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.

Emma Steiger brought her short film “Wait To Tell Mother” to Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2025 and took home the Grand Jury Award for Best Screenplay – Short Film, as well as the Filmmakers Awards for Outstanding Short Film – Drama and Outstanding Director- Short Film – Drama.

I hope you enjoyed listening to the interview as much as I did participating in it. Now for the follow up 4 Questions!

Visit Emma’s website at https://www.emmasteiger.com
Follow Emma on Instagram at @emma.steiger

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Happy Wednesday!

Emma Steiger brought her short film “Wait To Tell Mother” to Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2025 and took home the Grand Jury Award for Best Screenplay – Short Film, as well as the Filmmakers Awards for Outstanding Short Film – Drama and Outstanding Director- Short Film – Drama. Considering Emma was the director, writer, co-lead actor and one of the producers on the film, and it is no surprise that their name appears on two of those awards!

Emma was a delightful presence at the festival and even tolerated my overly paternal response to the film.

If you cannot guess, “Wait To Tell Mother,” deals with family dynamics and someone like myself had to personally thank Emma at the festival for making such a wonderful film about a father’s role. I do love all the mother-daughter stories at the festivals, but give me a lovingly portrayed father- daughter story and I melt.

I hope you enjoy the interview!

Visit Emma’s website at https://www.emmasteiger.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.

MK wrote, directed and co-produced the short film “The Re- Education of Jane Brown” to Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2025 and took home the Grand Jury Award for Best Short Film- Horror!                                            Every correspondence with MK has been so lovely and positive that it was no surprise to me that we had a had fantastic Four Questions follow up!

Follow MK on Instagram at @mk.mcg
Follow The Re-Education of Jane Brown on Instagram at @treojbfilm

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Happy Friday. I hope everyone is celebrating love this Valentine’s weekend, whether that be romantic love, love for a pet, or love for your favorite independent film podcast!

MK McGee brought the short film “The Re- Education of Jane Brown” to Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2025 and took home the Grand Jury Award for Best Short Film- Horror!                                                                  MK wrote, directed and co-produced this engaging, genre twisting film that subtly makes a brilliant statement about bodily autonomy.

MK hopped onto Zoom for our chat and we had a wonderful conversation.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                This was no surprise to me, as MK was once of my favorite people to exchange emails with leading up to the festival.
Enjoy!

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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.

Benjamin Deutscher and Lauren Taggart premiered their incredible film animated “The Storm”  at the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2025 and  took home the Grand Jury Award for Best Feature Film – Animation and the Audience Award for Best Featurette,  the Grand Jury Award for Best Sound Design (Richard Larimore ) AND the Grand Jury Award for Best Score (Sylvain Kauffman).

I truly hope you already enjoyed the interview with these lovely and amazing folks and are back for more with these 4 Questions!

Follow The Storm at:
Instagram: @the_storm_movie
Website: https://www.thestormmovie.com/

Follow Lauren on Instagram at @thetaggartshow

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