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What are the 4Qs? (1) Three favorite films. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out.

David Dylan Thomas made White Meat: Appetizer, a FI-LA 2026 Official Selection that impressed our jurors, winning it:
🏆 Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Short Film – Horror
🏆 Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Writing – Horror to David Dylan Thomas

Excited to follow up our conversation with the 4 Questions!

David Dylan Thomas’s links:
Click here for the White Meat: Appetizer Website
Click here for the @whitemeatmovie Instagram

Welcome Back, Listeners!

We have a perfect episode to kick off Halloween weekend because we have David Dylan Thomas on to talk about his Horror Short, White Meat: Appetizer, which was a FI-LA 2026 Official Selection and took home:
🏆 Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Short Film – Horror
🏆 Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Writing – Horror to David Dylan Thomas

David Dylan Thomas is a celebrated speaker, filmmaker, author, and podcaster. He’s been making shorts and features since high school. He hosts the Black horror podcast, The White Meat Podcast and gives lectures on the history of Black horror. I certainly hope that you enjoy listening to our conversation as much as we enjoyed recording it!

David Dylan Thomas’s links:
Click here for the White Meat: Appetizer Website
Click here for the @whitemeatmovie Instagram

What are the 4Qs? (1) Three favorite films. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out.

Jeremy Christensen made Heartbreaker, a FI-LA 2026 Official Selection and
🏆 Grand Jury Award Finalist

I loved chatting about Jeremy about his own filmmaking in our interview and was excited to turn it around and see what type of films he’s been inspired by in my 4 Questions follow up!

Jeremy Christensen’s links:
Click here for the Heartbreaker Website
Click here for the @jeremyssea Instagram

Welcome Back Listeners!

Jeremy Christensen made Heartbreaker, a FI-LA 2026 Official Selection that was a 🏆 Grand Jury Award Finalist!

Since earning an MFA in Film from UCLA, Jeremy has been writing high concept drama scripts and working as Creative Executive for indie film company Bee Holder Productions. He has also developed multiple projects with writers and producers, and moved them through various stages of production. I certainly hope that you enjoy listening to our conversation as much as we enjoyed recording it!

Jeremy Christensen’s links:
Click here for the Heartbreaker Website
Click here for the @jeremyssea Instagram

What are the 4Qs? (1) Three favorite films. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out.

Matthew DeJohn made Imperfect, a FI-LA 2026 Official Selection that impressed our jurors, winning it:
🏆 Grand Jury Award for Grand Jury Award Finalist

Excited to follow up our conversation with the 4 Questions!

Matthew DeJohn’s links:
Click here for the @dejohnfilm Instagram

Matthew DeJohn made Imperfect, a FI-LA 2026 Official Selection that earned the him the 🏆 Grand Jury Award for Grand Jury Award Finalist!

Matthew DeJohn is a screenwriter developing original projects for film and television, including his most recent pilot, “Imperfect”. Imperfect is a dark comedy that offers both sharp social commentary and an unsettlingly prescient glimpse into our near future.

Please enjoy!

Matthew DeJohn’s links:
Click here for the @dejohnfilm Instagram

What are the 4Qs? (1) Three favorite films. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out.

Sam Balcomb made You’re Not Safe, a FI-LA 2026 Official Selection that impressed our jurors, winning it:
🏆 Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Cast Performance – Horror
🏆 Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Originality – Horror

Excited to follow up our conversation with the 4 Questions!

Sam Balcomb’s links:
Click here for the Sam’s Rainfall Films Website
Click here for the You’re Not Safe Trailer
Click here for the @rainfallfilms Instagram
Click here for the Rainfall Films YouTube
Click here for the Alibi Music website

Sam Balcomb made You’re Not Safe, a FI-LA 2026 Official Selection that impressed our jurors, winning it:
🏆 Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Cast Performance – Horror
🏆 Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Originality – Horror

Sam Balcomb is a writer/director, and co-founder of Rainfall Films in Los Angeles, through which he has released several award-winning, viral short films including Evenveil and Metroid: The Sky Calls. I certainly hope that you enjoy listening to our conversation as much as we enjoyed recording it!

Sam Balcomb’s links:
Click here for the Sam’s Rainfall Films Website
Click here for the You’re Not Safe Trailer
Click here for the @rainfallfilms Instagram
Click here for the Rainfall Films YouTube
Click here for the Alibi Music website

What are the 4Qs? (1) Three favorite films. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out.

