I'll be famous

Well, not really famous, but still, this morning was fun. I went into the WMHT studio and got interviewed for my spot on TvFILM. Funny being on the other side of the lights in an interview, and him giving me the please use complete sentences speech. I think it went well. He thought it went well, said he was happy with my answers. I think I was even having a good hair day.

Here's the important information: for those of you in Albany, NY the first airing will be June 30th at 7:30pm. It will repeat the following Sunday at midnight and then a few times after that. For those not in Albany, it will also be on the website for streaming in its entirety exactly as broadcast, plus extra interview stuff in the behind the scenes section. I'll add that link (to every mention of Killer anywhere ever) once it's live.



I'm trying to remember the questions he asked. There was a bit of introduce yourself and your film. Stuff like, what was the hardest thing about making it (the cold, and how much it saps your mental facility). Are there recurring themes to my body of work (people are more than they appear, you can make assumptions about people, but you're only ever scratching the surface - I'm not even sure if that's quite true, but however I phrased it for him worked as an answer). Favorite films or film styles (I ended up talking about Simon Pegg and Joss Whedon both still clearly loving what they do no matter how successful they've become). Would I ever do a feature (writing one now, but won't stop doing shorts).

The hardest question was my opinion on the inequality between women and men filmmakers. My response was basically, do we have all day? It was hard to come up with something that would be concise enough for him to use in that format. I don't even remember what I said really, but the answer felt good to me at the time, and he seemed happy with it. Of course I thought of a good answer in the car on the way home. I should have told him the story of teaching technical courses and having women come up to me after and say how happy they were to see me as the instructor because when they had signed up they were unsure  if this was really something they could do. Ah well, I'll save that story for next time.

Then he handed me a big index card with questions printed on it. He said, hold onto that, read the question out and then answer it. These are specifically for the web site. I'm not sure I remember them all, but it was stuff like advice for budding filmmakers (shut up and shoot), favorite PBS show (Masterpiece, I like Sherlock), Facebook or Twitter (well, my new film has a twitter account, but my producer had to teach me how to do it). The hard question of that lot was, in the feature film of your life story who would play you? I had nothing for him. Couldn't even think of a single actress of my generation. Someone short and spunky I think, but who would that be?

As we were walking out of the the studio a woman who was behind one of the cameras came over to say ... how did she phrase it??? she liked my groove. I think that was it. Anyway, we exchanged business cards and she said if I do any work in Albany I should get in touch. That was very cool.