This year, I had the chance to interview several filmmakers screening films at the Louisiana International Film Festival.  On this episode, I recap some of those interviews and share some of my experiences and takeaways from LIFF2018.

Here are my prior interviews from #LIFF2018. On the recap below, I share some of the highlights from each interview, what it was like getting to screen my short at the festival, and some of the new discoveries and filmmaking observations, and life lessons I learned while attending.

Films from LIFF2018 that I discuss on this episode include

• 1000 Year Flood
• And Then I Go 
• Blaze 
• Brimstone & Glory 
• Cut Off 
• Do U Want It 
• Gabriel & the Mountain 
• Hearts Beat Loud
• Larger Than Life: The Kevin Aucoin Story
• Mixed Signals (short)
• Mr. United States (short)
• Stay Woke (short)
• Stuck
• Tinker
• Through the Banks of the Red Cedar

Want to learn more about one of the bands that played at the festival? Then check out this interview I did with Peter Simon, the lead singer of Minos the Saint, which was one of the bands that played at LIFF's Filmmaker Lounge this year.

 

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Related Things

• LIFF 2018
• Festival winners
  • Dan Ireland New Voicews/New visions Award - Stealing Rodin
  • Best Narrative Feature - Streaker
  • Best Documentary Feature - Sammy Davis, Jr.: I Gotta Be Me 
  • Best Louisiana Narrative Feature - Blaze 
  • Best Louisiana Documentary Feature - Larger Than Life: The Kevin Aucoin Story
  • Best International Short Film - Newborn
  • Best Louisiana Short Film - Headless Swans
  • Best Mature Animated Short -  Your Black Friend 
• Past #LIFF2018 interviews, arranged by film
  • And Then I Go, director Vincent Grashaw
  • Brimstone & Glory, director Viktor Jakovleski
  • Larger Than Life: The Kevin Aucoin Story, director Tiffany Bartok
  • Louisiana Live-Action Shorts, filmmakers from An Aria for Albrights, Breath, Death of an Umbrella Salesman, Mixed Signals (my short), Mr. United States, Seed of the Free 
  • Through the Banks of the Red Cedar, director Maya Washington
  • Tinker, producer Tom Bhramayana
• Shortcut for the podcast: nicksav.show

Music for the show provided by Rob Costlow.

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Other Films & Shows Mentioned

• Breaking Bad
• Gunslinger
• Godfather
• Home Remedy (web series)
• Lost

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Bands & Musicians Mentioned

• Minos the Saint
• Pappa Grows Funk 
• Ryan Harris

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