uh
The original owner gets to stay there until she passes well the new family mother will be paid by the great Amy Polar
Who you know I'm a huge fan of and I think she's a co-producer and a writer on this as well and the
actual
Older lady living there is going to be the reach welcome back to television to the great Carol Burnett
Do you know anything about the backstory of why this show even existed in the first place?
It sounds like it's based on the story of the way the playboy mentions being so apparently this is a thing
The it's done quite a bit in Europe and it's just starting to catch on over here
But this is an actual thing people do this I'm a book captain well
The the head writer on this show and I can't recall his name
They were talking about it on on the radio. I swear right before I got here. They were talking about on the radio
the guy who who brought this idea
uh to abc
Was given his first break in show business by
Carol Burnett herself oh really because when she got her first break when she was a struggling aspiring actress in the 50s and 60s
she got
An anonymous letter and a thousand dollar check from a from an anonymous benefactor that said here's the money the
That I want you to make something of yourself and do great things and then all I ask for you to do is to pay it forward later
Which she has tenfold and she did with this guy specifically she did the same thing
He won't disclose the amount that she gave him
So now now that she's been out of the public eye for a while now he's returning the favor back to us
I'm losing my mind. Do you see my other two bottles of water around here somewhere?
No, I saw you walk up here with them, but
While they buy you're by are they by your roller they were hiding on the other side of the chair. Okay
All right
We're gonna get back to some more up the Russ is in the chat room. What's up?
Russ good to see you
Uh and before we get to our first guest our last tv headline abc also developing a series based on enemy of the state the will smith extravaganza
Really? I thought we already did that
Didn't TNT do something with that not that I could recall okay fair enough
All right, we have our first guest
We can't just talk to each other for the next two hours what that what then why would we be here?
Because we are live at Dallas video fest 29
We were at the Angelica Film Center in Mockingbird station come on by hangout with us. We're gonna be back here again
For our normal show Sunday and our normal timeslight of seven eastern four Pacific
We have our very first
Guess I'm gonna let her introduce herself go ahead talk right into that microphone please. I'm Melanie
Yonks and I'm the chair of the 15th annual chick flicks film festival
Hosted or sponsored by women in film Dallas
The logo on the badge around your neck. Is that the chick flicks festival logo it is I am such a look at this look at this
For those of you that are listening right now, it's a it's the the palm leaf that you see in like all the festivals
But it's a little like a baby chick that's got like a beret and sunglasses and a red star on its chest. I love that
And that's also this weekend
Yes, so we are partnering with the Dallas video fest and we
Because of our partnership with the Dallas video fest we're able to expand our festival
Our festival is traditionally a short showcase and we give
Awards and honors to female directors producers
You know women who are filmmakers and our mission at women in film Dallas is to mentor promote and empower women in the film TV and media industries
Now when you say short festival you talk about the length of the festival or are there are these short films?
Yes, traditionally we have a short films showcase which is short films they're there
technically I think under 25 minutes all of them this year under about 17 or 18 minutes and we're showing eight spectacular films in our short showcase
So it's a festival of shorts not a short festival correct. All right guys. I want to make sure everybody's clean
Oh, sorry
Tonight, however, we are co-sponsoring a an incredible feature film you're right up on that thing if you would
With the Dallas video fest. It's called left on pearl. Okay. It's an amazing documentary about
How when women come together they're very empowered in 1971 at Harvard University
The reason that the film is called left on pearl is because there were women
Got together and marched through the streets in a peaceful protest and they had a police escort
But instead of going straight with the police like they were supposed to they actually turned left on pearl and occupied in a band in building
Until Harvard agreed to give them a women's center
Very nice
It's it's very interesting and the director will be here tonight for Q&A and she's gonna help us tomorrow
One of the interesting things that
Women in film Dallas and the chick flicks festival is doing this year is we've created an empowerment workshop for teenage girls
Outstanding and this this we're really excited about this. It's going to be taught by two women who are
Basically one of them is a professional speaker on empowerment
She's an author and she lectures all around the country on empowerment and the other women both of them are members of women in film
The other one is from headline mentors and she actually for a living
Creates mentoring groups for teenage girls
So together we came together and created a workshop around our feature that we're going to have tomorrow called hearty and
We are incorporating left on pearl in it as well and the girls are invited to come to the empowerment workshop
And to the to the screening of hearty and then we'll walk them to the empowerment workshop where the director of left on pearl will join our team and we're going to talk about
The film and how it relates to empowerment and what they can do in their lives to overcome obstacles like the
subject of the film hearty
Here at the Angelica tomorrow all of this is at the Angelica and what time is the workshop because I want to make sure people know
Well the work the workshop if they're interested they need to
Go online and let me know directly because it is a private workshop. Okay. The screening itself is at 345
Of hearty hearty is about
Heather the heat hearty she is the bantam weight champion female boxer
And she had an awful lot of obstacles in her life. She's a single mom. She's not economically well off
She came from some other issues and challenges and
Yet she put one foot in front of the other and both as a boxer and as a person
Whenever she gets gets knocked down she gets back back up and keeps going and this is part of our message for these teen girls is
You know if you want to go to college if you want to do whatever it is if you need if you're having problems with bullying whatever the situation
You have to put one foot in front of the other and continue to move forward
And we're here to show you examples of how
You know you can do that and so we're very excited about bringing this
Extension of our mission to empower and mentor women to these young girls. How long has the pestle been around
This is the 15th year of chick clicks awesome, but it's the first year that we've got grown beyond our short showcase
So this year we have four screenings
We had one last night with the um called Quaker Oats
It's a charming Romantic comedy when it comes it's at other on the festival circuit right now
But I have no doubt that it will get distribution and please go see it if you like romantic comedies if you have the opportunity
And then we also have of course left on parole that we were talking about tonight tonight
And that's at seven o'clock at the Angelica theater tonight. So you got 31 minutes to get here to watch that
Well, we'll give you an extra 10 by the time we introduce the director and all that stuff
And then tomorrow is hearty tomorrow at 345 p.m. Is hearty and at 530 we have our shorts showcase
How many shorts are in the showcase for tomorrow night? There are eight shorts in our showcase. We had to say that really slow
Peter Piper picked a pack of short showcases. I was waiting. Yeah, I'm waiting for somebody to strip on that
So we have eight fantastic shorts. We called these we curated these from
The record number we've ever had submitted before and
We have a film from as far away as England. We have some from right here in Texas
We have literally we actually have five directors from the shorts that will be in the theater tomorrow
So they will come up for a Q&A
we have
We do have a Best of Fest award a Texas award and an audience choice award
So if you come you get to vote on the film of your choice
And we had some very esteemed judges this year
We're also honoring Betty Buckley who was our founding member of women in film Dallas and she was one of our judges
we have um also
Don Berks who's a local film critic for the Dallas Morning News and
Courtney weir who was one of our previous winners of our grants and scholarships
One of the nice things about women in film Dallas is that in the past 30 plus years that we've been here
We've given out over $60,000 in finishing funds and college scholarships to women nice
And you said for people good that workshop tomorrow. They need to get a hold of you. How do they do that? That is a good question
Is there a website that you can go to
Facebook, Twitter, anything of that nature? Yeah, so please go to women in film Dallas. It's wifdallas.org
um if you go to the main page and click on the chick it'll take you to all the information about the film festival and
you can email me at
Chick Flix CHICK F-L-I-C-K-S at
wifdallas.org and tell me that you would like to participate in the
Empowerment Workshop. It's for teenage older teenage girls only so about 15 to 18
19 somewhere in there. Okay. Yes, and you must have your parents permission
So if you come up at the theater tomorrow, you will have to have a parent to sign a permission slip
And I saw you even have the logo on t-shirts
We do we're selling our really awesome chick flix t-shirts
$20 at the door and you can buy tickets $12 at the door for any single screening
Or we're still selling our VIP passes and we'll give you a discount for the later date in the past
Because we have a great party celebration
Saturday night at eight o'clock in the Dallas Film Commission lounge
And it's right downstairs from where we are right now. It's right next door to the Angelica
And we have live music. We have Tiffany Carlin who again is a local female musician
And she's bringing the calamity jane's a trio of sisters local musicians again. I've heard of them
Well, good. So come on to the party. Well
definitely we would love for you to come and join us and um
You know, we'll have it's we have a catering by southern best catering one of our sponsors um catering
Yeah, all you have to do is mention food and his eyes glazed over
Well, it's gonna be good and we have wine and beer and
Uh
Lots of entertainment and fun and so we hope you'll join us and you guys are right upstairs with our friends from video fest as well
So when you come here to the Angelica head on upstairs make sure you stop by and see a melody
She's gonna tell you all about it. I'm just I'm very excited for them to be here
I love it when that's another's embark so awesome is that he lets all of these other organizations come and partner up
We're gonna go let you enjoy yourself. Thank you so much wif.org
Make sure you get in there click in there get all the information you need wif.dallas. Oh Dallas. Okay, so wif.dallas.org
And we really also want to thank the Dallas video fest for partnering with us because it truly helped us expand our mission and expand our films
Well, we'll be back Sunday. So come by and see us if you're here. We'd love to see it. Thank you
All right, Don's got it the per the cavalcade of stars continues
Melanie dropped a couple things
Yeah, I think it's one of your audience participation things cool. She should get upstairs and she's like I had something else
And I don't know where it is we'd have it. Please sir comes it down
Now you're gonna think there's a really slow echo in this room chat
Because the guy that we're about to talk to is somebody that we were talking about a little while ago
Yes indeed and so since he has sat down talk right into that microphone tell everybody who you are
Because they're not gonna believe us if we tell them
Write right up on get right up on it. I'm Gordon Quinn. I'm the founder and artistic director of cartonquin films
And we've been a lot of places this year because it's our 50th anniversary and that's a 50 years of documentary film. Yeah
I'm a huge documentary fan
So you're gonna throw some things at me and you're probably gonna watch my jaw hit the floor
Tell the people some of the the the documentaries that you've been able to get out there to the public
Well, you know our most famous film is hoop dreams just it is but
You know, we've we've done a lot of things over the years. I mean
Where there's a film Stevie that's one of mine and Steve's favorites
We have a new film that came out a couple years ago called the home stretch
That got about homeless high school youth that got a lot of attention
And we've got several films here at the festival that we're showing we are showing hoop dreams, which is our most famous film
And we are showing tonight the trials of Muhammad Ali
By Bill Siegel and that's a film
That is you know tells the story of Muhammad Ali's battle with the draft and from an era when he was demonized
And a lot of people were very critical of him and a chapter that I don't know that outside of your film
A lot of people have really gone into it was it was almost kind of breathed in the film
Which I thought the film was it stopped at right this work where it shouldn't
You're referring to the Bob Pills in the most famous film
This this chapter of of Muhammad Ali your cash is clay. You know the home. You know mom can even play on my college right
That chapter is very very important to the things that have that happened afterwards
Not only to him, but to us as a country as a whole yeah
I mean he was a guy who it's about his moral core and a moral stance that he took
That
Everyone was like, you know
People who supported him were like well, he's burned all his bridges
He's never going to be you know famous or beloved
He'll lose all his endorsement contracts and of course some of that happened
But the point is by the end of his life he was this incredible international hero
And part of the reason was because he he stood up for his beliefs
And that's what we made the film about we made the film about exactly that period in his history
When you know people that you look back and you can't believe the people that were demonizing him
50 years of documentary filmmaking
Yeah, I hate to say you've covered it all because if you did we wouldn't have more documentaries. Oh yeah
There's no way you cover it all now you know cover it all is there something is there something right now
That you have a passion for that you haven't been able to do yet that you're looking forward to
Well, there's there's films we're working on now that I think are trying to get at
Some of the most fundamental contradictions in American society that it's not like there haven't been documentaries made about this
But America has never come to terms with slavery and the legacy of slavery and the
You know the the reassertion of white supremacy after World War 2
You know what I saw the other night
Last night here the last laugh about you know, what kind of jokes can you make about the Holocaust right? Oh, we can
You know because who was it that produced that it was somebody of note produced that yeah, it was a woman
but I'm
I'm I just had it. I heard it mentioned like I don't want to read your show that I let's do a couple of months ago
and and you know it's but
We can't make a lot of jokes about slavery because we haven't dealt with it
We haven't confronted that legacy in America and so I think there films to be made in that area
We we've got a big project now that Steve James is doing called America to me, which is about
kids in a
suburban high school that are
struggling with issues of
race and the achievement gap and and some of those issues and it you know when we do a film that's based in an institution
We like to look at a really good institution
You don't want to go into a snake pit and then you just it's like oh well
Those people are awful and fire them and close it down
And it's like no you want to look at a good institution and say okay if these people are failing if this institution is
Then the problems got to be out here in the broader system right and so we learned that on our first film home for life
But there's always you know, I mean we've got films in the works now that are about things that I never thought oh
Gee, that's a film you know, we have a film that's going to be shown here Sunday night unbroken glass
That is about that that's that's by a first-time filmmaker Denesh Sabu
Who came through our diversity program at Cartamquan diverse voices and docs
And it's about his family and about his mother his mother committed suicide when he was six years old
His father dies a year later
He's raised by his sisters
But it's an immigrant family and no one ever really talked about
What happened you know what why did these people disappear from his life?
