That Young Cineast: To The Fools Who Dream | Film, Art, and Advice

Matthew speaks with Carlos Lerma, a well decorated 23-year-old filmmaker from Mexico who studied film in Chicago and Los Angeles. He's been submitting to film festivals since he was a teenager. He has also been featured in the Chicago Tribune, DayTime Chicago, Indie Wrap, The Guardian, and spoke at TEDx. He has some great advice for young filmmakers, especially since he began his film festival...

Matthew opens the newest season with a hidden gem from the 2026 Oscars Run: Viva Verdi. He sits down with the producer and writer of the Oscar-Nominated Documentary: CHRISTINE LA MONTE. She expresses her passion for music, and how she turned her imagination into a producing career. She takes her decades of experience in Hollywood and gives the youth an inspiring message of resilience.

December 29, 2025 | The yearlong journey comes to an end. Emma and Kaelin send their goodbyes and well wishes to Matt's new future. They play games cuz there's really nothing else to do but to enjoy the last few moments of the OG three on That Young Cineast | Filmmaking Podcast

December 29, 2025 | Matt presents his first draft of a 34 page screenplay. Emma, Kaelin, and Matthew read through playing different characters and give their thoughts for a final time this season.

November 18, 2025 | Matt, Emma, and Kaelin dive into what it means to be creative. They solve writing problems Matthew poses, and reveals their little tips and tricks at making art that involves the individual's uniqueness, a sense of self.

November 16, 2025 | Matthew and Emma score a great interview with Aaron Chang, actor who made their debut in the hit film, Sundance winner: DiDi (2024). Aaron shares memories on DiDi and making DiDi while also passionately displaying his love for dance and self-expression through art.

October 27, 2025 | Matt meets with Liam Collins, Matias Herrera, Kaelin Mendez, and Emma Chavez to get feedback and pitch his short film idea. This is the new format that replaced scene reads. He will focus on a new project: writing a full short film. He receives adequate advice on approaching writing a structured story and learns to accept the fact that sometimes you don't have answers to questio...

October 12, 2025 | Chase Okimura tells us of his gaffing experience and how he came about crafting his career and building his experience with lighting. He also tells of his friendship with Jaylen and how they bond over networking on a film set.

September, 29, 2025 | Matthew brings a scene mashing two characters from two different months together, and the results aren't what he expects. He learns what criticism feels like and experiences despair and ego-crush as he takes the advice to heart in efforts to refine his writing. A huge lesson for HIM.

September 18, 2025 | Matthew, Emma, and Kaelin finally unite in person, in one room, talking about how they came together and formed That Young Cineast.

August 27, 2025 | Matthew delivers a response to Kaelin's new writing challenge: Starting and Ending a scene with specific lines. Taking inspiration from 'Didi' (2024), the 2000's and his aspirations to write a coming-of-age film, he delivers a youthful, fun, and cringy scene.

August 4, 2025 | Matts speaks to some special guests: three good friends who founded a film collective together: Oscar, Katt, Sergio from Flat Memory Media. He talks with them about their process of collaboration and their challenges as filmmakers.

August 4, 2025 | Matts speaks to some special guests: three good friends who founded a film collective together: Oscar, Katt, Sergio from Flat Memory Media. He talks with them about their process of collaboration and their challenges as filmmakers.

July 15, 2025 | Matt recounts his exciting experience at film camp. He learns how to make new friends. Matthew explores ways he was able to communicate his ideas between collaborators. He opens a whole new world of passion with the new friends he's made. Go Mangos!

June 18, 2025 | Matt writes a new police centric scene. But is it really new? Matthew and Kaelin reminisce on an older project embedded into the screenplay. While Emma continues to read the stage directions. :)

June 11, 2025 | Phillip Ely from Savannah College of Art and Design talks extensively about SOUND IN FILMS and how they are produced. He expands into sound mixing, foley art, and on-set experience with sound design. His informative dumps really help explore the tip of the iceberg the sound industry is within Hollywood.

May 30, 2025 | Matt unexpectedly changes the scene-read format to include more context and full story. Is this for the better?

May 20, 2025 | Matt GoodDay interviews two Chapman University Dodge College of Film and Media Arts students. Jack Wolf Perry (graduating senior) and Matias Herrera (junior). They share their enthusiastic experience being film students within a welcoming creative community. They express their bond as colleagues and roommates just studying to work in the film industry. They offer strikingly deep adv...

April 30, 2025 | Matt GoodDay quickly puts together a zombie themed thriller scene. Listen to how time constraints take a toll on the story and how he explored world-building in a different genre.

April 9, 2025 | Matt GoodDay dives into a experience full interview with film producer Forrest Hartl as he explains how he grew his network and career from the ground.

March 26, 2025 | Listen to a scene written based on one of Matt's previous works. Learn his though process, and how the story has grown up alongside him.

March 4, 2025 | Classic films can be defined in many different ways. Listen to different perspectives on what 'classic' is. Matt, Kaelin, Emma, and Jaylen discuss favorite films and their effect on creative outputs.

Feb 25, 2025 | Matt, Kaelin, and Emma read a second scene. Matthew wrote this scene through the span of all February. Logline: One friend attempts to convince the other to submit their film and to rid of their doubts. Enjoy the table read!

Feb 11, 2025 | Matt goes through his first films and moviemaking experience. Matthew has worked on many projects and is everlasting enthusiastic about each one! Listen in on his thought process and inspiration. Kaelin expresses his woe of his and Matt's strange similarities. Timestamps: 01:00 - Matt/Kaelin's Film/Photo Origin 07:00 - My School Video Projects 18:00 - Imprisonment of Andrew Miller 3...

Jan 26, 2025 | Matthew has been writing one scene, in all of January, for Kaelin and Emma to read. Listen in for a fun update, engaging table read, and some constructive critiques. Scene Logline: While a police chief deals with a large criminal problem, a new lead emerges when a missing criminal finally shows face.