Director Joshua Flores Talks BLISS | Exclusive Interview

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[SPEAKER_01]: What's up, movie lovers?

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's your girl Rossi and I'm back with another show you guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So nice, a young lady, an artist here in Sacramento, that I interviewed on my other podcast, Boston's 1,000.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The writer, the director, producer of that film, is her with me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Joshua, how are you doing?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't get it, thank you very much.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely, absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so happy that you made time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's hard to get together, but I'm still happy that we decided to stick with it and bring Josh on because I really enjoyed the film.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I wanted to talk to him about the film.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a very complicated film, but it talks about love and young love.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And also, it deals with mental illness and suicide.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a lot going on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Joshua, can we talk a little bit about that

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[SPEAKER_01]: Go any further, let's talk about Bliss.

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[SPEAKER_01]: How did you come up with it?

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[SPEAKER_01]: What idea did you, was it something you experienced in life?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's a great question.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like this is a load to answer as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think, well, mainly Bliss, I had a conversation with somebody in 2022, I believe.

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[SPEAKER_00]: towards the end it was around maybe December and November and we were just as men we were talking about stuff I like sometimes men or majority of time men tend to hold on in their feelings and at what point do we as men feel comfortable sharing our feelings and then

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[SPEAKER_00]: and some of us sadly, unfortunately, suicide, or just hold it in and it affects our willping forever, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we talked about how we always feel like we have someone in our life who could have been the one who should have been a widow, where it didn't work out ultimately, because it mismatched or

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[SPEAKER_00]: What do they call it right person wrong timing essentially and with those attempts to be a toxic or complicated relationship that that it's just it's bad for both parties and upon Further expanding the conversation with past experience that we've had in our lives with people

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[SPEAKER_00]: This film inspired something that I needed necessary to be and be told and some of the stuff was personal to my experience with therapy and my daily life, my social life and I feel like I wanted to touch on this topic and I went to saw it was bliss and immediately after the conversation and followed the 2022 or 2022.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I believe by the end of the year, beginning of, also as we're January 2023, I had a script ready to go by spring.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The film was already set in motion to be made, revisions have been made, and everything I was going to do to casting process.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a, it wasn't a long, pre-production process.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Things were really set in motion to the tap, but thank you for having me, and I'm glad to talk about this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, bliss.

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[SPEAKER_01]: takes place here in California.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It goes between Sacramento and Santa Cruz.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You have this couple.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You have Alex and you have Ariel.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Ariel is played by so-and-a.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely beautiful.

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[SPEAKER_01]: you know you guys get together and it's like everything's great you know it's a great match but you do see that both of you two are struggling with issues you know what I mean family issues but but issues within yourself which kind of affects the relationship I was kind of taken back by

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[SPEAKER_01]: how Ariel would respond to you and meeting you and how your character, like, just, I mean, you fall in love in this movie, Alex falls in love, hard with Ariel.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, as you watch the film, it's like, does she feel the same way?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Which causes some issues because,

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[SPEAKER_01]: you're giving your all, but there is some things that you are doing that kind of scare her away when you talk about because Alex is you know and is in therapy he's dealing with mental illness and this relationship that he's trying to hold on to is like his life and you know it's like he can't live or even see himself without her and if he can't see himself without her you know he he's thinking of doing some extreme things

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[SPEAKER_01]: How was that for you to play because Joshua plays Alex?

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[SPEAKER_01]: How was that playing that character that's kind of like things that you're going through and it's the film though?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know that's a great question.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think or I know her people hurt people and I think that was the basis for Alex and Ariel and I feel like Alex had a lot of personal baggage he was holding on to from you know personal life that he was basically projecting or dumping on to Ariel and for the most point in the beginning you know we believe I believe we make premature and

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[SPEAKER_00]: you know impossible decisions that you know we're not really formulated all the way and I feel like Ariel was in the beginning it was sweet and nice but eventually she couldn't take it on when she hit her her threshold and I feel like that was when you know the argument happened and she did some self from her and blocked him on everything and you know to convey like I'm done with you so I feel like the her people her people really takes its own way because it's like

