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On this episode of the Salt Lake Dirt Podcast we welcome back author Chip Jacobs. He recently released an incredible true crime book called The Darkest Glare. Pick up a copy at Chip's hometown bookstore VROMON'S in Pasadena. Thanks for listening!

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"Late-seventies  Los Angeles was rampant with shady characters, but all the go-getters at Space Matters saw was possibility. Richard Kasparov was handsome and charismatic; his younger associate, Jerry Schneiderman, brilliant and nerdy. When the pair hired a veteran contractor to oversee construction, the space planning firm they operated out of a hip mansion in LA’s Miracle Mile district appeared poised to transform the boundless skyline  into their jackpot. Then the promising team imploded, spilling treachery on the blueprints. Assassins, working in a murder-for-hire corporation, required a comical number of attempts to execute their target. Once they did, the surviving founder of Space Matters was thrown into a pressure cooker existence out of a Coen Brothers movie. Threatened for money he didn’t have, he donned a disguise, trying to outfox a glowering murderer, while asking if you can ever really know anyone in a town where blood soaks the land." (Source: ChipJacobs.com)

2021 SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

"A struggling black college grad wakes up to find that reparations have finally been paid to descendants of slaves in America." (2021 Slamdance Festival Guide)

Filmmaker Symone Baptiste joins me for a conversation about her short episodic film Sixteen Thousand Dollars (now playing at Slamdance). This film in incredible! Funny, timely, and deeply thought provoking. Do yourself a favor and keep an eye out for anything she is involved with in the future. I look forward to having Symone on the podcast again once the world returns to some kind of normality. Thanks Symone for the great conversation!

2021 SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

"After an unlikely casting onto a reality television show, 47-year old suburban telemarketer Ed Popil leaves his job to pursue a full-time entertainment industry career as his drag queen alter ego, 1960’s era housewife Mrs. Kasha Davis." (2021 Slamdance Festival Guide)

On this episode of the podcast we talk with Mrs. Kasha Davis and filmmaker Angela Washko. Their film Workhorse Queen is a fascinating documentary that had me hooked from beginning to end. Definitely one of my top documentary picks from Slamdance this year.

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Kyler Bingham

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I had such a great time talking to filmmaker and actor Jack Dunphy on this full episode of the Salt Lake Dirt Podcast!

"A high school filmmaker wins the heart of a troubled young woman, only  to loose her in the course of a harrowing psychedelic experience that  forces him to confront life truths that are at once beautiful and painful."  (Slamdance 2021 Festival Guide)

Watch REVELATIONS at the 2021 Slamdance Film Festival (Click to Purchase Tickets)

Episode 13: 2021 SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

Bleeding Audio is our TOP documentary pick this year at Slamdance. An incredible story chronicling the best kept secret in music, The Matches.

"From inspiring triumphs to heartbreaking setbacks, Bleeding Audio relives the explosive career of The Matches and what it means to succeed  in the digital age of music." (2021 Slamdance Festival Guide)

Purchase a Slamdance Virtual Pass for access to BLEEDING AUDIO

Official site for BLEEDING AUDIO

Official site for THE MATCHES

Episode 14: NOW IS NOT THE BEST TIME (Jackie Dow & Seth Birkan) - Slamdance 2021

On this episode of the Salt Lake Dirt Podcast, we talk with Jackie Dow (director) and Seth Birkan (writer) of the web series Now is Not the Best Time. The episode Half Court will play at the 2021 Slamdance Film Festival. Grab a virtual pass for $10 and gain access to all of the festival's programming from February 12-25.

"Alisa gets a chance to win $50,000 by making a half-court shot at a  Knicks game but her anxiety quickly derails her when she learns the  contest is going to be on TV." (2021 Slamdance Festival Guide)

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SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2021

Noel David Taylor's feature film, Man Under Table or: I'm Writing a Movie, is one of my top Slamdance picks this year. Check out our podcast episode with Noel!

"Set against the backdrop of a comically surreal and anachronistic Los  Angeles, a beleaguered young man tries to write a movie but instead gets  pulled into everyone else's projects as he hallucinates his way through  a bizarre indie film scene." (Slamdance Festival Guide)

Official Website for the film

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Writer/Director Matthew Wade as well as lead actors Sara Lynch, Sara McDonald join us for this episode of the Salt Lake Dirt Podcast.

"As two former classmates dig into their deceased professor’s set of  cassette tapes, which possibly contain recordings of strange signals  from beyond the stars, they begin to feel memories, the chronology of  time, and their identities slip into obscurity." (Slamdance Festival Guide)

Watch the film at Slamdance 2021 (Feb. 12 - 25)

On this episode of the podcast filmmaker Emily Shir Segal joins me to talk about her documentary short film 'I think it's enough, isn't it?' playing at the 2021 Slamdance Film Festival.

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"Reconstructing one last encounter with Dad." (2021 Slamdance Festival Guide)

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Author Nick Flynn joins Kyler Bingham for a discussion on his most recent work. Nick has released three books in the past year with the most recent being This is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire, a memoir recounting his childhood in Massachusetts.  

For more from Nick Flynn, check out nickflynn.org

The funniest film I saw at Slamdance/Sundance in 2020 was unquestionably Steve Markle's documentary Shoot to Marry (Now available on Amazon Prime). It was great to meet and interview Steve in Park City before the world imploded and I was thrilled to talk with him again this past August for the podcast. Make sure to check out his other film Camp Hollywood as well (also streaming on Amazon Prime).

Shoot to Marry - Website

Slamdance Interview with Steve Markle - Salt Lake Dirt