Todays Verbal Masturbation session is with the director of Scared Shitless, Vivieno Caldinelli. You can catch his film this week at The Calgary International Film Festival CIFF (ciffcalgary.ca) on Sept. 21st and Sept. 26th. More information at CIFF (ciffcalgary.ca)
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[00:00:00] [SPEAKER_06]: Film Rage Presents, Verbal Mastervation with Bryson Jim.
[00:00:13] [SPEAKER_06]: Welcome to a very special edition of Verbal Mastervation at the Calgary International Film
[00:00:20] [SPEAKER_06]: Festival.
[00:00:21] [SPEAKER_06]: Today we're talking to Vivieno Caldinelli, an award winning director who has worked
[00:00:26] [SPEAKER_06]: with GIANTS in the industry such as Taco with Titi, Mark McKinney, Julian Richings and
[00:00:31] [SPEAKER_06]: Roddy Piper.
[00:00:33] [SPEAKER_06]: He also seems to have a strange obsession with toilets.
[00:00:35] [SPEAKER_06]: Welcome to the show.
[00:01:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[00:01:12] [SPEAKER_04]: Are you ready?
[00:01:13] [SPEAKER_04]: See, Viv has no idea the questions we're going to ask.
[00:01:16] [SPEAKER_04]: So it could be scary for him.
[00:01:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[00:01:20] [SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[00:01:21] [SPEAKER_04]: So first one, Mel Brooks or John Landis?
[00:01:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Holy shit.
[00:01:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Holy shit.
[00:01:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Right out of the gate.
[00:01:30] [SPEAKER_01]: That's a good one.
[00:01:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[00:01:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Mel Brooks.
[00:01:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Mel Brooks.
[00:01:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[00:01:39] [SPEAKER_01]: They leave it at that?
[00:01:42] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, absolutely.
[00:01:44] [SPEAKER_04]: It's an horror.
[00:01:44] [SPEAKER_04]: You don't even have to explain it.
[00:01:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Sometimes people want to but if you just because then if you over explain, you're
[00:01:50] [SPEAKER_04]: probably going to get yourself into a bigger in a bigger role.
[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_00]: It's super tough because they were the first for me my first major influences of like
[00:01:59] [SPEAKER_00]: comedy horror.
[00:02:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[00:02:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Even though like the comedy in the American world was way more sophisticated, but you
[00:02:10] [SPEAKER_00]: know, yeah, wow, they're huge, huge.
[00:02:13] [SPEAKER_00]: But I think like more of the early Mel Brooks stuff really took to me and Landis, you
[00:02:22] [SPEAKER_00]: know, you know, even Kentucky Fried movie, a lot of people don't know he did, you
[00:02:28] [SPEAKER_00]: know, but his comedy, you know, from training places and, you know, even coming
[00:02:34] [SPEAKER_00]: to America, which I even like the sequel actually.
[00:02:36] [SPEAKER_00]: I thought it was I thought it was really, really underrated.
[00:02:39] [SPEAKER_00]: People didn't appreciate it.
[00:02:41] [SPEAKER_00]: It was very much the first one.
[00:02:43] [SPEAKER_00]: So what were people expecting?
[00:02:45] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, and so I think if you liked the first one and you know, had that
[00:02:50] [SPEAKER_00]: kind of you wanted that kind of energy and that kind of tone then it was definitely
[00:02:54] [SPEAKER_00]: you know, it really hit the mark on that.
[00:02:56] [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I think razor thin razor thin.
[00:03:00] [SPEAKER_04]: That's a really tough or Brooks for the win.
[00:03:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay, this one might be a little easier, but maybe not.
[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Psycho Gorman or Manborg.
[00:03:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I psycho Gorman, psycho Gorman.
[00:03:17] [SPEAKER_00]: For sure.
[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_00]: For sure.
[00:03:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Awesome.
[00:03:20] [SPEAKER_00]: I can watch Adam Brooksford Day
[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_00]: and yeah, for me, the
[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_00]: just the one scene with him on the toilet
[00:03:34] [SPEAKER_00]: and him in the truck as well and just being that shitty dad.
[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that that that puts it on the instrument for sure.