And so he's kind of making this film on this journey to find out what happened
And then to come to terms with that past he goes back to India and meets other members of his family and learns
About other people in his family with mental illness and it it's a pretty powerful film
And he'll be here. He's he's coming in. He's he's coming in from Seattle. He's had a film festival there
I know he'll be here tomorrow. I'm finding myself especially
It's weird for me to say this as I'm getting older
That I'm being drawn more to documentaries because I feel like
Film now even narrative film is not at the escapism that it used to be
Can you talk a little bit about
Narrative versus documentary as the lion seems to be getting a lot more blurred
Yeah, I'm not sure
Why that is I think maybe it's because we've become more sophisticated as documentary filmmakers
People used to think and when hoop dreams came out
Two words that I use a lot are documentary and democracy and the PR people were like don't mention either one of those words
That's a kiss of death to any kind of theatrical release and audience, you know the film was being released
Theatrically so I think there was this perception and misperception
That documentary was like somehow going to be good for you and you would have to like you know
And what really you know, I got into documentary. I was I loved as a kid. I love feature films
And I'd go in the theater and sit right in the front row, you know, look up at the screening
So it takes up your draft or referrals. Yeah, drawn into the story and they then fantasy basically
You get older and you move back in the theater, you know
And now I've had some issues with my eyes. I'm really back in the front if you're looking for me
I'm right there in the first couple of rows. I got to the point where I said on the aisle
So if I have to go to the restroom, I'm not walking over a bunch of people right
I try to do that, but I'm back I'm back in those first couple rows
But when I was at the University of Chicago and I saw
Work Ricky Leacock's Joyce and Joyce Chopra's happy Mother's Day
And then I saw the Maisel's brothers films and Jean Roosh
And those early Verite films were just like oh
That's what I want to do. I want to tell stories about real life
And I got you get caught up in them and you're drawn into them
And you're you know, you're using all of your human abilities to interpret human behavior
In all its complexities with with real people that you're looking at. So you don't need the narrator
When we our first film home for life when it came out
it's very Verite driven and
People you know, we're saying just well you need an expert to tell people what's going on
There's nobody explaining what's happening to these old people and I was like
Everybody knows what's happening to these old people because it's human behavior
You know, it's people can see somebody treating somebody else badly and understand that what's going on there
Is they're treating them badly because they feel guilty?
You know, it's not because they want to be mean, but they feel guilty about what's happening
And so they act badly. I mean we've all we understand that we don't have to explain it to people
People can see it for themselves as you do in an narrative film
So I think that explains some of it, you know, but I think I don't know, you know
I mean, I think the other thing is is that
You know, there's been a real there's less and less journalism out there and that's problematic
You know, you you you turn on what's supposed to be the news
And many of these channels. I mean, and it's just people
Yelling at each other voicing opinions. Well, that's actually right now. Yeah, you know, it's like where is where are reporters
Where are the people the people who go out and and tell the story, you know
And find the story and that kind of thing. So maybe as there's less of that people are looking to documentaries to do some of that for them to kind of
You know dig below the surface of things
Is there as what was the last film that you saw a narrative documentary or whatever that really really grabbed your attention
That wasn't one of your films
That's a good question the last film that I saw that really grabbed my attention
Um
There's always interested to hear filmmakers perspective. Yeah
Okay, you know, this this didn't this is an old film
But it was just shown somewhere and I saw something on Facebook about it
America American dream barber coppers film. Oh wow
And you know, what I loved about that film is that it straddled the issue you had
The rank and file militant steel workers you had the union who are at odds with each other
And she's sympathetic to both sides and that I found that really really powerful
Um, I should be able to come up. Maybe I'll see something here
I probably will see something here at the festival. Oh, that would be a good has some amazing material
Yeah, there would be a good a good answer to your question
So
Are you gonna gonna have a lot of time or are you gonna be spending most of your time
Working with some of the films that you brought with you
Um, I think I'm gonna get to see more films here than I usually get to see I'm hoping to I hope to see two tonight
I hope to see left on pearl and I also hope to see you just talk to that that film yeah, and then there's
The trials of Muhammad Ali of course is playing tonight at seven o'clock
15 minutes
Yeah, in 15 minutes and it's gonna play also
With a film that I made almost 50 years ago
On old real to real video about the steelworkers
Steelworkers who had lost the right to strike
And who are pretreat pretreat
Protesting this protesting that they're not able to strike anymore and they
The company in the union made a film
16 millimeter film to show to workers
They'd bring them all down and take them into a room and make them watch this film about you know
This is the way it has to be you otherwise you're gonna lose your jobs and had this racist undertones
And so working with these rank and file steelworkers we made a response to that and it's really rough
It's from the early days of video
But a very important film that sort of changed the way a lot of votes and a lot of things that people did
I have to ask kind of an off the beaten path question
Because again you bring up hoop dreams
People that don't know what hoop dreams is like
They may have just arrived from another planet because this movie was everywhere when it came out
But hoop dreams this chat and then you may have to correct me on this
But we've been doing this now for about we're in our seventh season so about six and a half years
You may be the first filmmaker
That we've ever interviewed that has had one of his films taken by the criterion collection
Mm-hmm. There was it am I correct hoop dreams is a criterion did a version of hoop dreams? Yes
Yeah
Ask that right there. I've always been fascinated by criterion
Back from the laser disk days, you know, I had a laser disk player
I've got like four or five criteria lasers. We have some like we actually have laser
Dispersions of hoop dreams from back in the day. How does I mean how does that work?
Is that something that you when when criterion says we want to issue your film as part of the criterion collection?
