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Shanna & Skylar Schanen on Building the Round Top Film Festival - TEXAS THROWS ITS HAT IN ! · Inside The Moms Club

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  Speaker 1: Welcome moms. Welcome to Inside the Mom's Cup.
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  Speaker 2: I'm your host, Monica Samuels, and I'm here with my
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  Speaker 2: lovely co host, Julie Orchid.
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  Speaker 1: Well, hello, Julie.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's been a few months.
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  Speaker 1: Missed you.
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  Speaker 2: I've missed you too, and I know you missed me,
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  Speaker 2: especially when we arrived here in La I made the
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  Speaker 2: wise decision this time of putting Julie as an official
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  Speaker 2: driver on my rental car.
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  Speaker 3: Very wise move.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm still required to drive it out of the lot.
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  Speaker 4: So I drove us to the hotel, which was was terrifying.
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  Speaker 1: They thought I had.
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  Speaker 2: Like scotten onto the Universal Studios amusement parks right or something.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, note, we're only two miles in the airport.
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  Speaker 2: I know it was I even I think it was
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  Speaker 2: harrowing myself. But she's not a great navigator because see
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  Speaker 2: she told me to make a right hand turn and
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  Speaker 2: there was no right hand turn right, so I turned
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  Speaker 2: into almost hit a building at Warner Brothers Studios.
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  Speaker 4: So you basically are fired from any type of you know, driving,
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  Speaker 4: not much of a driver.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, not happening, but I did.
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  Speaker 2: It's the hotel and in that hair that like crazy
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  Speaker 2: hairprint turn I made at the last minute. I got
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  Speaker 2: in there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you overshot that turn and we were also.
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  Speaker 2: And I still made it.
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  Speaker 3: We did, and so we made it.
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  Speaker 1: So here we are. But now Juli, he's behind the wheel.
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  Speaker 1: So that's all good.
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  Speaker 2: And we're so excited to be here because we love
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  Speaker 2: being in Los Angeles because.
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  Speaker 4: It's super special, like we learn a lot, we get
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  Speaker 4: to see a lot, and the.
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  Speaker 2: Movies, the movie I am a huge movie nerd, as
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: I love, especially love really old movies. Yeah, I'm well, I.
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  Speaker 3: Would say it, just say it, just say who you love.
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  Speaker 2: My favorite actress is Olivia to have aland look it
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  Speaker 2: up for those moms.
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  Speaker 5: Who were I to do that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but she went to Academy Awards and so I
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  Speaker 2: love all of that. I just love I love writing,
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  Speaker 2: I love acting, I love well.
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  Speaker 4: I love being here because my daughter moved here few
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  Speaker 4: months ago and I get to see her a lot
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  Speaker 4: more and support her and her exciting adventures.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she wants to be an actress. Yeah, And I
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  Speaker 2: just wrote a script with with the woman I wrote
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  Speaker 2: the book with, so I was working on that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, so very excited.
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  Speaker 3: You've always had to be an actress. Right, yeah, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I've had that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it was pretty good at that, you know.
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  Speaker 2: But but I like writing especially, so years ago I
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  Speaker 2: started a screenplay and I called my cousin who started
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  Speaker 2: the New Hope Film Festival in New Hope, Pennsylvania. And
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  Speaker 2: you know what, big rule followers, we are at our house.
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  Speaker 2: My whole family, like runs in the family. So I
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  Speaker 2: called him for advice and he gave me the advice
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  Speaker 2: and then he said, you know, Monica, I have to
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  Speaker 2: tell you, though, there are strict rules about the entry
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  Speaker 2: into the contest for screenwriting for my film festival. So
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  Speaker 2: I cannot give you, if that's what you're asking for,
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  Speaker 2: some kind of upper hand. And like, no, I wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't even written a word yet, so I was
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  Speaker 2: hardly asking for that. But I do appreciate by his
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  Speaker 2: experience how tough it is.
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  Speaker 1: He said that film festival.
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  Speaker 2: Has been going for fifteen years, and people from all
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  Speaker 2: over New York City come.
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  Speaker 4: Well, this is what I have about these upcoming film
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  Speaker 4: writers stars, is that it's extremely difficult and to put
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  Speaker 4: yourself out there and to do it is really brave.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing. As we said here on the mom's.
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  Speaker 1: Caub which is why we are.
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  Speaker 2: So excited today that we have the other daughter duo
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  Speaker 2: that someday, America, you're going to be saying in the
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  Speaker 2: same breath after you've mentioned Goldie Han and Kate Hudson,
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  Speaker 2: their names are going to come to mind because they
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  Speaker 2: are tremendous and they have founded a film festival. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we're from Austin, Texas, so it's near our hometown and
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  Speaker 2: it's a beautiful place called Roundtop, Texas. If you've never
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  Speaker 2: heard of it, you definitely know it for years. Go
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  Speaker 2: see it because it is incredible, and they have a
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  Speaker 2: new film festival there.