[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_04]: For sure. Nice.
[00:03:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Tokyo or Saipalo?
[00:03:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, Tokyo.
[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_04]: That obviously was another easy one.
[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_04]: I got to make these tougher.
[00:03:52] [SPEAKER_04]: OK, so this one you get a double or choice.
[00:03:55] [SPEAKER_04]: It's Blue Jays or Raptors or the Tiger Cats or the Argos.
[00:04:00] [SPEAKER_04]: Choose which one doesn't matter.
[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I will take Tiger Cats or Argos.
[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_00]: OK, and I'll go.
[00:04:08] [SPEAKER_04]: All right. Well, Hamilton, right?
[00:04:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Still in your heart, I assume.
[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no, for sure.
[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_00]: I say, like, I don't root really for any Toronto teams, per se.
[00:04:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I'd rather see them win than lose.
[00:04:21] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, and with the Raptors when they were doing, you know,
[00:04:24] [SPEAKER_00]: they had their, you know, when they were hot, for sure,
[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_00]: was really following them.
[00:04:29] [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I'm not a big Toronto.
[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, I don't like the Leafs and.
[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so I would go for the Hamilton, for sure.
[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And anyway, shape or form.
[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_04]: I was born in Toronto.
[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, I'm also not a Leafs fan.
[00:04:43] [SPEAKER_04]: So yeah.
[00:04:46] [SPEAKER_04]: OK, this one's another tough one for your sweet tooth.
[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_04]: It's Buttertart or Nanaimo Bar?
[00:04:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, Buttertart, I do not understand the draw of the Nanaimo Bar.
[00:04:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I've never, never understood that.
[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Buttertart by a country mile.
[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_03]: All right. Well, that's that's the same for me.
[00:05:05] [SPEAKER_03]: You and me are in the same camp, for sure.
[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_06]: All right. So congratulations on your film.
[00:05:11] [SPEAKER_06]: It's Sif, Calgary International Film Festival.
[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_06]: We love seeing practical effects.
[00:05:18] [SPEAKER_06]: Tell us your thoughts on using practical over CGI.
[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's just the fact that's tangible.
[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_00]: So there I'm set.
[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?
[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_00]: You know what you're getting, you know, and it's definitely
[00:05:29] [SPEAKER_00]: a little bit more work and there's definitely more
[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_00]: problematic potential for it.
[00:05:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, but yeah, it's I would, I would.
[00:05:38] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I want practical effects by all means possible if you can.
[00:05:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Again, it's just like, you know, you're shooting into there
[00:05:46] [SPEAKER_00]: and you know, your your your performers can interact with it.
[00:05:50] [SPEAKER_00]: And I can interact with it and I can manipulate it on set there.
[00:05:54] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, so for me, it just it is a no brainer.
[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_00]: And I also think there's a charm that you get,
[00:06:00] [SPEAKER_00]: you know, with the practical effects that, you know,
[00:06:05] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah, with CG, it just there's great CG out there for sure.
[00:06:09] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, and we have used some,
[00:06:12] [SPEAKER_00]: but it was only when absolutely positively necessary.
[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_00]: So sweet.
[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_04]: I love that answer, by the way.
[00:06:21] [SPEAKER_04]: We are huge practical effects fans on this show.
[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_04]: So I love hearing that.
[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_04]: We noticed and of course, we brought it up earlier.
[00:06:32] [SPEAKER_04]: And I'm sure every single Canadian horror fan did,
[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_04]: but the man board clip in Scared Shitless.
[00:06:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Tell us a little bit about that and why you chose that clip.
[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, because, you know, it's just an homage to Steve, to be honest.
[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_00]: It was just, yeah, you know, it's tough putting something in there.
[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_00]: You don't want to just keep putting in, you know,
[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_00]: night of living dead for some kind of rights free stuff.
[00:06:59] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we thought about putting hockey in there after the fact
[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_00]: just because it would be a good kind of set up to a callback when that,
[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_00]: you know, his dad's talking about his days and he's playing hockey and stuff.
[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, you know, we're just thinking about it and, you know,
[00:07:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Steve's on set and, you know, Steve's been a huge part of my,
[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_00]: you know, career success, what have you.
