What’s good, homies?! We’re joined this week by special guest Dan McLeod, writer and director of “Regicide”, to talk about indie filmmaking and his upcoming film. As with our conversation with Brian on “Snow Blinded”, we discuss lots of behind-the-scenes and production stuff (Otis worked on set as a script supervisor), but this week’s conversation is much different. We chat about Dan’s influences, the process of making “Regicide”, sticking to a plan and budget, independent filmmaking, action choreography, maximizing creativity within the constraints of smaller film production, and more. Later on, Otis and Dan share their favourite moments from shooting, everyone muses on the anxiety and stress that comes with creating something, we discuss “imposter syndrome”, and we all rant about the current state of art creation, consumption, marketing, and the problems with “the algorithm”.

This leads to a conversation around the problem with “internet fame”, buying plays and playlist placements, fake support from people and people only caring about what’s “hot”, artists being fleeced by a system that’s built on exploiting art, “Vanity Galleries”, the problem with film festivals, and more. We also chat about the problems that social media and the industry have caused for artists, people just stealing ideas and biting flows to get seen, labels exploiting artists, pay-to-play within streaming film and music, and more. PALMREADER also shares his theory about Netflix being in bed with certain VPN companies and how that signaled the beginning of the downfall for the streaming giant.

Then we share what we’ve been watching and listening to. PALMREADER touches on the new Playstation Plus tiers, the new Drake album, “Ghost Adventures”, and the frustrating yet awesome medieval RPG “Kingdom Come: Deliverance”. Otis praises Phil Tippet’s “Mad God” and he and Dan chat about “Tetsuo: The Iron Man” and its sequel.

Come see “Regicide” at the old Princess Cinema this Sunday. Pay what you can! It’s gonna be great! Thanks again to Dan for coming on the pod.

We’ll be back next week with something different but more of the same.

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