{"id":505,"date":"2018-02-22T23:44:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T23:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=505"},"modified":"2018-02-22T23:44:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T23:44:10","slug":"episode-42-df4q-with-alex-merkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"Episode 42: DF4Q with Alex Merkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_366\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-366\" src=\"https:\/\/discoverindiefilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Merkin-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff &amp; Alex at the 2016 Sherman Oaks Film Festival.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What is DF4Q? \u00a0It&#8217;s the <strong><em>Discover Film Four Questions<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Name your favorite film of all time (limit 3)<\/li>\n<li>Name a film you think is underrated<\/li>\n<li>Name a film you think is overrated<\/li>\n<li>Name a lesser-known film that you think people should seek out<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alex Merkin has been directing like crazy for over a decade, completing four shorts, a cable series, and seven features.\u00a0 (Feature #8 is about to begin.)\u00a0 Alex&#8217;s short<em>\u00a0This Modern Man Is Beat\u00a0<\/em>won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s find out what kind of films Alex is, and isn&#8217;t, into.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comments are blocked on this website. To discuss <em>Discover Film<\/em> episodes, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/discoverfilm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook Group<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can listen to the podcast using the media player below or on <a href=\"https:\/\/discoverindiefilm.com\">DiscoverFilm.net<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/discover-film\/id1264749183?mt=2\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/playmusic.app.goo.gl\/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&amp;isi=691797987&amp;ius=googleplaymusic&amp;link=https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/m\/Ivv4xv25av4hqpjhapm76mrdlu4?t%3DDiscover._Film.%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16\">Google Play<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/discoverfilm\">SoundCloud<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/s?fid=146070&amp;refid=stpr\">Stitcher<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Podcast<\/h2>\n<p>Source: Discover Film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff &amp; Alex at the 2016 Sherman Oaks Film Festival. What is DF4Q? \u00a0It&#8217;s the Discover Film Four Questions. Name your favorite film 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 Alex Merkin &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=505\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Episode 42: DF4Q with Alex Merkin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","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\/505","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=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}