319. 4Qs with Ramone Menon

What are the 4Qs?  (1) Three favorite films. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out. Ramone Menon wrote, directed, and co-produced the horror short “The Pey” which came to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2021 and took home the Grand Jury Award for Best Short …

318. Ramone Menon “The Pey”

In my opinion, filmmaker Ramone Menon is one of the champions of the festival circuit. Ramone brought his horror short “The Pey” to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2021 and took home the Grand Jury Award for Best Short Film – Horror.  I soon saw on his social media (@ramonemenon)  that Ramone was hitting …

317. 4Qs with Byrne Owens

What are the 4Qs?  (1) Three favorite films. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out. Byrne Owens wrote, directed, edited, co-produced, and did a jillion other things including VFX for the film “My Roommate the Jedi.” This remarkable film happened to be the first to take …

316. Byrne Owens “My Roommate the Jedi”

Byrne Owens brought his film “My Roommate the Jedi” to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2021 and, oh my, became the first filmmaker to take home FIVE awards in a single festival.  I will not list them all, who has time, but Byrne and his longtime collaborator Lu Louis made a masterpiece that you …

315. 4Qs with Ashley Cahill

What are the 4Qs?  (1) Three favorite films. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out. Ashley Cahill wrote and directed the feature film “FIRST PERSON: a film about love” and his film won four Grand Jury Prize Awards at the Sherman Oaks Film Festival back in …