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.

Jared Hall is the epitome of an artist and he proved this when his beautiful short film, Anansi the Spider, played at Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2024 and took home the Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Short Film – Animation and for Outstanding Cast Performance Animation.

I hope you get as much inspiration listening to our talk as I did partaking. I couldn’t wait to get to what inspires Jared with his 4 Questions.

If you want to learn more about Jared, go to @thatishall (https://www.instagram.com/thatishall/)

or his website at https://thatishall.myportfolio.com

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Happy Talk with a Filmmaker Friday!

I normally refer to people as filmmakers, but when I think about Jared Hall the word that actually comes to my mind is, “artist.”                                                                                                                                             Jared is an animator, filmmaker, and illustrator, but what unifies all of his talents is that he’s an artist. There you go… Artist!

Jared’s short film, Anansi the Spider, played at Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2024 and took home the Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Short Film – Animation and for Outstanding Cast Performance Animation.  This film is beautiful and it was difficult for me to not make that word in all caps. And it’s fun! And it’s cool!                                                                                                                            Honestly, Anansi the Spider is one of those films I feel comfortable stealing a line from a childhood friend, “It’s okay if you don’t like it, but if you don’t like it then I don’t like you.”

If you want to learn more about Jared, go to @thatishall (https://www.instagram.com/thatishall/)
or his website at https://thatishall.myportfolio.com

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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.

Pablo Riesgo’s engaging feature film “Marco Polo” was an official selection at BOTH Film Invasion Los Angeles and Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2024 and took home an impressively long list of awards including FILA 2024 Grand Jury Award – Best Feature Film – Drama.

For someone who so clearly understands what it takes to make a GREAT film I was very eager to ask Pablo the 4 Questions!

You can follow Pablo at:

Instagram: @pabloriesgo

(https://www.instagram.com/pabloriesgo/)
Web: www.cinederiesgo.com

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Happy Monday and welcome back to the Discover Indie Film Podcast!

Pablo Riesgo’s feature film “Marco Polo” was an official selection at BOTH Film Invasion Los Angeles and Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2024.                                                                                            Something you might not know is that we do allow films to be official selections in both festivals, but we do only have them play in the theater once.                                                                                             There’s too many great films to have the same film in the theater twice! But thanks to being an official selection twice, “Marco Polo” has a long awards list. Here it is!

FILA 2024 Grand Jury Award – Best Feature Film – Drama
Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Feature Film – Pablo Riesgo Almonacid

SOFF 2024
Grand Jury Award – Best Supporting Performer – Feature Film – Jorge Zuloaga
Grand Jury Award – Best Performance by a Cast – Feature Film
Grand Jury Award – Best Cinematography – Feature Film – Marko Alonso

I know that I don’t usually list the awards this way, but hey… “Marco Polo” is a special film that is near and dear to my heart.                                                                                                                                           It is an honest, painfully authentic coming of age film that includes moments of loss, addiction, family, and friendship. I highly recommend that you see this film!

Finally, Pablo is a great person. He lives in Los Angeles and has come to some of our mixers.
It is always a pleasure to talk to Pablo, which made it extra fun to get to know him better by interviewing him for the podcast.

You can follow Pablo at:

Instagram: @pabloriesgo
(https://www.instagram.com/pabloriesgo/)
Web: www.cinederiesgo.com

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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.

Wednesday I had the pleasure of posting my chat with filmmaker Jess Paul, whose touching film “Burying Baby” was an Official Selection at the Sherman Oaks Film Festival last year and took home the Programmer’s Prize for Exceptional Filmmaking. If that names sounds familiar, Jess actually was my surprise interviewer for our special 500th episode where I agreed to have the mic turned on myself for questioning for the very first time.

In getting to know Jess I’ve learned she is truly a die hard film lover so I was very excited to get to her 4 Questions!

You can follow Jess on Instagram @thisisjesspaul

(https://www.instagram.com/thisisjesspaul/) and
if you should also check out her supercool
website https://jesspaulart.com and, if you want
to be even cooler, check out her Etsy site
https://www.etsy.com/shop/JessPaulArt

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