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[SPEAKER_00]: His herding was different herding was if they both projected.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying that they were, you know Alex was saying or Ariel, but I feel like through the course of the film you start saying like okay Ariel's doing more stuff too Because if you notice she had a family or a friend that passed away She was upset that Alex wasn't there and to Alex's defense he was anyway the personal stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it was kind of more so like He said she said or I'm keeping score

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I feel like, you know, it was a lot that that that that that that was a I think psychologically speaking a lot on my well being and my on my mental state to convey that character and I think the hardest part for me was probably their perceived because it was one of the first times that actor that I pushed myself to to cry on camera and you know with the therapist you did a great job, but yeah, yeah

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's just a mid actress.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Her name is Dream.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's from Sacramento.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She also was a she was a one of my former faculty from sex state University.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh wow.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just the connection of seeing her be a professor, but also transition to the industry.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just beautiful.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But we kind of bounced ideas and played with that, that they're per se because originally it was just a three-eight page scene.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But in the moment we just, okay, I'm coming in here, follow my frequency.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we were just vibing in the scene and then she asked me a question and the question was, um, if she was here instead of me, what would you say?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And for whatever reason as an actor, I internalized that question and just hit deep and I started crying so what you've seen was me being myself but also playing this character processing that question and just I guess internalizing it to like okay using personal stuff family or personal connections or relationships that just.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe feel like wow, like I said the question and I feel like I feel like I was able to give that character Alex in that moment of that therapy session His closure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think I did a great job doing that absolutely that scene specifically.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll say one thing about this film

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[SPEAKER_01]: the actor is done so well that you don't even realize that it's acting like you said it and will the the therapy scene she was so just like she was a therapist you know what I mean it was like a real therapist like you had cameras following you

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[SPEAKER_01]: and letting us into your life and leading us into your relationship with Ariel.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And another thing that I love about it is for my generation, you know, you spoke on the fact that, you know, men don't cry, men don't show emotion.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's why men have a higher rate, you know, of suicide than women because of holding in emotions.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I like the fact that you,

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[SPEAKER_01]: You gave light to that issue, a man in a movie crying.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You don't, or dealing with issues with that, you don't see that, you don't hear about that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And for you to bring that to life, that was a good thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I also felt like this is a movie for everyone, but it's especially young people that are in a relationship, their first relationship, their first love, because loving someone as hard as Alex loved Ariel,

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that love's not reciprocated, reciprocated anymore, how do you deal with that as a young person?

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[SPEAKER_01]: When you, you know, your sister said in the film, your sister plays your sister in a film in the film and her telling Alex,

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[SPEAKER_01]: the way that you're looking at her, you're making her out to be everything and you're not seeing that she's not even giving you what she wants you to give her and you're basically putting her up on a pedestal to where like you said she couldn't live without her but this happens in real life where she

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[SPEAKER_01]: Young couples do go through that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Young men do go through that, and they don't know how to deal with those emotions, especially after their first love.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Did you feel like there's a lot of responsibility on your shoulders that make sure that you can bathe that and just wanting it, wanting to make sure that that message gets to those people, those young people.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because that's a lot, you know?

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[SPEAKER_00]: A hundred percent, I feel like it was my duty to touch on this because I feel like we as young people sometimes feel like there is no outlet or to talk and I felt we internalized and that's why I see I think margin-eeration struggles with that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's why this is where I race, especially among men.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like we don't talk about that for a reason or for a reason, the media or the side we live in, doesn't really

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[SPEAKER_00]: Said spotlight on that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I feel like I had to really touch this topic because I feel like it's really sad It's really it hurts my heart to see that there are men that Ultimately want to leave this world and kill them so that that's heartbreaking So I feel like with this film I feel like I owe that to them to people that had passed away and if you then are struggling with their mental Mental state it's not something that they play about and I feel like for every in the society I feel like I don't know why but we tend to just

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[SPEAKER_00]: not talk about it or not speak about it as much as it's not an important and I feel like I want to change it I feel like men deserve to be talked about as well so I hope I did justice with this role Oh, this character, you know, but I appreciate it to you saying that everything's a lot

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no, you really did, you know, you know, we got to a point to where we were talking about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And like maybe we're looking at it as what with us and our generation, we just, you didn't deal with it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: With this new generation, the fact that he's putting a light on it, okay, now I get it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: you think about a young man in a relationship first time, first love, and also doing what some personal things and this person is your life, like you wake up at because of them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It makes you, it made me totally rethink, you know, what my first impression was.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then watching it again today, could you guys get the uncut version that you sent me?

