Blissful Spinster

Meet Jack Perez! Jack is an Independent Film Writer/Director. He’s a member of both the DGA & the WGA and has over a dozen feature films under his belt including the indie genre hit Some Guy Who Kills People, La Cucaracha, which won best feature at the Austin Film Festival, and The Big Empty which won Best New Writer at the AFI Film Fest. Jack also teaches and is the head of the directing track at Academy of Art in San Francisco. Jack and I have known each other for over 20 years and it was super fun to catch up with him and share where I’m at with Alone Girl. Our conversation spanned things like not getting caught up in festival placement, how important it is to go into the principal photography phase of your film as prepared as you can as a director, and of course, that age-old question - is a blank page a scary dark hole of nothingness or an exciting open sea of adventure and possibility?

Find out more about Jack on his website at: https://www.jackperezdirector.com

Connect with Jack on Instagram at: https://instagram.com/whospuss Links & Love

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Want to support the show or get access to extra content—like

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Alone Girl made?

 

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this DIY labor of love and gets you a peek behind the scenes (when I

find the time to write, lol).

 

Find me and the pod on Instagram, Pinterest, and at

blissfulspinster.com—where you can also find some pretty cool merch, if

you’re into that sort of thing.

 

Thanks for being on this journey with me—and until next time, go find

your happy.💚

Meet Gina Fattore! Gina is a published author & seasoned TV Writer. Her first novel is the very funny Spinster Diaries, which you can find wherever you get your books. She also has a TEDx Talk about spinsterhood called Become What You Believe. Her TV credits include being the creator & showrunner of Dare Me, being a Consulting Producer on the STARZ limited series Gaslit, and a writer on Better Things, Californication, and Gilmore Girls. Like me, Gina is a life-long spinster, and I really enjoyed our chat. Of course, we spoke of writing for TV, but more interestingly, IMHO, we chatted about how the TV of the 70s which came out of the wake of both the Women’s Equality Movement & the Civil Rights Movement helped to shape both of us into the feminists that we are today and the artists that we have become. And as two spinsters would, we also touched on how women can seek out freedom & autonomy and be happy.

Find out more about Gina on her website at: https://ginafattore.com

Connect with Gina on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/ginafattore/

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If your ears like what they’re snacking on, follow, rate, and drop a

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Want to support the show or get access to extra content—like

behind-the-scenes journals, guest deep dives, and updates on getting

Alone Girl made?

 

Check out my Substack: The Blissful Spinster. Just $5/month supports

this DIY labor of love and gets you a peek behind the scenes (when I

find the time to write, lol).

 

Find me and the pod on Instagram, Pinterest, and at

blissfulspinster.com—where you can also find some pretty cool merch, if

you’re into that sort of thing.

 

Thanks for being on this journey with me—and until next time, go find

your happy.💚

Meet Mike Medavoy! With a career spanning six decades and over 300 feature films, you can imagine my surprise when I got a response to a Twitter DM I sent out in a moment of boldness. Oscar-winning Producer, Mike Medavoy, agreed to be on Blissful Spinster. Being the kid that grew up wanting to find out who was MAKING the films I loved, I’ll admit, I was a mix of nervous and starstruck to meet Mike, he was, after all, part of the teams that were responsible for such films as - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Rocky, Apocalypse Now, Network, Platoon, Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, The Thin Red Line, Black Swan, and Shutter Island… Just to name a few. Mike was open and insightful during our chat and the thing I loved most, was learning how much he valued the collaborative nature of making films.

Find out more about Phoenix Pictures on their website at: https://phoenixpictures.com

Connect with Mike on Instagram at: https://instagram.com/mikemedavoyup

Connect with Mike on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/mikemedavoy Links & Love

If your ears like what they’re snacking on, follow, rate, and drop a

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Want to support the show or get access to extra content—like

behind-the-scenes journals, guest deep dives, and updates on getting

Alone Girl made?

 

Check out my Substack: The Blissful Spinster. Just $5/month supports

this DIY labor of love and gets you a peek behind the scenes (when I

find the time to write, lol).

 

Find me and the pod on Instagram, Pinterest, and at

blissfulspinster.com—where you can also find some pretty cool merch, if

you’re into that sort of thing.

 

Thanks for being on this journey with me—and until next time, go find

your happy.💚

Hi! My name is Cris Graves and welcome to Blissful Spinster, a podcast where I’ll explore my place in the world as a happy single woman in her 50s, and how that intersects with my journey as I hustle to get my first narrative feature film, ALONE GIRL off the ground as a writer/director.

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If your ears like what they’re snacking on, follow, rate, and drop a

review—it helps others find the show too.

Want to support the show or get access to extra content—like

behind-the-scenes journals, guest deep dives, and updates on getting

Alone Girl made?

 

Check out my Substack: The Blissful Spinster. Just $5/month supports

this DIY labor of love and gets you a peek behind the scenes (when I

find the time to write, lol).

 

Find me and the pod on Instagram, Pinterest, and at

blissfulspinster.com—where you can also find some pretty cool merch, if

you’re into that sort of thing.

 

Thanks for being on this journey with me—and until next time, go find

your happy.💚