Live At DocuFest 2019

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General is here. Welcome, friend. Hello, everyone.

So glad you could join us once again. Working around the table clock wise is the official fact checker of sooner or gator productions and the man that will keep me from having to talk by myself for the next two hours. You admit you may know him as Igboonu.

That is a mama name. I'm Don Ford. I'm going to call him Don Ford.

Hey, brother. First off, it holy mackerel. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Don's here. All right, doctor. I heard a loud pop and then nothing.

OK, we're doing the video fest. We are. This was not there yet, but, but here's the thing here's the, we got the cheap hot cast tomorrow night.

We do indeed tomorrow afternoon. Well, tomorrow for me on the cell, right? Then next week is is the regular show, indeed, which I'm willing to pay up week number two.

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He is my co-host. He is going to make sure that we keep this thing on the rails tonight because we are live from the Angelica Film Center in Dallas. And we're going to talk more about why we're here tonight here in just a moment.

He is Alex. Welcome, sir. I'm going to come in nice and soft.

See you later. OK, we're good. I just didn't want to blow anybody's.

You're doing like your, your version of proud Mary. We're starting nice and slow. Nice.

We'll do anything nice. OK, go ahead, Don. OK, so I will start off with my jersey untucked for week two of four.

Yep, yep. Now, here's the thing since it may be it's my birthday. If he will, let me slide.

Maybe it's a, do you not know when your birthday is? And if I could finish, do we need to get a calendar? If I could finish, if I could finish, we're waiting on you.

Well, you keep, well, if you don't know, OK, I will on air on my birthday. If you will, let me for go week three and four, I will cut up my Antonio, Burz, Jersey, Brent, Antonio Brown, Jersey, on air. No, no, you're going to do that anyway.

So you just number one, I didn't cut up a jersey. That doesn't, that doesn't, that doesn't serve us in a new way, shape a form. That's just you trying to get out of something.

That's you trying to get out of the bed. And you have to solve the bed. The bed is the bed.

I know this. These are the bedweasels. These are the terms you agreed to.

I'll do it. These are the terms you agreed to. I don't, these are the terms of the bed.

But I said, hey, if Antonio Brown still played for the Steelers, that would entertain you. Yes. But since he doesn't play for the Steelers, that serves you just as much as it serves him.

No, no, it only serves him. And I as the commissioner of this bed, and vetoing that particular one. Well, that particular one.

Because I've never cut up a Steeler, Jersey, ever. And I'd only be willing to do that. This sounds way too hard like he's trying to convince us of something he wants.

Okay. You have the answer. If I had my sound board, the buzzer would have happened.

All right. All right. So we are here at the Angelica Film Center for DocuFest, which is part of VideoFest32.

Now the sixth year? Is that what we're talking about? The sixth or seventh year that we have worked with VideoFest.

This was the very first Film Festival we ever did. Many, many, many, many moons ago. Yep.

I've already talked to Bart. Bart's going to make time for us later tonight. He's in a movie.

You guys know me. I got to go. You got to go do you.

We have our first guest ready to join us. She needs Don to get up so she can sit down. And I don't even have music in the background.

So we're going to have to keep this thing moving. Go ahead and put your headphones on so you can hear yourself. Joining us now.

Oh, it's too loud for you. General, you got it. All right.

There you go. General, I'm got you. All right.

Go ahead and introduce yourself. Go ahead and introduce yourself. Hi, my name is Karen Kramer.

And I'm the filmmaker of Renegade Dreamers, a documentary that's showing here at the festival. In 55 minutes. Yes, it's 7 o'clock tonight, Saturday night.

So we wanted to make sure we got you on quickly so you could talk about your film. That's great. I was just reading about it.

I am all in on this. I don't want you to tell our listeners about your film Renegade Dreamers coming up to you tonight at the Angelic at 7 o'clock. Okay, I'll give you a little background about why I made the film.

Please do. I've always been interested in people who step out of the mainstream and try to forge their own path. And in this country, in America, after World War II, it was a great amount of conformity.

Yeah, and climbing the corporate ladder and material consumption. Yet there was a small group of people who rebelled against that. And they rebelled against that by mostly two places in America, North Beach in San Francisco and Greenwich Village in New York, which is where I happen to be from.

And when they came to Greenwich Village, they took refuge in the coffee houses and cafes. And they were able to put their ideas and their descent into poetry. And they would get up on stage and they would read their poetry or not read the site.

And it was considered something very rebellious. If you see in the film, you'll see some of the ramifications of that. As the fifties merged into the sixties, things became more political in America.

And also, some of the folk musicians began to take center stage in these cafes. They joined the poets, but little by little, they became the new voice. And they were people like Tom Paxton and Peter Poland Mary and of course Bob Dylan.

And they began to put their descent into music. And that music really helped change some of the face of American culture. So I wanted to make a documentary that would honor that period in those legends.

But I didn't want it to just be an nostalgic look back. I wanted it to have some contemporary feel to it. So I found several young people who were doing the same thing today.

They're using their spoken word and their lyrical folk music to take on some of the issues of today. Like Black Lives Matter, Workers' Rights, Police brutality and things like that. And I interwoke those two things in the film.

And even though the two time periods may be very, very different, I think the intent is the same. Absolutely. So that's what the film is about.

It's a 70-minute film. We've got some great people in there, both well-known and not so well-known. Do you tell the tale in parallel or in, what's the word, chronologically?

Well, we tell the history somewhat chronologically. We start with some scenes of the 50s. We use Malveena Reynolds, wonderful song, Little Boxes.

And we show up. I love that song, Little Boxes. It's on a hilltop, Little Boxes made a tiki-taki.

My mom used to sing that to me when I was little. Good for her. Yeah.

I was born right on the tail end of that. So my mom came up in that time. So there were a lot of those songs that, because my mother was musically inclined and she played, you know, played guitar all the time.

That was one of the songs that I identified with. And you said, Little Boxes, it was like lights went off. And so we start with that.

And then the next, not the next scene, but the next historical scene is people gathering in the coffee houses to do the poetry. And then the next historical scene, way down the road, is turning into the music. And so the historical scenes are pretty much in chronological order.

Is there a moment in the film, as you look back, that you can say, that was the moment that changed everything for me? You mean in the making of the film or in the reality of it? Just the reality of it.

Because you said that even though at the time of the hour, it's completely different, the message is kind of the same. But as you look back to, you know, you go through the beatnik period into the free love period, into the 70s, was there a moment during that, during the original time of that, for you, that was a defining moment? Gee, that's a good question.

It's a little hard to say. That's fair. I think one, this isn't exactly what you're talking about, but it's a little bit, and you'll see this in the film.

There was a time when the city would not allow people to play or sing folk music in Washington Square Park. That's absolutely outrageous that singing became illegal. And people fought back.

And it's very different than it was today. People were not fighting for things at that time. When I look at that footage, I see that as a very pivotal time.

And you talked about Grange Village in San Francisco. It's amazing when you think of that, the parody between the two scenes, but how similar the basis of both of them were, because I've studied this period a lot growing up. And again, it's that whole history cycle thing, that I'm very interested to see your take, especially on the modern version of this movement, and how it is our time to force these people to even become a louder voice, and a more boisterous voice, and the technology as it weaves into that.

Do you look into the technology part of it at all? No, I don't. I mean, there's a lot, obviously, that we don't cover.

Oh, absolutely. And you only had 70 minutes. I've been in a lot of history.

And it's not exactly quid pro quo. I mean, you'll see somebody like young, you show on, who is a poet, and he's not really a protester, but he's somebody who kind of just chucks it all and goes out on the road. And I love that he's the fan of Karawack and the last time you see him, he's walking down this beautiful road.

How long did it take you to make the documentary? Took seven years. Wow.

I know. So you've really seen, I mean, if you go back, 2011, 2012, your time period literally watches the world change. This decade has been so much, probably since that original time, we've seen more change in this decade that reflects just like that, where you've had the 70s and the 80s and the 90s and the odds, but this particular decade has literally watched the world turn.

When you started this journey, did you expect it to wind up the way it did? Well, there's a lot that I did not expect when I started this journey. I was both lucky and unlucky that Occupy Wall Street happened while I was filming, and lucky because I got wonderful footage, unlucky because, well, maybe lucky in a way, I got completely wrapped up in that, and for a while I just kept filming that, thinking that might be a whole film in itself.

One of the things that really changed was the technology. It's very different when I started. Oh, absolutely.

It's very different when I finished. Yeah. I mean, this show was in its infancy at that point, and we're in our 10th season now, and how much everything has changed for us.

Do you feel there's more story to tell would you want to do another chapter to this? Or do you feel like you've told the story you need to tell? I feel like I've told it.

I mean, another people have told the story about the beats and the folk singers. Of course, you could always get into more minutia, and people will always say to me, gee, you didn't include Cafe Figaro or whatever. You know, there's always things left out, but I told the story I wanted to tell.

And that's a most important thing. Yeah. When you're a documentarian, it seems like there's never going to be that definitive story in everybody's minds.

But as long as it's the definitive story in your mind, that's really what matters because it's your story that you are telling. Yes. How many times have you shown the film before tonight?

Well, there haven't been that many showings. We showed it at a theater in Greenwich Village for a week, and that was part of kind of something I had to do for the community. Oh, absolutely.

How did that go? I mean, it had been amazing. It was amazing.

It was really, really amazing. There were 35 showings in all. Five shows a day for seven days.

Wow. And it was wonderful. People in the film, people had worked on the film, friends, family.

And it showed it the Wales International Film Festival. Unfortunately, I couldn't go because it was during our New York screening, but I got wonderful feedback. And it's gotten a few awards, so.

Where's it going now after tonight? You have anything planned for it? Don't know.

Okay. If you had your preference, where would this film land? Would you want it to have a theatrical run?

Do you think it's more aimed for something like AMC? Or is it aimed for something like Netflix? Where would you want to see it land?

Well, it did have that when it showed it a week in New York. It was at a theater, and that was wonderful. I'd love to have more of that in other cities.

I think Netflix might not take this film, but I would love to see it really go all over. Lots more film festivals, because they're all over the world. And lots more digital platforms.

We haven't approached those yet. And we're all my other films have shown a lot of museums, and libraries, and classrooms, and conferences. And, yes, public television.

So I think that pretty much covers everything. Okay, not fair enough. I want to go let you get ready for the movie, but before you go, we have found it digital.

I'll go ahead if I may real quick. I've been going through the website, radigatedreamers.com, and I've been looking at some of the information. I was fascinated before you brought it up, seeing seven years of making this.

Did you have people that you were fascinated by at the start, or is it that they came on gradually throughout the film? They came on gradually. Yeah, yeah.

With the younger people, obviously, I knew about the historic. Yeah, they're just looking at some of the stuff you have on the website. It is really fascinating to read, and I wish you all the best.

Oh, thank you so much. This is really fun. All right.

We've found this show on shameless self-promotion. Yeah. So before you go, go ahead and give everybody website, social media, everything they need to know.

We get in touch with you about this film. Okay. You can go on our website at www.RenigateDreamers1word.com.

You can also check our Facebook page. I don't have it exactly, but you look up Renigate Dreamers. And there we are.

And there will be information on both of those, how to contact me, if anybody wants to contact me. And I love coming to show the film and speak with it. So let me know.

And I'll be there. Karen Kramer, Renigate Dreamers. Thank you so much for sitting down with us.

Enjoy the festival. That's going to show here at the Angelica here in about 45 minutes. Thank you so much.

Thank you for hanging out with us. You are listening to the Clubhouse Podcast. We are live at the Angelica Film Center in Dallas.

