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Jeff Howard

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414. 4Qs with Nicholas Geisler

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2023/10/26

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. Nicholas Geisler brought his Sci-Fi film "When You Become Us" to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2022, where it won numerous awards including Outstanding Short Film - SciFi, Oustanding Director - SciFi, Outstanding Performance - Individual, and Outstanding Performance, Cast- SciFi. His film is superb and we had a wonderful time talking about his film amongst

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413. Nicholas Geisler “When You Became Us”

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2023/10/24

Nicholas Geisler brought his Sci-Fi film "When You Become Us" to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2022, where it won numerous awards including Outstanding Short Film • SciFi, Oustanding Director - SciFI, Outstanding Performance - Individual, and Outstanding Performance, Cast- SciFi. *When You Became Us" is a wonderful display of what Sci-Fi can be, and Nicholas' direction is well deserving of his awards In this episode, we hear about the great mind of Nicholas, and it is certainly one you won't

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412. 4Qs with Rich & Matt Van Tine

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2023/09/28

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. Rich & Matt Van Tine have brought two films to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival over the years; "A Side of Fries" in 2018 and "Magic Box" in 2022. Both films are superb and I'd looked forward to getting these two on the DIF podcast for years. And you know that once they were on the mics I would have them answer the DIF 4Qs above. Follow their work at their Van

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411. Matt & Rich Van Tine “Magic Box”

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2023/09/26

Matt & Rich Van Tine brought their horror short "Magic Box" to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2022, when it took home the Audience Award for Best Short Film - Horror. (By the way, if you ask me, it's a Thriller, not horror, but I'm just being anal.) The first time that I met the Van Tines was in 2018 when their short film "A Side of Fries" was an official selection at the Sherman Oaks Film Festival. I have a soft spot for the quirky, unique "A Side of Fries," but even I have to admit that

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410. 4Qs with Alex & Todd Greenlee

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2023/09/21

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. Screenwriter Alex Greenlee and director Todd Greenlee brought their feature film "All Eyes" to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2022 and took home the Grand Jury Award Best Feature Film – Horror. You can tell in this interview that I loved this film's mix of indie spirit, action and horror. The good news is that you can watch it right now! Just go to

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409. Todd & Alex Greenlee “All Eyes”

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2023/09/19

Todd & Alex Greenlee wrapped up a hugely successful festival run for their feature "All Eyes" with a screening at the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2022. Todd directs, Alex writes, and together they produce great films! This superb film took home the Grand Jury Award Best Feature Film – Horror. You can tell in this interview that I love this film's mix of indie spirit, action and horror. The good news is that you can watch it right now! Just go to homefrontpictures.com and choose the platform

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408. 4Qs with Joey 西侧龙

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2023/09/12

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. Filmmaker Joey 西侧龙 brought his music video "A Beautiful Escape" to the 2023 edition of Film Invasion Los Angeles. The audiences and juries loved it and Joey received two awards for his efforts. As an American living in China, Joey had to hop onto Zoom to talk with me, but for his festival Q&A and his podcast interview. And you know for sure that I was going

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407. Joey 西侧龙 “A Beautiful Escape”

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2023/09/07

Joey 西侧龙 created the music video "A Beautiful Escape" and at the 2023 edition of Film Invasion Los Angeles received two awards; Outstanding Music Video and Outstanding Performance – Music Video for his lead performer Hayley Wen. An American living in China, Joey brought an incredibly unique and interesting perspective to this podcast. I found this to be one of the most fascinating interviews so far! And, yes, I did a map search while were talking and realized that the person whose face on Zoom

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406. 4Qs with Andrew Bourne

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2023/09/05

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. Andrew Bourne brought his short film "Church Camp" to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2022 and took home two awards; Outstanding Short Film – Comedy and Outstanding Director – Comedy. This touching, humorous and above all honest film resonated with everyone who saw it at the festival. And you can watch "Church Camp" right now on the streaming service TVHi,

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405. Andrew Bourne “Church Camp”

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2023/08/31

Andrew Bourne brought his short film "Church Camp" to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2022 and took home two awards; Outstanding Short Film – Comedy and Outstanding Director – Comedy. This touching, humorous and above all honest film resonated with everyone who saw it at the festival. And you can watch "Church Camp" right now on the streaming service TVHi, available in the Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Android TV, Apple TV, Android Mobile and iPhone app stores. After this interview I got so see more of

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404. Darren Coyle “Operation: Payback”