Do you have a lot of input in that or do they kind of take it and run with it? Is it a 50 50 deal in in our case
We worked very closely with them and there were a lot of keep so for instance
When hoop dreams was first shown on
Television I think I'm right about this, but certainly when it was shown in theaters
It was you know blown up to 35 we shot it in four by three we shot it on beta cam then it was transferred to film
To the 69 for that 69 for theaters. So it would look like a theatrical film
The question of what to release on the restored version for with criterion
We went back to the original four by three
You know compositions and it's really as we shot it and uncompress it
Yeah for a more pure
Yeah, it's it's well. It's how it was composed by Peter Gilbert who shot it
You know, it's what he composed in the camera
Then when we did it theatrically, you know
He went out there and everything is reframed and you move it around
We didn't it wasn't just stretched. It was more like the pan and scan. Oh the pan scan
You really are very very careful about how you make it work absolutely because I've seen that done roughly right
But we that was kind of conversation we were in dialogue with criterion
There was a lot of discussion with us about how
That release was going to look and what should be on it and the feel of it and you know
They were great partners in terms of that. Yeah, it wasn't it wasn't
What happens? I won't mention a name but a series that we did a couple years ago about low-wage work and that
Broadcaster went out of business, but they have an international unit and
It's been showing internationally, but it's been blocked geoblocked in the US
So finally it was available in the US and we were able to see and it's like oh my god
They replaced our narration and they replaced all our graphics and it was like
Yeah, yeah, and they didn't change the words. It's not to change the meaning. It's just like a why would you put a different voice on it
We went so much trouble casting the narrator and all of that
Someone's calling me. I hope it's not
Barg
They're probably calling I bark just walked that way. They may be they may be calling you upstairs
I am though
I can't imagine it's probably just some pests
Well, you've got you've got 10 minutes until until the trials. So we need to let you go
No, it's it's I'm cool. It's right upstairs. It's it was something actually was something that had to do what I was just talking about
Okay, well then we're gonna go let you do it. I don't have to do it. Oh, okay
Because I was just I know that you've got we've only got a couple more minutes with you. Yeah, so
Any social media that you want to plug web sites
Facebook Twitter any of that before before we let you go. Yeah, Car Tamquin is
you know
K-R-T-M-Q-U-I-N our website
and we are every
month
Every month one of our films is playing on Chicago public television
So everyone in Chicago can see it and every week off of our website. We are streaming one of our older films
Oh, very nice
So I can't I think it's maybe on beauty
Which is about kind of
People with genetic disabilities and how they can actually look quite beautiful
photographer who works with them and
You know every week a different film is streaming for free. That's awesome right off of our website
And of course we have a pretty deep catalog. We do we have 50 films, you know, and we have
You know, we have a true Twitter feed and everything
I don't actually tweet myself is it all linked from the website. Yeah
You people could see it all on the website and there's a lot of information
We have programs that we do we have a diverse voices in docs program. We have a very developed
intern program
With the interns get workshops
You know from every department at Cartamquan
Redepartment of filmmaking over the course of their
Internship and then we have a program called KTK labs where people who have a work in progress
Can come and and take a look at
We take a look at their film and give them real feedback, you know, not the kind of polite
Oh, we like your film. It's really nice
Well, we're getting the high sign. We have to let you go my friend
Thank you so much for stopping by go and you've got a movie to enjoy here in about 10 minutes
So all right everyone should come see the trials of Muhammad Ali about to start all right
We are live at the angelic of center in downtown Dallas. Well, I guess we're uptown, aren't we
Take this mocking bird station for Dallas video fest 29
We're gonna be moving our next we also have another director who's good joining us right now west sudden
How are you sir? Good? How are you man? It's it's fast and furious tonight. I'm not gonna lie to you
You're directing wake. Oh, you have directed. It's like he's looking at film at the festival
It's called wake up. It's going to be tomorrow at one o'clock. Yes
Very brief description of the film so I'm gonna let you describe the film because maybe go a little deeper than what we've got in the media guide
Or unless you don't want to which we got that to no, it's
It's just it's about a man that
Sort of thinks he has this wonderful life, but maybe it doesn't everything's just one of those movies or everything is not as it seems
So and it can't give a can't say a lot because first of all, it's a short movie. So how long is the film? It's seven minutes
And it is part of the big D mobile film mobile phone fest
Right. Well, that's the interesting thing that I'm actually one of the programmers for the big D mobile phone film festival. So
This is our third year running and every year we make a film just in case
Nobody nobody we got one waiting in the wings right and we don't actually we don't get to approve it
We approve all the other films. We do all the other selections
But Bart Weiss actually does the selection if he doesn't like it it doesn't go in and we're gonna say this a thousand times in the next two shows
Bart Weiss quality human being one of our favorite people
He is he's a great guy and so he has to approve that you know this year. He liked our film, but
So yeah tomorrow at one p.m
Here at the Angelica will have the big D mobile film festival and what's cool about that is all these films are shot on
They're only shot on cell phones
So they can't use any other equipment has to be all shot on that it can be edited on computers
But you have to do the original footage shooting with a phone and every
This year we got about 40 entries from all over the world
Oh wow and Bart really loves it because it it is how it's
It's the most you know
Getting things from all over the world like we get from Ireland and Russia and Spain and
And the technology has moved so fast like I was watching something the other day
Now I want to say it was a football practice press conference and everybody just had their cell phones
Whether they were hooked up to devices that had boom mics on them or they were just holding their cell phones up
Like that's the thing now exactly
Well, and that's what we're really trying to do is to you know
It's the democratizing of making films where you don't have to have a lot of fancy equipment and anybody can make one and we're really trying to reach out to like
Younger people like the you know kids and teenagers and like that where
You know if I was a kid. That's what I would say if I had a cell phone when I was a child
I would have never done anything else. I would just made movies all the time and how you know
You did this Steven Spielberg and Sam Raimi and those guys that they had eight millimeter
Cameras and they used to make films and that was really hard and expensive and all that but now you can whip up your iPhone and have 1080p
Some even do 4k which is really amazing. Yeah, and you can edit on the fly almost
You can you can edit it in your phone or put it on your iPad or shoot with your iPad
So tomorrow all of these films are like I said shot with the cell phone and they're really summarizing things
There's a couple of them that are actually music videos
Uh, the rest of them are all narrative type things and they have to be under seven minutes that we do limit the time on those
Uh, but we got to really it's really hard to make the decision because we had such great you know
The and then we are going to pick a best of show so there will be it best of overall winner that we'll get a
Small trophy and so how many I'm sorry. I my mind blanked out on me
How many films are in the competition this year? Well, we have 14 that'll be screened okay out of 40
So we had 14 that'll be showing but we had a 40 that we had to select from which is really good
And like I said one of our film is just a little short and though the wake up again is just where a man he
You know he gets up in the morning and everything seems to be just like an idyllic kind of life
But yet again everything's not as it seems and we really did a technique when we were filming it to do a specific
Again, I don't want to give that away a little too much, but we did a specific way of filming it
So that also adds to the interest
So it's not just your standard, you know master close-up close-up. Yeah, it's we did a little bit differently
So that was sort of it we challenged ourselves to sort of do something like that and a lot of these music videos or I'm sorry
Just the videos themselves
I mean they're they're really quite good. I mean you wouldn't you when they've had like feature films now that have been shot
You know iPhones. There was a movie Tangerine
That was actually I think it was a academy award nominated or had you know
So you can do a lot of amazing things and again, it's not you don't have to have the latest
Best expensive equipment you just need to be able to tell a story and that's the whole thing about the big demobile phone film festival
It's a mouthful
But is it you know just we want people to tell stories and we want you to send them to us and then like said
This is a third year and hopefully we'll have a good turnout. So and Chad you're not allowed to steal his hat
Just so you know, yeah, I appalled that as soon as he came walking down here to the to the lounge
So is there anything while you're here before we have to let you go anything that you want to promote that you're doing any projects
You've got coming up any social media that you want people to go to
Well, they can always my my Twitter is at jwestern 007
And I'm the same thing on Instagram and I do have several projects
I do feature films and I do shorts
So I have a feature film right now that's it's in production. It's actually in post-production now called Aztec versus the prowler
And it's a throwback to the 60s
Lucha wrestling films where the lucha the lucha russia you have my attention is fighting a not a monster
I'll just say that sort of a monster kind of a guy, but it is a very
When we have real wrestlers we have a lot of wrestlers from the WWE we have I don't even know all the different wrestling
There's a the lady that produced it. We have a the rider was it was very familiar
He wrote a comic book. So this is another thing where it's the movies based on a comic book
That we've translated to a movie and that that'll probably be out the first thing early 2017
Wrestling is one of our four tastes on this show
So we had actual wrestling matches that are in the movie that we filmed there's some
I don't even know what the names of them are but they're in the metriplex
They have these you know professional match wrestling matches and we filmed some of that and then the lead is actually a wrestler
His name is ASCII
And it's that the what's interesting of all the the bad guy
And I don't give way too much, but you never really see the bad guy
And he's like the most famous wrestler of all the guys in the movie and it's sort of ironic. You don't actually see his face
But he is the so yeah, it should be really you know entertaining and it's it sounds like a lot of fun
Yeah, we shot it up in Sherman at like a haunted house. It was like a abandoned
It's kind of actually extra creepy because it was an abandoned haunted house. Oh, that's like creepy on top of creepy
Right, so I don't do haunted houses. That's just that I have a short that's a what so
It's a webisode called find me and we've already released the first one
We're gonna release two more
But it's kind of an anthology as that every three or four episodes
It then it will change but it's gonna be a webisode and where can that be is that on YouTube or it's just on its own website or
That would it sounds well
No, the website's not set up yet. It's okay, but the interesting thing about that too with film festivals are being more accepting now like
What episodes? Oh, absolutely. You know inner inner entire webisodes and things like that
So I have that and but again like so the main thing is if people aren't doing anything tomorrow at 1 p.m
To come out to the angelica and see some amazing films that were shot on cell phones. All right
Thank you so much for joining us, sir
That is West Sutton director of wake up part of the big D mobile phone film festival
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Helping wrap up Dallas video fest 29 our fourth year
Doing this sir
Four it's it's almost old enough to go into kindergarten. It is
This show has been called kindergarten
Just saying all right. We have two more. We have a co-director
I haven't even had a chance to get into the media guide because don't just got people coming to us so fast
Which is a good thing because it means other people get to talk and they don't have to listen to us on our yaps
So we're gonna let you guys introduce yourselves make sure you talk right into those microphones so everybody can hear you
Okay, my name is Alex Fawse. I'm one of the producer and the director of the big secret motion picture and
I'm Susan Downes
producer and director as well
All right, well since I have not had a chance to look this up tell me about the film please
Okay, well the film is
You know, it's sort of a personal journey for me for I was
Trying to improve my health and I started doing all the study on
Things that would be affecting our health and I hope some shocking revelations
basically
Fortunately, I have I have a doctor here an md Susan Downes. I just saw that in the media guide
She kind of left that out of her answer. She's a doctor to use it. Yeah, yeah
So and she's just playing one on TV she really is one
Yes, I'm a radio talk show host for voice America as well. Now see and see this is the kind of stuff we want
We want to know everything but go ahead and serve. I'm sorry. Well basically, you know, I started
Trying to figure out why
My health was bad and the doctors weren't helping me. It's a matter of fact they were making me sicker
and so I went on my own study journey where I was trying to figure out
why things worked with my health and and I came up with these
Starling revelations like you know, they they told me to take these
statin drugs the statin drugs were making me sicker and
And so you know, I discovered I already had
Low cholesterol. They were giving me statin drugs. It made my cholesterol go dangerously low
I learned that actually cholesterol is healthy and necessary for you
Your brain is made out of cholesterol. So if you don't
Have enough cholesterol you get dementia and you have all kinds of other problems. And so that was one thing. I
Had I developed you know at a younger age to develop cataracts and I had to have surgery for
My cataracts. I had a lens replaced in one eye and and then six months later
I was supposed to have another lens put in and then I ran into dr. Glidden and he gave me a
idea about taking certain minerals and vitamins and so the eye that didn't have the surgery
Cleared up and it's still got a cataract but it cleared up to the point where I could see through it correctly
And there's just a plethora of things that I started studying and learning about and so I'd like to turn this over to Susan
You probably give us a veteran side on that then I mean yeah
Were you involved from the from the beginning of this quest or did you come in at a certain point during his journey?
