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 a new film festival what seemed like every week. You can do that when you make an excellent horror film!
Ramone also gave one of the most fun Q&A’s we’ve ever had, filling his time with humor and self-effacing comments. I knew Ramone would give a great podcast interview and he did not disappoint!
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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.
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 can watch right now by going to 
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.
Writer/Director Ashley Cahill brought his feature film “FIRST PERSON: a film about love” to Sherman Oaks Film Festival back in 2019 and took home four Grand Jury Prize Awards. We spoke on and off about recording an interview for a few years and we finally got it done! Amusingly, we waited until we were not in the same city to record it, so this one has Zoom quality audio.