532. 4Qs with Christopher Saint

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.

Christopher Saint wrote, directed and produced the film “Śokasana,” a beautiful film that had its world premiere as an official selection at Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2024 and it took home a Programmer’s Prize for Exceptional Filmmaking.

Christopher impressed me with his professionalism, artistic vision, and, of course, his 4 Questions!

You can follow Chris on Instagram at @bychristophersaint

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531. Christopher Saint “Śokasana”

Welcome back, DIF Listeners!

Christopher Saint wrote, directed and produced the film “Śokasana,” a beautiful film that had its world premiere as an official selection at Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2024 and it took home a Programmer’s Prize for Exceptional Filmmaking. I don’t want to spoil what Chris reveals during this podcast; suffice to say that he completely surprised me with his professional and artistic background.

It was a pleasure to learn the origins of “Śokasana.” If you listen to enough of these podcasts you will come to know that for me there are no topics more important to human storytelling than grief, loss and pain.

You can follow Chris on Instagram at @bychristophersaint

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530. 4Qs with Kevin Lee

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.

Kevin Lee brought his Horror-Rom-Com short film “Aly” to the 2024 edition of the Sherman Oaks Film Festival and took home the Programmer’s Prize for Exceptional Filmmaking!

I truly enjoyed my chat with this unique and talented filmmaker and was eager to get to his 4 Questions.

Use these links to follow Kevin and his film and, importantly, check out Aly on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/film/aly/.

Aly on Instagram @aly.shortfilm
Kevin on Instagram @kleeplusfilms
Kevin on Twitter/X @klee_filmreview

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More Dead Than Living

2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

Death comes for a bitter, depressed widow who doesn’t fight back – he’s happy to die but before he goes he wants to have one last “magic” adventure with the daughter he never got it right with.

Director(s): JT Doran
Writer(s): JT Doran
Producer(s): Hao Li
Key Cast: Joe Chan, Emily Fan, Dominic Wong, Xiao Ping Wang, Mia Yu

Country: United States

Los Angeles Premiere

Did you know there are more dead people than living people here in Queens?

 

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Last Exit Gran Canaria

2025 Official Selection: Feature Film – Documentary

With his drag look grotesquely sexualized at 64, filmmaker Tim Lienhard describes his sexual self-development in this autofictional film essay. The journey in the film goes from Berlin to a porn festival in Torremolinos to Pride Week in Gran Canaria.

Director(s): Tim Lienhard
Writer(s): Tim Lienhard
Producer(s): Tim Lienhard
Key Cast: Robert Royal, Rosa von Praunheim, Jonas Lawitzke, Enrico Wohlfahrt, Rüdiger Fuck, Timo Opalla, Roy Gerwenat

Country: Germany

World Premiere

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