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Okay. Yes, ma'am. We are here for DocuFest.

Part of video, Fest32. Well, in to season 10, season 10 rolls on. We already have another guest with us.

And I am going to venture out right now. I'm going to put this out there. Okay.

This is by a country mile. The most decorated guest we have ever had on this show. So will you please introduce yourself?

Get right up on the microphone. General George Patton. You know what?

You could make the parallel. That is true. Thanks very much.

Well, my films are certainly seen a lot. I don't know if I'm the most decorated. Chuck Workhamen joins us right now.

We could do just an hour on this stuff you've done. Versus the stuff that you're here for. You're doing tonight's 830.

You're doing an evening with Chuck Workhamen. Now, if you don't, you've probably heard his name. But anybody, first of all, that can attach themselves to Star Wars.

You automatically have my attention. Well, I had a small trailer company in New York. A fellow that worked for me named Paul Hirsch, what became an editor.

Got himself to California. And met George Lucas. And George Lucas hired him to become an editor.

Then when a trailer came along, the studios were working on big trailers for that movie. They smelled something. They didn't know it was going to be Star Wars.

In fact, some of them didn't like it. But they tried a bunch of big trailers. And nobody seemed to like it.

The trailers that were being done. So Paul said, call this guy. I used to work for Chuck Workhamen.

He does trailers too. And just moved to LA. So I met with George.

And it was great. He said, don't use the canteen. And I said, OK.

And I didn't know what he meant. And I had to call somebody up and say, what do you think he meant by the canteen? But of course, we know it's the canteen.

And the film was hardly done. There were just two people in George's office and a lot of toys. But we made the trailer.

And it was great. It kind of got me going with the trailers and Los Angeles after I'd moved there. And we were talking in pre-show that you are a person that can say you were the very first person to have something aired on a certain channel that has its own film festival, is a huge piece of Americana.

And can you talk a little bit about what you did for Turner Classic Movies? Well, in those days, there was TBS and TNT, I believe. And Turner had just bought the MGM Library, which was a monstrous lie.

Oh, absolutely. And now it's owned by Warner Bros. And he wanted to start, obviously, the channel.

It was his idea and his associates, I guess. And so they said, let's hire this guy. He didn't know who I was.

But fortunately, his other people worked with him did. And to do a little montage. And it was the 100th anniversary of film.

And for about three or four years, there was different organizations that were kind of behind the 100th anniversary of the film. So they said, make a film. And I called it the first 100 years.

And then I had to change the name because I was also making a film for HBO called the first 100 years. That was a feature film. But anyway, whatever it's called, they've been running it every week since we started.

And it was actually the first film that was on TCM. We all went to New York, to Times Square, and looked at it on the big jumbo tromb, where Dave Letterman used to put a show sometimes. It was very exciting and fun.

And everybody was watching Ted to see if he would react. And they said, oh, we're in. And how do you contain your emotion in a moment like that?

This is one of the biggest figures in entertainment at the time. In 1994, if I remember correctly. Was it that long ago?

I believe it was in 1994 to 1994. I think it was 1994. And this at that time is one of the biggest figures in media, in general.

And you're staying next to him, and he's watching something that you created, and it affects him on that level. You're mine at that point. Absolutely nothing.

I'm happy that he liked it. You know, I had worked in my early 20s on a lot of celebrity commercials. For some reason, I was young and I didn't care that it was Bing Crosby or whoever it was that I was dealing with.

Muhammad Ali. So I directed all those kind of guys. So Ted Turner could have been the next guy that said, was selling something.

Although I liked him. I had a lot of respect for him. And I had worked with Jane Fonda recently.

And he was just about to marry or just married. So no, I wasn't thrown by that. It does happen occasionally, but not with him.

But I was very happy that he liked it and that it was going to work for the channel. And they played it forever. I never made a penny more based on that.

People thought I was going to pay it every week. But they ran it to death. And my name just kept coming up, which was nice.

And there were plenty of the seeds for things that come after that. Well, sure. I'm going to call you up.

I saw your name. And I believe you're the first person we've ever had on this show that has a cable ace award. I have a cable.

For the first 100 years. Yes, exactly. Exactly.

Good for you. Good for you, sir. Talk about what you're expecting for tonight.

Because we're just going to be a Q&A. Are we showing this with the Andy Warhol film? Are you doing this two separate events?

A bar wise director of the festival. A wonderful few and one of our favorite people. Yeah, no, he's terrific and very smart about films.

And he had all my shorts. And I had 20, 30 shorts that I've done that I like. And maybe 20, 30, I hate.

But of the ones I like and that I think came out all right. He looked at all of them. And he picked a three or four that he wanted to show.

Nothing from the Oscars. And I worked on many shows. But he didn't pick anything from the Oscars.

He wanted the ones that weren't from the Oscars. So he picked four. And then including one about Bugs Bunny.

That I did for Warner Bros. One of the greatest of all time. That got me a job working for Michael Jackson.

Who looked at all my whole real and said, I love, get me this guy that did the Bugs Bunny. Oh, wow. So I did three films with Michael including his last.

This is the last one. I didn't do this. It was a documentary.

But I worked with Kenny Artega who did. I was doing the montages for Michael that would open the concert. Oh, wow.

And then when he died it became the film that they showed it as memorial. Oh, okay. Yeah.

And I like Michael. And I, as most people who work for them did. And so I was happy to do that.

And I'm glad that I got to do that. And you also got to do some work for someone who is about a three-decade crush for me in one battle in the corner. Burn it at Peters.

Burn it at Peters. For some reason they tend to meld into the same person for me. I don't know why.

But 1994 Oscars, she did the name of this. Putting it together. Putting it together.

Yeah. They used to. Now it's kind of a mess the Oscars.

You're absolutely right. You agree, right? It's a mess.

But it'll come back. Don't worry about it. It always comes back.

But at the time it was very well controlled with themes. And they weren't pushed too hard. And they just did a good job.

And maybe it was just the era. But at any rate, the theme that year was the people behind the camera. So, and I would use to meet with the producer of the Oscars every fall or so around September.

And he would say, what do you got? What's in your mind? And you have anything we'd like you to do in opening, you know, before Billy Crystal comes out or, you know, before there's a dance or whatever it would be.

And I'd always love musicals. And I said, let's do a musical version of the Sondheim song, putting it together. And let him rewrite it a little bit for, you know, for the movies.

So, putting it together was about putting a show together. And so, he agreed to do that. And then we had to find somebody to do it.

And I was suggesting Barbara Streisand, who had done a song, somewhat, to that. And Gil Cates, the producer said, there's only one problem with that. She might say yes.

So, there's a whole, there's a lot going on in that one set right there. So, he was a very pressing guy, this guy Gil Cates, very smart. And so, we were looking for someone else.

And we talked to a lot of people, but I love Bernadette. She's amazing. Yeah.

And Sondheim, you know, and worked with her a lot. And so, she did it. And so, it was a lot of fun for me, because I was directing a musical piece with Debbie Allen doing the choreography.

It was also amazing. Yeah. And she was, you know, I'm sorry, she's distracting me.

Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.

I don't think she's without the producer waving in real life. She's okay. Yeah, you got her attention when you said Debbie Allen.

She's amazing. Yeah. That's a point of fact.

Debbie's stuff was great in rehearsals. She got a little bit of rap because you could only get a day or so to do the camera rehearsal in the Oscars. So, and her stuff was always very complicated.

There was something going on in the foreground. And it had to be covered well. And a lot of something just didn't have time to find it.

So, unfortunately, she would get a bad rap here and there. We all did. We all did.

I was in a lot of fight with not a fight, but a discussion with John Stewart, because he was making jokes about the montages, because there were so many at that time. He said, well, they're going to have a montage of montages running, that was his line. And so, the next week, next year, he did it again, and I went up to him.

I said, do me a favor. Don't say anything about the montage. It kind of ruined the mind of heart on that.

Well, I wasn't sad. I was just, you know, professionally. Oh, no, I'll never say it again.

And of course, he did. You know, maybe not a joke. But it was funny.

I mean, it was funny and there were too many montages after a while. I think can you can you point to in your life a film that you saw that said I want to do that like the film that influenced you to to really shape who you would become? I think when I started I was always interested in film from age 8 So I won't bore you with the early films.

I saw the Judy Garland. Please do. Oh, no, that's what we want to do here All that kind of stuff and you know, I liked all that and I watched all that.

I met a director named George Sidney Later on who was a stalwart at NGM for many years and I said you directed my son thinks Star Wars is the greatest movie I think one of your movies is the greatest movie I ever saw a scaramouche and I saw it eight times or something like that And so I think that that kind of action adventure did influence me But I I think it was it was actually the films of Robert Altman when you could see just how much you can get out of this But the guy had done so much and he just you know, he was like a great athlete and so so versatile Yeah, the same guy that does the player did match You know, and you're just like you think about Altman that I love is you can't put him in a genre Because just when you think you got him in a box. He's over it's completely somewhere Well, it's a story because he didn't care that much for story You know, and what and so I think I learned that from him to some extent is is the story is in the subtext It's underneath and I think all the montages that I you know been lucky enough to do Had have a subtext have something under where people are trying to win something or people are trying to gain somewhere Or there's something that somebody wants and I and Altman did that as well And at the same time Delivered a story, but he was really interested in what was underneath all the wonderful things that that movies can do and I was also very influenced by Foreign films Fellini, especially Again, these are films that that were not necessarily dependent on story and stars not that I Was against that and certainly the Oscars were about that And as a guy that one who was known for doing trailers, you kind of have to be able to separate yourself from that so that you can get The meat which you need for the trailer versus the the celebrity or versus the star am I kind of well in the trailer You're trying to sell the movie basically, you know, so It could be a star it could be a moments in the thing, but you're looking for You know as somebody once said the most trailer like scenes in the film You're looking for the scenes that deliver and putting them together and you know quick enough that Everybody you'll get it, but that did teach me a lot about Isolating what's important in films and to this day I worked that way. I did a film Called Moments of Truth that premiered here two years ago and it's I remember that vaguely and it's all documentaries It's it's 150 Jots of documentaries none of which you've seen you heard I do remember that now Yes, but I talked about it about that and that they're going to show that part is going to show that So that's a late one that I've done and so I've been doing this kind of a sufferer long time and That's always the answer is to find something underneath that is pushing it forward constantly that That you don't necessarily have to understand.

I don't have to announce it But you get it as someone who's been in the business as long as you have Are you able to go see a film and enjoy it or do you find yourself looking at it from a technical aspect and going I know what it done this differently or can you just sit back and go you know what I just want to enjoy a film for two hours No, I can't I I absolutely are watching the shots. I'm watching the way it's put together and when I find my that I'm not doing that Then I'm being pulled into the film. I slap myself and I say you're better watch it and I teach film now And I tell the students that I said this is going to ruin Your film going through rest of your life, but you've been watching films in a passive way since your Two years old in front of the television set And you have to learn to kind of watch how it's done.

So even what we're doing now I'm looking at the mic some I'm thinking about you know what you know how much time is left and all that kind of And when I'm watching a movie I'm I'm wondering how the filmmaker put that together And that's why I love Altman because he understands it. I like Stanley Kubrick because of that I like Orson Wells. I did a film about him because of that they're very Aware Orson Wells said it ruins the movies for him.

And yeah, and you were you were working on a film about him I'd made it. It's called magician magician the astonishing life of Orson. Well fantastic bees.