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  Speaker 1: They started it last year, the.
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  Speaker 2: Roundtop Film Festival. So we want to welcome Shanna, the
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  Speaker 2: mom who is the co founder, has a lifelong connection
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  Speaker 2: to round Top, originally hailing from Lagrange nearby, and she
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  Speaker 2: started it with a commitment of philanthropic and artistic endeavors
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  Speaker 2: which inspired her to start the film festivalong with her
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  Speaker 2: daughter Skyler Nice, who is a screenwriter and filmmaker with
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  Speaker 2: credits for short films called Angel and Pretty Boy, and
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  Speaker 2: she's got an upcoming short called Call of the Void,
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  Speaker 2: and together they have a desire to expand the cultural
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  Speaker 2: offerings within the exciting Roundtop community. Please welcome to the
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  Speaker 2: Mom's Club, Shanna and Skuyler Shannon, Please welcome, ladies.
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  Speaker 6: Hi. Hey, I'm so happy to be here. Thank you
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  Speaker 6: for having us.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, how are you today?
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  Speaker 5: Great? Happy to be here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so happy that you're here. We are so excited because,
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  Speaker 2: as I mentioned, Julie and I know round Top really
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  Speaker 2: really well, have been there so many times. We make
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  Speaker 2: it a point to go twice a year. They have
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  Speaker 2: their antique, their market festival there that interior designers from
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  Speaker 2: all over the world.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's an event.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm sorry I don't have my boots on today
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  Speaker 4: and my hat because I couldn't carry it.
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  Speaker 3: All, but I would be. But I am.
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  Speaker 4: Super thrilled because we actually have been I've been going
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  Speaker 4: for I do mean twenty two years, so I first
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  Speaker 4: started taking the baby buggy and going in and it's
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  Speaker 4: so it's really special because we're from Austin, Texas, so
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  Speaker 4: we are thrilled to talk about today at a festival.
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  Speaker 2: I've loved how round Top has grown and developed and
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  Speaker 2: it's really just more recently really gotten on the map
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  Speaker 2: in so many ways. And what I specially love about
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  Speaker 2: the community is when you arrived there.
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  Speaker 6: They're just certain.
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  Speaker 1: You just sort of adopt the.
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  Speaker 2: Culture of the place and suddenly, like Julie's saying, you've
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  Speaker 2: got your fancy boots. I went to Chemo Sabby and
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  Speaker 2: got my hat made. I mean, now I feel like
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  Speaker 2: every time I driving to a round top, I gotta
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  Speaker 2: get a new fancy.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the nice cowboy hat. You wear, cool dresses.
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  Speaker 2: The women are gorgeous and they're dressed really great, and
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a it's an incredible community. If you
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  Speaker 2: haven't been there now, I will give you a little
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  Speaker 2: heads up for those who want to go to the
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  Speaker 2: antique festival in the market. It's popular and so you
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  Speaker 2: got to make your plans well in advance to sure.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's well off the chain. What you have
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  Speaker 4: to do to get into that place, it can be.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what, with this film festival, the way
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna take off, I'm absolutely positive it's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: the same thing. This year's festival is November sixth to
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  Speaker 2: the ninth, so you're you're gonna hear more about it
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  Speaker 2: is the show goes on. But I know you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: want to go because it is going to be.
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  Speaker 1: Very very popular pretty soon.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna have well, it's have a hard time getting in.
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  Speaker 2: How just Shanna, how do you sign up to to attend?
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  Speaker 2: What where do people find the link? And how do
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  Speaker 2: they because that's that's right around on the corner.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah it is. We are in it too and win it.
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  Speaker 6: We are in the thick of it. So we just
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  Speaker 6: pulled off our last one last year and we're in
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  Speaker 6: our second year. So this is the second year festival.
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  Speaker 6: It's going to be November sixth through the ninth. As
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  Speaker 6: you said, you can go on www Dot round top
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  Speaker 6: dot org to purchase your passes and right now we're
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  Speaker 6: still an early bird special, so you can get your
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  Speaker 6: passes at a little bit of a discount rate and
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  Speaker 6: that will be going up soon, so love you to
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  Speaker 6: purchase them early and have a little break in the price. Okay, great,
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  Speaker 6: we're super excited about it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, tell us how it all started?
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  Speaker 2: Where did where did the idea come from? And how
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  Speaker 2: did you get it going? Because like I said, I
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  Speaker 2: have a relative who did this, and I know it's
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  Speaker 2: not easy to get one going.
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  Speaker 6: Right, So Fata and I really just had an idea,
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  Speaker 6: and I really wanted to get something back to the community.
