One Week Only - Podcast

The Sundance & Slamdance Film Festivals are finally over, and we have lots to talk about! Listen to our highlights of the best films we saw in Park City.

This is our interview with Dana Nachman, one of the directors of "Pick of the Litter," the Opening Night film of this year's Slamdance Film Festival! The film follows five puppies as they grow up and are trained to become guide dogs for the blind. The film has been picked up by IFC Films, and will be released later this year.

Hosted by Carlos Aguilar & Conor Holt. Music by Kevin MacLeod at www.incompetech.com

Episode 98 of One Week Only! We're back from Park City, and we have new films in theatres to review! Our key film this week is "Like Me"

We also review the Italian neo-realist drama "A Ciambra" directed by Jonas Carpignano, and the Chinese animated neo-noir "Have a Nice Day" directed by Liu Jian.

Hosted by Carlos Aguilar & Conor Holt. Music by Kevin MacLeod at www.incomptech.com

It's the final day of the 2018 Slamdance Film Festival! One of this year's documentaries is "Man on Fire" about the town of Gran Saline in Texas, where a white preacher set himself on fire to protest the town's racist history. Listen to Conor's interview with director Joel Fendelman and Producer James Chase Sanchez.

Hosted by Carlos Aguilar & Conor Holt. Music by Kevin MacLeod at www.incomeptech.com

We're reporting from Park City at the Sundance & Slamdance Film Festivals! This is an interview with Director/Producer Pablo Bryant and Producer Ted Collins about their Slamdance film "Mr. Fish: Cartooning From The Deep End," a look at the life of political cartoonist Mr. Fish and the struggles he faces in our politically-correct world where newspapers are dying left and right.

Hosted by Carlos Aguilar & Conor Holt. Music by Kevin MacLeod at www.incompetech.com

Episode 97 of One Week Only! We're reporting live from Park City, where we're seeing film at Sundance & Slamdance, despite the snow and the slush. Our key film of the week is "Mary and the Witch's Flower," the new film from Oscar-nominated director Hiromasa Yonebayashi, and the first film from Studio Ponoc, which he co-founded after leaving Studio Ghibli.

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We also review the crazy found-footage documentary "The Road Movie" from Russia, directed by Dmitrii Kalashnikov (1:10); and the handsomely crafted biopic "Django" about jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, directed by Etienne Comar (5:55).

Hosted by Carlos Aguilar & Conor Holt. Music by Kevin MacLeod at www.incompetech.com

Our final "Awards Bound" episode before the Oscar nominations are announced next week! We take a look at the 15 documentaries on the shortlist for Best Documentary Feature!

Abacus: Small Enough To Jail (2:25), City of Ghosts (4:40), Chasing Coral (7:35), Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (9:20), Faces Places (14:10), Human Flow (16:30), Icarus (19:40), An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (24:25), Jane (28:10), LA 92 (30:34), Last Men In Aleppo (34:30), Long Strange Trip (37:30), One Of Us (40:50), Strong Island (44:40), Unrest (49:40).

Hosted by Carlos Aguilar & Conor Holt. Music by Kevin MacLeod at www.incompetech.com

Another episode of our Awards Bound series! We're big fans of animation, and we're thrilled to have seen all 10 shorts on the shortlist for Best Animated Short Film for the Oscars. It's a great collection of innovative & entertaining animation, and only picking 5 nominees for the Oscars is almost impossible.

Cradle (2:35), Dear Basketball (6:00), Fox and the Whale (9:10), Garden Party (12:20), In a Heartbeat (15:40), Life Smartphone (18:15), Lost Property Office (21:45), Lou (24:40), Negative Space (30:40), Revolting Rhymes (37:05).

Hosted by Carlos Aguilar & Conor Holt. Music by Kevin MacLeod at www.incompetech.com

On this episode of "Awards Bound," we look at the 10 films shortlisted for Best Documentary Short at the Oscars! From an intimate portrait of an artist & her troubled life, to a harrowing incident of police brutality, these short documentaries are often hard to watch, but tell important stories and bring harsh reality to light.

Alone (3:20), Edith+Eddie (7:30), Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 (15:00), Heroin(e) (22:00), Kayayo-The Living Shopping Baskets (29:40), Knife Skills (37:05), 116 Cameras (45:00), Ram Dass, Going Home (51:05), Ten Meter Tower (55:30), Traffic Stop (1:01:25).

Hosted by Carlos Aguilar & Conor Holt. Music by Kevin MacLeod at www.incompetech.com

This week marks the beginning of the Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals in Park City, Utah! With so many exciting and highly anticipated films playing at both festivals, we take a look at the schedules and highlight several films we're excited to see, especially smaller gems that deserve more attention.

Hosted by Carlos Aguilar & Conor Holt. Music by Kevin MacLeod at www.incompetech.com