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543. Donato De Luca “Grand Romantic Gestures”

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2025/06/06

Happy Friday, Listeners!Donato De Luca and his team brought their short film “Grand Romantic Gestures” to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2024 and took home the Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Creativity - Drama. Amusingly, the young gentleman who I thought of as “Donato” for the entire run of the festival hopped onto this podcast and told me that he goes by Joe! I’m not sure if I called him Joe during this

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540. 4Qs with Samantha Baugnon

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2025/05/30

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.On Wednesday's Episode of Discover Indie Film, Producer Samantha Baugnon hopped onto Zoom to talk about “Homeschooled,” a feature length documentary releasing to streaming VOD on June 1! You should visit their official website at https://homeschooledthemovie.com/ right now and find out where to see it! This wonderfully made documentary takes a fresh,

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539. Samantha Baugnon “Homeschooled”

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2025/05/28

Welcome Back, Listeners!Producer Samantha Baugnon hopped onto Zoom to talk about “Homeschooled,” a feature length documentary releasing to streaming VOD on June 1! You should visit their official website at https://homeschooledthemovie.com/ right now and find out where to see it! If you can watch the trailer on that website and not want to see the movie, then I’m just going to move you to the “dead inside” column. You might think that the title “Homeschooled” tells

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537. Jacob Langsner “SUM: A Tale From the Afterlife”

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2025/05/23

Happy Friday Folks. We have a terrific interview to kick off your weekend.This episode’s guest is Jacob Langsner, who I know as the filmmaker behind the award winning animated short, “SUM: A Tale From the Afterlife.” The film had its world premiere at Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2024, but I was in another theater moderating a Q&A and never got a chance to truly meet Jacob at the festival. That’s why

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534. 4Qs with Jonathan Latona

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2025/05/16

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.Jonathan Latona has returned to DIF because last year his latest feature, “DESTINATION:HOLYWOOD” was an official selection at Sherman Oaks Film Festival. We had another fantastic chat and follow up 4 Questions. After listening, I highly recommend check out his work at

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532. 4Qs with Christopher Saint

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2025/05/12

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.Christopher Saint wrote, directed and produced the film “Śokasana,” a beautiful film that had its world premiere as an official selection at Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2024 and it took home a Programmer’s Prize for Exceptional Filmmaking. Christopher impressed me with his professionalism, artistic vision, and, of course, his 4 Questions! You can follow

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531. Christopher Saint “Śokasana”

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2025/05/09

Welcome back, DIF Listeners!Christopher Saint wrote, directed and produced the film “Śokasana,” a beautiful film that had its world premiere as an official selection at Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2024 and it took home a Programmer’s Prize for Exceptional Filmmaking. I don’t want to spoil what Chris reveals during this podcast; suffice to say that he completely surprised me with his professional and artistic background. It was a pleasure to learn the origins of “Śokasana.” If you listen to

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530. 4Qs with Kevin Lee

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2025/05/07

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.Kevin Lee brought his Horror-Rom-Com short film “Aly” to the 2024 edition of the Sherman Oaks Film Festival and took home the Programmer’s Prize for Exceptional Filmmaking! I truly enjoyed my chat with this unique and talented filmmaker and was eager to get to his 4 Questions. Use these links to follow Kevin and his film and, importantly, check out Aly on

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529. Kevin Lee “Aly”

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2025/05/05

Happy Cinco de Mayo to those who celebrate! Kevin Lee brought his short film “Aly” to the 2024 edition of the Sherman Oaks Film Festival and took home the Programmer’s Prize for Exceptional Filmmaking! I love this film for several reasons, but it truly comes down to the originality of its story and the authenticity of the characters he wrote in a genre that is best known for cheap thrills.

