{"id":573,"date":"2018-03-15T16:56:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T16:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=573"},"modified":"2018-03-15T16:56:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T16:56:13","slug":"episode-49-miri-stone-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"Episode 49: Miri Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-409\" src=\"https:\/\/discoverindiefilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC07509-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"150\" \/>The first time I ever programmed a film festival was Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2016.\u00a0 The first film that screened was <em>The Hunter<\/em>.\u00a0 Which means that my first\u00a0 Q&amp;A with (as the Q, not the A) was Miri Stone.\u00a0 Like all Q&amp;A&#8217;s, we only had around 10 minutes to talk, so this filmmaker from Seattle with a New Zealand accent who made an incredible original short film remained a mystery to me.\u00a0 She&#8217;s not a mystery any longer!<\/p>\n<p>Miri would have been one of the first interviews on this podcast, but we waited until\u00a0<em>The Hunter<\/em> became available online.\u00a0 And if you look to the right, you will see that she came down from Seattle to open the festival with her newborn child.\u00a0 Talk about a magical way to begin a festival!<\/p>\n<p><em>The Hunter<\/em> is a beautifully made film and I&#8217;d always wondered what was behind it.\u00a0 Miri shares where it comes from and more.\u00a0 When you hear her history, you will clearly see that her entire life has primed her to make inventive, fantastical films.<\/p>\n<p>Before you listen to the podcast&#8230; watch\u00a0<em>The Hunter.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/153703648\">THE HUNTER<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1578719\">Miri Stone<\/a><\/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>The first time I ever programmed a film festival was Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2016.\u00a0 The first film that screened was The Hunter.\u00a0 Which means that my first\u00a0 Q&amp;A with (as the Q, not the A) was Miri Stone.\u00a0 Like all Q&amp;A&#8217;s, we only had around 10 minutes to talk, so this filmmaker from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=573\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Episode 49: Miri Stone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","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\/573","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=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}