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  Speaker 6: We were trying to think, how can we add to
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  Speaker 6: this already beautiful cultural town, what can we bring to it?
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  Speaker 6: And it seemed a natural fit with Skylar's passion for film,
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  Speaker 6: her involvement, and you know in films that she was
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  Speaker 6: young from screenwriting to acting and all of the things,
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  Speaker 6: and so it it just we married those two ideas
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  Speaker 6: together of giving back, and that's kind of how it
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  Speaker 6: came about. Skyler. Do you have anything to add to that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, we've been talking about wanting to do
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  Speaker 5: something in Roundtop for a while, and I remember when
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  Speaker 5: I was little, We're like, maybe we'll open a soda
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  Speaker 5: pop shop or something fun. And then I got super
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  Speaker 5: involved in film and moved around a lot and finally
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  Speaker 5: moved back to Austin, And so we were talking about
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  Speaker 5: it on the screen in fort one night just that
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  Speaker 5: we were shocked that a film festival hasn't started yet
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  Speaker 5: in Roundtop and we were like, oh my gosh, we
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  Speaker 5: should do this. Yeah, and then it was kismet how
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  Speaker 5: everybody fell together and.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I mean in twenty twenty four is kind
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  Speaker 6: of when we kicked it off in January, and I think,
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  Speaker 6: you know, maybe starting October twenty twenty three. I was
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  Speaker 6: kind of tossing around the idea to the locals in town.
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  Speaker 6: I'm like, what do you think if we bring a
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  Speaker 6: film festival? And they were like, oh my gosh. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: everybody was on board. It was so supportive. There weren't
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  Speaker 6: those roadblocks, and doors just kept opening and opening. So
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  Speaker 6: it's been such a wonderful experience. I mean, we couldn't
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  Speaker 6: have been more welcomed and just the stars aligned. So
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  Speaker 6: we're super happy.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm going to say that I have read a
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  Speaker 4: lot about this film festival and I'm super excited for it.
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  Speaker 4: I hope that we can get down the road to it.
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  Speaker 4: But I read that it was such a success that
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  Speaker 4: this year is going to be bigger and better. So
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  Speaker 4: what is going to be a little bit different that
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  Speaker 4: you learn from the first time that you're going to
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  Speaker 4: bring to Roundtop?
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  Speaker 6: You know, you learn a lot in the first year
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  Speaker 6: of planning, and I think that everything went off without
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  Speaker 6: a hitch pretty much for a first year festival. So
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  Speaker 6: we're going to kind of stick with the same template.
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  Speaker 6: We don't want to grow too much. We want to
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  Speaker 6: fill the house. We want to fill the theaters and
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  Speaker 6: bring the people to town, so we're going to go
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  Speaker 6: with that. As far as additions, though, we were going
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  Speaker 6: to add a tribute ceremony which we didn't have last year,
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  Speaker 6: where we honor people in the film industry, so it
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  Speaker 6: be an actor, a director, screenwriter, so we'll have a
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  Speaker 6: special ceremony for them, just honoring their craft. Some other
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  Speaker 6: things that are exciting are the Rising Star Showcase which
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  Speaker 6: we had last year. We're bringing that back and Skyler,
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  Speaker 6: do you want to tell a little bit about what's
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  Speaker 6: happening with their rising stars from last year?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, our Rising Stars from last year was so great.
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  Speaker 5: We had so many good ones. Lily Kay, Maria botha,
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  Speaker 5: Sasha Lane and we all we weren't sure we knew
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  Speaker 5: that Roundtop would make people want to come back, but
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  Speaker 5: we got such good feedback. They all want to come
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  Speaker 5: back this year, which is great. And yeah, they wanted
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  Speaker 5: to hang out and Roundtop so that was really good feedback.
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  Speaker 6: So yeah, and they were doing new things. It's exciting.
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  Speaker 6: Lily Kay is now on Stick, so it's been fun
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  Speaker 6: to watch her.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's always nice to see where they go and
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  Speaker 3: what they do.
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  Speaker 6: Act for us and say we're super excited. But all
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  Speaker 6: of those you know, little intros were so wonderful, and
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  Speaker 6: we made such good connections. And I feel like in
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  Speaker 6: Roundtop because it is such a unique spot. Everything was
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  Speaker 6: centrally located. The networking was so good. Everybody feels comfortable
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  Speaker 6: and you do get in the vibe of the of
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  Speaker 6: the town and you know, you get into the two
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  Speaker 6: stepping and the big pots and moots. So there's just
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  Speaker 6: a connection and a bonding thing that happens. So super cool.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I see that you close just recently all
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  Speaker 4: the submissions for this film festival.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, what was that yesterday?