Ian Wittenber’s feature film “Glasses” was not only a FI-LA 2024 Official Selection but an award winner, taking home:
🏆 Grand Jury Award for Best Feature Film – SciFi
🏆 Grand Jury Award for Best Production Design – Feature Film – Ian Wittenber

We also have wonderful news that Ian shared during this podcast… “Glasses” was spotted by the team at Blood Sweat Honey at FI-LA 2024 and has been released! Use the JustWatch link below to see it!

Ian Wittenber’s links:
Click here for the Glasses Trailer
Click here for the @glasses_movie Instagram
Click here for the @ianwittenber on Instagram

Ian Wittenber’s feature film “Glasses” was not only a FI-LA 2024 Official Selection but an award winner, taking home:
🏆 Grand Jury Award for Best Feature Film – SciFi
🏆 Grand Jury Award for Best Production Design – Feature Film – Ian Wittenber

We also have wonderful news that Ian shared during this podcast… “Glasses” was spotted by the team at Blood Sweat Honey at FI-LA 2024 and has been released! Use the JustWatch link below to see it!

Ian Wittenber’s links:
Click here for the Glasses Trailer
Click here for the @glasses_movie Instagram
Click here for the @ianwittenber on Instagram

What are the 4Qs? (1) Three favorite films. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out.

James Graham made The Door, a FI-LA 2026 Official Selection that impressed our jurors, winning it:
🏆 Grand Jury Award for Best Short Film – Drama
🏆 Grand Jury Award for Best Cinematography – Short Film to Med Ayed
🏆 Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Cast Performance – Drama
🏆 Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Direction – Thriller to James Graham

Excited to follow up our conversation with the 4 Questions!

James Graham’s links:
Click here for the The Door Trailer
Click here for James on Instagram at @theinstagraham52

Welcome!

James Graham is a writer, director, and producer based in Connecticut. He made the short “The Door”, a FI-LA 2026 Official Selection that earned FOUR impressive awards:
🏆 Grand Jury Award for Best Short Film – Drama
🏆 Grand Jury Award for Best Cinematography – Short Film to Med Ayed
🏆 Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Cast Performance – Drama
🏆 Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Direction- Thriller to James Graham

THE DOOR has also screened at many festivals this year including Indie Shorts, Burbank Film Festival, and Garden State Film Festival.

James Graham’s links:
The Door Trailer
IG: @theinstagraham52

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DIF Podcast Website – DIF Instagram – DIF BlueSky
Discover Indie Film Foundation (nonprofit for the arts) Website
Sherman Oaks Film Festival
Film Invasion Los Angeles
Film Invasion Lima, Peru

What are the 4Qs? (1) Three favorite films. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out.

Gabriel Fontes directed the short film “Lone Crew,” a FI-LA 2026 Official Selection that took home the Grand Jury Award for Best Production Design and the Filmmakers Awards for both Outstanding Direction Sci-Fi and Outstanding Cast Performance – Sci-Fi.

Gabriel has lived and studied all over the world and I was very eager to how this may have influenced his answers for the 4 Questions.

Gabriel Fontes’s links:
Click here for the Lone Crew Trailer
INSTAGRAM: @gabrielsfontes @tripulacaosolo

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Film Invasion Los Angeles
Film Invasion Lima, Peru

Gabriel Fontes made “Lone Crew,” a FI-LA 2026 Official Selection that impressed our jurors, winning it THREE AWARDS:
🏆 Grand Jury Award for Best Production Design – Short Film to Su Tonani
🏆 Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Direction Sci-Fi to Gabriel Fontes
🏆 Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Cast Performance – Sci-Fi

Gabriel Fontes is a Director/Cinematographer born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and currently lives in LA. He graduated from PUC-Rio, Kansai Gadai in Hirakata Japan, the New York Film Academy and the Global Cinematography Institute of LA.

Talk about and interesting and cultured guy!

Gabriel Fontes’s links:
Click here for the Lone Crew Trailer
INSTAGRAM: @tripulacaosolo
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DIF Podcast Website – DIF Instagram – DIF BlueSky
Discover Indie Film Foundation (nonprofit for the arts) Website
Sherman Oaks Film Festival
Film Invasion Los Angeles
Film Invasion Lima, Peru

What are the 4Qs? (1) Three favorite films. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out.

