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152. Danda Russo & Luciana Battistini “The Scarf”

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Danda Russo & Luciana Battistini co-directed “The Scarf,” a short film that was an official selection at the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2020 and is now featured in Season 4 Episode 8 of the Discover Indie Film TV series on Amazon Prime Video.  “The Scarf” is a compelling, thought provoking film that takes a close look at a society wide issue by looking at some tiny moments.

This co-directing sister team came in to DIF HQ full vaccinated and we had a great talk!  Stay tuned to hear Luciana and Danda answer the 4Qs.

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151. 4Qs with Pedro Patricio

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Pedro Patricio SOFF 2017 Q&A with “Tirachinas” actor Emma Maddock & Jeff Howard

What are the 4Q’s?

  • Name your favorite films of all time (limit 3)
  • Name a film you think is underrated
  • Name a film you think is overrated
  • Name a lesser-known film that you think people should seek out

Filmmaker Pedro Patricio brought his film “Tirachinas” to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2017 and returned with his remarkable follow-up film “Kids Don’t Die” to Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2020.  One of the best films in the festival, “Kids Don’t Die” pulled in the award for Outstanding Short Film – Sci Fi.

Here are Pedro’s 4Qs answers:

  • Favorites: There Will Be Blood, Parasite, Amores Perros
  • Underrated: Monos (2019)
  • Overrated:  The Social Network
  • Seek Out: Porfirio (2011)

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150. Pedro Patricio “Kids Don’t Die” & “Tirachinas”

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Writer/Director Pedro Patricio at SOFF 2017 with his friend and fellow filmmaker Fei Yu.

Filmmaker Pedro Patricio has been a part of the Discover Indie Film family from the beginning.  His film “Tirachinas” was a smash hit at the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2017 and that film is in the very first season of the Discover Indie Film TV Series.

Pedro returned with his remarkable follow-up film “Kids Don’t Die” to Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2020.  One of the best films in the festival, “Kids Don’t Die” pulled in the award for Outstanding Short Film – Sci Fi.

Full disclosure.  When the Discover Indie Film podcast was just beginning in 2017, I recorded a phone call with Pedro.  He had to jump into a Brooklyn coffee house and ask for a quiet corner for us to talk, and it was wonderful.  And then a failed hard-drive left that conversation lost forever.  I have regretted it ever since.  It was a pleasure to finally get Pedro on the DIF mic’s again!  Although I confess that our previous conversations made for a shorthand here, so in this interview you do not hear as much about his background as you would have and should have in 2017.

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149. 4Qs with Hayden Croft (Part Deux)

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Hayden Croft and his “Last Wish” team at FILA 2018

What are the 4Q’s?

  • Name your favorite films of all time (limit 3)
  • Name a film you think is underrated
  • Name a film you think is overrated
  • Name a lesser-known film that you think people should seek out

Hayden Croft is one of my favorite filmmakers.  He writes every day and has even published a wonderful book of short stories that I can absolutely recommend.  Go to his website to get your copy.  He has had THREE films in the festivals that I program; “New Age. Olde English” at SOFF 2016, “Last Wish” st FILA 2018, and “Four Junkies” at SOFF 2019.  All three are in the Discover Indie Film YV Series!

Here are Hayden’s 4Qs answers:

  • Favorites: The Godfather, The Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction/Inglorious Basterds/Django Unchained, Seven Psychopaths
  • Underrated: Super Mario Brothers
  • Overrated:  Avengers: Infinity War
  • Seek Out: Anacondas 2: Hunt For The Blood Orchid, I Love You Phillip Morris

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148. Hayden Croft “Last Wish”

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Rosie Grace and Nate Hapke have been collaborating on film productions for a few years now.  Before their work together truly took off I had interviewed Nate about his film “One More” (SOFF 2017) but get this list… after that film came three Rosie & Nate collaborations; “She & Her” (FILA 2019) “To The Moon and Back” (FILA 2020) and “Ride Share” (SOFF 2020).

We recorded this interview in August 2019, not long after “She & Her” played at FILA 2019.  Since Nate had told me his filmmaking story wayback in episode 69 of this podcast it was clearly time to hear Rosie’s story.

If you want to learn about this team, their small/TALL Productions Facebook page is a great place to start: https://www.facebook.com/smalltallproductions/

Soon after we recorded this, I got unlucky and through a series of unfortunate events many podcasts that I had recorded got mothballed.  It took me forever to get the emotional bandwidth to go back into the vault and get those unreleased podcasts out!  The good news is that you finally get to hear this smart, enthusiastic filmmaker talk about her craft!

And I promise to not let the DIF vault ever fill up again.  I’m going to start a series of new interviews where no post-production is necessary, because life no longer allows me that luxury.  I promise!

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