Thank you. Thank you Um, I show that sometimes in my class as this is what I shouldn't have done And I showed them the beginning because I was being really hassled by the by very nice producers But they were nervous because they weren't used to doing documentaries and there wasn't that much in it But to them it was and They kept making me short and short and it and I went one step too far Oh, yeah, but you know, but most people seem to Appreciate it. And I think I did a good service to Orson Wells.

Absolutely. I'm glad that do you watch narrative differently than you watch documentary or film just film to you I think I do watch it differently But you know, I I don't know if you've noticed but I you know the audience is May not have noticed, but they're feeling it that documentaries are becoming more and more like narratives Like you know with this with a kind of construction and a kind of story way and a kind of way of shooting and a kind of way of of Polish at the end so I'm watching for that, but I'm really watching as a filmmaker You know the way I had an uncle who was a plumber and I said every time you went in a hotel and you flushed the toilet Did you listen? He said yes, I did Well, I'm also a musician and a very good friend of mine who is also a musician We went to a concert recently and we looked at each other We're like this is not going to be good for either one of us because we're going to be watching every technical aspect of the show and we did But at the same time there's a certain point that I have to shut my brain off and go you know what this isn't my show This is their show and I'm just going to let them do what they do But there's always that small part of you that's just like oh, I would have done this differently or oh Is there anybody in the current crop of filmmakers that you got your eye on?

I love the work of David Fincher He doesn't make always the films and but I think he's you know from a craft standpoint the best Right now He doesn't necessarily Make the films that that stories that I'm interested in but he is pretty damn good. You mentioned Kubrick yes There's a movie that we that came out recently that That very much seemed very Kubrick to me It's the new Brad Pitt film ad Astra Yeah, I haven't seen that James Gray directed and co-wrote that James Gray is a good director He doesn't get a lot of talk but he's a good director and the way I saw that was it was just like if Kubrick had done apocalypse now in space Wow And it's and I think that it was horribly mis-marketed because people when you see the trailers and then you you as a guy who did trailers It makes it look like this huge space epic and it's really not It's more of a story of fathers and sons and When you have to take the mantle over versus You know when you have basically they find out his father is still alive And he has to go try to communicate with him because he's causing these problems on earth from from your from like the outer banks of the galley Should we have just had a spoiler alert for a moment there? I'm just that's what it's about and So James Gray is one of those guys that makes me go you know what I like to see more from him And you said that you that you thought that he did great work.

Yeah, I do too I you know that the problem is what are they going to sell they're going to sell Brad Pitt in a space story That's a very good Because those those are the films that people want to see on the weekend that come here and you might have a more refined Taste but still The people that just want to go out for entertainment that used to be you know all kinds of things if I want to You know Read a book I'll stay home and read a book, you know, and that sort of thing Well, you know, I want to be entertained. I want to forget my troubles at night, you know, and that kind of stuff So people Still are like that and they still hang out and come to the fears on Friday night and you especially young people and and watch whatever's around They they don't care so that you getting art in Into cinema is is difficult. I think that if you look at The three people we've mentioned Altman wells and Who do we mention?

Altman wells and a Kubrick. Yeah, they all left the country They all left the studio system for a while and because the studio system the Hollywood is not set up for That kind of a I think and and and and also stubbornness that they wanted to make the films they wanted to make But it can it can hurt your career in many ways. Well, especially as cinema is evolved in this past week Scorsese was in an in an interview where he said that he didn't feel that these Marvel films were cinema And I just feel like that definition has changed so much and it's it's become so subjective of what of what we knew cinema as Growing up versus the what it's considered now, and I think that's an interesting transition It is I made a film recently called what is cinema as a matter of fact, you know and where we did look into all that and and it is very different and one of the things that changed it was a story is not the most important thing anymore that you're willing to Kind of watch the texture as Letterman used to say stuff's gonna explode.

Oh, yeah, you know where I and I do I want a story like I love the visuals and I love that I've lived to see this day as Kevin Smith says yeah, but I still want a story there Well, I I don't know if you really always need a story and also the studios Have had 120 years of making films with a certain kind of story the stories repeated itself again and again style Absolutely really good style You know Raymond Chandler said that you'll remember my books if you do for my style I read a lot of this stuff in college and we were just talking in the pre-show About things like film noir of that era of like multi-spoken in the big sleep You know things of that nature and To get people to go back and watch those kind of films. It's like yes, you've got this but but look at this like Really this stylistically we've had people that have done so much more with less Yeah over the years and and I hate that some of that's getting lost Even stuff even for my time that I'm just like this is amazing film made well film noir is You know certainly around and and you still see it and that's where they had very little money So they may as well you stop same thing with your opinion films. They they couldn't afford to hire the you know Whoever the big you just grabbed a garbo or whoever it was So they would make do on their own and let the filmmaker make up for it and with their own style and they still do is there a genre that you prefer not really no, I like everything good is good little kid.

I love musicals and I still do but I maybe I maybe the burn Peter's piece got me got that out of my system Well, I know we know that Spielberg is redoing Westside story. Yeah, and I was coming I know that Robert Wise did not like remakes of his own film Although he did have a lot of respect for Spielberg. Yeah, Spielberg says he's gonna do something you look that man dead in the eye and you go Okay, yeah He probably shoots better than anybody Even feature you know, he's just an amazing guy like that On a semi-backtrack real quick.

I had I had a question. I've just been holding on to here as somebody who has Deftly shifted between documentary and Narrative movie making there's I've noticed a recent trend with some of the smaller studios trying to get Documentarians to make narrative movies and I was just curious if you think that that's trying to get back to the texture or what you would think on that regard I haven't seen that so you know If maybe that's happening. It may be just the the ones I'm looking at.

No, but I know I think what you're what you might be reacting to is the The way the smaller distributors are using documentaries so that if you went to I'm sorry. I was off mic. That's okay I a few there you go that's I'm making this deep answer right now worried about I'm over I'm off mic But folks who are not watching This guy that asked me the question is way off mic to why off my center So the The smaller distributors are interested in documentaries because they can pick them up cheap Where and the audiences are not necessarily interested in the foreign films that they used to pick up cheap So they say okay if these documentarians I can I can exploit them and do all kinds of stuff for nothing with these Documentarians maybe they can make a real movie what they would call quote a real movie and Maybe they will Deliver something for me and I'll make again money without spending much Well, maybe it's just a some of the movies that we've covered We've been fortunate enough to see screenings of there was and I maybe you can help me with this Earlier this year end of last year we had one where there was both the documentary and a narrative film made by actually the same director And I'm trying to remember how it was Michael apt had made the same film Same story an American Indian Native American story As a fiction piece and as a documentary And he called it the two Bob's films because he won was for Bob De Niro and the other was for Bob Redford There's worse names you could put on that.

Yeah, that's true But and it does happen because you get so involved in the story That you you know you if you make a documentary about something I'm sorry. Yeah, you want to go and take it further into narrative and you want to explore The different kinds of showing truth and showing the ideas and playing with with cinema, you know So you you are attracted to that yes, is there a story that you Are wanting to tell that you haven't been able to yet? Well, I'm I'm writing plays a lot now I used to 20 some years ago and I came back to it and I'm kind of Briefing myself off with old scripts and old ideas from my place and you're sampling.

It's not I'm totally sampling and I find that I have great material To me anyway now whether the plays go anywhere. I don't know, but they have a better chance in getting movies made but I'm interested in a lot of a lot of stuff that May or may not work. I you know, it depends, but I I'm I may be the part of me as a writer at heart and and I like to just explore these things I will tell you something that I'm fascinating about Sam have you seen this the trailer for Sam Mendes is a new film 1917 no, I've heard about the film.

Yeah, it's interesting The entire film is one shot No, I did not yes, the entire film is one continuous shot takes place during World War 1 Andrew Scotts in this Richard Matten Benedict Cumberbatch mark strong Colin Firth and I'm like Like you look at something like Birdman, which you know isn't actually Shot well enough that you could see that but from what I'm told this is one continuous shot the entire film I didn't know I don't know anything about that there was a film called the arc about Museum in Russia that was all one shot where the guy just walked through the entire museum I don't know this Sam Mendes thing. I hope they don't use the same bowl that they did on the From what I'm told all that that this is the genuine article that he did one continuous shot for the entire film Let me see if it's got her one time an hour and 50 minutes Well, you couldn't do it on Christmas day. I'll look for it.

You couldn't do that Obviously when you're shooting in film because the most you can get is usually 10 minutes You can maybe get a 20 minute 16 millimeter you can get maybe 40 minutes and that's about it And I speaking of that I love that we're seeing films now that are kind of going back to that format earlier this year Quentin Tarantino's latest film Once upon a time at Hollywood the screen that I attended not only was in 35 millimeter But they went so genuine that they didn't build it onto a platter. They had two projectors And they went real for real and I was a projectionist when I was a kid and seeing that I was sitting next to a friend of ours I don't know if you've never met James Faust. He's an artistic director for a couple of things And he embarked on each other really well.

We were sitting next to each other and just to know that there's still people out there that can do that Was fascinating to me. I know Joker just came out this weekend. There's there's theaters around here that are showing it in 35 millimeter And I just I love that you can go back to that because Digital's great, but sometimes I kind of missed that old-school style Well here in this festival in this document first there was last night of a 3D film and it short before it was in 16 millimeter So that was kind of fun and you could really see the two, you know, obviously you can see the difference but That happens, you know, they they do it, but it's gonna go I think, you know, it's unfortunately It's not gonna film is not gonna stay with us.

It's too easy to shoot Stuff, you know, off your phone. Yeah. I mean as it's Sodaberg It did a film last year that he completely shot on my phone You know and and that's cool and that's great, but I also kind of missed that That feel of that 35 millimeter you have to shoot it right the first time or you're literally burning money Yeah, you would always figure how many takes I would think about the how the magazine I had and the film magazine how many How long that would last me so You know, I would say how long much do I want to shoot today of two or three magazines which were 10 minutes 11 minutes each In 16 millimeter and that's what I shot and and so you had to try and figure it out and get it into that And it was a big factor then when video came in you had a shoot you could shoot as much as you want But the problem was you had to look at it to pick what you want it, you know, so It was kind of a pain that you weren't Kind of watching doing any creative work and you were shooting you're just kind of recording So there's a movie that's gonna be tied in with your talk tonight Yeah, let's talk about that a little bit superstar the life of times of Andy Warhol right That was a film that I was asked to make I had made one long documentary Earlier in my career when I was doing trailers.

I would get asked a lot to make Making of a film, you know the behind the scenes which were more elaborate in those days and I'd made a few But I never really made a documentary About anything that wasn't selling something So I made a film about my son's little league at the time a little short that went to discovery channel And then I made another film about Israel that nobody liked but me But I you know, I was happy to make it. We were talking about that with Kirin who's I don't know in a communication Well, suppose nobody listens to your broadcast We're kind of used to that Sometimes we don't even listen so you do want people to hear you And see what you're doing and you want to communicate that way. So anyway, I made that film.

I make a back to it actually But then this came up and by that time I had done Enough that I was confident and I was recommended to a woman who just wanted to do something on Andy Warhol rich woman In Los Angeles kind of already and that's just stupid at all and so she hired basically hired me And I said I'll do it if I can and I pointed see I owned a restaurant and there was a window there and I pointed at the window and there was a movie theater on the other side of the street and I said if we could show it there and Long behold, we did and it was a theatrical film and that was The beginning of Andy Warhol and then did a lot of shooting tried to make it different Music lots of different music is in it and I moved that around a lot. I was thinking constantly about the style of the film and Because what happened I think was That doing the film about an artist gave me room To kind of being an artist myself and making the film that was the subject matter basically And this iconic classic artist so that that helped me on that film and Um, I think it's one of my better films have you gone back to give yourself a refresher before tonight or you're gonna Watch it with the crowd tonight for the first time in a while I it plays off and on at the areas places so I've seen pieces of it and I don't I like to look at my own films the director Mike Lee said well if you don't look at your own films Who is who do you ask why are you asking someone else to do it exactly on the other hand? There were directors said more some wells that didn't like to look at the zone films I mean, I don't like to listen back to the show But I feel like if I don't listen back to my own show, how can I make it better exactly right now?

