{"id":674,"date":"2018-12-18T20:38:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T20:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=674"},"modified":"2018-12-18T20:38:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T20:38:05","slug":"episode-78-heather-hillstrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"Episode 78: Heather Hillstrom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-603 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/discoverindiefilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_1421-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>At Film Invasion Los Angeles in June, 2018, Heather Hillstrom&#8217;s short film <em>The King In The Ring<\/em> took home a Grand Jury Prize.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of those films that people will never forget.\u00a0 I&#8217;m certain that in five or ten years, I can refer to this film and anyone who saw it will know what I am talking about.\u00a0 It is that good and that memorable.<\/p>\n<p>Heather sat for a great Q&amp;A at the festival, so I was excited to have her come do a podcast and give us the full story.\u00a0 She doesn&#8217;t disappoint.\u00a0 In this interview you get to hear exactly what path she took to become the filmmaker she is today.<\/p>\n<p>And look at her with the huge H on her shirt in front of my Ikea cabinets.\u00a0 Could she look any cooler?\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 She could not.<\/p>\n<p>But BEFORE you listen to the interview, you should watch this terrific short film.\u00a0 That way you&#8217;ll recreate the festival experience where you see the film and then hear from the filmmaker afterward.<\/p>\n<\/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\/DIFwins\/\" 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:\/\/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;apn=com.google.android.music&amp;link=https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/m\/Ijgez6hdvoqgnvmtd2aq56rakzm?t%3DDiscover_Indie_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>At Film Invasion Los Angeles in June, 2018, Heather Hillstrom&#8217;s short film The King In The Ring took home a Grand Jury Prize. This is one of those films that people will never forget.\u00a0 I&#8217;m certain that in five or ten years, I can refer to this film and anyone who saw it will know &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=674\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Episode 78: Heather Hillstrom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","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\/674","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=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}