Shane Chung made “Check Please”, a FI-LA 2026 Official Selection that took home the Grand Jury Award for Best Director and the Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Short Film – Comedy

If you listened to our interview on Monday you already know that Shane is smart, interesting and has great taste so you’ve clearly returned to see what his 4 Question Answers will be!

Shane Chung’s links:
Click here for the Shane’s Website
Click here for the Shane’s Instagram

Click here for theCheck Please Trailer
Click here for the Check Please Instagram

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DIF Podcast Website – DIF Instagram – DIF BlueSky
Discover Indie Film Foundation (nonprofit for the arts) Website
Sherman Oaks Film Festival
Film Invasion Los Angeles
Film Invasion Lima, Peru

Welcome Back, Indie Film Lovers!

Shane Chung made “Check Please”, a FI-LA 2026 Official Selection that impressed our jurors, winning it:
🏆 Grand Jury Award for Best Director – Short Film to Shane Chung
🏆 Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Short Film – Comedy

Shane Chung is a Korean-American filmmaker who enjoys challenging mainstream narratives around Asians and Trojan-Horsing thorny emotions and complex topics into genre films. I certainly hope that you enjoy listening to our conversation as much as we enjoyed recording it!

Shane Chung’s links:
Click here for the Shane’s Website
Click here for the Shane’s Instagram

Click here for theCheck Please Trailer
Click here for the Check Please Instagram

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DIF Podcast Website – DIF Instagram – DIF BlueSky
Discover Indie Film Foundation (nonprofit for the arts) Website
Sherman Oaks Film Festival
Film Invasion Los Angeles
Film Invasion Lima, Peru

What are the 4Qs? (1) Three favorite films. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out.

Joseph Wesley’s film Supplemental, was a FI-LA 2026 Official Selection and earned the Grand Jury Awards for Best Supporting Performer – Featurette to Marcuis Harris AND for Best Sound Design – Featurette to Jacob Proctor.

If you’re here, I imagine you already listened to Joseph’s terrific interview and can’t wait to hear his answers to the 4 Questions!

Joseph Wesley’s links:
Click here for the Supplemental Trailer
Click here for the @supplementalfilm Instagram
Click here for the @hitmakersmedia Instagram

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Joseph Wesley made Supplemental, a FI-LA 2026 Official Selection that impressed our jurors, winning it:
🏆 Grand Jury Award for Best Supporting Performer – Featurette to Marcuis Harris
🏆 Grand Jury Award for Best Sound Design – Featurette to Jacob Proctor

Joe Wesley is a Director and Director of Photography based out of Los Angeles CA and Kalamazoo MI. His narrative work focus on absurd surrealism, and dark comedy, heavily influenced by his rural midwest upbringing. I certainly hope that you enjoy listening to our conversation as much as we enjoyed recording it!

Joseph Wesley’s links:
Click here for the Supplemental Trailer
Click here for the @supplementalfilm Instagram
Click here for the @hitmakersmedia Instagram

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Discover Indie Film Links
DIF Podcast Website – DIF Instagram – DIF BlueSky
Discover Indie Film Foundation (nonprofit for the arts) Website
Sherman Oaks Film Festival
Film Invasion Los Angeles
Film Invasion Lima, Peru

What are the 4Qs? (1) Three favorite films. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out.

David Ambrose directed and co-wrote “Tomorrow’s Bandits” which was a FI-LA 2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy and deservedly earned the Programmer’s Prize for Exceptional Filmmaking.

David and I had a terrific chat (posted Wednesday) and the only way I know to wrap a good chat is to ask the Four Burning Questions.

Instagram: @films.dxa

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Film Invasion Los Angeles

Happy Wednesday, Listeners!

David Ambrose directed and co-wrote “Tomorrow’s Bandits” which was a FI-LA 2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy and deservedly earned the Programmer’s Prize for Exceptional Filmmaking.

I was honored David joined me on the podcast so I could pick his talented brain.

Instagram: @films.dxa

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Discover Indie Film Links
DIF Podcast Website – DIF Instagram – DIF BlueSky
Discover Indie Film Foundation (nonprofit for the arts) Website
Sherman Oaks Film Festival
Film Invasion Los Angeles