I used to feel that way with the Oscars And I after a while believe it or not, you don't feel like going to the Oscars every single show You know, especially when the host is cracking on your profession. Well, that was all right Is that was his job, you know My job was to make fun of him in a way so I always used to go to the Oscars So the Emmys if I was working on them just to see how it played even with that friendly audience that you have there I think that's important To kind of feel that and to see it on those huge screens, too You're just going like, oh, I did Yeah, no, it's great. It's it's look.

It's a wonderful ego trip to make a film and watch it You know everybody claps and then you feel good and if they don't like it, you kind of ignore that You know, you just move on and you don't get it. Okay. They don't get it exactly right Anything coming up on the horizon that you want to talk about?

I'm as I told you I'm doing a lot of theater. So I'm really working on that. I'm writing a book.

Oh good cold very Modestly the art of creative cinema and which is kind of about all phases of filmmaking and the way One transforms from one thing to another. So the shot transforms to a sequence and using editing and the way we inflect things when we're making films and Well, that sort of thing a kind of technical. I don't know who it's for but I'm in I like doing it and so I'm working on that And I have this film that that I started about a family That had six stories and actually They ran one of the stories here a couple years ago with Mark right now and but it was It's something I want to keep finishing, but I have to find the money for that So oh before we continue and we want you to go shake hands and kiss babies and all that good stuff before the thing later on tonight We founded this show on shameless self promotion.

So is there anything that people if people want to get a hold of you See some of your works things like that as there's something you want to let them know Oh, yeah, if they want to see you know If they want me just look me up and and you can write me a note or something It's you have a website working for you. I had a website somebody stole the domain Oh, and I and I didn't feel like paying $3,500 to buy it back So I sent the hell then I'll just won't have it tries me nuts when people do yeah, so I don't have it, but um You know if it's if someone really wants us my films and can that you can find my films You just got to look for them look for Chuck workman. Yeah, a guy that we are so honored that you stop by on now with us Thank you so much good luck with everything tonight.

I hope it's going to be an amazing night for you Welcome. Thank you coming all the way down here a lot and don't miss those changeovers when you're projecting You could explain what that means. Yeah, what's going to be like what's the big X in the screen?

I'm like no, that's that's old school and that's how we used to do it So thank you so much for hanging out with us, sir And I do want to say thank you You're giving me a little microcosm to make my dad jealous in search of Kennedy was one of his is one of his favorite I like that too. Thank you. Thank you.

I shot part of that in Dallas actually I have the six Yeah, actually that's I believe the first place we came across it was when he came into town and I took him And he went and sought out your film and I believe he owns three copies of it now Well, if it wears out, let me know Thank you so much for hanging out with us Chuck workman. They said I mean you are listening to the clubhouse podcast We are live at the Angelica Film Center at Mockingbird station in Dallas. It is docuFest part of video fest 32 Hopefully we get barred before too much longer.

Yeah, you're good. You're good. Thank you very much, sir All right, and we've got somebody else sitting down with us.

Okay, I need to make changes. Thank you Chuck Appreciate her All right, how you doing brother? I'm doing great.

All right. Get ready to go into hour two We've got your mic live introduce yourself to us. Please hi.

I'm Sherry Dieterling And this is my co-producer Oh, we know this guy. We know this guy Daniel Durrett. I'm Julian McGillicetti Is that what you use when you go on the roads and nobody knows that you and you use that at hotels?

No, but that would be a good name for that right We got it on wax. We'll just send that to you later Okay, I think that would work one of our favorite humans is here Daniel's always with us whether it's press events or film festival Film festivals. We do too many of them don't we?

Is there such a thing though? I don't know I feel like I have a caught in the corner sometimes and they just let me sleep and I wake up and go I was gonna say I was gonna say they let you sleep I'm not worried about the cut. I think I think we're confusing the definitions of sleep and pass out As I will be doing here in about two months because the big show's coming up the fest But if I get to do my own blatant self promotion for a minute December 14th and 15th I don't know if you know we've set the we've set it for the big show who need sleep.

Oh, who need sleep? For Devon much love Devon. I saw him today.

I had lunch. I was at the desk of whatever he named his cancer Bruce Bruce That's right. I know I know he had emergency surgery this week.

Yep. Uh, he's okay He still can't talk even though he's trying to So if you see him and you see him start to whisper yell at him because uh, but he's It's actually good that he had the surgery this week because originally the surgery was gonna be in the middle of November Which would have kind of messed with the time frame for the big show in December. So I think it's gonna be a hundred percent by the big show December 14th and 15th go to hoody's sleep dot org We will be on the air 36 hours straight at the premier event center in Lewisville.

We have a venue now, which is great Uh, I get to talk about it because I'm the president Yeah, but we're gonna have a great time. This is our third year doing it raising money for two north Texas cancer research charities Uh, cook children's and Fort Worth cancer CPU said cancer support communities north Texas as well It's gonna be a great show this year and we're gonna we got a bigger venue We're gonna have an absolute blast. So That's good.

We got that out of the way. Let's talk about some takes great education for you know All of the people on who needs sleep because they're going to prove They do not that's right. I will be defending my title I'm the only person that stayed up all 36 hours both years.

Oh, I want to be there. I'm just going for the three peeps I did 96 when I was in the Navy. So you kind of had to back then though didn't you?

Well, yeah, it was a combat situation, but uh 96 hours you start seeing little green men. I'm there at about 30 But uh, yeah, we're looking very much looking forward to the big show this year. All right.

So what do you guys promote? Uh, well, we actually Unun unlike just the website like we normally are on here You know with old drive X movies and drive-by movies and real news that's news with the z.com because you're extreme Well, and you know news with an s was taken by a bunch of flyfishers and like oh, I see what they did there Yeah, like canada I think or something, but they don't even have it somebody else went oh movies and then Now it sits with somebody in the Midwest. I'm sure that's like please pay me We were just talking about cyber squatters and how much that annoys me.

Oh, yeah I was glad I scooped up our websites as quickly as I did especially for the other show I was surprised that nobody owned the cheap pop cast Nobody owned it really. Yeah, the cheap pop cast pop cast It's a wrestling show that we do and so like you know when you go to a concert and they're like hello Dallas And wrestling that's called a cheap pop because you're getting a reaction from the crowd So that's why we named our wrestling show the cheap pop cast. It's very pet love and and we were just kind of like that So we thought about that.

I was like there's no way. We're gonna go to that eventually and and well and I looked it up And I was like nobody owns this domain. How is this possible?

No, no, you were driving and sending it to me. Yes, I was like oh Yeah, that's for real So no it back to the point we shot a TV pilot. We're trying to tell a show For TV in a version of what the website does well talk about it It's a little bit office space kind of and that world of office space, but The film industry invades our office space even though we're here in Dallas So there's sketches and then we have actual star interviews where we talk about Philosophical conversations.

We start nice. I don't want to talk about what they Just Produced in our promoting at the moment the same thing they've talked about with 15 other outlets before they get to you Absolutely, so we're discussing You know items that are totally You know bringing this star in as our expert witness so to speak well and when you do interviews like that Those are the people that want to keep coming back because they're like they didn't ask me the same seven questions That the 30 outlets before the mass and that's one of the things that I think we that you and I have always Oh, yeah had as a mission on our respective outlets of we want to be the the outlets that ask the questions That you don't get asked anywhere. Everybody at home is going.

Why didn't you not say Because everybody else covered it, you know, and and I think that level of honesty I think appeals to the lot of the subjects that you're gonna have and again, that's what keeps them coming back Where you see them at other festivals down the road and they're like oh, we remember you guys I think that's what became Ah, I just lost his name Jorge Gutierrez. Yes Yes for the dip every year. Well everybody everybody remembers Dan anyway But this is kind of hard not to is it occurs But this is to give them one more reason to remember Dan and we think this is a really great concept Not the least of which is because the show will be evergreen It's not like it's going to become dated in two weeks when that movie has You know when the bar when it reruns.

It's still fresh exactly Although a lot of the sketches are going to have kind of a You know a system to their storyline That's fair. Yeah, but I think that the going back to you could even cut to do episodes where you cut those interviews together And then that can can be the thing too down the road We have already added in to the pilot episode Footage from red carpets. I mean because you know Gwendolyn And Allison are both part of this as well So it's kind of them behind the camera as much as it's them in front doing the interviews You know, we add in every other you know, host we've ever had is essentially a character behind the Behind the camera so to speak for the actual show which Anything you want to for lack of a better term give away before it airs of anything they want to look cool I think we got a wait for the money to talk on that You know what I will respect that sir.

Yeah, I you know, I'm sure whatever You know place we go we've already got a couple of things lined up for people to look at it And you know when we have hopes to hopefully keep the show and as a Texas production With maybe even Texas distribution for the television and so We've got our fingers crossed on that and we're probably going to get notes from them. I have no doubt So that's the nature of the beast though is it when you don't get notes is when you start worrying well I mean and in our our current You know trust in the system that we've got going is that we will hopefully um Show this to a live audience where we've been filming it at the Texas theater. That has a very big Character love the test as part of the show we we show you parts of the Texas theater.

You would not traditionally Pastore or see Those are my hopes is you know to include Outside of Dallas that are film fans because anyone just I mean just to know the fact of who built the Texas theater and who's Been arrested at the Texas theater and things like that the criteria in collection It may still be up, but you know they they've been showing on their website The short film about the Texas theater. Oh, that's cool So it's something that all Criterion bonus you put criteria and on anything it's you automatically have my attention even the lately they've been dealing with a car Criterion Chrysler But there is a lot of their selections lately have just been really obscure It's kind of like I love that they're doing that but you know Throw me a bone every once in a while they've been hacked by Russia Can we just at least get a blu-ray version of the Robocop criterion can I get that because I got someone to the lambs last year And and they do oh, it's the new one. Yeah, I just I want but I just I Yeah, that was just I like the new one now.

It's just because I become a blu-ray snob that I'm like well the DVD, but DVD you know it's cuz you're lazy and you don't want to actually get your phone out to look at the IMBB app when you want to know Who is that character? I just think I just love what criterion does my wife for my birthday this year got me the the new criterion release of princess bride Oh, and it movies it should never be redone for each ever preach I love that post for the other way coming so the somebody said you know I it's good to know that in a world where we're all divided we can all agree on one thing the princess bride should not be remade You know, yeah, but yeah, it just automatically should have that pop up with the quote from Carrie L. Ways Yeah, there's such a shortage of perfect movies.

It would be a shame to ruin this one Well, I was I had a friend of mine's youngest daughters college age over at the house and we always watch stranger things together Oh, I dig stranger things and she's and we had just we had just finished season four And she goes and she was like I've never seen the princess bride And I was like it was like time stopped. I'm like oh, no, no, no This is happening right now and you know Carrie always plays the mayor of Hawkins And we were watching them like does that look familiar? He's like no, I go that's the mayor of Hawkins in the end She just seeing the color drain from her face like oh my god So I was 35 years ago shot up the head splits So yeah, so is there anything you want to promote as far as the show goes because I'm getting the high sign right now Oh, yeah, I mean, we're good.