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  Speaker 6: Maybe?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: So you guys have quite the you know ahead of
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  Speaker 4: you next few months ahead of you.
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  Speaker 3: So how does that process work?
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  Speaker 4: Where who you're going to submit or you know what
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  Speaker 4: I mean, tell me a little bit about is it
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  Speaker 4: a panel or how do you pick?
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  Speaker 6: So we closed film submissions yesterday and that goes through
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  Speaker 6: film Freeway. We were so fortunate this year for a
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  Speaker 6: second year festival to get as many submissions as we did.
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  Speaker 6: We were overwhelmed and thrilled. So that was super excited
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  Speaker 6: and so now we have to sort through them. All
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  Speaker 6: and then we have a screenwriting kind of not screenwriting,
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry, a selection committee for the films, and so
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  Speaker 6: they're all watching them, Mickey and Dustovitch. Our programming director
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  Speaker 6: kind of you know, releases some just several different viewers
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  Speaker 6: and then they give their feedback and then he curates
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  Speaker 6: the program that speaks to our audience. And so last
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  Speaker 6: year he did a phenomenal job. We got a lot
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  Speaker 6: of great feedback on the films that were selected, and
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  Speaker 6: so we're looking forward to see what we come up
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  Speaker 6: with this year.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's great, and I imagine there's very strict protocols
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  Speaker 2: and rules. Is that kind of consistent with all film festivals?
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  Speaker 2: So in other words, if your cousin calls you and
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  Speaker 2: says that she's got a screenplay, she's not getting treatment.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, have to go through yeah handles.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we kind of sent it off. We learned our
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  Speaker 6: lesson last year. We're like, oh, we have a friend
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  Speaker 6: and they're like no, no, no, this isn't the way it works. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: you know, we have to take this seriously and go
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  Speaker 6: through each film and curate the best program. So it's
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  Speaker 6: unfortunate is there are a lot of great films and
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  Speaker 6: sometimes I mean, may have twenty films, but you only
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  Speaker 6: have slots that are excellent. Twenty excellent films, but you
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  Speaker 6: only have slots for ten of them.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's tough.
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  Speaker 6: That's the hard part.
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  Speaker 5: And we are an international film festival too, so we're
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  Speaker 5: bringing films in from all around the world, which is
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  Speaker 5: really exciting, and we also want to make sure to
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  Speaker 5: give room to our Texas writers and creatives as well.
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  Speaker 5: So it's just like finding balance between all of it
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  Speaker 5: and hopefully one day we can expand to where we
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  Speaker 5: can get more films.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know last year you featured Man.
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  Speaker 2: Land you showed land Man.
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  Speaker 6: Because it was dream is to become an Academy Award
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  Speaker 6: qualifying film festival. So Nicky kind of started this off
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  Speaker 6: on that path because there are so many rules. Like
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  Speaker 6: you said, there are rules and guidelines and how many
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  Speaker 6: films of this nature you need to show and that,
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  Speaker 6: and so he follows up very closely and we're thankful
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  Speaker 6: to have him on board paying attention to those details.
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  Speaker 2: How does that process like, is it a length of
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  Speaker 2: time sort of thing, or how do you end up?
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  Speaker 1: How are you how will you accomplish that?
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  Speaker 2: Is that going to be just by like, how does
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  Speaker 2: it work whether you become Academy Award qualified. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: even know about that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a seven year process. So it used to
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  Speaker 6: be a five year process and as of last year,
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  Speaker 6: they changed it to a seven year process. So you
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  Speaker 6: have to prove yourself for seven years and apply for it,
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  Speaker 6: and I understand it's very difficult to get. So, you know,
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  Speaker 6: fingers crossed that we can reach that goal and apply
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  Speaker 6: in seven years and achieve that. That's uncle.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like you will.
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  Speaker 2: You got off to such a great start last year
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  Speaker 2: and it seems like you're just moving forward this year.
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  Speaker 4: I totally but you guys the future you mentioned which
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  Speaker 4: is really exciting, So people know exactly where you want
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  Speaker 4: to take this and what you want to do. But
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  Speaker 4: you guys are also mom and daughter, and so I
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  Speaker 4: want to know having I have two daughters, and I
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  Speaker 4: would like to know what is it like to work
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  Speaker 4: with your daughter. You know, I want to tell my
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  Speaker 4: daughter that don't worry, I'm not trying to work with you.
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  Speaker 4: I just want to know what it's like for you
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  Speaker 4: guys on a daily basis.
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  Speaker 3: Share a little bit about that.