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[SPEAKER_01]: A watching it today, and I was by myself watching a film, and I'm crying when Alex is, it hits you because you feel his pain.

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[SPEAKER_01]: you you feel how much it's like it's real like oh my god Ariel what's wrong with you why won't you just he's when you show up at her place and you're like I'm here like I'm here what you want it me to be here I'm here and it's like she was so cold and just leave me alone I don't want to be with you and you fill it you feel it like I tear it up because man Alex

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[SPEAKER_01]: Man, you know, I want you to have that, making the film and the casting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You did a really good job, like you said, casting the therapist, your sister, that was, you and her, the scenes with her and the cafe, so real, so real because,

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's something that a sister would say to a brother.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like kind of a nice way of saying, snap out of it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What's wrong?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love the closeness that you and your sister have in a film.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like that's your best friend you can call her up and talk to her and her giving you that advice and just wanting you to be well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the casting of Sonya, she did such a great job.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I said, everything was just so natural.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the film was kind of quiet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it was kind of quiet to where not too much was going on towards the focus on this story with these young people and I appreciate that, but the casting, how did you, how did you, I know how you found your therapist and your sister, but the waitress, I mean, so nay, for instance, why didn't her?

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a great question.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This character was very hard to cast and fine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I will say that,

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[SPEAKER_00]: when I shot this film originally the first time, I say the first time I'm emphasized on the first time because with the version you see with Senei was a reshrew.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We originally had a different actress and it's just unfortunately didn't work out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We had some missions on set and originally the first version of the police version that I wrote, you never see aerial.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What's the way it will be placed at the side of her hair or her shoulder or the back of her head?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to emphasize really what it was to be in Alex's head and for the audience to think is this real such dream, you know, and yes, that was the objective to in that first and today's he can kill himself like what's going on that was in the original version of that script and the actress that we

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[SPEAKER_00]: casted.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, it was unprofessional.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I guess you could say a divon said and it made it a hell on day they basically from what we had told them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Me and the producers and whatnot that this is not, you won't be showing your face, but your voice is going to be, you know, or side of your shoulder isn't that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and it just didn't break out and we shot it though and the acting felt forced, the voice of Ariel, I didn't like it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Our chemistry wasn't there and um...

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[SPEAKER_00]: I had to make a decision, is this the film that I want to put out?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we ended up reshooting half of the film.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I say that any scene you see with Ariel had to be reshot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Any scene where I'm not with Ariel, that's the first time that we shot that, you know, the original list.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So Ariel or Senei, I say, she was in, when I was casting, I believe I auditioned four or five people for this role.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And she was one of the rich people that I auditioned.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a thing with time and it didn't work out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But a second time, she was available and re-restout to her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then she was open to it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was a matter of, because she had no acting background.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What's up?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a thing where I had to coach her, so that summer of 2023, we spent almost a lot of time at some of our workshop and these characters talking, trying to tailor to her personality, like, how would you say this or, because, you know,

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[SPEAKER_00]: sometimes just like I don't see myself saying that or I just feel like it's to be like this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I did my best to tailor it around that but sometimes what I feel like when you do that I'm learning how that I'm at USC when you kind of like them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When you're new, it turns it to acting or when you're still figuring out the right thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You kind of want everyone to be the best version.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The thing that really kind of sucks about that is well on my opinion is that in the script because I always want to convey intimacy to whatever's in the relationship, there was we were supposed to kiss and sadly we didn't get to do that on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There was this, it just didn't happen at that time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Our actors, so it wasn't comfortable with that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So for me, on mine as a director, as much as I would have to execute that, I had to respect that, but I would have looked at it, so on that, because for me, you never see them do that whatsoever.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right, right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You see them hugged, and I felt like if we had that kiss, it just would have been a cherry on the top for me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like this is a couple, but...

