A fantastic Friday to Everyone. I’m excited to start the weekend off by sharing this great chat.

Josh Baker and Chevy Knight brought their film “Dry” to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2024 and took home the Filmmakers Award forOutstanding Cast Performance – Horror.
They produced the film together with Josh writing and directing while Chevy handled a rather challenging role as the lead actor in this dark, authentic film.
As you can tell by our conversation I am a big fan of this film.

Chevy and Josh each took a very interesting and even unique path into filmmaking. And who knew that this filmmaking duo who made an engaging and unique film about neighbors met as neighbors.
I hope that you enjoy listening to this conversation as much as I did having it.
Josh and Chevy and not just talented people, they’re good people.

You can watch “Dry” right now at https://vimeo.com/1043187492

You can follow the social media for “Dry” at https://www.instagram.com/dry.movie/
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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.

Brazilian filmmaker Tôka wrote and directed the film “Nauru,” a remarkable film that took home the Grand Jury Award for Best Featurette, Sci-Fi at Film Invasion Los Angeles 2024 as well as Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, and Best Supporting Performer.

We have to love technology because I was able to have a fantastic chat with Tôka all the way from London via Zoom that aired on Monday. Here’s our trusty follow-up with his 4 Questions!

Learn more about Tôka at https://www.instagram.com/toka.filmes/

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Happy Monday, Film Friends! That’s right, we are trying on a Mon-Wed-Fri schedule because we have so many exciting talks to share with you all!

Brazilian filmmaker Tôka wrote and directed the film “Nauru,” a remarkable film that took home the Grand Jury Award for Best Featurette, Sci-Fi at Film Invasion Los Angeles 2024.
In fact, the film took home five awards, including Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, and Best Supporting Performer.
“Nauru” is a proof of concept for a feature script that Tôka wrote, which is good news because the world he created in “Nauru” deserves to be explored much further.

Tôka lives in London today and hopped onto Zoom to have this conversation with me. After seeing a film as well-written and visually stunning as “Nauru,” I had been looking forward to this talk for most of 2024.
We managed to get on Zoom together in December and now you get to listen to it in 2025!

Learn more about Tôka at https://www.instagram.com/toka.filmes/
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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.

If you listened to Tuesday’s episode, you heard my excitement that I got to chat with accomplished filmmaker John Gray, once again. John is a very prolific filmmaker and to date I have seen no fewer than eight of his short films, including Household Demons, Exit Package, Extra Innings, The Third Defector, The Desecrated, The Little Drummer Boy, and The Overlook. We’ve had the privilege of presenting John’s films in numerous festivals over the years, most recently The Unquiet Dead, which was featured at SOFF 2023. It’s been a pleasure to get to know more about John over the years, and I’m always eager for his 4 Questions.

You can learn more about John Gray at these links:
Official Website: https://www.johngrayofficial.com
Instagram: @bayrdge – https://www.instagram.com/bayrdge/
Twitter/X: @jthomasgray – https://x.com/jthomasgray
Bluesky: johntgray – https://bsky.app/profile/johntgray.bsky.social

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Greetings, Film Fans, and a happy Tuesday to you! This may actually be the last Tuesday we post for awhile because we have so may great interviews coming your way, we are going to try on a Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule release to get those out!

The first time I saw one of John Gray’s short films was during Covid lockdown. In fact I saw two of John’s films, “Household Demons” and “Exit Package.”
Both took home awards that year; thanks to lockdown we could include both instead of following our rule, “if someone submits two short films, only make one official selection.”
But John is a very prolific filmmaker and to date I have seen no fewer than eight of his short films, including The Unquiet Dead, Extra Innings, The Third Defector, The Desecrated, The Little Drummer Boy, and The Overlook.
Most year’s it’s a challenge to pick which John Gray film we show in the theater!
In addition to being a prolific filmmaker, John is simply a good person.
Most of the time we have zoomed for his Q&A’s, as so far he has not been able to make the trip from New York to Los Angeles. Maybe someday!
In the meantime, our Zoom Q&A’s have allowed us to have longer talks and I always look forward to them.

I knew that John would be an excellent podcast guest and he did not disappoint.
In this great chat you get to learn about how he went from a Brooklyn kid who could have taken the wrong path to a screenwriter, a director, a network showrunner, and more.
I hope that you enjoy listening to this as much as I enjoyed recording it.

You can learn more about John Gray at these links:
Official Website: https://www.johngrayofficial.com
Instagram: @bayrdge – https://www.instagram.com/bayrdge/
Twitter/X: @jthomasgray – https://x.com/jthomasgray
Bluesky: johntgray – https://bsky.app/profile/johntgray.bsky.social

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