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We got movies going in Remember our normal show is at Seven Eastern four Pacific from the vocal now studios. We're live to tape this week All right, what do we what what what what do we do? There he is.

Hey, how you doing? All right, how are you sir welcome sit down Joining us now Got two shorts in the festival His name is Daniel Montoya welcome to the show sir truck right on that microphone. Yes.

Hey. Thank you very much for having me Oh, thank you for sitting down with us. So you've got two shorts in the festival this year That's correct.

Yeah, talk right into that things to everybody can hear you. Yes How's that? No closer closer.

Just look at it right up on there. You go now somewhere So tell one of them's called the bathroom ball. Can I read that correctly?

No, it's about the bathroom bill Okay bill, okay the title of the film is called him okay, and it's short documentary that In which I follow Ethan which is An activist and advocate for LGBTQ rights and transgender rights here in Texas and he's just that down with us If I'm not mistaken, let me try to turn my head now you're on here now. I'm on I had to push the button Welcome sir. Welcome to the show.

Thank you. Uh, has it aired yet? Has it shown yet?

Yes, the film just oh, it just happened. How did it go? I think it went great Talk about what brought you two together to this project Well, um, I knew about Ethan and when I learned that he was doing all of this advocacy group I thought that it was very important to tell his story because he's through his story We can show how absurd Lost could be and how non-inclusive our society could be if we don't pay attention And I mean, this is a recent recent thing if I'm not mistaken the bathroom bill itself It was the 2017 okay, I was gonna say I feel like I mean granted as the older I'm getting the faster times going So yeah, just just a couple of years ago What to you Ethan as you'd met with Daniel what about that click that you said this is the guy I want to tell the story That's a great question.

Um, I think we had just we're getting lunch and we were discussing different ideas on what was going on Talk right into that thing. Sorry very better. Thank you much better sir Um, so we had been talking about we know what was going on and I said yeah I'm going down to testify for this Texas you legislative session and he said well, what is that all about and We've thrown ideas back and forth and he said well, why don't I just when I just start to film you and so He's filmed me he woke up at the crack of dawn, you know to head down to Austin for that Texas trans-lobby day And it wasn't until a couple months later.

He said you know, I think I think I want to start put something together And so he puts them together and we ended up with him knowing that you had those cameras following you Did it did you feel any other pressures to to to accomplish the goal that you set out to do or was it Was it for you just like okay? This is just a thing. I'm just gonna do what I'm doing so for me It was just documenting history I'm more of a behind-the-scenes person.

I work in media myself and I'm behind the camera So when it was weird to have a camera following me It was like oh no, please please don't record Daniel, but it was one of those no we need to document this because this is part of history It's like being on that side of the table being on this side of the table Being on this side of the table I'm always more comfortable because I'm doing the interviewing with somebody interviews me. I'm like Yeah, imagine if I started asking you questions right now. So let's tell me about you again Exactly.

I just like um a stuff for the record. That would be really hilarious So you want to stuff and things, you know It's and it like you said being behind that camera and then having to be in front of it But you know Daniel from your aspect As you shot this did you did you feel you you had to direct Ethan at any point? Or did you feel that there was just a naturalness there to it and organicness that actually made it work for you I think that that that's yeah, you're right on and is He was a natural.

I mean all I needed to do was just Point the camera being those moments where he was interacting with people and there was nothing scripted There was nothing to direct anything to do. It was actually just telling it and hey, please Let me be on your journey, you know because on each moment we will have an opportunity to document The the rejection from the people and the legislators in the state. I mean we were able to capture all of that and I think that that Shows how valuable this room is for as a piece of history.

How long did you shoot? We were shooting probably throughout a whole year if we can't then next year because there were two different legislative sessions that we approached So it was a journey So how long did you have to cut the film down to how does how long does it run now right now? It's eight minutes So you went for a year full of footage that you cut down to eight minutes?

Yeah, and that's the thing At one point I had so much so many different stories I have stories of transgender women, transgender men, non-gender Confirming yeah, not non-binary. They're not conforming people correct and And I was like wow, this is for a long feature. I can produce him hair them I mean everything but I decided to just focus on what is it was important at the time and that was even story Have you put any thought into to taking all of that footage and maybe making an anthology out of it?

Or is this really what you wanted to do? You know what? This is the thing this topic is not going to end anytime soon and you're You're right.

I mean it may be something coming. Why not especially when we need to fight for for this for a right Right to be talk about If this taking place in Texas Versa because you know Texas is kind of its own thing Is is does that play into it more than maybe you think it would have somewhere else and if so how So we saw the bathroom bill in North Carolina. Oh North Carolina.

Okay, so I apologize. Yeah, I mean I'm in a Texas mind frame It's okay. No, it's okay.

So we saw it in North Carolina and thought oh my gosh now it's coming to Texas Okay, so we okay, so I was okay. Yeah, yeah, oh no, I screwed this up. Yeah, no, no So we we listened to um folks that came from North Carolina to say like what what were you hearing what was the other side saying so that we could get those Talking points and counter them right because you need to know what the opposition is saying uh the thing is that where we are today and today society This is not going away like Daniel said right and so coming up on Tuesday The Supreme Court's gonna be hearing a case on whether it was okay for someone to be fired because they transitioned on the job So like this is now a nationwide thing.

Yeah, so that's one of one of three cases that are coming up the other two I believe are about sexual orientation and they got fired because they were You can get and so this is not just a Texas thing. This is a this is a nationwide We're facing so I'm getting the high sign already. I feel like we're just scratching the surface here Where does the short go from here?

Do you have other places you're going to be showing it? Well, the show has been screening for a while now and This is the last festival in which we're screening it. Okay, so next steps are um Just google us him the documentary because there's gonna be in different outlets for streaming media.

You can stream it That's what's coming next. All right. We have we founded this show on shameless self-probocean So give us social media give us websites everything you want before we let you go.

Yes, absolutely More information about him will be at daniamuntoia.net and to learn more about Ethan and what he's doing now Yeah, you can find me at Ethan Avanzino. It's a visa victor a and is a Nancy Z is in zebra I and is a Nancy. Oh, and I am currently working on a project called safe to be which will be building tiny homes for LGBT people who've been kicked out of their house Called you're gonna go to safe to be dot or respect Thank you guys so much for sitting down with us all the best you guys as a thing keeps growing and growing and growing for you All right, thank you and Daniel from one of the shorts here at the Video Fest 32 docu Fest my brain just locked up on me.

Thank you gentlemen so much You are listening to the clubhouse podcast. We are live at the Angelica Film Center in Mockingbird station as season 10 rages on Did my best Michael Cole on that? Yeah, it didn't work out very well.

We'll talk about him tomorrow On the cheap pop cast, which is gonna be on early at 330 Eastern because tomorrow is hell in a cell We're gonna be getting you ready for that as well Go ahead and put your headphones on there sir if you would this it's just man. It's a cavalcade of stars all of a sudden Yeah, it should be live go talk right and that's how right who you are. Hi, I'm Ted Harden Director photography or flanery and my partner is running back with her broken foot That's right.

We got nothing but time or eight o'clock whichever comes first She's the writer director Showed Thursday night Are we this was our right on top of I think this was our last little Preview our last little sneak preview before we open Officially in hearts hot springs Arkansas. Oh, that's a couple weeks. Oh, wow.

So tell us about to film so flanery is about The writer flanery O'Connor Southern writer and More people know need to know about her amazing work Some who do will Are in for a treat because there's so much fabulous bits of her her life but also actual readings from her short stories as well But I like to say before she jumps on Uh, is that if there were no flanery O'Connor. There's no kormic McCarthy. There's no cone brothers There's Bruce Springsteen's album Nebraska is all about flanery Um, and he says so Lucinda Williams as well and Bruce gave us a song for the credits We he had a book that came out During the same time the film came out so we we couldn't fit an interview into this get your book and he's got a concert film We're leasing this week as well about the western song the western songs isn't his album So we have a lot of other celebrities Tommy Lee Jones Alice Walker Tobias Wolf Alice McDermott Mary Carr lots of great writers and you've got a voice on this thing That's nothing to shake at either.

Thank you very much Yes, Mary steam virgin is the voice of flanery O'Connor and she just does a wonderful job with her Arkansas accent. She's amazing. I am such a fan of her.

So talk about what what brought you to say. I've got to tell this story Well, I actually have a co director a Jesuit priest named Mark Bosco This is his first film ever and he inherited some older interviews of About flanery with her family members her editors her former publisher And I took one look at these earlier interviews and I realized that we had an NEH project that these were really valuable interviews And so Mark was a great producer and interviewer and we just started from there We got we got some money and donations. Are we able to hire composers and animators and it's a great story She wrote great fiction.

How long did it take you to get it all done? At least six years After year six, we just stopped counting Right while we shot for six years What she found about finding films and those kinds of things Years early I didn't realize that it was going to turn out to be I mean, it's almost a million dollar film at this point So that's big for documentary and I did not realize that at the start that it was going to turn into this kind of project That's kind of the way it always works though It's like this is what it's I this is what I really believe it's going to be and that turns into this you know So this is the last preview you said before the before the major premiere Up the road of peace as they say How did it go? Are the screening here?

Yes, I was lovely. I mean generally people who come out They see Flannery O'Connor and they're like I've been waiting to see a film about her life forever You know, and we get lots of responses and sometimes stories of people having either known her or they they want to tell you when they first read Flannery O'Connor things like that so it triggers a lot of those wonderful Deep deeply felt sort of experiences that that a lot of readers have But then first time filmgoers or First time the people who were exposed to her work for the first time maybe they're accompanying somebody who's read her work They're also like wow, I have to read her stuff immediately and that's also gratifying any thoughts of maybe turning this into more of a narrative than a documentary Well, we've had some initial discussions about that becoming a biopic Possibly so we'll see we're just taking it one step at a time Texans are excited about the film. We are into the Austin film festival and so we'll be thank you We're very excited and we will be back in just a few weeks And no it's showing at Nola as well So Norland.

Yeah, Norland. So there's lots of Obviously lots of interest in the South There's also lots of writer writer really interest as well But the the Dallas we've shown several films at the festival here the Dallas audiences are smart They're engaged. They're interested.

We always love coming here the art scene here is amazing And I'm actually not from here. I'm originally from South Florida and when I go home in here 25 years so technically But when I go home and I tell people like no you don't understand like Don't stay off the TV come come see this you know and come next weekend because this is summer's last stand I said that earlier in the show. It drops 20 degrees on Monday.

I am ready I am my my bank account does not like my power bill right now. It hasn't all summer Uh, I'm from Jacksonville. Oh, okay.

All right. You're up. You're way you're way up there I'm Fort Lauderdale.

I'm on the other end of the state. I'd actually Alex is down from there too. I was supposed to be born in Jacksonville But I was late So if you did the narrative If you had your brothers who would play Oh, that is such a tough one Which you know would just to interject because that echoes the the conversation we had about Which person which voice could we get to voice flannery for the documentary and You know holly hunter just lived up the road she would be she's amazing too Um, so we were going through all of these other southern actresses with wonderful voices and they were quite a few And then we landed on Mary steen virgin and that you know the more I looked at it the more I looked where she's probably it was like Yeah, let's reach out.

She's like America's mom at this point. You know, she is so she can play flannery's mom So I have Regina flannery's mom down. I would love to have Mary.