[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, it was a nice nod to Steve, but, you know,
[00:07:25] [SPEAKER_00]: he's a part of the movie too.
[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, he's behind the scenes there, but, you know,
[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_00]: kind of a way to kind of bring him present as well.
[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_04]: I was like giddy as a schoolboy when I saw the clip.
[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_06]: Hey, I got to copy a manborg proudly displayed on my DVD shelf.
[00:07:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's one of my, that's one of my main big posters.
[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_00]: I have an autographed manborg poster framed.
[00:07:50] [SPEAKER_00]: You usually have that in my bathroom because that's the most traffic.
[00:07:54] [SPEAKER_00]: There you go.
[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_04]: That's one that you could put as a screensaver behind you on any of your
[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_04]: web calls for sure, right?
[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_06]: All right. So how did you get Mark McKinney and Julian Richings to appear in the film?
[00:08:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, Julian, we just, we just put it, you know, we just reached out.
[00:08:12] [SPEAKER_00]: We just asked.
[00:08:14] [SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, he was available, you know, it was a half day essentially.
[00:08:19] [SPEAKER_00]: So it wasn't too tough.
[00:08:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Mark and I are quite good friends.
[00:08:24] [SPEAKER_00]: I generally try to have Mark in everything I do.
[00:08:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Then generally try to kill him in everything I do.
[00:08:33] [SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, so it's yeah, that's it's always, you know, generally a schedule thing.
[00:08:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, generally have to write something a little special for him, you know?
[00:08:44] [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, he's always easy.
[00:08:47] [SPEAKER_00]: He's a very, very, very good friend.
[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Like a rather mentor.
[00:08:52] [SPEAKER_01]: What have you?
[00:08:53] [SPEAKER_04]: That's that's awesome.
[00:08:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Like this, this movie just breathes Canadian all through it.
[00:08:59] [SPEAKER_04]: It's just yeah, as a Canadian horror fan, it's just like it's such a joy.
[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_04]: The film is so fun, by the way, like it's just.
[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_00]: That's exactly what we wanted.
[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_00]: We were trying to be just ourselves, you know what I mean?
[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And then leaning into the the canada and yeah, I feel like
[00:09:20] [SPEAKER_00]: if you got you got to be what you are when you're making it and what you're trying to say, you know?
[00:09:25] [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, when you're in when I made my movie in LA, you made it take place in LA.
[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?
[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_00]: You made it and you know what I mean?
[00:09:36] [SPEAKER_00]: When you're making a movie in Canada and you're running, make it take place in Canada.
[00:09:39] [SPEAKER_00]: I think, you know, there's these in-betweens that sometimes we're not American movies try to do
[00:09:44] [SPEAKER_00]: try to be something that they're not, so to speak.
[00:09:47] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what you know, it kind of comes across as either reaching or disingenuous or just something isn't
[00:09:54] [SPEAKER_00]: the sincerity isn't there.
[00:09:55] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's not really you.
[00:09:57] [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, that's something we're very proud of.
[00:09:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and it's it's a big thing I think for Canadian audiences, right?
[00:10:04] [SPEAKER_04]: That actually when they see Canada in a film, it's like, yes, this director is proud to be Canadian.
[00:10:10] [SPEAKER_04]: I think it's great.
[00:10:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, same thing if you watch an Australian movie or a New Zealand movie or a UK movie or
[00:10:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Italian, you know what I mean?
[00:10:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Like it's it's that that's what it is.
[00:10:20] [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?
[00:10:21] [SPEAKER_00]: That's why you're watching it.
[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_00]: That's so you know, that's like all the Peter Jackson early stuff, man.
[00:10:26] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I mean, that was just New Zealand through and through and I loved every minute of it.
[00:10:29] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, Mad Max was just Ozzy.
[00:10:31] [SPEAKER_00]: It was great, you know, and American stuff was American.
[00:10:34] [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, even like Kronenberg, early Kronenberg, that was, you know, Canadian.
[00:10:39] [SPEAKER_00]: So it's just, you know, at least I think so.
[00:10:43] [SPEAKER_00]: It felt it.
