594. Braeden & Nathan Lambert “The Big Picture”

I hope everyone had a great weekend and is ready to start the week with a great film chat!

Braeden and Nathan Lambert brought their film “The Big Picture” to Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2025 and took home the Grand Jury Award for Best Music Video.                                                                     The story behind the film, and what led them to create it, is very engaging and I won’t give it away here.                                                                                                                                                                   You’ll just have to listen to the podcast find out!

Nathan is a musician and composer who goes by the moniker New Monk.                                                                                                                                                                                                              Braeden, the filmmaker of the team, pitched the idea for this film that would be set to Nathan’s music and have more in common with a performance art film than a traditional music video.                                    It’s clear that Nathan loved the concept, and the two put together their team and made this extremely creative project happen.

And I have to brag that I learned during this interview that FI-LA 2025 was The Big Picture’s world premiere… how cool is that?!?!

Nathan and Braeden have insightfully named the company for their collaborations

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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593. 4Qs with Chris Fiore

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.

Chris Fiore was one of my very first guests on the podcast and he returns to chat about his new documentary, “Broadway & Swan,” which was part of the 10th Anniversary edition of FI-LA and earned him the Grand Jury Award for Best Director, Featurette.

I just love talking to Chris and was very eager to see what was brewing in his 4 Questions all these years later.

You can check out Chris’s work at chrisfiore.com

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592. Chris Fiore “Broadway & Swan”

Chris Fiore is back!

This podcast holds a special place in my heart.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The journey that I have been on for a decade, running two film festivals per year and inviting those filmmakers onto this podcast, began with Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2016 when Chris Fiore submitted his
documentary “Goodwoman” to this first-year festival and took home the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary!

Imagine my delight when Chris submitted a new documentary, “Broadway & Swan,” to the 10th Anniversary edition of FI-LA!                                                                                                                                    Not only that, but Chris took home the Grand Jury Award for Best Director, Featurette this time. I had no idea until this podcast that this particular award for Directing meant the world to Chris, a professional editor. Call me crazy, but I could not have asked for a better Tenth Anniversary FI-LA story!

You can check out Chris’s work at chrisfiore.com and I hope you enjoy our conversation!

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DIF FoundationSherman Oaks Film FestivalFilm Invasion Los Angeles

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