Following Films Podcast

Today I'm joined by Robbie Banfitch, the writer/director behind The Outwaters. The film takes viewers off the beaten path and into their own nightmares. The film plays out over three memory cards found in a sun-drenched section of the Mojave Desert. The footage within is that of a foursome, who set out to make a music video while camping, led by a charismatic LA filmmaker. Their trip sta...

Today I'm joined by DISQUIET Writer/Director Michael Winnick. DISQUIET, a supernatural thriller starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers (“Vikings”, “The Tudors”), Rachelle Goulding (Wifelike, Lethal Weapon), Elyse Levesque (Ready or Not, “Orphan Black”), Lochlyn Munro (“Riverdale”, White Chicks) will be released in select theatres, on digital, and on demand on February 10, 2023. Jonathan Rhys Meyers stars i...

Today I'm joined by MURDER IN BIG HORN director and producer Razelle Benally and Matthew Galkin MURDER IN BIG HORN investigates the disappearances and possible murders of a group of Native American women in rural Montana. Within the last decade, dozens of young Indigenous women and girls from the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Nations have been murdered or have gone missing from Big Horn County and it...

Today I'm joined by ALONE AT NIGHT cinematographer Peter Buntaine. In ALONE AT NIGHT, Ashley Benson ( Pretty Little Liars, Spring Breakers ) leads the cast as Vicky, a woman looking for an escape after a breakup. She heads to a friend's cabin in the woods, where she continues to model lingerie for her devoted followers on 18 & Over, an adults-only live-streaming site. In EW's exclusive first l...

Today I'm joined by composer Andrew Gordon Macpherson to discuss his work on KIDS VS. ALIENS. Andrew Gordon Macpherson is an award winning music composer and filmmaker. He has contributed original music to TV shows "Dark Side of the Ring," "Tales from the Territories," AAA video games "Far Cry 5", "Far Cry: New Dawn," "Starlink: Battle for Atlas" (Ubisoft), and feature films, "Kids vs Aliens," "Ra...

Today I'm joined by THE OLD WAY Director Brett Donowho The Old Way stars Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage in his first Western thriller. It's an intriguing tale about Colton Briggs (Cage), a cold-blooded gunslinger turned respectable family man. When an outlaw gang forces him to take up arms, he discovers an unlikely partner in his 12-year-old daughter Brooke (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) and the two se...

Thank you for listening to the Following Films Podcast today we have a Slamdance double feature with the directors of Underbug and With Peter Bradley.  First up I chat with Shujaat Saudagar about The Underbug While nations came to a standstill during the pandemic, another more familiar kind of virus - xenophobia and sectarian violence - raged in India. Against that backdrop, “The Underbug” is...

THE STALKING FIELDS was written by Sean Crampton and Jordan Wiseley and directed by first-time filmmaker and Army veteran Ric Maddox.  The film stars Crampton in a breakthrough performance, as well as Taylor Kalupa, Adam J. Harrington, Rachael Markarian, Jordan Wiseley, and Richard O. Ryan. Drawing from personal experience, both Crampton and Wisely grew up in military families and felt it was...

ONLY IN THEATERS , a film by actor/director Raphael Sbarge (Emmy Nominated for directing “LA FOODWAYS,”) is an intimate and moving journey taken with the Laemmle family, spanning nearly three years of challenges, losses, and personal triumphs. There has been a Laemmle in the movie business since there’s been a movie business.  Their beloved Arthouse Cinema chain with an astonishing Hollywood...

Today I'm joined by London May and Eric Boccio to discuss their work on NIGHT OF THE BASTARD Disgruntled hermit Reed lives a solitary life in the desert. After chasing away a group of youths trying to party near his home, Reed’s peaceful life is violently upheaved when a goup of savage cultists lay siege to his house. Forced to partner up with one of the party-goers, Reed and his newfound colleagu...

Today I'm joined by Moby to discuss his film ‘Punk Rock Vegan Movie! The new documentary will have its world premiere and be the Opening Night film for the 2023 Slamdance Film Festival on January 20 in Park City, Utah. The film, which is Moby’s directorial debut, is a passionate and stylistically idiosyncratic look at the ongoing relationship between the worlds of punk rock and animal rights. It i...

Miranda Kwok is now best known as the Creator and Executive Producer of the U.S. television series adaptation "The Cleaning Lady," based on the Argentine series "La Chica Que Limpia." Produced by Warner Bros. Television and Fox Entertainment, Miranda wrote the pilot script and developed "The Cleaning Lady" for the Fox Network.  Her first screenplay about the so-called military ‘comfort women,...

Today I'm doing something a bit different. This is a press conference I took part in last weekend with the craft team behind the new Apple+ film EMANCIPATION. The team includes  Ed Novick (Production Sound Mixer) Mandell Winter (Supervising Sound Editor) Naomi Shohan (Production Designer) Conrad Buff, ACE (Picture Editor) Robert Richardson, ASC (Cinematographer) Steve Pederson (Re-Recording M...

