{"id":3031,"date":"2025-01-21T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2025-01-21T09:00:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T09:00:39","slug":"485-john-gray-too-many-films-to-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3031","title":{"rendered":"485. John Gray \u2013 Too Many Films to List!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, Film Fans, and a happy Tuesday to you! This may actually be the last Tuesday we post for awhile because we have so may great interviews coming your way, we are going to try on a Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule release to get those out!<\/p>\n<p>The first time I saw one of John Gray\u2019s short films was during Covid lockdown. In fact I saw two of John\u2019s films, \u201cHousehold Demons\u201d and \u201cExit Package.\u201d<br \/>\nBoth took home awards that year; thanks to lockdown we could include both instead of following our rule, \u201cif someone submits two short films, only make one official selection.\u201d<br \/>\nBut John is a very prolific filmmaker and to date I have seen no fewer than eight of his short films, including The Unquiet Dead, Extra Innings, The Third Defector, The Desecrated, The Little Drummer Boy, and The Overlook.<br \/>\nMost year\u2019s it\u2019s a challenge to pick which John Gray film we show in the theater!<br \/>\nIn addition to being a prolific filmmaker, John is simply a good person.<br \/>\nMost of the time we have zoomed for his Q&amp;A\u2019s, as so far he has not been able to make the trip from New York to Los Angeles. Maybe someday!<br \/>\nIn the meantime, our Zoom Q&amp;A\u2019s have allowed us to have longer talks and I always look forward to them.<\/p>\n<p>I knew that John would be an excellent podcast guest and he did not disappoint.<br \/>\nIn this great chat you get to learn about how he went from a Brooklyn kid who could have taken the wrong path to a screenwriter, a director, a network showrunner, and more.<br \/>\nI hope that you enjoy listening to this as much as I enjoyed recording it.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about John Gray at these links:<br \/>\nOfficial Website: https:\/\/www.johngrayofficial.com<br \/>\nInstagram: @bayrdge &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bayrdge\/ <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3268 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/discoverindiefilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-gray-300x192.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" \/><br \/>\nTwitter\/X: @jthomasgray &#8211; https:\/\/x.com\/jthomasgray<br \/>\nBluesky: johntgray &#8211; https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/johntgray.bsky.social<\/p>\n<p>_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _<\/p>\n<p>Discover Indie Film<\/p>\n<p>Website\u00a0\u2013 Instagram\u00a0\u2013 Facebook\u00a0\u2013 X\/Twitter<\/p>\n<p>The INDIE Channel<\/p>\n<p>The INDIE Channel Website \u2013 Instagram\u00a0\u2013 Facebook \u2013 X\/Twitter\u00a0\u2013 TikTok<\/p>\n<p>Source: Discover Film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, Film Fans, and a happy Tuesday to you! This may actually be the last Tuesday we post for awhile because we have so may great interviews coming your way, we are going to try on a Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule release to get those out! The first time I saw one of John Gray\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3031\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;485. John Gray \u2013 Too Many Films to List!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}