I was lucky enough to come in at a certain point
It's just very good luck that we ran into each other
But I would like to emphasize that everything he's saying is correct our current alapathy system is
Focus on finding an element and then finding a pill to
Mass the symptoms you create new ones a kind of a system a pill for now and does that service well
There's a new branches of medicine functional medicine where you can look at the cause of what's going on
You can look at the pathways of everything going on in the body
You can figure out what's going the wrong direction and then through certain supplements good lifestyle choices
You could direct it in a more healthy way and
I think that's a much better way to go more prevention rather than sick care or disease management
You see I was I was a filmmaker for a long time. I have five Emmy awards
I was gonna say something else you glossed over but I looked at an immediate guide five Emmys
Okay, this is another first night sir. We have some we had a filmmaker who's had we dealt with the criterion collection
We got an Emmy winner sitting right here a multiple Emmy five of them this many
And so I said, you know, this is something that that I really need to do a film about because
I didn't know about it
You know, I was stuck in the world saying well, I'm gonna believe whatever my doctor tells me and I'm not blaming the doctors
They all have a good idea, but they're being given false information from
people
Higher up the drug companies and so forth and it I found out it was a money thing and this the
System was sort of set up where they could make money off of me being sick
And what I what I learned is when I started taking the right vitamins
And that's it sounds like a cliche, but minerals in the right proportion the right the right things your body needs to run properly and I used to
have
Allergies I lived with allergies. I would have a cold maybe once a month at least have a flu twice
You know maybe twice three times a year once I started giving myself what I needed
In the right proportions and then not eating the things which were poisonous
then
All of a sudden I'm not getting colds. I'm not having allergy problems as severely. I'm a lot healthier
Now I still have a long way to go and I I lost like 40 pounds
Over you know, I was way overweight and then I learned things that you know what what makes us overweight? Well, what makes us overweight is we're starving the
The food doesn't have the nutrients in it that we're supposed to and I'm gonna let Susan elaborate because I made it be getting
I may be getting that wrong, but I'm laughing because she's got to look like he was doing so well
And I was gonna hand it off to me. She shook her hand. I said oh, I did something wrong
See, I'm still learning and fortunately I have all these experts. We have Dr. Glidden coming in and he's going to be for the show Sunday night for the show Sunday night outstanding and but basically
Learning that you don't eat certain things right and you want to elaborate on what's in the food that's bad? She's an expert. Oh
Yeah, right up on that microphone so you know it's so much enough food. It's not healthy for us processed foods all sorts of chemicals
Toxins I mean grain fed meats have antibiotics hormones and insecticides in it
I mean as mercury and a lot of the fish and just our environment has a lot of toxins
I mean flame retardants on couches and everywhere we go even electromagnetic fields for our cell phones
And this all contributes to the health that we get something called inflammation oxidative stress and mitochondria
Don't react well and everything just starts going on a downward spiral for example autism
It used to be one out of 10,000 maybe back in the 60s now. It's one out of 40
A lot of that is due to environmental factors. I mean studies have shown to you know
Certain toxins increase the likelihood of this and it's going to be affecting all of us because all these increase the inflammation and oxidative stress
Which leads to diseases a healthy gut is essential what we put in our mouth is essential
Lifestyle getting enough sleep stress reduction diet exercise very important as for fat
Um, I don't have all the answers here. I hadn't heard about starving, but
It depriving us of the proper minerals and then one of the problems with fat is it's where all the toxins get stored
So all these toxins end up in our fat system and it makes it harder to get rid of it
And then if you do reduce the fat then these toxins might come out
For example women when they get older and when they have osteoporosis lead comes out of the bones with it
So they're more susceptible to certain diseases at that time
Now Alex, let me ask you the question that you you co-directed this right the journey that you're on with this
How hard was it for you to see through those lenses what you were going through as you watched back what you were filming?
Well, I actually look at pictures of myself from a year ago
And I can see that I actually look better today. I have a long way to go
um
But
You know, it's it'll be covered a lot of basic things like I had you know when the doctor's giving me
um, what I call
Staten drugs which we lots of times call Alzheimer's drugs because in many cases
We're showing in the film that statin drugs lead to Alzheimer's disease or to dementia
um
Among other things and and so you know you learn that the glyphosate when when the agribusiness farming came in
two things happened one
The nutrients started
Going out of the foods and so you would get foods that basically had no
minerals and vitamins and they just had empty carbs in many cases and then
When they took the minerals out over time you're getting glyphosate which is
Roundup which is a weed killer so you you make plants that are impervious to
glyphosate and so they thrive but they absorb the right glyphosate the roundup and then you eat it and your body
It's not designed for that and then you get the pesticides and so you're getting all these toxins you did
so the the food in the 1970s and 60s
Totally different than the food you're getting now absolutely
So yeah, and I would like to add a little bit the statins deplete a very important antioxidant called coq 10
Which you need for your mitochondria energy production and without that everything starts going south
You can lead to cardiovascular disease dementia when I was in London airport big headlines
statins lead to dementia on the newspapers in the stands and also the glyphosate
I think they found studies that it has changed some of the DNA within our gut and the bacteria in our gut the microbiome is extremely important
All right, this to me is a horror show of this GMO sliding through and being put in our food without us even having knowledge of it
And the film tomorrow I'm sorry Sunday night. I didn't learn to read at 7 30 correct is this the first showing of the film has filmed the show before so the world premiere here at the angelica Sunday night
I'm assuming Q&A after the film. Yes, and where does it are you taking the other places from here?
Do you have a schedule to any other shows because we're all over the world. So we want to make sure
We've submitted to a lot of places
Um so far we've only been accepted here
We're hoping that we get a lot more film festivals that accept us
Uh, but we're at the beginning. This is a premiere and so we'll see how good you picked a good one for for to be your first one
This is this is a great festival. Have you had any time to to see any of their films or have you just gotten here and getting settled?
I saw I saw one on
Tuesday night Tuesday night. Yeah. Oh, you went to the to the yellow premiere. Yes. Yes for sunrise. Yes. Isn't it awesome?
How do we do that? Awesome and then and also
The one about the rebirth of a nation last night. I love that. Yes. That was great
One of the things I love about video fest is there is it's so off the beaten path a lot of what they do
Right, and so you get to see things like we've seen things that years down the road have done well
And to be able to say that you got to see it first. It's kind of cool
Well, I think you know, this is a very special place because
They will give filmmakers an opportunity
Uh, a lot of film festivals they have to see someone that's been successful at like five or six other festivals and
And they won't they're not willing to take risks. We had one of our
Submissions rejected because we're talking about fluoridation of water
And the city was was involved with the film festival and they said no, we're not going to do it with the
Talking about fluoridation
I'll let me add a little bit about fluoridation is that the fluoride that we put in a mouth and the mercury in our teeth the murky for example
I mean you could with certain cameras see pictures of it kind of evaporating and it goes toward the brain and you know mercury
Talks is it can be a risk for heart disease and all sorts of things
So that these they're putting these things in our mouth yet there are labeled as hazardous waste
That if a dentist has to get rid of them
I've got to put it in special containers and you know put it in a special place
But it's okay to put it in our mouth. I mean fluoride helps if you put it on the tooth directly
It does some really good things
But it doesn't stay on the tooth very long when it's in our water supply
So before we let you go
Websites social media. We're all about shameless self promotion on this show
So tell working people get to you working people learn more about the film and maybe even reach out to you
If they want to have you as part of their festivals
the big the big secret calm and the trailers there and you can also find us on YouTube and the big secret movie and it's actually the
big secret movie calm
And we have a facebook page
It's a big secret a big secret
You know the guide for the new millennium and so you can find out where we're going to be and all the latest information will be there
All right, it's good. It's got any direct questions. They can send me an email at susan at susandownsmd.com
calm okay
The big secret Sunday night 730 is going to be theater 7 which that's a real. I like that house a lot
It's it's kind of a medium-sized house
So it's not too small and it's not too big. I think it's going to be a really good house for a film like this
Because it's going to kind of enough of an intimate setting
But enough that you can get quite a few people in there
So that'll be pretty much closing out the festival because I'll be one of the last show
So that's a big thing with q and a afterwards. Thank you guys so much for joining us go enjoy yourselves
Thank you. Thank you. You are listening to the call of house podcasts
We are live at the Angelica Film Center at Mockingbird station for Dallas video fest 29 sir
And then we'll be back Sunday for our normal show
We got a lot going on man
And then next week how on a celebrate show
Where we'll be in the what we're calling the yoke studio because we'll be in the studio
But we'll probably all be sitting on the floor together
Oh while we're waiting for Don to get this next thing set up
We'll talk about TV on DVD and Blu-ray that's come out this week. I know. I'm just going to do this real quick
Downton Abbey the complete series
Oh, yeah, I thought this guy looks familiar
um
Mr. Selfridge was another thing my wife was a big fan of the complete series there
The night of the very highly acclaimed HBO series hit DVD and Blu-ray this week. Oh, okay, okay with
With John Tuturo season four of Bates Motel
Power Rangers Dino Thunder the complete series and the complete series of the spectacular spider-man
Which one was that that was the animated one that was really popular there for a while what what I mean was it the 80s one was at the
No, it's the it's the MTV one. I think all the one had Lisa lobe is Mary Jane
See then they take me in my happy place and I want to say you know about my unhealthy crush on Lisa lobe
And local ties once I came up a conversation earlier today and I was very how you doing wasn't it wasn't it
Neil Patrick Harris that was the voice of I think so crush on
What makes a crush unhealthy
That I probably shouldn't crush on her as hard as I do because my wife gets upset sometimes
But why is that unhealthy?
For my health that my wife knows
Princess the crush. Yeah, it is I've been a crush and I did the friend of the show Marcus Blake just walking in
Marcus good to see you brother
We have a return guest sir. Oh hold on okay hold on how often do I get to say hi on the show during I was talking to my
No, but I'm just saying hi and all that okay speaking my health unhealthy crush is I got your Christmas gift me
I have no idea what it is the same one we've done for four years just saying
joining us because
Probably for a lot of the same reasons he did last year and the year before and the year before four years in a row four years in a row
What I think this this you may be the only person that can claim that
I'm going to put it out there to the universe outside of chat. I think you're the only person that can claim
Alan Holtzman this year. We've already talked about the project you're here for Bart was on with us at the beginning of the show
Oh, how cool. I am ready for this
This I'm going to let you talk about it because I think this is beyond cool
Well Frank Capra is
The he won you know only John Ford is one more Academy Awards than John then Frank Capra and he started in the silent years
He was working for Max Senate and Max Senate said I don't want any
No pens and paper
He paired people to go he was a gag
Gagwriter and they worked in pairs and they had to come into his office and make him laugh and if they made him laugh
He went out and and shot it and
Frank Capra has an amazing understanding of the human experience and he when start starting in comedy
Analyze the four types of comedians
One is speed which Harry Langdon represented two is stoicism which buster Keaton represented very well three is
With which Charlie Chaplin represented also very well and four is Harry Langdon who was the man child which he directed who he
He directed his Harry Langdon's first three features and people I mean
You say the name Frank Capra
People should know that name because every year it's probably starting here in about a month
You're going to be inundated with one of his films a little thing called. It's a wonderful life
I remember the first time I saw it's a wonderful life
I was in New York City in a little apartment and I had a little black and white TV that had like a
Three by five inch screen
I also I also watched the Bobby Fisher board spaskey match. Oh my god
I was Shelby Lyman doing the big chess board. I don't know if you ever saw that but you have been but um
Uh, and I saw it's a wonderful life and I cried like watching this little screen. I couldn't stop watching it
But his first move his first movie that got him fame was it happened one night
That's picture winner and that started the buddy movie the romantic comedy
It was it's set the hall hall hallmark for
In which you're going to be doing tomorrow at 345
Is really really neat talk about like I'm trying to imagine
What that's going to be like because like that bark talked about it a little bit at the top of the show
But apparently you guys have unearthed some some footage that you've been able to use with some of his film footage
Yes, I
About 15 years ago. I was a grad graduate from the American film film institute
And while I was there they had the Harold Lloyd seminars and Harold Lloyd left money for AFI
To do master seminars and these were seminars that are very unique
In that there's no moderator
It's the students and the film filmmaker in a living room at the at the dohenny mansion in Beverly Hills
And what the students did was they spent anywhere from a week to two weeks prior to the filmmaker
Coming to watch all of his or her movies
And so that the film the students were informed when asking the filmmaker
Question so about 15 years ago. I called AFI
And I asked you know, do you have any of those interviews?