[00:10:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't recall seeing any money, but you know, trying to think back into the in the
[00:10:49] [SPEAKER_00]: very workspace.
[00:10:50] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I don't I think he never tried to hide that he was Canadian, like even from back in
[00:10:56] [SPEAKER_00]: like with standards, like trying to think because I know it was like a lot of the
[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_00]: malls in Montreal and stuff like that, that they shot some of the stuff.
[00:11:04] [SPEAKER_00]: But I don't remember what actually city it took place in.
[00:11:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I don't know if it tells you.
[00:11:08] [SPEAKER_04]: It's good point though.
[00:11:09] [SPEAKER_04]: But yeah, I don't think Kronenberg has ever been afraid to talk being Canadian.
[00:11:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
[00:11:14] [SPEAKER_00]: And even people think you got big, you always try to come back here to shoot.
[00:11:18] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh yeah.
[00:11:19] [SPEAKER_04]: He's he's my absolute favorite director of all time just so you know.
[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Really?
[00:11:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, absolutely.
[00:11:25] [SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, I mean, this seemed so much fun to shoot.
[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Like how much actual fun was this to shoot?
[00:11:33] [SPEAKER_04]: And and did everybody on on set just have a blast?
[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no, for sure.
[00:11:39] [SPEAKER_00]: It was a grind.
[00:11:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Like it was a fucking grind.
[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Like that's the thing.
[00:11:43] [SPEAKER_00]: It's like ultimately you do have your your passion and that work is work, but it's
[00:11:51] [SPEAKER_00]: still fun.
[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_00]: It's hard to explain, but it's still very difficult, right?
[00:11:55] [SPEAKER_00]: It was a real, real grind for that crew and God bless them all.
[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, from Steve to, you know, Rudy, the photographer to our producers or AD,
[00:12:05] [SPEAKER_00]: everything, it was like such a short schedule and we really didn't have much money.
[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, so like it was it was an absolute grind.
[00:12:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, and you know, you're working at such a breakneck speed, you know, we got two takes, Max.
[00:12:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, you know, so and you know, we didn't really have much time beforehand to prepare.
[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_00]: So it was just everybody had to kind of be on.
[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_00]: There had to be a lot of trust there and also a lot of trust with them with me
[00:12:37] [SPEAKER_00]: because sometimes I just didn't have time to explain.
[00:12:39] [SPEAKER_00]: I just needed to done a certain way because I knew that's the way it was supposed to be
[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_00]: to be done for it to work kind of thing.
[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, it was, um, it was a pretty, it was a pretty intense shoot.
[00:12:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I definitely have a lot of good memories of it, but I also have a lot of a lot of,
[00:12:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, uh, you know, it was, you come out of something and you're better,
[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_00]: you know, for that, you know, and I think that's the best way to put
[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_00]: it. It really, really was a testament to our crew, to our performers, to, you know, our producers
[00:13:19] [SPEAKER_00]: and to myself, you know what I mean? To pull that out.
[00:13:21] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's a short amount of time and it's not something, it's alchemy.
[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Like it honestly is like you can't like some of it.
[00:13:29] [SPEAKER_00]: It was such a unique combination of people and skills and talent and personalities
[00:13:34] [SPEAKER_00]: to pull something like this off.
[00:13:36] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, to the viewer, you'd never know that.
[00:13:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Like to the viewer, it felt like everybody was having so much fun.
[00:13:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think, you know, definitely, definitely, you know, um, there, there,
[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_00]: there was, I think everyone was definitely passionate,
[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_00]: you know, and everyone was really driven to make this as good as it can be.
[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, and yeah, that always comes out on the screen, but like there was
[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_00]: definitely fun moments for sure, for sure. But it was, it was, it was, it was intense too.
[00:14:07] [SPEAKER_00]: It was, it was fun. I do like that. I do like working with my back in the moment, you know?
[00:14:12] [SPEAKER_00]: When you have to kind of rely on instinct and, you know, it's not about just
[00:14:18] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah, taking some couple of screenshots of scenes that look similar in other movies
[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_00]: and here I'm making it look like this, you know what I mean?
