Many years ago, filmmaker Troy Christian began a passion project; a documentary centered around winemaking in Napa Valley, California. Pulling together family and friends, Troy’s efforts resulted in “A Perfect Vintage,” a feature length documentary that took home the Audience Award for Best Documentary at Film Invasion Los Angeles 2021.  Guess what?  “A Perfect Vintage” is released to the public today! Go to  aperfectvintage.com and watch the film. I highly recommend you open a bottle of wine and watch this film with friends.

For the “A Perfect Vintage” podcast interview, Troy brought along producers Tom Graves and Timothy Milos, both of whom had huge roles in this superb documentary.

We hope you enjoy this fun interview about film, wine and friendship.  Make sure you do not miss this film!

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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

Jean Villepique brought her short film “IV-Effing” to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2019 and went home with two awards, including Best Short Film – Comedy!  You should know Jean from her appearances on such TV shows as A.P. Bio, Sharp Objects, The Office, Veep, and dozens more, but if you manage to see “IV-Effing” you’d know that her years of improv and storytelling have made her an excellent screenwriter as well.

As long as Jean hopped onto Zoom for a DIF interview I had to have her answer the 4Qs above.

In the meantime, you can follow Jean Villepique on Instagram at @villepique.

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You should know actress and screenwriter Jean Villepique from her appearances on such shows as A.P. Bio, Sharp Objects, The Office, Veep, and dozens more.  Jean brought her short film “IV-Effing” to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2019 and went home with two awards including Best Short Film – Comedy.  This brilliant film captures a hilarious yet tender moment in many women’s lives and tells the story with a great script and great performances.

You cannot watch the film online right now, but as soon as you can there will links to it right here!

In the meantime, you can follow Jean Villepique on Instagram at @villepique.

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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

Otis Birdy jumped onto Zoom for interview about his directorial debut “Jiyan,” which screened at Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2020 and and took home a Programmer’s Award.  Everyone who does an interview gets to answer the 4Qs, and Otis was glad to do it!

To learn more about Otis and his work, go to Otisbirdy.com and for his film visit jiyan-film.ch.

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Otis Birdy brought his remarkable directorial debut “Jiyan” to Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2020 and and took home a Programmer’s Award for his efforts.  Inspired by a true story that Otis personally experienced, “Jiyan (Life)” recounts the daily life of Nerol, a seventeen year old Syrian Kurd who arrives in Switzerland without his parents and must learn to live and adapt to a new world while his family remains trapped in a country being destroyed by a Civil War.

Thanks to the internet and video chat, I got to meet Otis and do a Q&A with him at FILA 2021 and I always knew that I would want to talk to him in an episode of this podcast.  I’m so glad that it happened.

To learn more about Otis and his work, go to Otisbirdy.com and for his film visit jiyan-film.ch.

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