0:01:03 – Speaker 2
Greetings and salutations. Thank you for joining us. My name’s Jonathan Nadeau. I am your host. Welcome. This is Embrace your Storm. We’ve got an awesome episode for you, as always. Today I’m speaking with Dave. He submitted a film to the Tornado Film Festival called Lazarus Herification. So, dave, thanks for coming on today.
0:01:23 – Speaker 3
Thank you. Thanks a lot for having me.
0:01:25 – Speaker 2
It’s my pleasure for coming on. So, dave, before we get into your film, lazarus Herification, what brought you into the film industry, like what made film kind of your creative outlet? How did you end up here?
0:01:40 – Speaker 3
Well, it was actually a childhood thing, you know when, the days when you want to work Disney and all those cartoons and anime plays and all those things. But my father was a really, really big fan of old movies, so he used to, you know, make me watch movies like of the old Indian directors and old Hollywood films.
0:02:02 – Speaker 2
That’s cool. Now did you mostly watch like Indian films, or did you watch American films Like what did you watch growing up?
0:02:10 – Speaker 3
Over the years, I think I’ve watched a lot of international cinema, along with Indian cinema. We had in India we have a lot of exposure of like visiting all those cultures, so that’s a great good thing to have.
0:02:24 – Speaker 2
What’s um what like? What was it about? The like? Kind of like a film in general, like the storytelling of film. Like, do you like directing or producing? Do you like writing better? Like what? What part of the creative outlet do you like?
0:02:40 – Speaker 3
I like writing and directing, you know, since I think both both these fact, both these aspects writing and directing are quite complimentary and they can’t, you know, go without one another. So one thing supports the other and over the years, watching these, these films, you know, as, as as James Cameron says that, you know, every filmmaker is a fan we all grow up watching films and they are like our visual, they become our visual landscapes, they shape your life and make your own. You think that, okay, maybe I can, I can even at least compete and at least make a film, at least try to challenge these guys and maybe, maybe one day, make something better. That’s, that’s the, that’s the initial motivation. But it’s about telling your own stories and the stories that you have grown up with, the, the life that you have lived, the people that are, that are around you, the people that you have seen across. I think putting them into a film, into this form, beautiful form of visual abbreviation, is what really is the major factor behind filmmaking.
0:03:44 – Speaker 2
I hear you. I hear you Now. You’re from, you’re from New Delhi. So like what’s kind of like the film, you know, industry kind of like in that area, like what’s it like, you know, finding actors and actresses and and working alongside of people, like what is that like over there?
0:03:59 – Speaker 3
And New Delhi. It’s in India. It’s primarily Bollywood, as you must have said. Yeah, yeah, but Indian film industry is a very vast thing. It’s not just Bollywood and it’s Indian film industry is like spread all across the world, like some northeast. You can find movies in every, every small district of this country. So what, what the thing is that in Mumbai, majorly the stuff.
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