[00:14:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Which I think a lot of, you know, people do sometimes and, you know,
[00:14:29] [SPEAKER_00]: but yeah, no, this was, this was everybody all hands on deck and they hit it out of the park.
[00:14:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, awesome. They did.
[00:14:37] [SPEAKER_06]: So you've made a lot of comedy, a lot of horror comedy. Do you have any desire to
[00:14:43] [SPEAKER_06]: do a project that doesn't make us laugh?
[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but like, no, at the same time, like, I think it would just be less and less comedy
[00:14:59] [SPEAKER_00]: in it. But I think inherently there would always be some bit of comedy in it.
[00:15:04] [SPEAKER_06]: All the best dramas have comedy in it.
[00:15:06] [SPEAKER_06]: There's no question.
[00:15:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah. Like what was the, um, my god, the Daniel D. Lewis, um,
[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_04]: there will be blood?
[00:15:15] [SPEAKER_00]: No, no. Well that too, actually.
[00:15:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. Yeah. But the one after the, uh, when he was the designer, um,
[00:15:22] [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah. Why is that left me as well?
[00:15:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, jeez. I can't remember.
[00:15:28] [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, that was sad.
[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_00]: That was what was funny.
[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_00]: That was what was funny.
[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think it was legit.
[00:15:32] [SPEAKER_00]: And it was intentionally funny.
[00:15:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah.
[00:15:34] [SPEAKER_00]: But you know, that was a drama.
[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_00]: But that was just like, you know, yeah, I think comedies and hair and everything
[00:15:41] [SPEAKER_00]: in every situation and every kind of, you know, in some way or so,
[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_00]: it's hard not to just kind of pull that out a little bit more.
[00:15:48] [SPEAKER_00]: So no, so I guess the short answer is no.
[00:15:51] [SPEAKER_04]: No, no, no plans to make a movie full of dread for those of us that
[00:15:56] [SPEAKER_04]: love dread.
[00:15:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Nothing but dread.
[00:15:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I would say forward stuff, but not a straight drama.
[00:16:00] [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?
[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Like that doesn't really appeal to me, you know?
[00:16:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, do what you're good at.
[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. And it's just, it's just like, it goes back to what, you know,
[00:16:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I want to have fun and I'll, you know, and make what I'm passionate about.
[00:16:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:16:14] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I think once you, yeah, like, I guess if I found a story that
[00:16:20] [SPEAKER_00]: I was really passionate about that I wanted to make then yeah, maybe.
[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_00]: But that's like, I don't feel I need to prove anything, you know?
[00:16:27] [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, until that time comes and something, you know, maybe when I get
[00:16:32] [SPEAKER_00]: even older who knows.
[00:16:33] [SPEAKER_00]: But as now, no, I'm happy just, you know, I got a quite a big slate of stuff
[00:16:39] [SPEAKER_00]: that I want to make and none of it is very difficult.
[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_04]: Nice.
[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_04]: I love it.
[00:16:50] [SPEAKER_04]: So we know, we already talked about the fact that you couldn't make it to Calgary
[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_04]: for this festival.
[00:16:54] [SPEAKER_04]: But have you ever been here and if you have been here, why did you ever leave?
[00:17:00] [SPEAKER_00]: No, I've never been to Calgary.
[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Never been to Calgary?
[00:17:04] [SPEAKER_00]: I've never been to Alberta.
[00:17:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
[00:17:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I've been to like going out to, I've been to, I went to B.C. once.
[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[00:17:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, for like, four to eight hours for a film festival like, geez.
[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, so follow up question.
[00:17:21] [SPEAKER_06]: What do you have against Western Canada?
[00:17:24] [SPEAKER_00]: It's just far man.
[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_00]: It's just far.
[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a big country and then I spent a lot of time out east, never been to Newfoundland.
[00:17:32] [SPEAKER_00]: But I spent a lot of time in Nova Scotia and Halifax, which I love.
[00:17:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And Montreal a bit, Ontario obviously.
[00:17:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I went to Saskatchewan once or twice.
[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, and Manitoba, I went to Winnipeg a couple of times.
[00:17:48] [SPEAKER_00]: It's just film festivals and if I can make it there, you know?
[00:17:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And even in the United States, I haven't been that many places there, you know?