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526. 4Qs with Andy Cochrane

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2025/04/28

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.Andy Cochrane's Immersive Short “The Carrier” played at both FI-LA and Sherman Oaks Festival to rave review and, in fact, he is largely responsible for the festivals adding a new category called “Immersive Short - AR/VR/MR/360”. Nerding out with Andy is a happy place for me which is why Friday's interview is 2 1/2 hours long. I was definitely eager to get to

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525. Andy Cochrane “The Carrier”

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2025/04/25

Happy Friday, Everyone!Should I apologize for this 2 1/2 hour episode? Probably, but I refuse to do so because Andy Cochrane has gone from the guy who sent a random email to Sherman Oaks Film Festival with the subject, “VR Submissions,” in August of 2023 to a guy I consider my friend. Besides our many shared interests, the day I went to his studio and met Andy in person to see this VR thing, instead of my just putting on a headset we went off on a tangent about the solar panels that had just been

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522. 4Qs with Jacqueline Linares

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2025/04/18

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.Jacqueline Linares wrote, directed and produced the short film “What Friends Do” that played at the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in December 2024 and took home the Programmer’s Prize for Exceptional Filmmaking. Our conversation was incredibly fun to have and her 4 Questions were an equally enjoyable follow up. You can follow Jacky on Instagram at @jackyiguess

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521. Jacqueline Linares “What Friends Do”

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2025/04/16

Welcome back, DIF Listeners! Jacqueline Linares wrote, directed and produced the short film “What Friends Do” that played at the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in December 2024. As you’ll hear early in this interview, I find her film wonderful, genuine and heartwarming to the point that when I met her at the festival’s Opening Night Gala and saw “What Friends Do” on Jacky’s badge I immediately said, “Is it OK

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520c. Fr3deR1cK & Jeff Shoot the S**t, Part 5c

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2025/04/14

Dedicated listeners of this podcast know that whenever Fr3deR1cK Taylor comes out to Los Angeles from Atlanta, we find time to record a podcast. The good news is that Fred often comes out to L.A.! The last time he visited, Fred and I talked for a whopping three and a half hours. We have gotten feedback from people that perhaps we shouldn't talk this long, but since I am incapable of any form of self control while recording I chose a retroactive compromise; I chopped this conversation into three

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520b. Fr3deR1cK & Jeff Shoot the S**t, Part 5b

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2025/04/14

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520a. Fr3deR1cK & Jeff Shoot the S**t, Part 5a

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2025/04/14

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517. Parker Croft “As Easy As Closing Your Eyes”

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2025/04/07

Happy Monday, Folks!Previous to this podcast, my only interaction with Parker Croft was via email. He was super busy when his film “As Easy As Closing Your Eyes” screened at the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2024, leaving it up to writer and producer Aaron Golden to represent the film.

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510. 4Qs with Jess Paul

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2025/03/21

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.Wednesday I had the pleasure of posting my chat with filmmaker Jess Paul, whose touching film "Burying Baby" was an Official Selection at the Sherman Oaks Film Festival last year and took home the Programmer’s Prize for Exceptional Filmmaking. If that names sounds familiar, Jess actually was my surprise interviewer for our special 500th episode where I agreed to

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509. Jess Paul “Burying Baby”

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2025/03/19

Hello to all my DIF Listeners and Friends! For me, one of the highlights of the 2024 Sherman Oaks Festival was writer/producer/artist Jess Paul using the All Access Pass that she got for her film “Burying Baby” being a Official Selection to attend many screenings throughout the festival. Obviously I started this podcast because I love indie films and talking about them, and every time I ran into Jess at the festival we would have a great chat about the films she had seen and about the festival in

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504. Ty Clancey “Drawn”

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2025/03/07

TGIF!Ty Clancey is a returning champion! Ty was on episode 366 to talk about his short film “Thank You For Staying,” an Official Selection at Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2021. After the podcast, he sent me his hilarious human-puppet hybrid comedy “Support.com and You!” and I loved it so much that we instantly threw it onto The Indie Channel. Ty came back to the podcast because in 2023 his beautiful, stylistic horror short “Drawn” was an

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