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  Speaker 4: Because we've got a bunch of moms here that have
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  Speaker 4: businesses like with their daughter, and we just want to
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  Speaker 4: know what is that dynamic Like, I mean, I know
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  Speaker 4: it gets a little hot in my household sometimes with
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  Speaker 4: my daughter. So spill the tea, is what I'm trying
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  Speaker 4: to say to you.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know. Fortunately we have a really good working
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  Speaker 6: relationship because we bring two different pieces to the table.
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  Speaker 6: I think if we were both, you know, creatives in
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  Speaker 6: the same direction, we might bedheads. Yeah. For me, I'm
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: more of the daily in and out of the festival,
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: managing the team, you know, developing the programs, talking to
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: everyone on the team. And Skyler you have just been
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: our creative vision from day one, and you can tell
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: a little bit about what you do in the parts
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: that you play.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'd love to hear that.
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I kind of oversee because when we were coming
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: up with this, we were like, where, how are we going
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: to work together and who's gonna do what? Just so
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: we don't step on each other's toes. Me, I'm definitely
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: more creative, So my vision is just kind of I
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: work with the marketing team and also last year I
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: worked with Mickey kind of soleing the vibe that we
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: want to have in films, so I kind of oversee
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: more of the artistic side of things and help with
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: the parties and the films and just kind of the
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: overall vibe of it. So I'm always just trying to
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: curate new content and help with that and help spread
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: the word of it social media.
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: Sure.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, course, so.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: Texas friends are going to want to know what do
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: these parties look like?
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Skyler, you said you have a hand in. Yeah, Like, well, I.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: Can let my mom go into full detail about them.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: But we always want to make them fun and make
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: them for all different ages. Sure, especially this year, we're
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: trying to bring in more twenties thirties groups and so
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: we're kind of balancing them out, but we always try
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: to add a Texas flair to them because so many
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: people are coming from all around the world world, we
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: want to make sure that they get to experience Texas
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: the way we do. And then we also do a
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: fun theme each year. So last year we did Deneman Diamonds,
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: and then this year I can say it right, well, yeah.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: So this year working together.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: She's just checking.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Now that Taylor and Travis got engaged today, you can
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: say it like that's big news.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: I always talked so much. I get excited and I
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: don't want to know.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: Leak out slowly, so it's like, can we say that,
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: like are we ready to release them?
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: That's good to work between you this year.
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: And opening night party is actually going to be an opens,
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: which is a new venue for Around Top. Will be
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: the very first, very first organization that gets to have
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: a party at their brand new event center, and so
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: we're super excited about that. Like Skyler said, we do
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: like to have that Texas flare, So we're going to
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: have a big kickoff where you wear your big boots,
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: you know, your boots and your big hat, and you
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: bring your style. Because around is now a fashion mecca
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: as well. We have a fashion week in the spring
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: and fall of the Antique Show, and we will have
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: a fashion and film panel, so when you come know
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: that you know you can go all out and anything
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: goes in Round Top. But anyway, that opening night is
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: a Western and it will be straight Tequila Knights will
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: be playing, so there's a lot of big scoop and Bookie,
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: I have a lot of activations and some Texas food, so.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: I suppose Lalo will be there. Lalo the tequila will
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: be there.
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know this year, Agazul is kind of good. Yes, yes,
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: and Lala's last year and august Zul has asked for
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: an exclusive this year.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Oh that'll be fun.
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: So it's a new toe quila. It is absolutely fantastic.
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: So we're excited to have them. And we're gonna miss Lalla.
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: I still have Lala on my bar.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: They're all they're all good information, ula drinkers, e spirit.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Something new this year. And you mentioned given that Texas flair,
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: what's exciting for Texas is, you know, we're here in
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: La a lot and we hear a lot about what's
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: going on in the industry. And I know you're having
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: a panel of the uh the state of the Industry panel,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: And I think one thing that's happening in the film
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: industry is there's more competition from other states in I
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: known Texas.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: We just passed a passing bill bill to bring more.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Production into Texas. So to put a film festival in
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Texas that's focused on Texas.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Well, that's outside of aus.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: Austin has you know, gotten oversaturated, oversaturated a little bit downtown.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: So this is a lot, Yeah, this is tremendous. Well
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: do you think that the changes in the filmmaking industry
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: in Texas will have an impact on your film festival
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: at all, or how do you think that will help change.
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: I've been hearing it's going to be really great for us,
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: So Texas is super exciting, excited about this bill. I
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: just went out on a group with a group on
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: Lake Travis recently, and it was a group of people
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: in the film industry and they were getting together to
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: see how we can all support each other. And it
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: was phenomenal because they were talking so much about this bill.
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: And several of the people were on this boat from
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: Miami from LA and they are moving here. They're like,
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: we cannot get here quick enough to be part of
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: this Texas boom. So I think it's only going to
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: help the festival.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Yet.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: Is a destination, you know, it's some place that you're
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: getting home and you're going to spend the weekend. You
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: can drive in from Houston and Austin because it's so close.