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[SPEAKER_00]: If that's one thing that I could go back in time to get, I would have loved to have found that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, the casting for our main actress, she cured that she did a great job and for some of that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No acting experience.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love what she did on the waitress, her name is Hanna Holloway.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I met her on a film set in Summer 23, no Summer 22, I believe.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and standing contact and I said, I want to work with you and I said, I have a role with waitress and originally he was really short, but we she had her flavor and whatnot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I came out well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying to think about what's in that film.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, I think that's pretty much it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Just me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, that was it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And actually, I want to clear that my sister, yeah, Flores, she doesn't play my sister in the film, but she plays my cousin.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My bag.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, all right, so you're cousin.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, she did a great job.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, like I said, everyone was so comfortable.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It seems like everyone was comfortable and relapsed in the film.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's funny because again, originally the cousin was supposed to be a male guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it just didn't work out and the character's name was supposed to be named Ern.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, and it just didn't work out couldn't find my guy or the person so I told my sister who's always had an interest for the arts and I believe that She could be a great actress.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She is actually should be actress and I said, you know what you had no choice you have to be in this film The way I still put it if she would speak she would say that I begged her, but I disagree I just said I need you to an emergency

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[SPEAKER_00]: And what we did was I started a script.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't show her the whole script.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I gave her the same.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I said, look, what do you think?

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[SPEAKER_00]: She was like, oh, this is corny.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is crandy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't say that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So would you see that in that coffee scene is basically us and her, our dynamic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She was saying in the part of a, I'm trying to remember because it makes everyone laugh to this day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She says, uh, if you were my patient, um, something about how you feel like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That was her flavor her style or she was like, you know, there's 8.9 billion women in this one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're stuck with one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That that was our her.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think was she that was great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's why the interaction between the two, you, the two of you in the cafe.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think,

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[SPEAKER_01]: her being a female instead of a male it it it was better because you're getting it from a female's aspect like like she said nine billion people in the world and you're stuck on this this one this one woman you're stuck on that so like everything was was done well I want to ask you though

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[SPEAKER_01]: Did you shoot in two locations?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Did you really shoot in Santa Cruz?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, so we did.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We shot on location as Santa Cruz.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The beach was on the boardwalk as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying to think the apartment was shot at UC Santa Cruz.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We were lucky to have students there with a student in the apartment.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What else was shot?

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[SPEAKER_00]: The driving sequences were the dreams sequence that was in Santa Cruz and trying to think the part where I'm on the boardwalk with the flowers That was there mean her walking on the beach to the floor that was all Santa Cruz everything that you see that Was our location everything that Santa Cruz Sacramento was all Sacramento so that was the first film that it was like I'm doing Santa Cruz like five different times.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was exhausting Santa Cruz in Sacramento is 2 hours and 30 minutes, but it was fun and worth it, but when we had to re-shoot

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[SPEAKER_00]: We spent all day one day knocking on our all our seats because it was like we're not coming back when I Doing or we should this is it's all or nothing any kind of well, but it was Santa Cruz is a beautiful place And I feel like I have wanted to make a film there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's a little insight when I saw Jordan Peele's

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[SPEAKER_00]: us, yeah, fell in love with how he made the board of our look.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I want to shoot a film there and I made it happen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And in my opinion, look, it came out well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, it looked really good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like it looked, I was telling Amanda to cinematography the way it was shot on the beach in the water.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Everything looked, it looked blissful.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just going to say that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was very.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was the whole film was so.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I love.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry, the the the the movie poster shot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love that scene of just the camera behind him after the car.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Or, you know,

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[SPEAKER_01]: the the camera behind him and catching that shot to be the the movie cover shot was just done very well I made was this your first film?

