What are the 4Q’s?  (1) Favorite films, top 3. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out.

Arvid Eriksson bought his film “Acknowledgements,” to Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2021 and took home the Grand Jury Award for Best Short Film – Arthouse/Experimental!  I’m proud to say that this engaging, innovative film in Season 6 of the Discover Indie Film TV Series on Amazon Prime Video!

While we were recording our intercontinental Zoom chat, I obviously had to have Arvid answer the 4Qs above.  Enjoy!

Follow Arvid on Instagram at @perarvideriksson or at his website arvideriksson.com

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Arvid Eriksson made the beautiful film “Acknowledgements,” bringing voice, cinematography, and swimming pools into perfect balance.  At Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2021. “Acknowledgements” took home the Grand Jury Award for Best Short Film – Arthouse/Experimental!  I’m proud to say that this engaging, innovative film in Season 6 of the Discover Indie Film TV Series on Amazon Prime Video!

I’ve now had the honor to chat with Arvid twice and can tell you this, he is as delightful as his film! I hope you enjoy listening to this conversation as much as we did having it.

Follow Arvid on Instagram at @perarvideriksson or at his website arvideriksson.com

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What are the 4Q’s?  (1) Favorite films, top 3. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out.

Rob Campoy brought his film “A Face on the Ceiling” to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2021 and took home the Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Short Film – Horror.  I’m proud to say that this engaging, innovative film is part of Season 6 of the Discover Indie Film TV Series on Amazon Prime Video!

Rob brought all of his talents to “A Face on the Ceiling,” serving as writer, director, cinematographer and more.  In fact, this film is one of the shining examples of how some artists produced great work while trapped at home during lockdown.  We hope you enjoy our conversation as much as we did!

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Rob Campoy brought his film “A Face on the Ceiling” to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2021 and took home the Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Short Film – Horror.  I’m proud to say that this engaging, innovative film is part of Season 6 of the Discover Indie Film TV Series on Amazon Prime Video!

Rob brought all of his talents to “A Face on the Ceiling,” serving as writer, director, cinematographer and more.  In fact, this film is one of the shining examples of how some artists produced great work while trapped at home during lockdown.  We hope you enjoy our conversation as much as we did!

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What are the 4Q’s?  (1) Favorite films, top 3. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out.

Finn McCager Higgins and I discussed his stunning film “In The Pines” in the podcast before this one.  Finn co-wrote, co-directed, and played a lead role in the film.  I’m proud to say that this “In The Pines” is part of Season 5 of the Discover Indie Film TV Series on Amazon Prime Video.

As long as we were on Zoom, of course I had Finn answer the 4Qs above..

You can follow Finn at @finnmccager on Instagram.

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Finn McCager Higgins made the stunning film “In The Pines” with his collaborator Tom Groom.  They co-wrote, co-directed, and both played lead roles in the film.  Finn brought his film to Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2021 and this Lynchian, personal, beautiful film left an impact on me. I’m proud to say that this film is part of Season 5 of the Discover Indie Film TV Series on Amazon Prime Video.

At 41 minutes, it was the “longest short” we had ever programmed.  In fact, it was the excellence of “In The Pines” and the awards jury’s difficulty grasping how to compare a 41 minute film with films under 15 minutes that inspired us in 2022 to create the category “featurette.”  Now films between 20-60 minutes have their own playing field and they should be thanking Finn and Tom for it.

You can follow Finn at @finnmccager on Instagram.

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What are the 4Q’s?  (1) Favorite films, top 3. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out.

Writer, Director & Actor Taylor Olson brought his film “Bone Cage” to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2021 and took home FOUR Grand Jury Awards, including Best Feature Film – Drama, Best Actor in a Lead Role – Taylor Olson, Best Performance by a Full Cast, and Best Cinematography, Feature Film for Director of Photography Kevin A. Fraser.  I had Taylor on the DIF podcast so of course I also had him answer the 4Qs above!

You can learn more about “Bone Cage” at @bonecagefilm on Instagram and more about Taylor at @taylorcpolson on Instagram.

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Taylor Olson directs and performs the lead role in the feature film “Bone Cage,” and he also adapted the script from an award winning stage play.  This remarkably talented filmmaker brought his film to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2021 and took home FOUR Grand Jury Awards, including Best Feature Film – Drama, Best Actor in a Lead Role – Taylor Olson, Best Performance by a Full Cast, and Best Cinematography, Feature Film for Director of Photography Kevin A. Fraser.

Taylor was on set for the run of the festival that year and I never got to record a Q&A with this Nova Scotia based filmmaker.  This fact made recording this podcast particularly special for me!

You can learn more about “Bone Cage” at @bonecagefilm on Instagram and more about Taylor at @taylorcpolson on Instagram.

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What are the 4Q’s?  (1) Favorite films, top 3. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out.

Writer/producer/lead actor Wyatt Bunce and director/producer Willow Hamilton brought their film “Killer Whales” to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2021 and took home the Grand Jury Award for Best Feature Film – Comedy.  Wyatt also took home the award for Best Lead Actor- Comedy at Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2022!  I could not let these two hop off of Zoom until they answered the 4Qs listed above.

Go to @killerwhalesmovie on Instagram to learn more or hit linktr.ee/killerwhalesmovie. And you know what?  Please watch this film and then give it a great review!  Great indie films deserve great reviews.

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Willow Hamilton, Wyatt Bunce & Thom Reidy brought their film “Killer Whales” to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2021 and took home the Grand Jury Award for Best Feature Film – Comedy.  You know what I didn’t say to them during this podcast?  As a festival programmer who sees over a thousand indie films per year, I can say with complete confidence that a feature length comedy is the most difficult mountain to climb.  And “Killer Whales” is a smart, hilariously absurd feature film with great performances and underneath it all is a brilliantly directed arthouse film just waiting for you to catch it.

So catch it!  The film is released digitally the same day as this podcast!  Go to @killerwhalesmovie on Instagram to learn more or hit linktr.ee/killerwhalesmovie. And you know what?  Please watch this film and then give it a great review!  Great indie films deserve great reviews.

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