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: It's an hour and fifteen minutes either way you go.
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: So I make that drive a lot, you and from
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: in one day, so it's an easy drive and it's
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: a beautiful drive. But yeah, I think that it's really
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: going to be wonderful.
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: And I also think it makes a lot of people
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: I met last year that came to the film festival
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: from outside of Texas. They're all wanting to move here,
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: and Groundtop made them excited to realize that there are
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: cool parts of the countryside because you know, people don't
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: really think about Texas the country having nice restaurants and
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: stuff to do all the time. So they all want
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: to go out there for writers' retreats and stuff like
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: that because it's so accessible.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Oh I would imagine there would. Yeah, people also real
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Top great. It has some great restaurants. Some of the
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: boutique hotels are just fabulous. You would not You're right,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: people wouldn't think that that would be in round Top. Well,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: but it is, I mean, and so yeah, I can
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: only see this getting bigger and better.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like you have to plan five years
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: out now.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: It's going to be around well, you know, well, you
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: know Julian.
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: Place by your passes early and place to stay. There's
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: a lot of great hotels and there's a lot of
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: beautiful airbnb. Yes. Yeah, Ever, the neat thing about Roundtop
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: and what the antique best kind of set up for
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: it is that their great Airbnb is in Fayetteville, in Columbus,
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: in Gettings, in Lagrange in front of them. All of
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: these places are fifteen to twenty minute drive from Round Top,
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: so you're still very close. You know. It's like getting
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: in your car and going to dinner in Austin. It's
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: going to take you fifteen minutes to get there and
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: get home. So these places are all wonderful and the
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: airbnbs are phenomenal. Yeah, yeah, and really really nice job.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: So I have a question about the films where exactly?
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: Because I know Roundtop very well. A lot of our
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: listeners haven't been to round Top, So where are you
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: showing all these films?
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: So our feature films and a lot of our documentaries
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: are shown at Festival Hill.
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: Oh yes.
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: Stable Hill is an orchestra hall by James Dick and
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: it is phenomenal. It looks like you're in the middle
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: of Europe. If you've never been, you're going to have
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: to go in and it's break taking. Everybody that walks
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: in is like, where am I? How do you hear?
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: What is this building doing in this small town? It's
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: all hand carved wood, gorgeous and it was we were
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: just honored to be able to show movies in there.
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: Our second, then you is the round Top Dance Hall,
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: and it's just a whole another vibe. It's an old
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: dance hall from way back, historic dance hall with you know,
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: the windows that pop out, and it just gives you
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: another vibes. And we share our shorts and we have
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: a lot of our panels there during the day, like
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: the State of the Industry, our Rising Star will be there, okay,
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: And this year we have two panels that we're going
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: to offer on Sunday, and you want one to miss
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: Sunday this year because we're having our stunt panel and
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: our Veterans panel on Sunday along with a whole block
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: of films, So those will be fantastic.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I like how you're closing.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's stunt'll vegetable hill.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, that's pretty cool, the stunt panel.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: I'd love to say that. Yeah, Like, were they going
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: to like zoom in or you know, well, this is
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: very cool. Well I can't wait. Well, we have.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Some exciting moms, some moms that want to ask you
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: questions as well about the film festival. So let's welcome
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: our zoomer moms. Welcome to the Mom's Club, ladies. Okay,
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: I know a few of you have been our veterans
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: of Roundtop, so you're now excited. I'm sure that this
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: is going to be coming to our area. And let's
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: start with someone who has been to Roundtop quite a bit.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: And I know she will be joining us because we're
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: going to have her come with us. Julie and I
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: are going to sign up right.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: After the show.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: She just doesn't know it yet.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Jennifer, Welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us a little
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: bit about yourself, where you're from, and do you have
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: a question for Shannon Skuyler.
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: Hi, I'm so happy with you here. I'm thrilled to
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: hear about this expansion of Roundtop's incredible cultural, Like it
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: just feels like it has a gravity force field that
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: just draws culture to it and it's almost like it
• 27:58
  Speaker 8: just doesn't stop anyways.
• 27:59
  Speaker 9: My name from Marsh.
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: I'm from Austin, Texas, and I have two kids. I
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: have a daughter who's twenty four and a son who's
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: right down the street at ET and I am in
• 28:10
  Speaker 8: the design field, so trained as an architect, but I
• 28:13
  Speaker 8: also love to do in tier design, dat bold landscape
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: design a bit. And one of the things I love
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: about this area is that when I got here in
• 28:24
  Speaker 8: nineteen ninety eight, I kind of I sort of felt
• 28:26
  Speaker 8: like it was like the Frontier and people always said
• 28:30
  Speaker 8: that round Top was like a you know, there's flea markets,
• 28:34
  Speaker 8: so I never really went, and I was in Austin
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: from ninety eight until two thousand and one before I
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: finally went to round Top and I was like, this.
