Welcome back, Listeners! Chicago filmmaker Michael Glover Smith’s superb film Handle with Care was an Official Selection: Short Film – Drama at Sherman Oaks Film Festival 2024 and took home the Programmer’s Prize – Exceptional Filmmaking. I was thrilled to moderate Michael’s Q & A at the festival, and even more so, to dive back …
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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. On the last episode I throughly enjoyed chatting with Donato De Luca, who I learned actually goes by Joe! Joe and his team brought their short film “Grand Romantic Gestures” to …
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Happy Friday, Listeners! Donato De Luca and his team brought their short film “Grand Romantic Gestures” to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2024 and took home the Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Creativity – Drama. Amusingly, the young gentleman who I thought of as “Donato” for the entire run of the festival hopped onto this …
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2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film When a righteous sheriff is driven to desperation by his wife’s sickness, he decides to make a deal with the devil and agrees to sacrifice the souls of the living to a demonic machine on eighteen wheels. Writer(s): Christy Price, Daniel Vidal Perez Return to 2025 Official Selections …
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2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Series When a boy’s mother vanishes after a car crash, he’s thrust into a perilous quest. Guided by an eccentric uncle and aided by three unfamiliar allies, he must confront dark forces and his own doubts to rescue his mother before an important birthday. Writer(s): Lynn H. Elliott Return to …
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