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, this is actually my own Give me one second.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I want a dovig Scorpio tension pitch fried let's fit film

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[SPEAKER_00]: Really at that point in time is my fifth and it's today.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I believe it's my best film today, and I just want to say shout out to my team I want to give shout out to to Lily Nguyen Jonathan Lopez Orlando workers in Corey Gonzalez the cinematography came out really amazing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, yes, right people who were

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, no, no, no, no, what it is for me in composition in camera and Jonathan Lopez was the main cinematographer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But when we shot the film, Lily knew when took over, she was also my assistant director and my editor.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Lily has ended almost all my stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, really great job.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Great job.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Corey Gonzalez, this and great stuff with the car stuff when we were in the dream and also on the beach He shot some stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it was a well like we all had like ideas like this, but I want and we all communicate it well Because I believe for me as a director, you have to wear different hats or or know what it is to wear certain To be able to communicate and I feel like for a friend me in composition

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want this, I want this tight shot, you know, my team will laugh or tell you that I love me being close to my head because they tell you I'd be like, I'll be on it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's exactly how I like my shots and so we all degree, I really, you know, it was a long editing process, but super, I'd be like, you know, I'm the, I may have gotten annoying.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I know I got, you know, it would be too much more expensive as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, but she knows what I like and the color and she color grade it in to this day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've had a lot of people who agree and said this, it's my best film.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like it really is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It really is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's done quite well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can tell that you put a lot into it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You took your time with it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's awesome that you that you shot into locations.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love that you like that that you did that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When did you start getting into filmmaking when you went professional, like, you know, even when shooting your first film, how was that for you, just saying I'm going to do this?

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a great question.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was 2018.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was a junior at Sacramento State University.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I believe I was a junior.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, it was on my third or fourth year of sex date.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I seemed like Panther.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was at the height of like Panther being sold out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't see Black Panther until the third month.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's how packed it was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I watched it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I knew of Ryan Kubla.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I had seen this previous work like full-fail creed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But when Black Panther came out and I saw that film and what it did for the community and the culture and being packed packed out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like man, I would love to make a film one day of this magnitude scale just do this one day and I did my research or prior to my research, my mom was watching the news that they told me I'd comecast with a group of corda TV.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They were talking about Ryan Cougar how he went to sex state and I was like wait, I'm not saying it's about mom.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's like come watch the news and talking about Black Panther director and

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I found out his faculty or professors were still there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When I went on Google, they were my research.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I got in contact with them, told them I was and shouldn't directing at that point.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a minor that I was a student.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But they said, hey, we don't have a minor, but take these five classes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and then let us know what you think and did a picking up the film as a second degree because I was a double major at sex state and political science and film.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I stayed at extra year at sex state and I did my first film called Desperate Times at sex state called it was a junior thesis film and it was my first day that I've ever done.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if the world would ever see that film because he said no.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not my favorite one, my best for it, but it's my first humble beginnings and then from there, my true first directorial debut Scorpio, which I made that in 2019 and then officially came out in 2022.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But from there, I've been doing film for just 2019 and now I'm at USC in the grad program my final year and I just aim to make films and make features and and direct films in industry.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hell yeah, oh yeah, I hate when I had a question oh that's what I want to ask you so we have the Flores Film Festival you were the founder so Joshua is a founder of the Flores Film Festival tell me about that how do you how do you how do you tell us about that I think that's awesome when you when I found out that you did that

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for asking us that I love these questions and I thank you for asking my best budget.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just so great to be able to speak about something that I'm so passionate about.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The Florida Film Festival started in 2022.

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[SPEAKER_00]: At that time I had three films, I had my film Scorpio, I had my film Tension and I had a film called Delvic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And they were all finished or on the same time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I just wanted people to watch my films.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I was talking to a friend.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, hey, I just would love to have friends and family.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I could come to a community event to come watch my stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, how should I do it or what should I do?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I kind of like a festival.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, if I go through with this, what's that I call it?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so in my mind at that time, because I didn't have a fancy name, I was like, let's call it the Joshua Flores for Christmas.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he was like, no, no, no, call it the florism festival.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, wait, I'm not to steal that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But then coming now, I happen to steal my own name.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, it was just like, you know, now that I come to conclusion to that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But as I realized, but so it's been the florism festival since 2022.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That year we had three films.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and this year we're entering our fifth year and it's been beautiful my favorite year so far as a year three it was the most we've had in the 10th and so far year for with the first year we had around 75 people the second year on it will it will it will