I knew that some of them were recorded and they said yes, but they're in horrible shape
You don't want to trust me. They're terrible. And you said challenge accepted
And I said please let me see what I do. I do and so they said okay come take whatever you want
So I went to the last words right
I got to take a real one. It was actually in a closet
And they weren't even stacked neatly. They were just thrown in
So I took
What was available which was Hitchcock Truffaut, Spielberg, Capper and John Houston. Oh, that's right cuz that was Hitchcock last year
Uh-huh
And so it wasn't bad shape
I'm not going to deny that
And but I restored it as much as I couldn't with the digital age that allows you to abreast stuff
And they were like little black video lines that will come through often
And so I worked out a technique where I could take that frame out and substitute the prior frame
And so since the camera wasn't moving and it's a headshot bait basically you can't really tell that a frame is missing
So I did my best to restore it and but I used all of his movies to represent what he was talking about
So it's just Frank Kapper in his message that he's leaving behind
How long is it? It's an hour
I just I can't even like this is blowing my mind like when you were going through this
Do you how many times did you just sit there and go this is this is really happening this is a thing
Like because you know you get to do Hitchcock now you get to do Frank Capra
That if you hadn't raised your voice 15 years ago these may have never been found and they may have been watched forever
Do you get to take these around the country or just smaller festivals like that?
I used them to teach with
I teach at USC. I'm an adjuk. I mean I'm a professional editor
But I and I teach I've taught at USC for the last 10 10 10 10 years and along a little I'm teaching editing
I teach editing as film filmmaking editors as filmmakers
So they have to understand the directors and I have screenings at different schools
It's not the most popular thing in the world
But I do I know I wish I could show them were often, you know
But I'm I'm making these things and I don't really have the opportunity or the amount of
Support to market them
but I think the important thing is to make them and make and
They're available so if someone says I
I did have a I did try to get on the university circuit and it's very difficult without an agent
But I do have actually 24 hours. I did this other thing creating media to teach media
And so I've been making movies about editing production design and directing for the last 20 years and
I did this because originally because I was a pretty severe stutterer
And I've overcome that but I wanted to I was I didn't think I didn't have the confidence that I could lecture about everything
And I wanted to say so I found these great film filmmakers who I loved and and agreed with and and you let them do it for me
Plus I'm expressing using the art of editing to express what they have to say
Is this with all the other filmmakers that you've been able to get this footage on are you do you is there a plan to
For lack of a better term make this into a series for you. Well, it already is a series
Okay, so I have, you know true foe Spielberg. Oh, so you did it was already. Oh, yes
And I was sure those were ones you had that you hadn't been able to mess with you. No, that's good
Yeah, was it true foe two years ago? I was did true foe two years ago
Okay, and then last year I had previously I didn't show it here
But I did one with Hitchcock and Spielberg. That's how I started
Okay, and then and then because true foe reference Spielberg and Hitchcock and Spielberg reference true foe
And Spielberg is like the descendant of Hitchcock the three together were an amazing, you know
chemistry
Uh, and so um and prior to that I didn't want on Sheldon Leonard who was a TV director producer and
So I have this series that could be referred to as the art of directing which I do refer to you guys
So some more oh wait a minute. No, I know I would love to see him profile
If you're gonna do like this the true foe and well
True foe and Spielberg kind of referencing each other. I would love to see
Kurosawa and Lucas especially right now, but they they didn't give that interview
I have to say
All right now with the new magnificent seven which
What a wonderful film. Have you seen it? It's so much fun. It's literally leave your brain at the door
Take two hours of your life and just have fun
It's we've talked about it with some of our our
Partnership shows like the movie brothers. We did talk to them about it and
It the new ones not he's right. It's not as heavy as the original magus nificent seven
Nothing's ever going to be seven samurai, but this is a good fun film
That it's it's for a genre that's one of my favorite genres that is really
Taking a hit in the last decade the western
It's Westworld is bringing it back room. I've watched the first episode and I'm completely hooked
You know, but here's something that would ship you out
I was the editor on battle be on the stars for Roger Korn. What? I'd love that movie. I love that
I've even written a book about it. I kept the journal while working on it. This is like one of my favorite people
We've ever spoken to
And one that keeps coming back and keep coming back every time please
So whether you have a project or not keep going back battle beyond the source was written by John
John sales right and it was intended to be a rip off of seven samurai and
Met the magnificent seven in fact Robert Vaughan who was in the magazine
The magazine seven was cast for that and when we went I wouldn't saw it at the end
I haven't we haven't talked about this. I went and saw Magnificent seven at
The Alamo and the Alamo does a custom pre-show for the movie you're seeing
I don't know where this is because I have to find it apparently in the 70s
They did a movie that was just called the seven
Which is a 70s version of the magnificent seven boy and like Kate Jackson's in it
Was it like a schlock fest? Oh, it's it's but there's like people of note in this film. I'm like I have to see this
But yeah, that'll be on the stars. I love that movie so much
Okay, we're gonna have we need to let you go so as you enjoy the festival, but as we always do I don't want to let him go though
You don't have to let me go
I don't have to save all
Shameless self-promotion just like we do every year. I don't need shameless self-promotion
I don't know where it's going
But website how can people get hold of you? I think you can get a hold of me
a-l-l-a-n dot h-o-l-z-m-a-n at gmail.com or
Send us something to the Dallas Film Festival for forward it. I do have everything I make on demio with the
Password and I'm happy to give that that out to whoever privately wants to do it. I think this thing tomorrow is gonna be awesome
I just oh, I'm intrigued and every every year
Bring some of these here and we every year like this
Okay, this is the one that he goes to raise the bar on you
I just want to tell you one little quick story about Frank Capra. He and when he've had his first
Feature he he loved it and it played well on screenings and the editing room and screen screening rooms
But when he had it before an audience it was slow
And he couldn't explain it he couldn't understand why because the performances were right
So then he went from then on
He had all his actors talk faster
Faster and more intense
Where's that before and the other thing is that he really respected the first take so he wouldn't let the actors
You know rehearse he had table readings and discussions
But he he let them let out the steam in that first take and he said 75% of the time he used that for first take
Wasn't it wasn't Gabel's performance in that film that he directed him in wasn't Gabel's
portrayal of this guy that was eating a carrot the basis for Bugs Bunny
Oh, I don't know. I heard that I've heard that for a long time
Wow that that they based the entire persona of Bugs Bunny around Gabel's performance in that film
You know now, but when I have those old Bugs Bunny cartoons and I let's see him and I had I see it if you go in with the big eyes
In the big you know, he's he's in all his Clark Gabelness and you on a grey suit one look great because it's black and white
and
He's eating a carrot and basically they just went with that image. It said go
That's how we want our rabbit to look can't you just see Bugs Bunny saying frankly my dear
I believe that scene actually has played that scene in my head a hundred times
All right, well, I would do want to talk about one quick thing
Before we let Alan go because I don't know if you saw but today or within the last 24 hours
The nominations for the 2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. Oh, yes, has been let out
If you want to feel old kids
Listen to this list because I got the entire list for you. Oh, I know. I've already voted up for induction this year bad brains
punk band
Uh-huh very some people know who they are the cars
Because remember to be eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's 25 years from the release of your first single
I got a pretty good idea who you're saving for last if you're doing it. It's alphabetical. Okay. Okay
Uh
Shaka Khan
Shaka Khan. Let me rock you let me rock you shaka Khan. Stop it. Shaka Khan's in my limo
Okay
Don doesn't know how to let go of things. I'm just saying uh
Sheek up again because remember they were nominated last year right. Yeah, I was I was talking to somebody online about that
For somebody's not thought now I'll win it on his own someone that chat has gone to 19 different computers and voted for
The Depeche mode have only voted twice
I just finished editing a documentary called dare to be different
That's about the radio station W L. I. R
They're broke all the new wave bands from England and and and New York and the uh 80s
Uh-huh see he has your attention. Um, I knew I knew this was the right guy to have for this ELO
And it is actually an archival clip of someone on TV introducing them on TV in America and he called them Depeche mode
Depeche mode
What are we making music for you? Is our music enough? Are we funny? Are we funny like clowns?
People of people so why should it be
ELO J Giles band up this year
James addiction that one kind of made me feel old that they're up
Joan Baez Janet Jackson Janet Jackson
Yes, I'm just saying Joe Tex
Uh, let's see journey. Why are they not in? I don't know it's it's it's another one of those groups that probably comes up and they just don't
Doc what Doc because they're on a journey. That's true. Doc will be happy because craft work
I love the show work when they first came to America and they had the most amazing show because they specialize in video
They were the ones who broke the the
Use the video with rock and roll and I think they were just in town. Yeah, they're still touring in front
I saw people saying I they just saw them last week and they're still blowing them away
MC5 the motor city five right
Pearl jam
Pearl jam is eligible for the rock and roll hall of fame. You're something that will date me
I marched with and I was in the front line in 1965 the first march against Washington
March against the war in Vietnam in Washington and I was in the front line and once I was Bob Dylan the other side was Joan
but
And Bob Dylan every 15 talk about him very first songwriter to win a Pulitzer prize
This week for his work no no bell
That no bell. That's right man my brain is fried and I saw a headline on CNN that they couldn't find him three days ago
Well, they said he's touring because they they're trying to get him to the ceremony in December
But his tour schedule like he hasn't even said anything about it. It's just he's Bob Dylan. Well, I'm a Bob Dylan fanatic my my mother in fact called him Bob Dylan
Steppenwolf up this year
Tupac but that's sink in and on that
Yes, why are they not in
And for the second year in a row the zombies are up which I thought they would have gotten in last year
But I mean that's very seminal in my personal opinion, but that's just me. Can I do one shameless self-promotion? Absolutely
It's for Bob Dylan
He has a and I live in Los Angeles in Santa Monica and he has a coffee shop called the 18th Street Cafe and he bought the whole block
And in that block is the coffee shop a boxing gym where he works out and his synagogue
Real that's he he has a boxing gym
There's a picture in the coffee shop with him with my
Muhammad Ali I'm just trying to picture that in my head just him working a heavy
A heavy punching bag. That's kind of surreal. I saw him like three three years ago
He actually moved his knee and people applaud it
And then two years ago he stopped using the guitar because I think he has back problems
So he's on keyboards. He's an amazing keyboard player and in between songs he ran around the keyboard to keep his circulation
When I was show I saw he did he'd never even ran around the keyboard when I was a kid
Nashville skyline was in heavy rotation in the house. I have a story
But I went to college at Bennington, which was in all girl school and
two people died in a car crash
And it was a really sad moment and Nashville skyline came out that weekend
And everyone was playing it every when you walk by it was the area to me that is the album right where I think Bob Dylan
That's the album I don't want to have and I'll send this to you if you email me
I have the rehearsals of Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan
All the outticks. It's amazing. Just just get it right down right it down right it down
Right down right now. I'm trying
We just Halloween. I'm going as Bob Dylan. I can't wait till I unveil my my Halloween shirt on the wall
Because this is I'm proud of this one, but we also have someone else joining us. That's also
Part of the big D-mobile film phone fest. I'm going to let you introduce yourself sir
My name is Adi Spector
And the it's called a miracle of Hanukkah correct correct. So you part of the big D-mobile film fest you
The requirements you had to film it on your phone
Definitely, that's my actually second film as a director
That I used an iPhone to to make but this is actually the fourth film. I'm involved as a filmmaker and actor in
In the films made with an iPhone actually how long is the film this film is seven minutes. It's a short film
So it's part of the part of the we had the
One of the curators of your particular competition here a little while ago
Forty submissions. They they brought 17 of them. Oh nice to the festival. So you kind of been pretty good company right now
Yeah, thank you
A man arrives home early from a business trip to celebrate the first day of Hanukkah and he finds a supernatural surprise
Is that as deep as you want to go?