[00:17:57] [SPEAKER_00]: But Europe, I've been to Tun, Asia, I've been a Tun, you know?
[00:18:01] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[00:18:01] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[00:18:02] [SPEAKER_00]: I haven't made it there.
[00:18:05] [SPEAKER_04]: It happens.
[00:18:05] [SPEAKER_04]: Nothing against the time.
[00:18:05] [SPEAKER_06]: Maybe your next film you'll come up and see us.
[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you can film it here because we have one of the best film
[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_04]: industries in Canada right here in Alberta with the biggest mountains.
[00:18:16] [SPEAKER_00]: That's true.
[00:18:17] [SPEAKER_06]: The mountains are really big.
[00:18:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, really big.
[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_00]: No, I definitely want to make it out there.
[00:18:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I was really looking forward to coming to the festival honestly.
[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_00]: I was really disappointed.
[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, not to say I'm not happy for my friend getting married, but you know what?
[00:18:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you're like, damn you!
[00:18:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Could you pick another date?
[00:18:39] [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of a date.
[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_04]: So how did you meet Brandon Cohen and get involved in this shitless journey?
[00:18:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Through my, I guess through my agent.
[00:18:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I guess that they had watched, they had watched Portal to Hell and they had the feature.
[00:18:56] [SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, they were looking for directors and they just connected with my agent
[00:18:59] [SPEAKER_00]: and then I got the script and I read the script and I loved it.
[00:19:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And pretty straightforward from there.
[00:19:06] [SPEAKER_00]: They're great guys and love working with them.
[00:19:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, hopefully we're going to, not even hopefully we are,
[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_00]: we're going to make a couple more at least.
[00:19:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Are you known now as the plunder king of Canada?
[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Is that what it is?
[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm not.
[00:19:23] [SPEAKER_00]: So I think I'm more, it feels like I'm more like confined places.
[00:19:30] [SPEAKER_00]: All of my movies have been in like an apartment buildings and
[00:19:34] [SPEAKER_00]: and increasingly smaller locations within small locations, you know, from, yeah.
[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_00]: So I want to branch out.
[00:19:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I want to do something outside for once maybe, you know.
[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Like Alberta.
[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_06]: It's a big place.
[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Sorry about that.
[00:19:59] [SPEAKER_04]: No, no, no, no, no.
[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_04]: Do you have any upcoming festivals that you're attending with the film?
[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we got a couple big ones coming up.
[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, after Calgary we got the screen fest in LA.
[00:20:13] [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to do that and then Morbido in Mexico, Mexico City.
[00:20:18] [SPEAKER_00]: And then there's a bunch of other ones after that.
[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not quite sure which ones there are.
[00:20:22] [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of European ones.
[00:20:25] [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm looking forward to screen fest and hopefully Morbido if I can make it there too.
[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_06]: Nice.
[00:20:31] [SPEAKER_06]: So any upcoming projects that you feel the need to talk about?
[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, well, like I said, the sequel we have.
[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?
[00:20:40] [SPEAKER_00]: We're gearing up for that.
[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I think Brandon's almost done with that draft.
[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_00]: If not, very close to it.
[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I have a couple other projects like feature wise, trying to get off the ground.
[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I have an animated series that I have in development with some friends and hopefully
[00:20:59] [SPEAKER_00]: that takes off soon and then I have another show.
[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_00]: This show I just started actually talking with Steve about as well that we're going to work on
[00:21:08] [SPEAKER_00]: together.
[00:21:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And so yeah, I got lots of things, lots of things in the pot.
[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_06]: Get any time to sleep?
[00:21:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I really don't want to talk about because it's something that hasn't been done
[00:21:21] [SPEAKER_00]: yet, the creature at least.
[00:21:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And I kind of want to put that on the download.
[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_00]: It's been done but it just hasn't been done right, in my opinion.
[00:21:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Or done in this way that I want to do.
[00:21:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I shouldn't probably say.
[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, so we'll see what happens.
[00:21:41] [SPEAKER_00]: But I think probably great, scared shitless is the focus I think for now.
[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_00]: But you never know.
[00:21:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Like the project's coming and then that's it.
