Christopher McNeany wrote, produced, and is the lead actor in the short film “More Than He Knows” that came to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2021.  “More Than He Knows” holds the prize for “Sexiest Film of the Fest,” which is an unofficial award that I keep thinking about making official.  Aaaand… it’s official.  I just added that prize to the SOFF 2021 Awards page.

Normally it takes a while for a filmmaker to go from festival to podcast, but Chris was literally wrapping up his festival run at SOFF and I was delighted when he said he wanted to do a podcast and have “More Than He Knows” join season 5 of the Discover Indie Film TV series.  Season 5 should be released this March, but if you want to watch other superb indie shorts just go to the Discover Indie Film TV Series on Amazon Prime Video!  And if you don’t want to wait for the “sexy as f*ck” editing of “More Than He Knows” to be in the DIF TV series, you can watch the “sexy as heck” edit of “More Than He Knows” right now on YouTube!

I hope you enjoy the interview as much as I did!

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What are the 4Q’s?

• Name your favorite films of all time (limit 3)
• Name a film you think is underrated
• Name a film you think is overrated
• Name a lesser-known film that you think people should seek out

Ryan Beene wrote, produced, directed and edited his short film “Those People.”  We were honored to hold the theatrical premiere of this film at the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2021 where it took one a Programmers Prize.  The great news is that Ryan’s film will be joining season 5 of the Discover Indie Film TV series.  Season 5 should be released in March 2022, but if you want to watch other superb indie shorts just go to the Discover Indie Film TV Series on Amazon Prime Video!

“Those People” is such an original, compelling film that I couldn’t wait to hear his 4Qs list.  Enjoy!

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Here are Ryan’s 4Qs answers:

• Favorites: Happy Together, Lost in Translation, Cléo from 5 to 7
• Underrated: Palo Alto
• Overrated: Inception
• Seek Out: Shiva Baby

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Ryan Beene brought his short film “Those People” to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2021 and took home a Programmers Prize award.  Thanks to Covid, that screening was also the theatrical premiere of “Those People.”  I was delighted to hear that Ryan was wrapping u his festival run and was happy for his film to join season 5 of the Discover Indie Film TV series.  Season 5 should be released this March, but if you want to watch other superb indie shorts just go to the Discover Indie Film TV Series on Amazon Prime Video!

Ryan is an intelligent, thoughtful and unabashedly real storyteller.  In this interview I got to see how he made key decisions so that all these qualities ended up in “Those People.”  Enjoy the interview!

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