Yes, because it's a comedy
You know it's seven minutes
It's tomorrow at
1 p.m
If I give away too much it's not going to be fun anymore because you will expect the unexpected fair enough
Uh, are you guys going to be doing a Q&A after I think so we haven't spoken about that
But it seems like that's that's how this festival works after each
Screening if the filmmaker is present it do Q&A is afterwards. What brought you to want to do this?
um
Well
You mean as a filmmaker
um
Do you ask me what
What why I'm making films on an iPhone or what I'm making films that I want to make film just in general
Well, I'm an actor actually. I'm an actor and been doing it for a long time. I'm
I'm originally from Poland. I live in LA right now and when you know in between the auditions and between the the jobs
I didn't want to work
I didn't want to wait for somebody to call me so I started to produce my own things and then slowly
I wanted to have more control as you know what the outcome would be artistically speaking
um and content speaking that so I started to write my own
And then produce direct and actually acting it as well
So I cast myself in different roles that I would actually be playing
Uh in Hollywood for that matter
How many films have you made?
Oh, not necessarily acted in but made yourself
Uh as a director or
To this is my second one the previous one actually was in this film festival last year. Oh, there we go
Yeah, it was the name the name of the film was how to rob a house
I just couldn't come here because I've another festival
Participate in LA at the same time and that film actually won bunch of awards too. We got the best clip award in
Barcelona
We got second place on iPhone film festival in Beverly Hills runner up award in
San Diego
then
There is an app that we use to shoot it on the knife one. It's called filmic pro
So uh, we won the early bird competition
uh last year and the last award for that one was actually um because it's a film about the vampire
So I sent it to the vampire from first about in Transylvania
Nice. That's a thing. That's just everything. There is a thing
And you know apparently it's very famous because when I told some people about oh yeah, we know about that
It's such a big deal and I mean yeah, it makes sense. I just never would have thought that it would actually exist
Yeah, it's the age of the internet if you can imagine it that's out there
Yeah, it's it's a bad reason by film and art festival so everything about the vampires is there
Wow, and it takes place in the castle where
Dracula was born
So that makes it even more yeah
I heard on the radio that they're actually booking people that you can spend Halloween night in that castle
It's been all over Facebook this week. Uh, I believe the three words I would use are no thank you. Oh, I mean
I'd be all over that mount
So was this your first time here? Uh, first time here. Just want to finish um, we got a silver steak award
Ha ha ha ha
Nice which is the second place international. So it's a big deal that has to go on the mantle. So what's first?
Golden garlic, no, the golden spike the golden step
Yeah, that has to be a piece on the mantle
I don't think he's seen the one sheet for this film that you're talking about yet. Is this a thing Don was talking to you?
That one. Oh this one. Yeah. Yeah, America of Hanula. Yeah. It's a controversial film. That's the thing. Yeah
Yeah, it's actually actually premiered in Warsaw in LGBT Film Festival, and yeah, it was
shown in five or six different cities on a big screen last April.
So your first time here in general?
I've never been to Texas.
Welcome.
Thank you so much.
Are you staying through the whole weekend?
I'm staying till Sunday.
Okay.
So you're staying through the weekend?
Yes.
I'll be here tomorrow for the screening obviously.
And the Sunday I'm flying back.
Are you going to be doing any touristy things while you're here?
Well, the state fair is going on right now, right at the street.
Where?
The state fair of Texas.
It's just on the other side of 30 from where we are right now.
Really?
And this is the last weekend.
Okay.
You want a true microcosm of what it's like to eat in Texas.
That's it.
That's where you need to go.
That's where you go.
Okay.
I actually believe it or not.
My sister came from LA tonight.
Okay.
So they're going to pick me up with the car and I think that's where we're going to go.
Yeah.
The state fair is awesome.
It really is.
I am, not just because I live here, but the state fair of Texas is true like he says.
You really want to understand Texas.
That is the thing because there's so much to see and do.
And of course, it's a gorgeous night tonight.
It's absolutely beautiful night.
The rain's already coming gone, so you're good there.
Right.
What's going to be next for you?
Well, I'm working on a feature film right now.
Just write in it.
Okay.
This film got into Miami short film festival International short film festival in Miami,
November.
So I'm flying to be there with the film.
I'm from that area.
I'm actually from the water.
Wow.
Nice.
Never been to Miami either.
Yeah.
It's an experience, my friend.
It's like whenever I fly, it seems like I fly out of the United States, Europe, Australia,
you know, passing over all the other places that you know, you know, you were to buy the
tickets a few extra hours, you know.
And so before we let you go, because you know, we wanted to let you go enjoy the evening
because you said you got people coming in.
Thank you so much.
Website, social media, plug it all.
Okay.
So I'm on everything.
I'm on Facebook, which is a de-spector official.
That's my fan page.
That's a-d-i-s-p-k-t-o-r.
S-p-e-k-t-o-r.
Oh, I missed that.
And don't say S-p-e-k-t-o-r.
Oh, I missed that.
And don't say S-p-e-k-t-o-r.
O-r.
O-r.
O-r.
Then same thing on Instagram, on Twitter, I'm a de-spector, again, a-d-i-s-p-k-t-o-r.
I have a website, a-d-i-s-p-k-t-o-r.com.
And that's pretty much the social media.
Well, best of luck to you tomorrow.
Thank you so much.
And go enjoy your evening, sir.
We'll do.
Thank you so much for the evening.
Thank you for sitting with us.
You are listening to the Clubhouse podcast.
We are live Dallas Video Fest 29, our fourth year.
We're having a great time.
And we're going to have a great time when we come back Sunday evening for our normal
show, Seven Eastern Four Pacific.
We got a lot of stuff coming up, man.
We got a lot going on.
I'm so far behind on our social media feed because the Wi-Fi here is giving me.
That's why I've had to tether from my phone, sir.
We got just a little bit longer, but that we're going to be here.
And then we're going to go enjoy our evening as well.
Because, man, it's gorgeous.
I love this time of year.
And it's actually fall weather.
We had a nice little downpour, what was it yesterday morning?
No, it was overnight.
Was it yesterday morning?
It was yesterday, it was like very early yesterday morning, right before, right before
sun up.
And it just completely drenched everything.
And then it was just gone by noon.
It's like, did it ever actually rain because there was not a cloud in this guy?
Oh, no.
It was raining on me yesterday on the way to work, but today.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Today was gorgeous.
It's almost like it kind of helped cool things off even more.
So it's like a really moderate temperature outside.
Light jacket weather at best.
Some music new releases that came out today that you might be interested in.
David Crosby with a new album called Lighthouse, not a David Crosby fan, so that in my
will.
But you acknowledge him.
Yes, I acknowledge him.
Right.
Jimmy E. World has returned.
Really?
Yes, with an album called Integrity Blues, corn with a new album today.
I thought they were dying.
Called the Serenity of Suffering.
The new Lady Gaga.
Called Joanne.
Very interested in this small dive bar tour that she's doing.
Yeah.
Leonard Cohen, which was a band, not the person.
Called you wanted darker.
Ronnie Dunn, formerly a Brooks and Dunn, with a solo album today called Tattooed Heart
Pretenders, who are going to be here a week from Sunday, opening for Stevie Nicks.
They have a new album out today called Alone and the original cast recording of Lazarus.
The Bowie thing, that comes with three new unreleased Bowie tracks, is available today
as well.
Don, what you got for me?
I'm back and I'm Brian.
No, I'm Don.
What?
I have no idea what just happened here.
If I had a tomato, I throw it at his head.
I had a tomato.
I'd be having dinner at this moment.
Hold on.
Is that tomato in the lexicon?
Go find somebody.
You did open it.
He's like, you're like a sort of family guy.
You took the joke and just went way too far with it.
Very interested in our next guest.
And I'm going to let him introduce himself, talk right into that thing, sir.
Hello.
I'm.
You did tell him.
I did.
I did tell him.
A little hot mic here.
Are we good?
We're good.
We're good.
I'm Jeremy Teyser.
I'm the co-director of Track Town, which is a feature film that's playing at Dallas Video Fest.
That's what it's just, and it is playing Sunday at 2.45 in theater 2.
I'm going to let you explain this because I just read the very basic synopsis and you have
my attention.
So Track Town is a narrative feature film, so it's like a regular movie, about an hour
and a half.
And it's about a really sheltered star runner who's trying out for the Olympics for the
first time.
And she has to take a day off between the prelims and the finals.
And she's never taken a day off before.
And this causes her to freak out as an athlete.
Sometimes we'll do.
And we see how she handles her first day off ever.
And what's really cool about this movie is that my co-director, co-writer and the star
of the film is an actual Olympic athlete who ran in the Rio Olympics and all the athletes
in the film are real life Olympian teammates of her.
So.
So it's actually going to be my next question.
Were you able to corral all these other athletes using her as the Kevin Bacon of the
Olympics?
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
All right.
We can't prove this, but we are pretty sure that we have the most Olympians in any fiction
movie.
You know what?
I don't know where I can dispute that, sir.
How many of them total?
Oh, man.
Now you're putting it on the spot.
At least.
If you got a brag about it, you got to have the data.
Right.
No, yeah.
Well, I can say this.
All 12 of the athletes in the race scene.
There's like a 5K prelim in finals action scene.
These are all professional runners and then scattered throughout the film in non athletic
roles.
Our cameo appearances from a few Olympic medalists that track and field fans might recognize.
And you know what?
I may not represent the Guinness people, but I'm signing off on that.
Yes.
Most Olympians in a single film.
I'm signing off on that.
Okay.
Okay.
How long have you taken a film?
We shot over the course of about a month, but we also filmed some racing sequences several
months before and again several months after principal photography because we were working
around the schedules of actual Olympic athletes.
You just want to make sure you had the footage and then you can fill everything else in.
Get the tough stuff done.
And then we can do the stuff over here.
Well, we filmed at a huge track meet called the pre-pontane classic in Eugene, Oregon,
which has huge crowds and we just got those crowd shots.
And so our Olympic trial scenes are actually kind of stolen from real life track meets.
What brought you to this?
So Alexi, Papis, the athlete, co-director, star is my fiance.
So that kind of, that helps.
We went to college together and both actually studied film and English and this is my second
movie.
My first movie was not in the world of running, but you know, when you're making an indie
film, one of the things that you ask yourself as an independent writer and director is
what world do I have unique access to and what's a story that only I can tell.
And of course, if your girlfriend is training for the Olympics, that's a unique story.
So that's what got us started making track town.
You said co-director, co-writer, co-star, actually star.
You spent most of them sort of behind the camera.
Yeah.