[00:21:52] [SPEAKER_00]: And then that becomes your priority and this and that.
[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_00]: But you can't really...
[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_00]: You have to have a bunch of things going.
[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you got to make sure you got a job to work on next.
[00:22:01] [SPEAKER_04]: And there's going to be another toilet requirement at some point for sure.
[00:22:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you never know.
[00:22:09] [SPEAKER_04]: This is our final question.
[00:22:13] [SPEAKER_04]: And so again, you've been doing this forever it seems, which we're happy about.
[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_04]: But has there ever been a question that no one's asked you
[00:22:23] [SPEAKER_04]: that you were hoping that you could actually talk about?
[00:22:28] [SPEAKER_00]: No, not at all.
[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_00]: About the movie or about my career or about...
[00:22:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, any of those things.
[00:22:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Whatever, like what's on your mind right now?
[00:22:37] [SPEAKER_04]: What did we not ask you that you feel that you should mention then?
[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[00:22:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I have no idea.
[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm lousy at interviews.
[00:22:49] [SPEAKER_06]: This is exactly the response that I knew we were going to get.
[00:22:52] [SPEAKER_06]: I said, Jim, this question is going to take.
[00:22:57] [SPEAKER_00]: No, I think it's a really good question.
[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I think a lot of people that don't kind of like...
[00:23:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I don't know.
[00:23:06] [SPEAKER_00]: I've been asked so many questions, feels like so far in this kind of festival run.
[00:23:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, it's...
[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_00]: No, I think it's you've come quite a bit.
[00:23:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I really don't know what else to say other than, yeah, like, you know,
[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_00]: talked about the crew, talked about the experiences, talked about everything.
[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_00]: I think, you know, I think you guys are quite thorough and...
[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, if there are any questions you want to ask me that you feel that I might not want to answer or something,
[00:23:37] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll offer that up.
[00:23:38] [SPEAKER_00]: You can ask you whatever you want.
[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, right.
[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, this is loaded, loaded.
[00:23:43] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay, so one thing for me.
[00:23:44] [SPEAKER_04]: So I'm probably one of the biggest fans of Baroness Von Sketch.
[00:23:49] [SPEAKER_04]: So, yo, I freaking love that show.
[00:23:52] [SPEAKER_04]: But then again, I love Canadian sketch comedy.
[00:23:54] [SPEAKER_04]: So how is it to work with that team?
[00:23:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Because they are funny as fuck.
[00:24:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Like...
[00:24:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, absolutely.
[00:24:03] [SPEAKER_00]: No, it was a blast working with them.
[00:24:04] [SPEAKER_00]: It was an absolute blast.
[00:24:05] [SPEAKER_00]: I was really, really lucky too.
[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_00]: It's like, it's a bit of a different, you know, thing when it's like, you know,
[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_00]: movies are mine, you know what I mean?
[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_00]: As director.
[00:24:15] [SPEAKER_00]: So when you're going on that side, it's theirs, right?
[00:24:17] [SPEAKER_00]: So it's really kind of facilitating their vision and their kind of
[00:24:22] [SPEAKER_00]: sensibility and stuff, you know, which was over the moon to do.
[00:24:27] [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, it's...
[00:24:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Sketch is also my wheelhouse, you know?
[00:24:30] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what I came up doing.
[00:24:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I was a huge sketch fan back in the day.
[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_00]: And Sketch is really tough now.
[00:24:38] [SPEAKER_00]: No one's really making it.
[00:24:39] [SPEAKER_00]: They were the last greats, you know what I mean?
[00:24:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And no, it was, yeah, got to do some amazing stuff.
[00:24:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Be a part of that was awesome.
[00:24:51] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it just got in there the last season.
[00:24:53] [SPEAKER_00]: So I was very, very happy with that.
[00:24:55] [SPEAKER_04]: Are you connected to them at all?
[00:24:57] [SPEAKER_04]: Is there a chance for you to work on with them on future projects?
[00:25:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Some of them individually, yeah, absolutely.
[00:25:02] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think collectively they...
[00:25:05] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I think Jen and Meredith have a show on CBC.
[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_00]: But then...
