FILA Alum James Siewert on Discover Film Podcast

Grand Jury Prize winner James Siewert calls in from NYC to talk with festival programmer Jeff Howard about his award-winning short The Past Inside The Present as well as his filmmaking history and influences.  Listen to this fascinating interview!  

FILA programmer Jeff Howard hosts a podcast called, “Discover Film” featuring interviews with filmmakers from the festival circuit.

Source: FILA

Discover Film Episode 7: Neil Payne

Neil Payne’s short film Alpa Phi showed at Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2016.  He let me know that he had a lot to get off his chest about filmmaking, about what it’s like to make films that challenge people, and about the challenges of life after film school.

Neil is an extremely nice person AND he cannot help but base all his work on controversial subjects.  How controversial?  Watch his shorts and listen to the podcast to find out.