Were there moments when you were writing it where she made it on this?
It might be going a little bit too deep.
You know, I don't think we ever had moments like where we felt like we were very careful
throughout the whole thing because it's a fiction movie, but it's portraying a world
that she's a part of, a community that we're both a part of, that we care a lot about
and we want to represent well.
Not that we want to sugarcoat everything, but we want the people that we're portraying
to be proud of it.
We knew we wanted to tell a story that even if you're not a fan of track and field, if
you just like sports movies or indie films, you're going to like, but if you are a track
and field band, you'll feel proud of it, you'll feel like, yes, this is a movie about
my community.
So we definitely kept that in mind.
And I think that that sort of approach is why we ended up getting so much support, like
why we were allowed to film at the pre-contained classic, which is like, you're not allowed
to film that race or why we had all these Olympic athletes taking time out of their schedules
to come act for us.
Is this the first time it's been shown?
No, the world premiere of Track Down was at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June and
it's played a few festivals since then.
And Dallas is kind of a stop on our festival circuit and the film will be coming out in
why to release this spring.
So you do have distribution for it?
Or allegedly talks are underway.
We get a lot of that when we do these.
I am going to knock on wood right here, just to not jinx anything, but the contracts
have been signed and we do have distribution.
I can't, it's not public, we're not doing the press release hasn't happened yet, but
it's happening.
And the movie's coming out.
That's awesome.
That's very exciting.
I'm assuming Q&A after the film tomorrow?
Yes.
I will be there.
Alexi is at training camp.
She has her first race since the Olympics coming up, but I will be there and I am excited
to talk to whoever is there.
Chad, you got anything that you want to ask while we're here before we get the shameless
promotion?
Was it kind of tempting to take a look around at everything that was going on in Rio
and incorporate that into this film or were you just trying to avoid that altogether?
Or was it pretty much done by that point though?
The movie was done.
Thank you.
By the time we went to Rio, that was actually it had a world, the world premiere had happened
already.
So I was kind of focused at that point on working with our sales agent to lock down some
distribution and Alexi had blocked all film out of her brain to focus on the race.
Which was really cool.
I mean, and of course, you know, timings, everything.
Yes.
It really worked out well that we shot the movie, not this past spring, but the year before
that.
Fifteen?
Okay.
And the reason for that is because that was an off season where there was no world championships
and no Olympics.
So it was like this special downtime and then we took a year actually to edit the film.
It was kind of long for an indie film, but now it's coming out this like Olympic year
and it's working out well.
It was really exciting.
There's definitely no other sports movie quite like it.
Talk about how you feel right now going into tomorrow versus, you know, there's probably
not as much as it was in LA, but I mean, probably I'm assuming your first time here is my first
time in Dallas.
Yeah.
So first of all, welcome.
Thank you.
And as we told our last guest, don't forget the state fairs going on right down there.
So maybe this is the last weekend for it and it's it.
You want to talk?
It's a thing.
Yeah.
I've heard all about it.
You haven't lived until you've had like a fried peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
I'm just saying fried jello, I think, was the winner this year.
We will fry it on you.
We have cookie fries this year, sir.
Cookie, crinkle fries.
Those I've actually had, believe it or not, just saying, how are you feeling right now
going into tomorrow?
Is it just kind of just, I'm just chill and I'm going to get to this thing.
Well, actually, the screenings on Sunday at 2.45.
So I have a day off.
Oh, you've got to hold down.
I'd be hitting up that fair, but I get nervous for any screening where I'm in the room.
If there's a screening happening, we actually were just playing at another film best one
Oregon today, which I couldn't be at.
I don't get nervous.
I mean, I want to know it goes well, but if I'm physically present, I'll get what if the
projector cuts out it.
But always what happens is I listen for the first couple of laughs.
There's a lot of comedy in this, like, humorous moments in the film as well.
Once I'm in the theater for a few minutes here, the laughs hit at the right spot, I actually
start to really enjoy being in the room and watching it.
Where's it going from here?
After having our New York premiere next, New York marathon arranged a special screening.
That's awesome.
The film is set up like a whole 400-seat theater in the marathon.
They have this pavilion in Central Park.
It's sold out within a couple hours of going out, so that'll be really fun, and Alexi
is racing a 5K in New York at the same time.
So we try to combine athletic and film events for this movie as much as we can.
That's going to be a dear diary kind of day.
Oh, yeah.
Screamed in my film in Central Park and sold it out.
Did this today?
What did you do?
What are you doing with your day?
It's how I rolled today.
Maybe we'll feel bad on social media, that'll be Michael.
So let's do shameless self-promotion because we want you to enjoy your evening.
Give us everything, websites, social media, the whole nine.
How can people get to this?
Great.
Well, first, Dallas come out.
I want to see you guys there.
That'll be really fun.
Today, 2.45 at the Angelica.
The movie is called Track Town.
And...
Theater 2?
Yeah, okay.
Theater 2.
And you can follow us on Instagram, which is actually a really great Instagram.
Alexi just kind of uses it as her personal Instagram.
So if you like seeing what Olympic athletes are up to or what it is like to be at an Olympic
training group, follow our movie on Instagram because it's actually, at this point, kind of
become a really fun, running-based Instagram.
Is it just Track Town?
It's a Track Town movie.
Track Town movie.
Okay.
We want to make sure we get it.
Did people in the right direction?
That's the Instagram and Twitter handle.
The film is called Track Town and comes to it on Sunday.
All right.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Go enjoy your evening.
Jeremy, I'd say to you less than for me because I can't read Don's, I can't read Don's
writing sometimes.
I don't want to screw it up.
Thank you so much for being here, sir.
Sunday afternoon, come see this film.
It looks like a lot of fun.
And we're going to be here Sunday afternoon as well, too.
So if you see us stop by on your way out, too, man.
Okay.
We'll do an afterwards.
Yeah.
I'd love to hear how things went for sure.
Great.
All right.
And Q&A.
So you can ask questions about the movie.
Absolutely.
All right.
Thanks.
Thank you, sir.
All right.
We're going to wait to see what Don's got going on.
While we're waiting for him, we can talk about some other things.
Let's see.
Finding Dory.
Across the billion dollar mark worldwide week last week.
I'm amazed.
It took that long.
And we talked about this in pre-show.
The birth of a nation may be a $10 million loss for Fox search light pictures.
You want to know what we thought of it.
We've got our reviews up at the website.
And you can make sure to subscribe on iTunes because you get all of our reviews there, too.
So did you see here this shine in the booth thing?
I saw the tattoo that he was sporting on Ellen.
If that's what you're talking about.
No, apparently got married in a surprise wedding in Vegas.
Oh, yes.
Yeah, she was.
I wanted it.
Was she surprised?
Because that's not something you want to do to somebody.
A lot of people are questioning the validity of this.
But it's Vegas.
Yeah.
I'm just saying it's Vegas.
No, they're questioning the validity of it.
If it's if it's just a promotional thing or if it actually did happen.
But it always makes me think of I don't know if you ever heard the story of
when Jerry O'Connell married Rebecca Romaine.
They invited everybody to a party at their house that was like like farm theme
where they were sitting on bails of hey.
And they just went, oh, yeah, by the way, you're at our wedding.
Yeah.
Did we mention we're getting married right now?
Let's see what else we have going on over here.
STX was one of a studio that works with one of our vendors working on a bad mom's spin off film.
Really?
You want to know what it's called?
Badder moms?
Bad dads.
Oh, of course.
And it's set for next summer.
So this thing is moving.
Good night.
You've heard about the emoji movie that's happening.
Yeah.
It's called Express to yourself.
You see what they did there?
Ah, cute.
James Corden is going to be in it.
Along with Alana Glazer and TJ Miller.
Because Angry Birds did so well.
And I'm a fan of TJ Miller, but I don't know if even he can save this.
This next story that I want to talk about real quick, or we're waiting for Don to come back.
Do you like Guy Richie?
Uh, he's got his good films in his bad films.
Because I got to be honest.
I'm a little nervous about this King Arthur thing.
Yeah.
Yeah, that does make me a little bit nervous.
But what makes you more nervous?
King Arthur?
Or the live action Aladdin?
Why would live action Aladdin make me nervous?
That he's directing it.
No.
And it makes me a little nervous.
I mean, is it under the auspices of Disney?
It's Disney.
Okay.
I don't think I'm going to have a problem with that then.
The guy has a very unique quirky visual style.
And is this Disney live action thing approaching critical mass?
Because you've got Mulan happening.
You've got Beauty and the Beast happening.
You've got Aladdin happening.
You've got the Lion King happening all within the next three four years.
Well, I mean, the moment they stop being successful is the moment they'll stop considering making them.
Are we talking to quietly now?
Oh, speaking of which, I was going to say NPR.
I don't know if you know about this tonight starting in about three minutes.
PBS is showing a 90 minute great performances about the background on Hamilton.
Yes.
The DVR is set by the way.
I said it this morning when I read about that.
Also, what do you think about this jazz job on biopic thing?
What's going on with it?
Michelle Williams to play her.
We're waiting on you, sir.
I don't know what was going on.
Look at this guy.
Look at this stranger.
I feel like I haven't seen him forever in a day.
Okay, here's the deal.
Okay.
Every year Gary was always on.
He always has this.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
And if anybody's going to take the Gary spot this year.
Well, let's kind of fill in people that don't know Gary Murray friend of the show.
Don's best friend.
The last time we were doing a film festival.
It was literally the last show we did at the Dallas International Film Festival this year.
We lost Gary to a horrible accident.
And we often speak of him on the show.
And there was a wonderful memorial that Don was a part of.
Not only down in the Houston area.
They'll be joining us here in just a moment.
But we were here at the Angelica for a very, very nice memorial where we all watched
the Blues Brothers together and had a great time.
And another guy that, you know, Don was his best friend.
But the man sitting in front of me right now is another person that when I think about Gary.
My mind goes to him.
Dev Shapiro was here.
Welcome, sir.
It's good to see you.
Good to see you guys here.
I'm trying to think when was the last time we got to hang out?
Man, it's been a while.
Asian Film Festival Dallas.
Yeah, he was on this.
That's right.
That was a while.
That was what three months ago.
It's like three months ago, isn't it?
Yeah.
That was a lot of fun.
I love that Asian.
Yeah.
Great time.
Dev representing Zieleg Film, New York.
So, I see what he longed.
I'm fancy.
Gary said that.
Yeah.
I think that's what it was because I hear Gary saying it in my head.
What's been going on, sir?
Tell us what's new.
What's new is we were.
Gotty and I were at the Austin Film Festival last week.
Yeah.
Gotty had got himself a nice little selfie.
Yeah.
Last week.
I don't know if you saw that, sir.
What?
It was in the car and somehow wound up with a selfie with Jason Seagal's face right next
to his car window.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
It's this profile picture I think right now.
And then we had another surprise guest on the red carpet.
Who was that?
So, we had John Paul, the guy that owns Paul Mitchell.
So, they did a great documentary on him.
He walked the red carpet.
He was like, yeah, I have friends that are presidents and senators and business leaders and
movers and shakers, this and that.