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[SPEAKER_00]: We had like around 45, I was kind of sad, I was kind of bummed out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the year that we state you bliss.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I was like, man, I didn't feel like bliss got that traction is deserve that year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But third year, what I did was the first two were just my films, the first two years were just my films and somebody else's film.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But the third year, I opened up the people in the community, different cities, you know, had like 15 or 14 directors and we were like, around that year, maybe around 200 people.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was just beautiful to see that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a great experience.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was packed out and we had a Q&A and Pan on one night.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was beautiful and we had a, yeah, I have to give a side of took to my boy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I did a good creative executive at Proximity Media.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was in attendance that year and it was just great to have his film that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So since I feel like since the third year we've been having traction and attention in one night.

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[SPEAKER_00]: last year on for the fourth year, we had a lot of great filmmakers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: One may be someone well known as Jamal Shula.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was at our festival last year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was in the last black many times in fiscal year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought you'd never ask, and it was just great.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We had a lot of great films last year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of Bay Area filmmakers last year.

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[UNKNOWN]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But this year year five, we're trying to do something special.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're trying to just to fit here for me and my opinion.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's half a decade.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I believe I believe that's a milestone.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I want to bring in somebody in an industry as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, and that's my goal.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we're not trying to give no spoilers or a secret, but we're just trying to, oh.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we're working on some stuff and hopefully, you know, the game traction of someone that I really would like to bring in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But once that said and done, God will only, uh, it's more analysis and say who that is and what not, you know, open it around that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the book.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When do you normally hold it?

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[SPEAKER_01]: When did the film, when do you normally have the film festival?

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's an October.

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[SPEAKER_01]: October, okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um,

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[SPEAKER_01]: If there is filmmakers just really quick while we're talking about, there's filmmakers that want to submit their film to be in the film festival.

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[SPEAKER_01]: How would they go about doing that?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So this year, we're a finalized stuff on film freeway.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so probably I would say maybe mid-spring or late spring.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If not early summer, we're going to open some missions and all that information will be released soon.

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[SPEAKER_00]: As a starter, if you want to get in contact, our Instagram is Florida's film festival.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's really that you can DM us and our EM was also Florida's film festival at GMO.com.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, for all the information we'll be up soon and also our promo will be up soon too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, I feel like I'm wearing multiple hats being a student at USC almost graduating in May, but then also having to, like, all right, what's going on for this year for the year?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, even though October's nine months away, in my head, it's like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right, what are you working on right now?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well that's a great question.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So right now at USC being a student it's kind of been hard to like balance my thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember my last thing is I have some great classes but I'm in a class called media for social change where I have the opportunity to make a thesis.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I run the official thesis and I'm a film that I have been trying to make since 2020 when all that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a film called Attention.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's about racial tension on our college campus.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a subject matter that I feel like is relevant to this day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like my experience is stuff that I've experienced in seeing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to touch that light within the Black and Latino community.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's really important to talk about this and bring on where it's going to start.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Discussing you know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not more so it's this or that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's more so here's what's going on.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Why don't we move from here or or it's

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[SPEAKER_00]: How do we talk about our deal with the United States?

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not the point thing is that it was right and it was wrong.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I feel like what this film is, I guess people will say it's controversial and that's okay but that's an opinion as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What I'm learning is what this film is, communities are not monolithic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If that was the case, we'd all be boring because we'd all agree and share the same values and whatnot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I believe this film, once it's done, will be probably my most.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it is statement filling me today, so I'm just trying to find a lot of stuff and get things rolling in and secure producers and actors and okay, she's saying, you know, but it's something that's it's a passion project right now at USC and I'm glad I get to do it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're seeing my last semester.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So hopefully all goes well, but that's one project, but as far as the field festival, I'm trying to organize that as well, I didn't team members in orchestrating that it's it's a whole headache, but I

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's worked, it's all said in the, you know, I mean, you know, I have some other films, I've mentioned Scorpion intention.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying to make some sequels to those two short films.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm also trying to make a pilot episode for a Bay Area inspired a kind of show that I would like to make.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying to think what is what I want to make?

