{"id":865,"date":"2019-09-18T20:53:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=865"},"modified":"2019-09-18T20:53:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:53:29","slug":"episode-112-anderson-cowan-groupers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=865","title":{"rendered":"Episode 112: Anderson Cowan \u201cGroupers\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-924\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-924\" src=\"https:\/\/discoverindiefilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/QA-Groupers5-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anderson Cowan (center) at the FILA 2019 Q&amp;A for &#8220;Groupers&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2019, the feature film\u00a0<em>Groupers<\/em> took home four awards; including Best Feature, Best Director, Best Lead Actress and Best Supporting Actor.\u00a0 Writer\/Director Anderson Cowan had a great screening at the festival and a great Q&amp;A, so I knew he&#8217;d be a great filmmaker to interview for the podcast.<\/p>\n<p>And September 2019 is a good time to interview him because\u00a0<em>Groupers <\/em>is about to have a limited theatrical run.\u00a0 Learn more about that at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groupersthemovie.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Official Groupers Website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We all know the limitations of low budget, independent film, but <em>Groupers<\/em> leaps right over all those limitations by delivering a fresh, original story in a stylish, inventive way.\u00a0 But it also has substance;\u00a0 substance without being preachy.\u00a0 In fact, it has so much substance that during this interview I completely forgot to talk to him about all the impressive stylish elements he worked into the movie.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s not too many spoilers in this interview, but you really really really should get out there and support this movie.\u00a0 See if it&#8217;s playing near your at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groupersthemovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.groupersthemovie.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1568851437160000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEbRoM07F_QMU48zpvijJtoj-IG3g\">www.groupersthemovie.com<\/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\/DIFwins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">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>Anderson Cowan (center) at the FILA 2019 Q&amp;A for &#8220;Groupers&#8221; At Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2019, the feature film\u00a0Groupers took home four awards; including Best Feature, Best Director, Best Lead Actress and Best Supporting Actor.\u00a0 Writer\/Director Anderson Cowan had a great screening at the festival and a great Q&amp;A, so I knew he&#8217;d be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=865\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Episode 112: Anderson Cowan \u201cGroupers\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865","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\/865","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=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}