And then, you know, he kind of went off the red carpet and went inside the theater.
I was kind of slow breaking down.
And here comes to Capitol Hill police officers just walking on up and they scope things out.
And two minutes later, here comes, you know, four to five suburban wood.
Ted Cruz and his wife pop it out.
And so, John Paul comes out and hugs him and says, hey, he's my best friend.
This and that.
And, you know, I was like, sit or cruise.
Can we have an interview?
I promise I will not talk any politics.
Yeah, sure.
We got him in front of the camera.
We got an interview with, um, with Senator Cruz.
And then he went, then the UT kids had a camera and they want to interview him.
So, he did them.
But unfortunately, they were so nervous.
They forgot to hit the requirements.
So, I guess it's been so long since we talked.
What have you seen lately that's knocked your socks off?
Be honest with you.
I haven't, you know, all I watch is classic in Indian films.
I mean, I don't really don't watch current films at all.
You know, I like current films, but I just, I like the classics.
I like foreign film.
I guess one that I've been watching at home lately that's been really reoccurring
that came out a few years ago.
It's called the gatekeepers.
It's actually all the former heads of the Israeli Secret Service sit down and talk.
And they talk about terrorism.
Wow.
And the first time ever that all of these former heads of the Shen bet,
which is the Shabbakh, which is the Israeli Secret Service opens up.
So, I've been watching that.
I've been watching a lot of Shenorama because we're showing Shenorama here at video fest.
And the fine folks at Flickr Alley for the last three or four years have been basically releasing Shenorama
for your viewers.
You do not know what Shenorama is.
basically releasing Sinorama for your viewers who do not know what Sinorama is.
Sinorama was the very first widescreen process. It came out in the early 50s.
It was a product of the 50s and they basically took an old gunnery trainer machine
and turned it into something somatic. Lowell Thomas, who is the former journalist and
explorer who actually discovered Lawrence of Arabia and Mary MC Cooper who did King Kong
and the searchers basically had spearheaded Sinorama. Basically they were travel locks.
And so here at the festival, because Bart likes to showcase technology, we're actually
showcasing several Sinorama pieces where the first one is called the Best of Sinorama
which is going to be released on DVD by Flickr Alley next month. It was a compilation
released in early 60s that basically took all the thrills and chills of Sinorama, put
them into one thing. Lowell Thomas says, never rate that. The second thing we're showing
is Sinorama Russian adventures. So what happened was that Sinorama started touring around
the world and especially at the Damascus fair. And the Russians got very upset because
everyone was saying great things about this American product, Sinorama. And so they actually
created another product called Kino Panorama and basically he said that the Americans stole
that. It's told Sinorama from them. And so being caused, we actually narrates this Sinorama,
this Russian Sinorama adventure. And this film is just pristine Russia. I mean, Russia's
very pristine, very untouched. It's a beautiful film. That's being released. So we're showing
really extended trailers from both of those releases. And then the third thing we're showing
is something very cool. So when they did Seven Wonders of the World back in late 50s
or 60s, they actually came to Kilgore and Kilgore College and filmed the Kilgore Ranger
ettes. And it happened to not end up in the theatrical release. It was on the cutting room floor.
It's discovered about 10 years ago by some Sinorama collectors. It was destroyed by Flickr
Alley. And so tomorrow is the first time it'll be shown theatrically this nice little 8 to
10 in the clip of the Kilgore Rangers practicing. And what time is all this tomorrow? That starts
around two o'clock tomorrow, central time. Awesome. Wow, that was a lot. It was a lot to
take in. But it's one of the things I love about this festival. Like you said, Bart likes
to bring things that talk about the technology and how the technologies, the different things
have been used over the years. I just love that they're doing that. I love that we're
doing this spring. Everything, which I think is amazing. I mean, Bart really does a great
job. I mean, he basically thinks out of the box, you know, Bart told me many years ago
he goes to the international conference of public broadcasters. So a lot of the stuff
you see here, video fest will be on PBS months or years later. And he just brings so many
unique technologies and films and documentaries and new age stuff and old stuff all together
and just meshes it up. And it plays very nicely. The Holocaust film that he brought yesterday
was really nice. I want to talk about using comedy dealing with the Holocaust. And of course,
Mel Brooks was in this film and, you know, stuff like that. We were talking about that
film. And did you, did you kind of chance to look that one up? Which one? What is the last
laugh? The last laugh? Because I heard about this somewhere else and there's somebody that
is of note that's a producer on that. I know Mel Brooks is involved, but there was something
else I heard on the radio a couple of months ago when they were talking about that particular
film. And it's, it's very intriguing to me. So what did you guys think of this year's
festival right? I mean, we've all been together in the press. This is kind of like the very
last film festival here in Dallas of this county. So what did you guys think about this
year's film festival? Aside from what happened with our friend Gary, what did you guys think?
What did you like? What did you do? We've had a lot of fun this year. You know, it's between
the video fest and the Asian Film Festival and the Dallas International Film Festival.
I think we've had more fun in this year than I think we've had overall. We've had a lot
of great people that have come and sit down with us. There's only been one instance this
year where I kind of right tilted my head a little bit at a guest we had. And if you
listen to our first dip show, you'll probably hear that moment. And I'm not going to say
what it was on the air. But you'll definitely hear it in that episode because I get a little
flimaxed. But overall, we just had a really, really good time this year. I think the high point
for me is going to be the obvious Diego Diego and Jorge and Mr. Griteras. Diego was so awesome.
He would have sat there for the rest of the night. If we wanted him to, because Don had
the little thing on his papers that talk as long as you want him. Like, this dude needs
to go party. He just won the third award. And he's Diego Luna. And there's that. Let's
see who else some up and coming country singer who's just starting off. Yeah, that was
one of the funniest moments of the show in general this year when Charlie Pride sat down
and said, hello, I'm Billy Dee Williams. And I fell off the back of this chair. And
speaking of Billy Dee Williams, that pick announcement today, the young Lando Calrissian has been
cast for the young Han Solo movie. And it will be Donald Glover. Very on board with
this. Yeah, a huge fan of Donald Glover. I think that this was the first time that we've
ever done two different shows in the same night. Yes, because we were upstairs here at the
Angelica for the USA Film Festival, then hauled all the gear downstairs to do the, the
post award show for the day. Yeah, it should have been wearing a fit and it worked. I mean,
both shows went really, really well. It's just been a good year. And it just, you think
this has been the best. And then the next year, it gets even better. This is our fourth year
doing video. Because there's, you know, people who are asking us to do this now, the like
the Loan Star and stuff who, you know, there's, we're going to be expanding. And we're having
fun doing it. As long as we're having fun doing it, that's all that matters. And we've
got a great, the Empire is an amazing group of people that support us. And the community
of the critics, the media, oh Lord. I mean, the number of friends that we've made in the
press corps here in, in the Dallas press corps is far beyond what I would have ever expected.
And because of that, it's given us an opportunity to do a lot of really, really cool stuff. And
it's given us an opportunity to share those opinions that we have on films that we get to
see in advance with the Empire. You know, Kevin and with the movie brothers getting to work
with them, you know, we're getting to see some really great stuff that's coming down
the pike. And the fact that we get to report on it and we get to have fun doing it. That's
really what matters to me. As long as we're having a good time, that's all that matters.
In high school musical awards, expanding on that, which we saw the announcement today that
John Clutz will be heading that up again next year. Indeed. So we're looking forward to
seeing them in April, which we're trying to get something in the line, which I think will
happen. I think that's going to happen. We've put it out there to the universe. We said
this year at the Dallas High School Summer musical, we want to be award presenters next
year. I just want to cover it and we want to, we want to present. I told me, if we don't
ask them, they can't say yes, right? Exactly. Yeah. I told him, we don't care if we get
the best janitor award. You know, a lot of our opportunities are missed because you don't
ask. Yeah. What was it? Gretzky said, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take, right?
Yeah. Exactly. I mean, and if the worst thing can do is say, no, come on, then, although
Chad said he will be exempt from that particular activity, I've caved. He'll really say,
you're going to do it. You're going to do it. All right. We're putting it out there
to the universe. Anything else before we do the plugs and get out of here? No. I mean,
plug the website, man, plug all your social media.
SeeleagueFilmnews.com. And we're on Instagram at seeleaguepoliscope.com. So you can actually
see us on Instagram, all the photos we take at all the film festivals, including the photo
tech crews. And you're going to come join us Sunday evening because we're going to be back
Sunday night, six o'clock. Yeah. I'll be here. I'll be here. I mean, I don't miss this
festival for the world. I mean, it's one of the best festivals in Dallas. I think this
one in Asian are the less traveled, traveled film festivals that we have, but I think they're
the best. And one of our favorite people in the press court, where Dev is one of the hardest
working people in Dallas entertainment by a country mile. And we love having you on the
show, sir. I love it on here. You guys put on a really good show, a good quality. Thank
you. And I think that's why you're continuing to grow and do what you want to do. But you need
to go to the Austin Film Festival. Oh, I want to. I think you're going to have to help
us out on that. To who to contact. I mean, I think that's your next adventure is the
Austin Film Festival. I mark it down. Yeah. Let's do it. I mean, we'll talk. I mean, excuse
I can go to spend the weekend in Austin because the last time Chad and I spent a weekend
in Austin, but we have to hit Frank Litz. I have to hit Frank the barbecue place. We're
not going to run the credits now. So let's see. Why why Frank Litz? I because you seen
on the travel show, chef. And I heard about it so bad. And now they people line up for two
hours to try. And it's only open during the day. No, no, no, no, they don't line up for
two hours. You have to get there at six o'clock in the morning. Okay, yeah, I'll do it.
I would watch. Yes. And to be honest with you, I mean, there's there's stubs. Yeah, I'm
right. Head stubs. Many times. There's a solid driftwood. Yeah, the solid like I have to
do. And then the other one, um, blacks who's out of Lockhart, Texas, yeah, opened up an
outpost down the street from UT off of Guadalupe. And so they actually shipped the barbecue
in from Lockhart. So I mean, I'd never been a barbecue. I'll say this. So if you
really are into barbecuing and smoking like I am, um, Franklin actually wrote a barbecue
book that I read. I read a lot of cookbooks. I love to cook. But this barbecue book really
stands out to me because he tells you what he does exactly. He doesn't say, well, this,
this method's the best or that method's the best. He says, here's all the methods that
are out there. Here's how you build your own smoker. Here's how I did it. Here's
how you prepare the meat and he lets you experiment. But it's a really informative book.
It's a hard back. I make no money from this, from this plug. But no, I mean, Franklin's,
I've had local say it's kind of overrated. I believe most of the stuff like on the travel
channels overrated because people are just going there because it was on TV. No, it's
on chef. All right. Who else was in that sequence? We've already talked about him once
on the show. I think he was here when he got brought up. Who was playing the concert while
they were eating the barbecue and shit. Gary Clark Jr. One of the great blues guitarists
of our time. I'm a huge fan of it. Okay. All right. Let's do the plugs, gentlemen.
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