• 28:43
  Speaker 9: Place is bananas. What is happening?
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: Like I felt like I'd heard a vourtex of design amazingness.
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: But what you all had done with the film Festival
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: that is so exciting to me is highlight the fact
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: that it's just a really creative community.
• 28:58
  Speaker 9: And it's not just one community.
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: It's like a constellation of towns that are all had
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: this incredible synergy with one another. And so I mean,
• 29:07
  Speaker 8: I'm I am dying to know what the plan is
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: for expanding the festival. It sounds like you have some
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: great venues, but like all things round Top, they just
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: tend to get bigger and better and like warped speed.
• 29:22
  Speaker 9: And that's why I love going, like do we go
• 29:25
  Speaker 9: fall and Spring to the festival.
• 29:26
  Speaker 8: Because there's like a whole new venue that's opened up,
• 29:30
  Speaker 8: or a brand new incredible restaurant, or a brand new
• 29:33
  Speaker 8: place to stay, and it just there seems to be
• 29:36
  Speaker 8: just such momentum there right now, and people, as you said,
• 29:40
  Speaker 8: are flying in from all over the world. So what's
• 29:42
  Speaker 8: your like, I know you're in Roundtop right now, but like,
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: do you plan to expand it to the's.
• 29:48
  Speaker 9: Like all of the constellation of towns.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: That lagrange your hometown. Yeah, what's what are the plans there?
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: That? Absolutely that's our goal. Like I was saying earlier
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: this year, we kind of want to just stick to
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: the same template, make sure that we're full and the
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: house is packed and we have the growth that we
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: need before we expand. But there's other venues that we're
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: already thinking about exploring for this expansion, because you know,
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: the Antique Festival goes all the way from Mike Warrenton, Texas,
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: all the way to Brenham. So we have that whole
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: template laid out where we can definitely tap into a
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: lot of other venues and expand and bring a lot
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: of new screening places which will allow us to show
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: a lot.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: More films that's exciting.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: And yeah, we failed to mention too that Jennifer is
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: a member of the the president of the Round Top
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Chamber of Commerce. If you didn't notice, that was a
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: good advertisement. I love listening to that because it is.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: It is such a amazing Lorraine, welcome to the Mom's Club.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Where are you from? Tell us a little bit about yourself,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: and do you have a question.
• 30:56
  Speaker 10: I do, thank you so much for having me on today.
• 30:59
  Speaker 10: My name is Howard and I am from Wichita Falls, Texas,
• 31:03
  Speaker 10: so North Texas. I've been here for about a year
• 31:08
  Speaker 10: and I am a certified professional photographer. I actually photograph
• 31:12
  Speaker 10: other events. I've photographed two years. This will be my
• 31:15
  Speaker 10: third year to photograph a different film festival. So I'm
• 31:18
  Speaker 10: so excited to hear about this one and i want
• 31:20
  Speaker 10: to come see this one.
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: This is so cool.
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: So can you a come?
• 31:27
  Speaker 10: But I have I'm a mom to eight children. I
• 31:30
  Speaker 10: have two birth children and we've done I've adopted six
• 31:35
  Speaker 10: out of the foster care system and I've actually had
• 31:38
  Speaker 10: ninety nine foster children.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: So working with your daughter is.
• 31:43
  Speaker 10: So special to me. I'm just so excited to hear
• 31:47
  Speaker 10: about that. And my question would be.
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: As a mom.
• 31:53
  Speaker 10: You know, we think about the legacy that we're leaving
• 31:56
  Speaker 10: for our kids. And Shannon, what do you hope that
• 31:59
  Speaker 10: this past well inspires not just for your family with Skyler,
• 32:04
  Speaker 10: but for other young creatives who may dream of telling
• 32:07
  Speaker 10: their story someday.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Great question, you.
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: Know for me, I think being a mom was always about,
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: you know, finding that spark, what drives that your child.
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: And so Skuyler, you know, she tried soccer, she tried
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: all these different sports and ballet and you name it,
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: and she landed and she's like, okay, I'm quitting ballet.
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: Right when she was going to be Clara and the Nutcracker.
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: I was like, what are you doing. You can't do that. No, no, no,
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: I'm going into theater. I'm like, okay, here we go.
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: So you make the shift. But she found her true
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: passion and so that's meaningful to me. And I hope
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: that other parents can help guide and direct their children
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: into what their guy given talents on so that they
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: can really pursue that and it's meaningful to them. I
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: think that gives them a happy life. I think that
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: it gives them a sense of accomplishment because it's something
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: that they own and I just love that we're able
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: to work together. I hope that it inspires other mothers
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: to do the same, be it if they want to
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: open a clothing store or what have you. It's something
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: beautiful that is right, that's awesome, I hope my kids. Yeah, absolutely,
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: it sounds like you have a good team.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Yes, well, Skyler as the daughter, do you have anything
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: to add to that?