She might be interested. Yeah, she she loved doing this It was really fun to work with her and she was amazingly professional as you can imagine the flannery herself is a very particular kind of nerdy Uh, that's smart as a whip Funny nonsense very funny. Yeah, so it's it would be a stretch for whoever But it would be a fun stretch And we'd have to get Tommy Lee Jones in it too Yeah, in some way.

I'm just such a thing that dude in general So he wrote he wrote on flannery. That's why he's in the films as well as Conan O'Brien He's got a little snippet. They both wrote PC's on flannery economy when they were at Harvard.

Oh wow at Harvard And and Steven Corpare is he's a big fan. He would read flannery recently at a public event in New York So So we're we're getting this high sign already for you guys. I so you could shake hands and kiss babies Yeah, but we founded this show on shameless self promotion.

Yeah, exactly So we want to make sure that you guys get your plugs out there website social media where can they find you to get this film flanneryfilm.com We're on Facebook flannery film Instagram flannery film And we'll have more information about our upcoming screenings and our premiere and where we have a big kind of secret award That's going to be announced soon It's a huge life changing kind of thing. It'll be great Our company name is long distance productions and that's also just calm because we've done other films In Louisiana, but I know you guys do sports as well. We do this was kind of a fun thing shooting driving to Iowa driving to New York driving places because flannery suffered with some arthritis that then was lupus Like her father as well, but we did have this playful like wow in Iowa flannery as the Doing crew you know for the boating Oh wow and flannery, you know, just so she would actually chuckle at that that she had that sense of humor But flannery and in those that colliding with sort of sport Mentalities would be it's well.

We hope she's inspiration for people who suffer from lupus or on Cretches or in wheelchairs like athletes who are in wheelchairs She was that kind of hero And so we're buying tickets for the lupus foundation and That's a lot of our outreach. All right. Thank you guys so much for having us.

Bart's Bart wise is here One of our favorite humans in the entire world Bart wise just rolled up on us And you guys have heavier lifting right because the art section is now And it looks really really great. It doesn't get enough credit for the photography thing So good notice that's the only time Hey, you get the bar wise seal of tuition for anything that that's worth its weight and gold Do you guys know we all get a conference is in Bart and I started at basketball game And he and I have to be on opposite team. So there are tribals on the court It's not true.

It's dear friend Bart wise is one of our favorite humans ever I asked everybody else tell us who you kidding me she's been very humble But she's getting the recognition she deserves absolutely. Thank you guys so much You are listening to the clubhouse podcast live from docu-fested video fest 32 We're trying to figure out if this is five six or seven that we've done now I want to say this is seven Well can we have our next guest joining us? Please introduce yourself to us Raleigh my name is Moses Borraz.

I'm Mr. Zutsu. That is a sharp looking suit sir.

Thank you. That is great looking Yes, I'm actually a little jealous right. Now I feel under-dressed.

Oh, well. Thank you This is me when I was 16 years old. This is 40 years old.

Oh, wow, yeah, it's a little batuco pin also I'm just in in awe you look fantastic. I can't count up that I can't So well his story was part of the documentary short block that just got out how did it go it went great We had a great audience and it was good to be able to share people share everyone the particular history the particular culture What got you into it? My dad was a particular back in the 1940s at the Zuzu riots during that time and many of the Patuco's Mexican-Americans back in Southern California including El Paso, Texas because that's where it all started I would wear them to go to dances and parties and and sometimes even everyday dress that that's what they would wear these these suits so My dad was a big influence from there and then also Phyllis Estrea She's the maker of El Pasoco Zuzuz.

This is the suit that I'm wearing currently right now It's a custom tailor made suit by Phyllis and you can also see the little emblem inside the pork pie hat It's a good looking hat. Yes, so Looking everything. Let's be honest.

Look at the even the tie-tack is a man wearing the Zuzu. No, that's him I'm gonna use the tie-tack. Is that your official tie?

Oh, that's even better. This isn't me 40 years ago I'm serious. They used to sell them at car shows.

They used to sell them in low-rider magazine and a lot of other places too as well So so what made you want to turn this into a short from documentary? Chancellor Makenjula. She's the director of the film She approached me and had a senior project that she wanted to put together So she interviewed me a new a little bit about my story and said I want to create this documentary on you And I said yes, so because all I want to do is get an A in the class and basically that's what she want to do There you go She was there in her senior year.

It was a senior project and so She put the film together and said this is what I'm gonna do. Let's put it out there also at the film festivals and Lo and behold that's what we've been doing We've been going to 12 different film festivals and it's still going So and all she wanted to do was get an A in the class and she got an A by the way, and she's getting a lot more now I'm sure. Oh, yes.

Yeah, we've we've had Three awards for best documentary short film from Edinburgh to Here in Denton. We had an honorary mentioned. We also had Anaheim, California.

We had the best documentary short film Best award out there as well. So we've been doing pretty good and we're taking it across the United States It's amazing. How long did the short end of going?

How long does it run? It runs 17 minutes? Oh, so not not a pretty good length.

Do you do you feel that it tells the story well enough? There's a lot more to it. So it does give everyone a good preview of My story basically my dad's stories and myself too is being a patruco and so I There's more to it.

So we hope to kind of bring more to it and Who knows I mean we just think about you know making a feature film that would be great to have mr. Zootzu the story behind The history. Have you been doing a lot of Q&A's at the festivals?

Yes, we have and enjoy it because we're out here just to Educate the community basically to and bring the history of it and the culture has there been and can you think of any Questions that absolutely just threw you off that you've gotten that just that made you actually wait a minute I got to think about that. Yeah, there's probably been a couple of them. Is there one you can think of a fan that we can talk about?

I can't even think of right now, man See, I'm still stuck on the fact that I may be cool someday, but I'll never be having my own tie-tack cool Oh, that I mean you would be looking good in Zootzu now that I could come in short and wide. I'm in Yes, they're right. Yeah, they're all tailor-made custom made because we can make them they go through L.

Patruco Zootzu INC and you can find them there if they've been making them since 40 or over 40 years and make them worldwide they've made them for many different productions and Phil is still make some today the Astrea family and like I said she was my adopted mom for a couple of years too and put me in the suits Because we had a dance company called the El Patruco Dance Company if you look it up on Facebook You can look up and you can see some of the pictures of the past history and I became a model during that time and we were teaching Everyone and even opened a nightclub and under 21 nightclub in East L.A. Oh wow to educating Kids youth at that time in order to learn the culture and so Give them an alternative place to go instead of hanging out on the streets They came out there and they would come to the nightclub. We would perform On Friday nights and Saturday nights and teach them about their history So you say that they make them they tailor-made them how long does it take from the time you get the measurements How long does it take to actually make one that it's ready to wear that will take about anywhere from two to three weeks depending on their style and there's different fabrics you can go from Wool to Gabardine to the old shark skin material that they used to make it in or even to the polyester So in its tailor-made and custom you know to you from anything from the hat to the shirt to the coat down to the shoes and the pants How many do you own now I own five right now, but I do have my original suits that were 40 years old Wow don't fit in them anymore Because you get older and you know like Steve Martin in the first father of the variety puts on his tux is this Still looks great.

Yeah, yeah, that's me. Yeah, definitely is there one that is there one that you just have And like this is the one I'm going to keep forever. Yes, it's my very first Zoot suit is a black and white pinstripe suit that I used to wear when we would perform at different car shows and Nightclubs and in L.A.

and and other parts of California as well because we had actually we had toured around Different places under the El Patruco dance company at that time period But yeah, that one is the one that I definitely hold on to because there's a lot of great memories Actually, you can see all the my knees are like they're burnt out because of all the These bands. Yes, they were all burnt out and Because all the knee slides and things like that that I used to do and so I really hold that one dear to my heart So you talked about hopefully kind of expanding this into to a to a bigger story. Yes, where would you like to see it land?

I would like to see it Distributed and all the theaters in order to educate people and bring it to the community because the Patruco history is slowly Dying out especially with our resources and like I was mentioning about my dad, you know, he recently passed away So and I yes, thank you so much. So I'm carrying on his legacy and you know giving it to my grandchildren And my great grandchildren when they come around too as well to pass on the struggles that they went through because we don't have great grandchildren But we have one are you serious? Yes my wife my beautiful wife Rosemary of 33 years is with me Congratulations.

Thank you. Yes. We have 11 grandchildren and one great grandchild.

Wow. Yes How does that change your perspective though? Are they are they interested in?

In the whole thing or they just kind of like that's grandpa's deal. Let him do it. No actually if you go to my You go to my Patruco boogie dance company also.

That's a company that we have a small I have a couple of our granddaughters that are involved. I have my grandson There's a picture when you go to my picture and you see my grandson and I were in zoots. He's a he's 12 years old And he's in a zoo too and he's doing all the moves and things are just like what I do and I show it to him Do you feel like when you put it on just like your whole vibe changes?

Oh, yes, definitely. There's just something about it. You're just like you walk differently.

You carry things differently Yes, where else is the film going to be showing soon? The next the next showing I believe is also going to be another one in California chances not here She's in Berkeley in film school out there in the grad school So there she's she's the one who tells us where to go and when to go and stuff like that We just got back from Edinburgh, Texas at the South Texas International Film Festival So that was one stop and then like we said the other one was Anaheim So we're going through our next stop is probably going to be in California once again We were in Philadelphia at the Latino film festival out there South Carolina also as well at another Palacena de Odyssey film festival We had two showings going on at the same time one in Albuquerque, New Mexico And then also here at any Burke on the same day at the same time. All right.

We're getting the high sign for you But before you go shameless self-promotion. So we founded this show on tell website Social media the whole thing give it to us right now Um, if you go to El Pachucco dot com El Pachucco Zuts. That's one area on Facebook You can also go to Mr.

Zutsu on Instagram. You can go to Mr. Zutsu the Facebook page Pachucco boogie dance company you can also go on there You can go to my own private page too, which I don't mind which is under Moses porra It's good to see you Thank you for being here.

Thank you for hanging out. Let's go enjoy the festival sir Yes, I can eat all you have to hit you up for one of those suits though. Oh, we're definitely So to El Pachucco, you'll find out you'll definitely give you an art page.

So we're gonna get you and Don matching Zutsu. Yes. Yes I want this this has to get we got to get him in purple.

Yes. Yeah, he's got to go purple Yes, I do have a purple one and you and I you heard him off Mike earlier. He is on Mike now down.

Be careful I will wear a purple suit if I get a dance with this guy. I will do it. No, you're gonna dance with him Okay, you know what for that.

I'll do it for that. I'll do it But I heard him off Mike earlier. He's on Mike now He is the man that once about six years ago decided to take a couple of guys that barely knew what they were doing and put him at his film festival And now we're here ladies and gentlemen joining us right now one of our favorite humans Bart Weiss how are you old friend?

I'm good. I'm good. I'm in my element Oh, this is dude.

This is amazing tonight. You guys are killing it again Well, thank you. How are you guys doing excellent?

We're for the fact that we're 90 minutes in like I blinked and we were 90 minutes And wait until you hear back the conversation. We had to check What an amazing that dude what the stories he told great, but he was a great interview I mean everybody you've given us it's always great, but that was an amazing interview and so I can't Tonight is going to be really great. You know, we have four of his classic montages One of them about bugs bunny.

He mentioned that That was my choice and then And his superstar fell about Andy Warhol Is really great, but you know chuck to me Not only just can combine things together, but really gets at the heart and soul of what all of these things are in terms of montage You know, he he's the only person I know they can really work in the commercial world of Hollywood, but also has the heart of an experimental filmmaker built in And so talk about this is docuFest you this is one part of video fest One part of many things what else is coming up tell everybody So we're here for man. Um, well So every Thursday night until Thanksgiving we have a program on ke are a television called frame of mind and Frame of mind has some really great shows coming up Next week's show our series of Texas short documentaries one about and Richards and Molly Ivans, which is really great Another one about you know driving from Austin to Dallas Have you ever stopped and had a colachi in west? You better believe that.

