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SXSW 2024 - We're All Gonna Die and Desert Road
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In this episode we're discussing two SXSW Film Festival narrative films that center around being lost and searching for something.
In We're All Gonna Die, an alien spike has materialized onto the earth's atmosphere, and a struggling beekeeper and a grieving EMT are forced to join forces on a roadtrip after the spike has mysteriously caused the teleportation of his car and her bees. Co-directors/co-writers Freddie Wong and Matthew Arnold join us to discuss their decision to set the apocalypse in our regular world, expressing honesty through lies, and the funny story behind the main character's calf fetish.
Desert Road is a horror/sci-fi about a woman who crashes her car in the middle of the desert and walks down the road for help - only to realize no matter which way she walks, she ends up back at her crashed car. Director/writer Shannon Triplett shares the true story this film is based on, the brilliance of her lead actress who carries the film, Kristine Froseth, and the importance of casting (including heavyweights Beau Bridges and Frances Fisher), and how the success of the shoot was centered on the full moon.
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Audio engineering by Jeff Hunt from Storied: San Francisco
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