{"id":3067,"date":"2025-03-05T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3067"},"modified":"2025-03-05T09:00:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T09:00:57","slug":"503-4qs-with-gavin-gaitan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3067","title":{"rendered":"503. 4Qs with Gavin Gaitan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Writer\/director Gavin Gaitan brought his film &#8220;Down Town&#8221; to SOFF 2024 and took home four awards: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Best in Fest &#8211; Feature Film<br \/>\nGrand Jury Award &#8211; Best Feature Film &#8211; Comedy<br \/>\nGrand Jury Award &#8211; Best Director &#8211; Feature Film &#8211; Gavin Gaitan<br \/>\nGrand Jury Award &#8211; Best Screenplay &#8211; Feature Film &#8211; Gavin Gaitan<\/p>\n<p>I was truly blown away with Gavin&#8217;s film and I because I was not able to moderate his Q&amp;A at the festival, I was thrilled to for the chance to have him on the podcast. And his follow-up 4 Questions didn&#8217;t disappoint either!<\/p>\n<p>If you want to follow Gavin\u2019s feature film on Instagram, he\u2019s @downtownmovie <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3407 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/discoverindiefilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gavin_4Qs-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/downtownmovie\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/downtownmovie\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/heffay111\/\">Discover Indie Film<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/heffay111\/\">Website\u00a0\u2013 Instagram\u00a0\u2013 Facebook\u00a0\u2013 X\/Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/heffay111\/\">The INDIE Channel<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/heffay111\/\">The INDIE Channel Website \u2013 Instagram\u00a0\u2013 Facebook \u2013 X\/Twitter\u00a0\u2013 TikTok<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Discover Film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Writer\/director Gavin Gaitan brought his film &#8220;Down Town&#8221; to SOFF 2024 and took home four awards: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3067\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;503. 4Qs with Gavin Gaitan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3067","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\/3067","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=3067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}