Yeah, hello Check stop even when don goes he brings me back colachi's from west though. What yeah from the check stop in west of 353 Not like I have that memorized. I'm only gonna be on for one second with you real fast.

I got one question to ask you Seven can we can we come Can we come back next year Yeah, he always has to ask So I need you know, um, so there's a documentary about the check stop Oh, colachi, Texas, and that'll be on KERA next Thursday night 10 o'clock on KERA television I'm gonna have to get I see I've got AT&T now so I can't get that I don't get that channel on my I get KERA Well, you because it's the it's the direct it's the streaming service at AT&T does I'm it can I get it on their website? You uh that I don't know the answer to that but I'd be willing to bet you know somebody that has like an old-fashioned television Ha because I really want because I love the check stop so much. It's like they've built these other places around it And like they're not the check stop now.

Yeah, and and you see them with it the way that where they bake the things and all the people who do that and they're open 24 hours a day seven days a week three hundred and sixty five days a year So just you know, I was shooting I'm working on this film about brave combo and I was in the great band brave combo So they were playing Westfest and I thought well while I'm down here I'll stop in and have a collage and I didn't have the patience to wait in line. Yeah, it's insane. It's they they're so busy They have two different lines.

Yes one just four collaches and then they have the a lot of deli sandwiches and desserts and things I love just sitting in the line and looking at all the pictures on the wall of all of the past present bands and performers that have come through that have signed glossies for them and you it's just it's fat Like they are history Just just standing there and just getting it's just that's so much more So we have our alternative fiction this festival coming up and Not exactly sure what I'm doing there after waiting finish this one first and then we have What else do you got coming up our north Texas University's film festival on the spring and You just finished the video race video race and love the cat fest in the summer We gave you know just normal year. You know we got stuff happening I people always tell me you're so busy. I was like oh, you know what they say about idle hands Hey, you know if I don't if I slow down I'm not gonna know what to do and Because you all are listening to podcasts.

You should listen to my podcast Plug it my friend. Did you know that I have I do it's called I get your newsletter if I'm okay? Well, thank you anybody who reads my newsletter.

Thank you very much But yeah, so the fog of truth is a podcast about documentary films and If you enjoy listening to me talking or writing you'll enjoy the podcast even more and if you don't know Bart He is a walking talking living breathing and cyclopedia and Clinic of documentaries and film in general. I mean you are a film historian sir. Don't don't sell yourself short on that Well, it's just to say I've lived a long time and observed a few things and You know when I've I've just I've watched a lot of films.

I'm excited about things and and by the way any History I tell you is an extremely opinionated version of that history But there's one thing I want to tell you about one of the episodes of The frame of mind show. Mm-hmm. So um are you a sports fan abs a sport of our show normally?

Okay So do you know the certain Talk show host on klyf who's been doing this for a very very very long time mm-hmm You know who that might be that that list is kind of long and distinguished well It's only one norm hits kiss. Oh the great. Well, I you say I think you say norm.

I think the ticket Yeah, oh god. I said you said klyf. Well, he was on k enough at one time.

He was he was into I'm the ticket right Excuse me my bad. That's all right. We got you.

We got you so One of the episodes I did a sit-down interview with norm where he told his story and the history of Dallas sports. He is that man Is he is a quality human? Oh, there was there was a documentary that was shown a few years ago That was about the Texas Texas A&M rivalry the one star holy war that he was a part of And he was there and he was sitting right next to me And we wound up at an elevator and he could not have been more cordial He could not have been nicer and you talk about a guy that's an encyclopedia of knowledge That guy is amazing and I mean he's been on ESPN He and he and Hank Greenberg are two of the biggest horse race handicappers on the planet Hickbringer was guy that we know from back where we're from in Florida and I I need to see that because I'm a huge fan of norm So that'll be like in mid-November we're going to do a screening of the film at a theater which we have not yet determined where normal be there So we're having a live event connected to the screening because I know that it's just it's gonna be one of those really great things So in in this thing so norm just goes tells all kinds of incredible stories and they're really great But at one point he's starting to talk about how sports is like war And you have the defense and they're doing this and then the offense and they're doing this And it's like you're taking territory from the other team and it's like the way he tells the story is just really And people that have never heard norm talk to hear that kind of a thing in norms of voice in my head and that I don't do a norm way he talks like this sometimes like I can't do norm justice you have to hear norm talk And and when you see him That's the other thing question you listen to him in the radio you don't get to see him very much right But his eyes are incredibly expressive absolutely and it's just an amazing person So yes, and this is one of the great joys of making work is you get to meet all these wonderful wonderful people And I'm working on four films As you always are and They're all moving on nicely the great combo film we're making progress on doing a film about Andrew Saras and Molly Haskell two film critics and reducing a film about a technology company and I'm working on a dramatic series For mobile devices Where some of the episodes are video some of them are audio some of their are music video some of their still images And this experience once you download the app is five and a half weeks Where every day you get one piece of digital media So it's a one continuous story told in a completely innovative new way you tell me when it's ready I will download that app Seriously, well, we were hoping for January and it's gonna take a little longer now, okay?

So we're working on it and we want to talk to you about maybe doing who need sleep in December with us, too Okay, but that'll be December 14th and 15th, but I'll talk to you about that off air. Okay. Don's telling me you got to go Okay, so we got people we weren't we need to talk to you so let me just tease one please do please do please do The last thing and then I Watch the movies that I'm supposed to be in So one of the other things we do is the Ernie covax yes Ernie covax award and I can tell you that the Ernie covax award is in December mm-hmm and The person we're giving it to you.

I cannot officially announce that we were gonna get it out of you But they were part she was part of a very important comedy troupe that today Is celebrating its fifth year anniversary of airing on television. Oh, I watched some of this earlier today And I know who you're talking about. It's like a narrow it down to six people Yes, and one of them we've already had yes, we have Terry Gilliam.

So I'm not I can't say anything So figure it out on your own. Thank you very much. Thank you bar I know he's that's sticking around so we can try and just say if we get a reaction I'm texting Devon after the show because we're he and I were watching that together.

Oh that That's you two's wheel house. Oh It's very rare. I don't know if it's ever happened But it's at least very rare that we have the same guest in two different segments on this show and he switched seats and he and That's how we tried to throw me off is he went to the other chair, but we said That he had two Shorts in this festival.

So now we're going to talk about the other one Daniel Montoya's back with us welcome back sir Let's talk about the other one. Yes, absolutely. Well, I'm here also with Alejandro Manor which got directed and I would like Alejandro to tell us what the film is about Gary the yard artist Get right up on that microphone circuit right upon it Feel free to move it as you need yes, but we need to write on top of it Gary the yard yep right there.

How's that? No, how's that sound good now you're on it. Okay Yeah, Gary the yard artist is a I live on up and close to where Jerry Gary lives.

I enjoy by his house Countless times, which I'm assuming right here in Dallas because you're right in KNON shirts So for those who don't in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that area is kind of on the northeast side Of Dallas not true north. It's still a little bit south of true north, but it's on the northeast side Yeah, just just a little north of what we call the neighborhood in Lakewood. So yeah, very historic.

Yeah, yeah So I drive by his house and he's got all this crazy stuff out in the yard and I pitched this concept to Daniel and I said hey, why don't we see about getting this done? We pitched it to do a Gary and Gary said yeah, go ahead So you did a short on in that area earlier to how long did you get how long is the show? It's about three and a half minutes.

Oh wow. Yeah, so tell us more about Gary because I'm reading this synopsis here I'm kind of fascinated he's he's an interesting fellow He he collect his it started he moved into the place and he got this big boy Statue I guess and for people that don't know big boy was a series there. So I think they're still one in LA I think so yeah for for people like me that are fan of the the company Funko who does the pop figures Big boy was the first license they ever had oh wow, okay And that's one of the ones I want is the big boy because I remember a big boy from when I was a kid So yeah, that was that was sort of the the Genesis was to pitch it to I needed to a co-producer director and I pitched it to Daniel who we've been working on other projects and then um from there it went to uh approach and Gary and seeing if he was cool with it and he said yeah no problem So we and from what I read he's he puts just all these different displays out that people People just come by and look at just as maybe conversation pieces or yeah, he's got he's got like a like a dinosaur out there And he's got all sorts of crazy stuff just our yard aren't really he finds uh all kinds of people contact him via Facebook or via email or in the street and say hey, how I start you that I'm not using or how this old Buddha Or I have the sign of the day queen do you want it does he does he rotate stuff out or is it all just there?

Yeah, he does and then he does a seasonal stuff So he's nice he's setting up for Halloween and he'll do I can't even imagine oh it's insane They'll do Thanksgiving and then he'll do a big thing for Christmas and I kind of identify this with because my office at work We call it the museum uh-huh because my office I have about it's probably what would you say Alex about 10 by 10 probably at the I would say it's an obsessive amount I just decide the size of my office. Oh the size actually more like six by six maybe you're talking about my cubicle Yeah, and it's full of action figures and and things like that and I like it is its own museum We call it the museum for a reason and the reason I do it is be cut number one my wife won't let me have it in the house But that's a different story But the other reason is it's it gives people something to come and have conversation about right And I love it when people can do that because I really believe just from what I've read and what you've told me I think that's kind of his reasoning behind it is to give people a conversation starter. Yeah Yeah, he puts it out there and I think he just kind of likes to See the reactions.

Oh absolutely people that He's mentioned something very interesting in the screening and is that A lot of times he arrives home and there's people taking photos of his stuff Yeah, it was yard. Yeah, he just waves Are there days where he's like how do all these people know where I oh wait a minute now that's I do know how they know where I live Busy streets. That's the thing.

It's a very busy street So whenever you're driving and at any time during the day or that night there was there is something going on Yeah, and he has like on the yard at night. So As he seen the short and in his final. Yeah, what do you think?

He he liked it. He thought it was funny He loves it. He brought his daughter today.

Yeah. Oh, so he's here today. Yeah, he was We think he went to dinner His daughter goes about that time.

It is about that time So are you guys going to take it anywhere else? Or was this just kind of a thing you wanted to do for video faster? No, we submitted it to the Earlier we submitted what festival was that Daniel?

Oh, we've been to The impact film festival and we show it Delatino latino film festival as well. Yeah, or it actually won And yes, there are some right now. We don't have a confirmation, but you will see This short documentary in the scene soon.

Yeah, do you want to make a longer version of it? You know or is it is that where it needs to be at some point, you know You you you kind of make a movie and then you just let it go You know, it's like a piece of art, right? You just once you put that last piece of pain on there You just don't want to add any more pain.

So you go complete with it. Yes And the reason the whole reason that this the genesis for this film is is I've been working on a documentary film for 10 years And I haven't finished it Daniel's my editor and we've been working off and on for 10 years on this project and I needed to To create something and finish it. So that was sort of the genesis and we've made this short film So maybe give you the creative energy to finish the other thing.

Let me finish this. That might motivate you to finish the other thing Yeah, yeah, it's a sense of you know done Is there anywhere that people can go to see the film or do they need to come see it at film festivals film festivals right now? Okay Actually, we'll be out for streaming Okay, I was actually curious if you want to tease what the other thing you've been working on Yeah, so the other film is called crew 713.

