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Amy Whittenberger brought her film “As A Rake” to Film Invasion Los Angeles 2025.
This smart, creepy and rather timely film took home the Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Short Film, Horror!

Unsurprisingly, the person who wrote and directed the smart, compelling, and entertaining “As A Rake” is a smart, compelling, and entertaining person.                                                                                                   I was fortunate to get a chance to meet and chat with Amy a little bit at Film Invasion L.A., but getting to have a long conversation without distractions was a lot better.                                                                Plus, I didn’t get to moderate the “As A Rake” festival Q&A, meaning that when you listen to this you get to hear me pay a whole lot of compliments to Amy that I did not get the chance to share at the screening.

Follow Amy on Instagram at @philia6

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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.

Filmmaker Jannik Ehret is part of a unique trio that brought the wonderful documentary “Paisano Overhang” to FIlm Invasion Los Angeles in June 2025 and took home the Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Short Film, Documentary as well as for Outstanding Cinematography, Documentary that was presented to Catalina Guerra Hoffman.

It was no surprise to me to learn how smart and interesting Jannik was during our chat, and it made me extra eager to get to the 4 Questions to see what films inspired him along his way.

You can learn more by going to @inindieknot_films

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Happy Indie Film Friday!

Filmmaker Jannik Ehret is part of a unique trio that brought the wonderful documentary “Paisano Overhang” to FIlm Invasion Los Angeles in June 2025.                                                                                      Among their collaboration “Indieknot Films,” the trio credited their film as, “Produced, Filmed & Edited by Dakota Kappen, Jannik Ehret, and Hayden Garratt.”                                                                              This is one of the more honorably egalitarian things I have seen on the festival circuit.

The trio took home the Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Short Film, Documentary as well as for Outstanding Cinematography, Documentary that was presented to Catalina Guerra Hoffman.                              As you might imagine, Jannik and others were also operating cameras as “Paisano Overhang” essentially covered a live rock climbing event.

Jannik volunteered to represent the Indieknot trio on this podcast and the others are certainly welcome to come on themselves someday.

You can learn more by going to @indieknot_films

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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.

Braeden and Nathan Lambert premiered their film “The Big Picture” to Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2025 and took home the Grand Jury Award for Best Music Video.

These brothers not only make amazing work, they have incredible taste in other’s work. Listen to see what I mean!

INTERLINKED and you check out their work at https://www.interlinkedhq.com/ as well as follow them on Instagram at @interlinked.hq

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