[00:25:16] [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, but they all have their individual things kind of thing.
[00:25:19] [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, if it's a fit, you know, it's really what it's about,
[00:25:23] [SPEAKER_00]: you know, is just what the sensibility and different things.
[00:25:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And am I the best director to be on that?
[00:25:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Given the content and what have you with Bareness,
[00:25:32] [SPEAKER_00]: for sure, is this like, you know, either big sketch background,
[00:25:36] [SPEAKER_00]: but yeah, you know, it depends.
[00:25:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Unless they're going to do something scary or something,
[00:25:40] [SPEAKER_00]: you know what I mean?
[00:25:40] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I don't know if I'm necessarily a fit,
[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_00]: then just sketch, right?
[00:25:45] So...
[00:25:45] [SPEAKER_04]: Nice.
[00:25:46] [SPEAKER_04]: I love it.
[00:25:47] [SPEAKER_00]: But it'd be a joy to work with any of them.
[00:25:49] [SPEAKER_04]: That's good to hear.
[00:25:51] [SPEAKER_04]: So, you know, thanks so much for joining us today.
[00:25:56] [SPEAKER_04]: Is there any place that you would like to tell our listeners
[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_04]: any last words or how they can worship you from afar
[00:26:03] [SPEAKER_04]: like we do here at FilmRage?
[00:26:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I guess they can, you know, get on IMDB
[00:26:09] [SPEAKER_00]: and hit that rate button, I guess.
[00:26:12] [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, give us a...
[00:26:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Give us, tell us what you think, you know?
[00:26:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully it's positive.
[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_00]: And you can follow us on Instagram,
[00:26:20] [SPEAKER_00]: which is like, believe it is underscore scared shitless.
[00:26:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Let me just double check here.
[00:26:29] [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I think IMDB is the best thing.
[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Or Rotten Tomatoes is good to check out.
[00:26:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And you can do your ratings on there.
[00:26:38] [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, or you can follow us at underscore scared shitless
[00:26:42] [SPEAKER_00]: on one word on Instagram.
[00:26:46] [SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, and I guess that's it.
[00:26:49] [SPEAKER_00]: That's it where you try to get your tickets for Calgary.
[00:26:52] [SPEAKER_00]: You know?
[00:26:52] [SPEAKER_00]: And I think we've got two screenings there.
[00:26:55] [SPEAKER_00]: So hopefully we get a lot of people
[00:26:58] [SPEAKER_00]: and a lot of happy people.
[00:27:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, they can just spread the word
[00:27:01] [SPEAKER_00]: and the buzz online as much as possible.
[00:27:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Awesome.
[00:27:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, I'm going to tell our listeners where they can get the tickets for.
[00:27:09] [SPEAKER_04]: So it's at siftcalgary.com.
[00:27:15] [SPEAKER_04]: And you can see scared shitless Saturday.
[00:27:19] [SPEAKER_04]: So this is Friday.
[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_04]: So we're going to release this today
[00:27:22] [SPEAKER_04]: at 9 30 p.m.
[00:27:23] [SPEAKER_04]: That's at the Globe Cinema down.
[00:27:25] [SPEAKER_04]: And then they're also playing a second screening
[00:27:27] [SPEAKER_04]: on Thursday, September 26th at 4 p.m.
[00:27:31] [SPEAKER_04]: At Chinook.
[00:27:31] [SPEAKER_04]: So get online, buy your tickets.
[00:27:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Don't miss this in cinema,
[00:27:36] [SPEAKER_04]: which is something that Bryce and I preach the gospel about cinema.
[00:27:42] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:27:42] [SPEAKER_06]: And we can't wait to watch this with a crowd too
[00:27:45] [SPEAKER_06]: because that's going to be insane.
[00:27:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it's best with the crowd for sure.
[00:27:49] [SPEAKER_04]: Totally.
[00:27:50] [SPEAKER_04]: All right.
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[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_04]: That's it for this special verbal masturbation during SIF Calgary,
[00:28:11] [SPEAKER_04]: where you can find everything about the festival again at siftcalgary.com.
[00:28:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Until next time, Rage on.
[00:28:20] [SPEAKER_06]: Rage on.