It's a story of my dad's bomber crew from second world war. Oh wow He's got a he's got a card that he's showing us and The story is is my dad was a radio operator On this crew and it was the first crew to complete third-emission combat tour from their bomb group And as I'm doing the research for this film it turns out that it's the most devastated American heavy bomb group of world war two Oh, wow statistically, okay, so You have this story of this crew making it to 30 missions completed and all around them is just death and destruction and how these guys get back into plane a day after day and you know fight the Nazis and do what they have to do It's a pretty amazing story of survival and the human ability to just deal with A lot of adversity so All right, so we want to let you guys go shake hands and kiss babies and go enjoy the festival shameless self-promotion Sure, where can people get a hold of you about this film which one? Uh the one you you played today and both of them if you want I'm good Tell us okay crew 713.com for our for my documentary film and then our Well, Gary your our is you can also check my website Daniel Montoya.net for more information Yeah, and I'll definitely post it there for streaming once we finish the circuit Festival circuit guys.

Thank you so much for hanging out with us. Thanks for having us. Go enjoy the evening Thanks man because we're getting ready to wrap up here too for much longer All right, so much going on at docuFest this year and it's just one part of video Fest video Fest has really becoming a great multi sectioned Deal and the fact that we get to be a part of it's even cooler.

I think we're waiting. I think are we still waiting on Kelly? I don't know what's going on.

I'm not sure. I actually do not see where Kelly wound. I don't know we're done Yeah, they could be in the same place for all I know.

I don't know. That is also true. Maybe they went to dinner But it's also what I love film festivals too because they're they're the opportunity that we get to See some of our our people that we don't get to see much right right right over to our right Markis is over there doing his thing down the hall Daniels doing his thing General is back here at the table.

What's done? Don is right here That's how I was just saying we're about that time we were waiting on Kelly Kelly always wraps these things up for us I We had to let Kelly get some beverage you know It's refreshment another one of our favorite favorite humans who was now overlapping into multiple projects that I'm working on Kelly kitchens is here friend I'm so fabulous. How are y'all?

This has been insane. I know. I mean this is this I don't I can't remember the last time that video Fest was just we were this just Yeah, we I haven't touched the run sheet.

I have not touched the run sheet at all We've had no downtime. No, that's a good thing. I don't think that's an excellent thing So I'm so happy that makes me very happy.

I mean that the We we plan the you know what the thing is we planned it And we set the time frame during the time when I figured there would be the most filmmakers and there was There they are what yes, don't yeah, Kelly. Can we come back next year? You already asked You already asked for But we had to get the laugh on god love and somebody has to Yeah, allegedly Yes, so this is this is going on through tomorrow.

Yes, so well This will be up tonight so people can hear this and come out tomorrow any any big highlights for tomorrow that they need to know about oh my gosh Okay, can I grab a book easy. Of course you can they're your books Okay, they wouldn't be here without you. That's fair.

That's fair Okay, can I tell you the film that I'm most looking forward to? Absolutely Okay, tomorrow at 530 is a film called beyond the bolex Now that's not the thing that you exercise with That's the bolex never mind It's not a Rolex. Okay, no, no the bolex is what Michael Scott has on the office He has a bolex watch and there's I thought that was a pholex maybe I know I think it's actually called a bolex because he has a certificate of ownership on the wall Yes, that's funny.

Well, okay, so The bolex was one of the very first Home movie cameras, okay, so in the 20s it was invented by this man and who wanted to I mean it was like a And a major inventor and he so so here's the thing it starts out in his grand on oh great-granddaughter Is a filmmaker and she's the documentarian on this film She had no idea that that her great-grandfather was invented this camera and so she starts you know, and of course he's long gone But she runs across all of his material when her grandfather passed away So so his son had kept all of the material But they never talked about it nobody ever talked about it And so she starts doing all this research and all of this um, you know Looking up. Okay, who has who has been who has used a bolex camera? Well Who it's who used a bolex camera is very first film or is first thing he ever shot Steven Spielberg And I mean couple people know who he is Yeah, and he's an up-and-comer and so and and I want to say Peter Jackson and and she has she has foot And so she starts to do all of this research into Why didn't I know about this does anybody how did know how does nobody know about this and so she connects with the with a An archive in Switzerland and starts to do the research and So this film is come full circle because she is a filmmaker And she had no idea that that was even In her family and when is that showing them on it's showing tomorrow at 5.30.

Okay, so we have plenty of time to get down Yes, yes, you do and Okay, and then okay, can I say okay? Let me go back The first film tomorrow at noon. Okay, actually it starts at 12 15 or so Um is a movie called alternative facts and it is about the Japanese internment camps We're watching world we're two And so you can go to early service and then get here in time.

Yeah, absolutely And have popcorn for lunch proper planning people proper planning Um, so yeah, I'm excited to see that one too because You know, we America's treated people kind of poorly and and we need to remember this that we do do it again Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it. Yes, absolutely So uh then led her to the editor is an Alan Berliner film and I haven't seen this one, but From what I understand it's it's more about political cartoons. Oh, okay.

Yeah, so so that one Then citizen blue is about a filmmaker named Jason Jason James blue Um, who actually lived in Houston. He um, started the rice media center in Houston. Okay.

Um, he started swamp Which also which stands for Southwest alternative media projects up belief and um, I will accept that answer So okay, but the thing is he's a filmmaker that everybody has seen his film And you don't even know it. Oh wow. Okay, so His his most famous film probably is the I have a dream speech.

Oh wow. Yeah, so I mean like everybody has seen that right and Anyway, so it's about him and it's about with his life and what he's done Uh, then we talk then I talked about beyond the Bullets, which I'm very excited about Um, after Munich, which we have the filmmaker here for this her name is Fred Francine Zuckerman after Munich was in Night in 1972. I believe at the Olympics in Munich That's where the it's the several 11 people from the Israeli team were killed and Oh, yeah, the movie that uh, that was there was a movie down about that with Eric Banna.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes And the aftermath with it under the same name So this is this and she is here. So Francine was here Then our final film of the evening is called Tattoo apprising and that is local filmmaker Alan governor um, and talking all about the history of of You know tattoos and just a couple of weeks ago We had the harvest moon tattoo expo up in Denton. I was there.

Okay. The charity had a table. Yeah And we got to beat some amazing tattoo artists and see some amazing work And it always is really good for your foot traffic when they put you next to people that have puppies Yeah, there were little bulldog puppies playing in a pen And so we're like hey, we're good right here.

Good foot traffic heart breaking at the same time. Oh Oh, they were great. I know because you want to take them all and take them home That's why that's why I kept on this side of the barrier because I would have been arrested and taken the check Yeah, how many can I fit in my shirt?

Exactly and they got there so adorable But you know what I mean, that's not going to go well for you in prison with grand theft puppy Great. Yo, I saw the puppy. I'll still a puppy again I'm bad.

That's right. That's right. You know I love video fast.

I don't know if y'all know that but it's one of my all-time favorite clients to work on Hey, I'll take that because you get used to you recommended us to them We can tell we start getting pain. We get our alerts throughout You know, this is one of your passions. It is.

It's you're very much making sure that as much media is available to it as can be because This is something you are passionate about Very much so and the thing is I you know Documentaries and especially this year's documentaries are There's always kind of a thread that runs through themes that you that I don't think you're intentional, but are are there and The theme the theme really this year was it's about people That you don't that you know, but you don't necessarily know when just walked by us. Yes What a great interview that was oh my gosh. Okay, I could I could I could let them still talk at the morning One I was right about to do the whole two hours.

Oh, yeah. Well, any body was gonna have to do two I saw what they're here from six days and he was like wow I was like, oh no, you don't have to hide You see with us for 45 minutes And I was like just I'm just glad to go. Oh, I'm so glad.

Yeah, he was so great. He was so great And you think about a lot of the people that we've had here and all the film festivals that we've done at the angelica You know, we've had Marylyn rice cub on the show. Yeah, we've had Um, was it Nancy Cartwright The voice of bark Simpson.

Oh, yeah, probably. Yeah, we had her on one year Um, we had both of them on at the same time if I remember correctly They were they were promoting a film together You know, just getting to people just don't understand it. We talked about this earlier on the show The rich arts that Dallas has yeah, and the celebrities that it show up for these things You know, this is we the John Landis incident Yeah, when I got Lord and Miller sitting here and John Landis is in between them and Time stopped of course, they know Glenn Moore Shower Leah Thompson like and I look back and I'm like we did that But it's not for you.

We don't get to do these things You know, we we talk about it all the time and I will never not talk about it between you and Gary Murray You guys were the you guys were the ones that opened all these doors You know and don's association with them there and two we've been able to do things that People you got I'm sorry Robby got to do what I know I'm still trying to figure it out Yeah, no, we just talked about that, you know, it's And a lot of it happens here at the Angelica too, and this is why I love the Angelica because They do such amazing events and amazing things and keeping film alive and And coming to the theater to watch that film in a communal Atmosphere there's nothing like it in the world You know you can stream whatever you want to friend of the shows that the adjordan's hiding over here She's been taking pictures all night And and in speaking of film itself we have to compliment Kelly's necklace It actually looks like a film reel it is it's a mini. It's a mini reel. It's a short See as many of these are what I did But yeah, that's one of the things you all don't get to enjoy about Kelly Kelly has this fabulous sense of fashion and Wonderman she's always got something fun to look at Look at the pins.

I know her roaring 20s. They're a silent film stars. Yeah.

Yeah So anyway, yeah, so I believe in conversation starters and So I wear conversation starters. I think this is why I don't have a tattoo because I would want to change it all the time But that's why the one I have is very small so I have a lot more room Okay, because I'm getting my next one. I've decided probably after first of the year So it's an addiction I wouldn't say I'm addicted.

I just think there's there's something else that I just would like to know no no no She didn't say that you were addicted, but it becomes an addiction. That's fair I mean, we definitely saw that at harvest moon a couple of weeks ago and shout out to the Donna who was one of the people that helped put that together What a great show. I mean, I originally was only gonna have one tattoo when I got it at 19 And then I have one two three four five six.

No, so you've gotten five in the last two years Uh-huh. Oh You see what I did there as I use public school map public school map Yeah, I don't see with private school math. We just pay somebody else to do it.

Yeah That's a good one. Do math That was for Charlotte. Yes, I'm happy to own up to my age of 45 Man, it's all right.

I tell people I'm old good for my age at 46 I got 30 more years. So my midlife crisis. So I'm good.

I've got to all beat. I'm winning You're always winning in life my friend. You are living the dream.

We're just dreaming the life Okay, I thought I had good genetics to let just heard that I actually thought Kelly was younger than me See what they say laughter is the best medicine Yeah, that's when Audrey Hepburn quotes her. Yes, I love pink thing is is yeah laughter is the best calorie burner All right, let's do the plugs and get out of here Shelley Thank you Kelly. Thank you Bart for having us out here.

We love doing this show This is the one show that we always make sure we have to do because this was the first one Yeah, you know, we were trying to figure out if this is six or seven So 13 14 15 16 17 18 this is the seventh time It's just where does it go like we're in season 10 now, which is still mind-blowing to me So next July this thing will have been around for a decade Which is absolutely mind-blowing and we're still loving it and we're so thankful for you and everything that you do Let's just do the plugs and we're gonna let Kelly do her plugs first. Okay. I'm Kelly kitchens.

I'm publicist and my Website is Kelly kitchens PR dot com and it's kitchen spelled like the kitchen. Yes. Yes But it's plural like the room but more of them and then PR as in public relations dot com So I'm on Twitter at Kelly Kelly Jay kit which I Found Twitter before I figured I could use it for my business and so yeah, anyway So and then uh what else?

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