Happy Friday Film Folks!

Nick Zweig created the animated masterpiece “I am Duck,” an official selection at FIlm Invasion Los Angeles 2025 that took home three awards!
Specifically, 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.

The great news is that you can watch “I am Duck” right now at this link!
I sincerely cannot heap enough praise onto Nick’s writing, animation, and vision.

And guess what? Nick is a cool a person as his work is great. We had a fantastically memorable Q&A at FI-LA 2025 and the fun resumed on this podcast.

Enjoy!

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

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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.

Daniel Padulo wrote, produced, directed, and co-starred in the hilarious short film “A Haunt in Bushwick,” an Official Selection at Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2025 that won Daniel the Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Screenplay, Short Film – Comedy.

I had to know what films inspired him to wear so many hats by digging deeper in the 4 Questions!

In the meantime, you can follow Daniel on Instagram at @the_padulo

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Happy Monday and welcome back to reality for any Coachella-goers.

Daniel Padulo wrote, produced, and directed the hilarious short film “A Haunt in Bushwick,” an Official Selection at Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2025 that won Daniel the Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Screenplay, Short Film – Comedy. Daniel also co-stars along with lead actor Sophia Drapeau, whose character Daniella has what you might call a complicated relationship with Daniel’s character Vincent.

We held the Los Angeles premiere for “A Haunt in Bushwick” at SOFF 2025 and it remains on the festival circuit, but as soon as Daniel’s ready to release it online we’ll have a link for you here.

In the meantime, you can follow Daniel on Instagram at @the_padulo

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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.

Olivia Haller and Anna Long wrote the feature length screenplay “The Experience” that was an Official Selection at Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2025.                                                                                                            , Anna Long ALSO brought the short film “Death in The Desert” to FI-LA 2025, taking home the Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Writing – Drama.                                                                                                             Anna came in for a podcast in December 2025 to talk about
“Death in The Desert” and mentioned that it would be great to have Olivia on as well.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Who could say no?

And that means a double 4 Questions follow up- do we call it the 8Qs?

Follow Olivia on Instagram at @olivia_haller
Follow Anna on Instagram at @thisisannalong

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We have a terrific mid-week episode for you fine folks!

Olivia Haller and Anna Long wrote the feature length screenplay “The Experience” that was an Official Selection at Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2025.                                                                                                            In other words, the screenplay jury placed “The Experience” in the Top 5 out of over one hundred screenplays!

Coincidentally, Anna Long also brought the short film “Death in The Desert” to FI-LA 2025, taking home the Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Writing – Drama. Anna came in for a podcast in December 2025 to talk about
“Death in The Desert” and mentioned that it would be great to have Olivia on as well.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Who could say no?

Follow Olivia on Instagram at @olivia_haller
Follow Anna on Instagram at @thisisannalong

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