Today I'm joined by Jimmy Hunt, star of the atomic-aged sci-fi classic INVADERS FROM MARS Ignite Films has released s sensational 4K restoration of William Cameron Menzies’ 1953 Invaders From Mars. The sci-fi classic is available on Blu-ray & 4K UHD in time to celebrate the film’s 70th anniversary. Special bonus features include a restored 4K version of the original 1953 trailer and a newly c...

Today I'm joined by Alison Star Locke the writer and director of THE APOLOGY  Twenty years after the disappearance of her daughter, recovering alcoholic Darlene Hagen (Anna Gunn) is preparing to host her family's Christmas celebration with her best friend Gretchen (Janeane Garofalo). Late Christmas Eve, Darlene's estranged ex-brother-in-law, Jack (Linus Roache) arrives unannounced, bearing no...

Today I'm joined by writer/director Joe Begos ( The Mind’s Eye ,  VFW ), to discuss his work on CHRISTMAS BLOODY CHRISTMAS . The film stars Riley Dandy  ( That’s Amor ,  The City of Gold ), Sam Delich  (Spiderhead ), Jonah Ray Rodrigues ( Mystery Science Theater 3000 ), Dora Madison ( Everybody Wants Some , "Chicago Fire"), Jeremy Gardner ( Offseason ), with Jeff Dani...

Today I'm joined by Sean Perry, the writer and director behind the new one-take thriller DASH DASH follows Milly, your average everyday rideshare driver preparing himself for a night shift behind the wheel… by purchasing a massive amount of cocaine from a prostitute. On the perilous Hollywood streets, he attempts to sell the drugs to his unassuming passengers including: a homosexual thruple, some...

Leslie Iwerks is an American producer, director, and writer . She is daughter of Disney Legend Don Iwerks and granddaughter of Disney Legend Ub Iwerks , the animator and co-creator of Mickey Mouse and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit . She has directed films including Recycled Life which was nominated for an Academy Award and The Pixar Story which was nominated for an Emmy for best nonfiction special. She...

For the upcoming major motion picture Devotion – the anticipated Korean War-era feature film based on the acclaimed book and directed by J. D. Dillard, starring Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell, Christina Jackson,and Joe Jonas and coming out November 23 -- award-winning director of photography Erik Messerschmidt, ASC leveraged his decades of experience to create stunning visuals that entwine narrative...

Thank you for listening to the Following Films Podcast today I’m joined by Trey Roski, co-founder and executive producer for BattleBots. Battlebots, the hit television show featuring fighting robots, has announced an exclusive live Las Vegas show: “BATTLEBOTS: DESTRUCT-A-THON,” which will open Feb. 3, 2023, at BattleBots’ own BattleBox Arena at Caesars Entertainment Studios. The daily live show fo...

Today I'm joined by Alex Phillips to discuss his film ALL JACKED UP AND FULL OF WORMS Roscoe, a janitor for a scuzzy love motel, whose girlfriend has brought another man home for strange rituals, drifts through life until he discovers a hidden stash of powerful hallucinogenic worms. Guided by visions of a giant floating Worm, he encounters Benny, a moped enthusiast trying to manifest a baby from a...

Dallas Dupree Young is one of the breakout stars in Netflix’s Emmy-nominated series, “Cobra Kai”. Young shines as Kenny, a bullied new student in school, who turns to karate to defend himself and gain confidence. I had Dallas on the show today to discuss his work on the new festival darling 1-800 HOT-NITE. The film is centered around Tommy (Dallas Dupree Young) and the night he loses his parents t...

Levi has snagged a no-lease apartment sight unseen in the Hollywood Hills to crash at while he ties up loose ends for his exodus from Los Angeles. He quickly strikes up a rapport with his new neighbor John, swapping stories like old friends under the glowing, smoke-filled skies of the city. Soon after meeting, Levi and John witness something impossible in one of their apartments. Terrified at firs...

Tom George is a director and sometimes writer of TV and film. He directed all three series of the acclaimed BBC comedy “This Country”. The show, which George also helped write, won four BAFTAs, including one for Best Scripted Comedy, as well as a host of other awards. His other credits include the BBC legal comedy “Defending the Guilty”, which starred Will Sharpe and Katherine Parkinson. George be...

Today I’m joined by cinematographer Stefan Duscio to discuss his latest work, the Apple TV+ series, Shantaram . Based on the internationally best-selling novel by Gregory David Roberts, the 1980s set drama follows a fugitive who escapes prison and reinvents himself as a doctor in the slums of Bombay. Shantaram is the first Apple TV series that uses anamorphic lenses and frame in a 2.40 aspect rati...