Happy Wednesday, Listeners!

Cassie Keet came onto the podcast to talk about her feature film, “Abigail Before Beatrice,” that took home the Best In Fest award at Sherman Oaks Film Festival 2025!                                                                             Not only that, the film’s lead, Olivia Taylor Dudley, took home the Grand Jury award for Best Lead Performer – Feature Film.                                                                                                                                                   Not only that, but Shayn Herndon won the Grand Jury award for Best Supporting Performer – Feature Film.                                                                                                                                                                             Not only that, but William Tanner Sampson won the Grand Jury award for Best Cinematography – Feature Film.                                                                                                                                                                  Needless to say, you need to see this film when you get the opportunity. (Cassie will keep us updated when there’s a link to stream it.)

In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this conversation half as much as I did. Cassie is the Best!

Follow the film on Instagram at @abigailbeforebeatrice
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Welcome to Darren Coyle’s third appearance on the DIF Podcast!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Darren has had three films as well as a screenplay be Official Selections at Sherman Oaks Film Festival, starting in 2018 with “Chasing Sunshine” and continuing in 2025 when his short comedy, “Devil’s Dilemma” screened at SOFF 2025!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   In fact, “Devil’s Dilemma” took home the Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Originality – Short Film – Comedy at last year’s festival.

At this point having Darren on the podcast feels like a visit from an old friend. I hope you enjoy it!

Visit Darren’s website at darrencoyle.com
Follow Darren on Instagram at @darren_w_coyle

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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.

R. Scott McHenry wrote and directed the short film, “Sentient,” that had its World Premiere at Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2025.                                                                                                                                         Scott took home the Grand Jury Award for Best Short Film – Thriller as well as the Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Director – Thriller!                                                                                                                                  I’ve I’ve already seen Scott’s follow-up film and it’s fantastic!

And speaking of fantastic follow-ups, please enjoy Scott’s 4 Questions!

Follow Scott on Instagram at @rsmchenry

Watch Sentient HERE

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Welcome Back, Listeners!

R. Scott McHenry wrote and directed the short film, “Sentient,” that had its World Premiere at Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2025.                                                                                                                                         Scott took home the Grand Jury Award for Best Short Film – Thriller as well as the Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Director – Thriller!                                                                                                                             And… spoiler alert… I’ve already seen Scott’s follow-up film and it’s fantastic!

Follow Scott on Instagram at @rsmchenry

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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.

Nick Zweig created the animated masterpiece “I am Duck,” an official selection at FIlm Invasion Los Angeles 2025 that took home three awards including the Filmmakers Awards for Outstanding Short Film – Animation and Outstanding Originality – Animation, as well as the Grand Jury Award for Best Lead Performer – Animation to Marianna Hersko for her amazing voice performance of Duck.

You can watch “I am Duck” right now at this link!

As you can tell if you listened to our full chat on Friday, Nick is a truly visionary filmmaker and all around cool guy.  I couldn’t wait to get to the 4 Questions to see what types of films inspired him!

Visit & subscribe to Nick’s YouTube Channel @nickzweig9248
Follow Nick on Instagram at @nickzweig

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