The Orchard

[10 min. 55 sec.] Morgan Neville returns to the podcast to discuss his latest documentary, The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble, currently in theaters. [32 min. 30 sec.] And with the 30th anniversary of the classic documentary short Heavy Metal Parking Lot, the filmmakers Jeff Krulik & John Heyn visit the podcast while the host was at SxSW this past March. Music on this episode provided by Lane Arye form his album Thunder Echoes. This episode of the podcast is sponsored by Zipcar.

The first guest is filmmaker Dennis Hauck whose first feature, Too Late, is currently in theaters and continuing to open around the country, in theaters where film is projected. Joachim Trier (Reprise, Oslo August 31st) is next; his new feature film, his first English language film is called Louder Than Bombs and opens in theaters today, April 8th. Gabriel Mascaro’s second feature, Neon Bull, opens at the Elinor Bunin Munro Film Center today as well.

In this episode dedicated to the memory of Haskell Wexler & David Bowie, guests include actor/director Ross Partridge discussing his new film, Lamb, now in theaters & on Amazon; also filmmaker Alison Bagnall who discusses her dramedy, Funny Bunny, now available on iTunes.

In the first segment, the team behind the new dark comedy, Manson Family Vacation including actors Jay Duplass & Linas Phillips with director J. Davis; filmmaker of the new documentary Left on Purpose which will be screening at DOC NYC next month, Justin Schein; and the filmmaker Joshua Bishop with the subject of his new feature doc, Made in Japan, Tomi Fujiyama.

Guests include the creative team behind The Mend including filmmaker John Magery, actress Mickey Sumner & co-producer Myna Joseph; and two of the filmmakers behind Digging for Fire, actor Jake Johnson & returning to the podcast filmmaker Joe Swanberg.

The guests on this episode of the podcast include two good Jewish boys, actor Jason Schwartzman (The Overnight, 7 Chinese Brothers) and filmmaker Nathan Silver (Stinking Heaven, Uncertain Terms). This episode is sponsored by Hell’s Half Mile Film & Music Festival.

Guests include Oscilloscope producer Debra McClutchy; documentary filmmaker Marshall Curry with his new film Point & Shoot; and the director of the new documentary, Do I Sound Gay?, David Thorpe.

Among the guests are Jehane Noujaim & Karim Amer (The Square), Jason DaSilva (When I Walk) and the returning Zachary Levy (Strongman).

Join Filmwax, Zachary Levy and Stan “Stanless Steel” Pleskun for a special screening of Strongman in celebration of its long-awaited DVD and digital release this Wednesday, October 23rd.