Talking Pictures with Paul Booth

Host Paul Booth and Director Suzanne Kai dive into her Multi-Award-Winning Documentary (Newport Beach Film Festival Best Music Film) Like a Rolling Stone: The Life and Times of Ben Fong Torres.

As an Emmy-Nominated Journalist in the Bay Area, Suzanne brings us into the world of 70s iconic Rock journalist Ben Fong-Torres. As an Editor at Rolling Stone, Mr. Fong-Torres helped change the way music was written about and observed.

This is the quintessential documentary for music lovers and those who appreciate Music History. Included are wonderful interviews and shared moments with Quincy ones, Carlos Santana, Elton John and Cameron Crowe.

Host Paul Booth continues his coverage of The 41 Hawaii International Film Festival. He will be discussing Hawaii made films. As a reviewer of Hawaii film's Paul brings the unique perspective that his work has played at HIFF, won the Hawaii Made section in 2001, he has curated Hawaii film programs for HIFF and ran the Hawaii Student Film Festival that HIFF sponsored in 2002.

Paul is from Kauai and is happy to use this episodes to serve the Films, Filmmakers and Cinema

Hawaii Made Shorts

Ballistic

Ka Ho'i

Broken

For more information and online screenings through 11/28

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Host Paul Booth reviews three documentaries for The 41st Hawaii International Film Festival.

Girl's Can't Surf (Australia)

The First Step (U.S.A.)

Atomic Cover-Up

For more info www.hiff.org

Host Paul Booth and Production Designer Clay Griffith dive into the fun and inspirations of his many film credits. The talk moves around albums, musicians and some lessons that came up along the way.

As a Production Designer Clay Griffith has helped bring to life films such as Dolemite is my Name, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Almost Famous, We Bought a Zoo, Roadies and Radio. He also worked as Set Dec on classics like As Good as it Gets, Sleepless in Seattle, Jerry Maguire and Seven.

Clay was very gracious to share his time with us on a down day from his current gig as a Production Designer.

Host Paul Booth interviews Director Machete Bang Bang about her Film Moon Manor, which just had its screening at the 22nd Newport Beach Film Festival. Machete and Paul go into her creative Process as Co-Director, Co-Writer, Co-Producer and Editor of this wonderful and hilarious Film about a man's last day on earth.

Machete's creative partner on this Film (Co-writer, Co-Producer, Co-Director) was Filmmaker Erin Granat. The film is currently making the Festival rounds and entertaining audience's all over the Festival circuit.

For all the info on where you can see the Film, take a listen to this interview on Spotify, Google Podcasts or Apple Podcasts. 

Visit the official website  www.moonmanormovie.com

Follow them @moon_manor_movie

Host Paul Booth reviews three films from the 22nd Annual San Diego International Film Festival.  Brother, I Cry (Feature, Canada), The Novice (Feature, U.S.A.) presented by IFC Films and Entitled (Short, U.S.A) directed by Kelsey Fordham which Paul interviews Kelsey Fordham on the making of her film.

Host Paul Booth and writer, director Miles Doleac sat down to discuss Miles new film Demigod. Demigod releases Friday October 15th in 10 major cities Theatrically and across multiple streaming platforms Amazon, iTunes, wherever you get your on-demand, rentals.

Miles also Produces and co-stars in his new film Demigod. We got into a wonderful discussion about writing, the process of acting out a script you write. Miles also gave us insight into directing and acting while making a film in a COVID world, as the Pandemic raged on.

Miles brought his unique perspective to provide the audience with a look into his influences and thoughts about the demons, dark themes and multi-faceted world we live in. This is the 5th film Miles has come on the Podcast to discuss and he was Talking Pictures with Paul Booth's first guest seven years ago.

Get ready for a great chat with a highly-educated Filmmaker who is also a College Professor with a PHD.

Host Paul Booth and Cinematographer Checco Varese A.S.C. discuss the Hulu fantastic series DOPESICK which dives into America's heart breaking Opioid crisis. You can stream the series now on Hulu.

In this episode we chat with Checco as he breaks down shooting a fictional story based on real events. We explore what it’s like to create different tones to vary the stories within one bigger one. We also touch on what it’s like creating a full series during the Pandemic.

Oscar-winner Barry Levinson (Rain Man) directs the first two episodes of the series. Staring Michael Keaton, Rosario Dawson, Peter Sarsgaard Michael Stuhlbarg and Kaitlyn Dever. We were happy to have Checco Varese A.S.C. back on the show.

Host Paul Booth was joined by Colombian-American writer/director Erick Castrillon to discuss his feature film Blast Beat. Erick brings a unique opinion and wide-variety of experiences to the mic. This episode was a true joy to do for Host Paul Booth given he met Erick in passing at a small Film Festival in 2013. The last time our Host spoke to Erick he was writing a SHORT titled Blast Beat (circa 2015). What happened next is why we love Talking Movies.....

His feature film, Blast Beat, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival as part of the U.S. Dramatic Competition. Sony Pictures and Vertical Entertainment picked up Blast Beat for distribution, which was released in May, 2021. His work has been critically acclaimed in the U.S. and abroad, connecting with audiences across multiple cultures and genres. In 2021 he consulted for Disney’s animated film, Encanto, and was part of a think tank created by Sony and Montecito Pictures to bring Latinx representation to the big screen. Castrillon got his MFA in Writing for the Screen and Television from the University of Southern California, and his BA in English Literature from the Florida International University.