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's another film called Unwreck What I Love I've had Descript in the fall since like 2020.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it all goes well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I would like to make all of these in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm kind of in a thing where I want to make more content or make quick shorts that I could just post.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm trying to find ways to be proactive and learn the game and also trying to do it all.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm just not trying to fatigue myself too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because as a human being, and as a filmmaker, I learned that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We were more than just a filmmaker.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We also have life so I want to enjoy life and live life and enjoy my time off the internet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But also learn how to switch on and off.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm just trying to find that balance.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I hope I said your question.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I've been working on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you don't have wanted to talk about that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just a balance.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, you have a lot of things going on when you have downtime.

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[SPEAKER_01]: what do you do?

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[SPEAKER_01]: What things do you have hobbies that you're interested in?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I know you don't have a lot of time, but when you do, what are your favorite things to do to an online?

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I like to eat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I want to eat, that's what I want to eat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I need to fix and what I like to spend time with my family and friends.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I like to go on drives.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I like to enjoy scenery.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I like to go to the beach when that's possible.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right now, I'm not in that weather.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I spend time with my dogs and go go walk with them and spend time that I can't with them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because life is beautiful and much precious.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I like to go to the movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We'd like to go to the movies on Tuesdays because it's cheap, you know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's what I like to watch football, Sally, my 49ers are okay with this football, but I know it's crazy, but yeah, I like to do stuff like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so happy to get to know you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so happy that you took time out to come and sit with me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This has been a great interview.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Getting to know you and just thanks for allowing me to watch bliss and speaking of bliss.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Where are we at with bliss?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Is it out?

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is out ready for the public to watch it so it's officially on my bio on my Instagram.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's on you Please share love so like we were we're just trying to put put it out this year I want to go I'm calling in an official press store or press run I'm trying to do whatever I can for bliss

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I've all because last year, I basically had a re-assurgence with Blitz or a recent mission.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We did a U-Bless again last year to directors cut and people loved it because for me, the version that you originally saw on me first off, the part on your show, what's in there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't really a fan of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a long, or just, it's not how I wanted to look and it's new version.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I always felt like he was, you know,

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[SPEAKER_00]: ending the supposed to indicate that he's dead, you know, that was, and the other version did have to do that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This version does that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This version of the way, you know, so I really like this new version.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we cut out some stuff that was dragged down in the necessary.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So this version for me was a real tight good version.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you guys will be able to link up with Joshua and the description of the video.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You'll be able to click on and go watch lists like Joshua says is everywhere.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can link up and go to a YouTube channel and watch it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You guys, it's 24 minutes long.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a really good, you guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you're having any type of issues, I just want to make this clear.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you haven't any type of issues, mental issues, if you're not feeling too well,

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, there's numbers that you can call it's at the end of his movie.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You guys emergency numbers are out there take care of yourself.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, mentally take care of yourself guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can do that too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Please guys, please one of us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, definitely, you know, it is okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, what you learned is, is thought what is true.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, everyone has issues, women have issues, men have issues, and relationships can be a lot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So don't be ashamed if it's, if it's, if you're not filling that good and also therapy, don't listen to what they say about therapy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You are not crazy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you want therapy, everyone should be able to have access to therapy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel for free.

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[SPEAKER_01]: people she'd be able to go and be just to talk to someone.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So don't be ashamed of that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm here with Joshua Flores.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And this is Rossi Talks on movie lovers unite.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Joshua, this is for you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you have anything to say, if you want to shout out anyone, this is your time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to say thank you for having me on this show, it's been a pleasure, it's been great to talk about one film.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I feel like we work so much, we work hard on it, spend so much time on it and I feel like it's getting the recognizing the deserves and I want to give it special to my parents, my mom and dad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to give the glory and honor to God.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I just want to also give this special shout out to my dog, Benji, who I recently had to put down on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He made the 20 years of even he was my lifelong friend.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was my baby.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's been a hard adjustment.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I just thank you for having me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I shout out to the team that made me make this film, especially my sister, Lily and the win.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't have no films if it wasn't for her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm glad that it came out the way he did.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm excited to see how future and it's

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[SPEAKER_01]: Awesome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you guys so much.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Josh, don't go anywhere.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Stay back stage.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is Rossy McCree and we'll be looking forward to you guys.