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2023/08/29

Darren Coyle's second appearance on the DIF Podcast comes after his short film "Operation: Payback" screened at the 2022 Sherman Oaks Film Festival. His first came after his feature film "Chasing Sunshine" screened at the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2018. It was great to catch up with Darren and hear how well he's been doing, both with his day job in television production and his devotion to creating his own original work. Plus he's a very dedicated writer! As Darren points out, don't snooze

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403. 4Qs with Chris Browne

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2023/08/24

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. Filmmaker Chris Browne cam into DIF HQ to discuss his award winning short film "Pleroma" and of course I had him answer the 4Qs above while he was here. (Great list, by the way!) You have to wait a little while to see "Pleroma," but if you want to be very cool then you should come its premiere at Screamfest in October of 2023. I'm gonna do my best to be

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402. Chris Browne “Pleroma”

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2023/08/22

Filmmaker Chris Browne, whose day job happens to be Global Visual Effects Supervisor at Sony Pictures Animation, brought his amazing short film "Pleroma" to Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2023 and took home the Filmmakers Awards for Outstanding Short Film – SciFi and Outstanding Screenplay – SciFi. You have to wait a little while to see this film, but if you want to be very, very cool then you should come its premiere at Screamfest in October of 2023. I'm gonna do my best to be there! I hope you

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401. Fr3deR1cK Taylor “Where Is America The Beautiful?”

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2023/06/27

Fr3deR1cK Taylor's new film ""Where Is America The Beautiful?" is screening at 4:30 PM (Pacific) at Dances With Films the same day that this podcast releases! If you happen to be listening on June 27, 2023, rush over to the Hollywood & Highland and catch the film! And if it is after that date, maybe go to tomorrowpictures.com or tomorrowpictures.tv to find out where you can see it. This was Fr3deR1cK's third time as a guest on this podcast and I nearly named this episode "Fr3deR1cK & Jeff Shoot

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400. 4Qs with Adele Thomas

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2023/06/22

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. Adele Thomas came into DIF HQ to talk about her career and, specifically, her music video "She" that took home three awards at the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in November 2020. You can watch "She" right now on the streaming service TVHi and at some point in 2023 it will join the Discover Indie Film TV Series on Amazon Prime Video. As long as Adele was on the

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399. Adele Thomas “She”

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2023/06/20

Adele Thomas's music video "She" played the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in November 2020 and this beautiful work of art took home the Grand Jury Prize for Best Music Video as well as the award for Outstanding Performance, Individual – Experimental for Kennedy Knopf and Outstanding Cinematography – Experimental for Julie Kim. You can watch "She" right now on the streaming service TVHi and at some point in 2023 it will join the Discover Indie Film TV Series on Amazon Prime Video. I hope you enjoy

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398. 4Qs with Rick Ives

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2023/06/15

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. Filmmakers Rick Ives came onto the DIF podcast to talk about his indie feature film "Solid Rock Trust" and, even though he maybe didn't have enough warning, he answered the 4Qs listed above. By the way, you MUST check out Rick's feature film "Solid Rock Trust" and you can find many different ways to watch it at the Solid Rock Trust linktr.ee. Follow Rick on

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397. Rick Ives “Solid Rock Trust”

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2023/06/13

Rick Ives reached out to me about his indie feature film "Solid Rock Trust" and something crazy happened... it's great. I took a look and, as I say in the first minute of this podcast, Rick pulled off what hundreds (maybe thousands) of filmmakers have tried before; Set a feature length thriller in a single location and make it engaging from start to finish. Check out "Solid Rock Trust" right now at the Solid Rock Trust linktr.ee. I also got kinda lucky because I invited Rick onto the podcast

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396. 4Qs with Eva Urrutia

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2023/06/08

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. Eva Urrutia wrote, directed and co-produced the brilliant film "Avec Le Temps (With Time)" that came to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2020 and took home two Grand Jury Prizes. I cannot express to you how beautiful I find "Avec Le Temps" to be. You simply have to watch it and you CAN! The film is in Season 7, Episode 8 of the Discover Indie Film TV Series

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395. Eva Urrutia “Avec Le Temps (With Time)”

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2023/06/06

Writer/director Eva Urrutia brought the brilliant film "Avec Le Temps (With Time)" to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2020 and this incredible film brought home the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film – Drama Best Director, Short Film. I cannot express to you how beautiful I find "Avec Le Temps" to be. You simply have to watch it and you CAN! The film is in Season 7, Episode 8 of the Discover Indie Film TV Series on Amazon Prime Video. I looked forward to this conversation with Eva for a long

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