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Skyler as her daughter?
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Do you have anything you want to add to that?
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Because you're coming at that from your perspective, having your
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: mom care so much is to to create this and help,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: you know, work together on this.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts about that?
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: Acting? And then I got into writing and that's where
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: I really just found my spark and that's what I
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: do every day. It's just really fun. It's you know,
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: I also I'm always working on screenplays and working on
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: novels and stuff. And so then having something that we
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: get to do together and get to talk on the
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: phone about it's been really exciting. And it's also been
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: really cool because growing up my mom she was just
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: my number one supporter and was just to stay at
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: home mom with me, taking me to all my practices
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: and acting auditions and stuff. And so now it's been
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: cool getting to see her step into this role and
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: just being like a very powerful woman.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's great.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: And yeah, sometimes parents, it's great to be a supportive
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: parent and genuinely support what your child's really passionate about.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Interesting as opposed to some parents who voice something on.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Their childlike or whatever it is, like me, or you're
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: done or what.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Yes, all that, Arlene, welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: us where you're from a little bit about yourself, and
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: do you have a question for these ladies.
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: Yes, thank you for having me.
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: I'm Arlene Dion and I'm from the Los Angeles area.
• 35:21
  Speaker 7: I am a mother to an energetic five year old daughter,
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: the Little Girl. I'm an entrepreneur with finance background, but
• 35:30
  Speaker 7: i also am the owner of a mail box and
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: shipping store and called Mailboxes and More in Sherman Oaks, California.
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: It's one of the highest rated mail box in shipping
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: companies in Savvando Valley, so I'm pretty proud about that.
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: Uh So, my question for you Shanna and Styler is
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: what are some of the challenges of running a film
• 35:53
  Speaker 7: festival as a mother and daughter duo?
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Good question, and I take the lead on this fun sure.
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  Speaker 5: Some of the Honestly, we talk about it all the time,
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  Speaker 5: how lucky you we are because everything just fell into
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  Speaker 5: place and kind of took off so fast that we
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  Speaker 5: always and we have such a good team in my
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: mom and I. I think we have the same kind of
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: quick problem solving brains, so the problems don't last for
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  Speaker 5: that long, thank god, because we also were both overthinkers,
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: so we're like, we're not going to stop until this
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  Speaker 5: is resolved. But last year, I think our biggest hardship
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: was having the film festival be a destination film fest
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  Speaker 5: and Roundtop, Texas. A lot of people don't know what
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: that what Roundtop is still, and then the people that
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: do they know it for the antiques, and so when
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: people were looking it up it nobody knew really what
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: to expect, and we all we could do is just
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  Speaker 5: promise they were going to have a good time. I'm
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  Speaker 5: so the submissions, it was hard to get those to
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: roll in at first, and but we had such a
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  Speaker 5: great mickey, We had a great coordinator of that, so
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  Speaker 5: it ended up working out. And then this year we're like,
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: we can never have that happen again. But it ended
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: up working out. But this year now we have so
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  Speaker 5: many people that were unfortunately going to have to say
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  Speaker 5: no to so it all ends up working out, and
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  Speaker 5: I think it's been good with both of our shared positivity.
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: But that was definitely yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's a really nice problem to have.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: You have a problem, that's a that's a good constanza.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Mom's Club.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Where are you from? Tell us a little bit about
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: yourself and do you have a question? O?
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  Speaker 11: Hi guys, Hiza, I am from Brazil originally.
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: I live in beautiful Miami Peach, Florida.
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  Speaker 11: And I'm the mama to an incredible eleven year old
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  Speaker 11: girl who I don't know where she.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: Is right now.
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  Speaker 5: That's right, we'll find by day. I run a marketing agency.
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  Speaker 11: I work predominantly with hospitality projects all over the nation,
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  Speaker 11: and I really love the mom clubs, you guys. I've
• 38:17
  Speaker 11: been following you guys for so so long. I think
• 38:19
  Speaker 11: she has Brazilians we really pride ourselves on energy and
• 38:22
  Speaker 11: just surrounding ourselves with the right people, the right moms,
• 38:24
  Speaker 11: people that bring out the best in us.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, super excited to be here.
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  Speaker 11: My question, I guess is a little bit for both
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  Speaker 11: of you. Listen, my goal is to definitely have I
• 38:35
  Speaker 11: only have a little one, so if I'm able to
• 38:37
  Speaker 11: do something with her when she's older, that would be
• 38:40
  Speaker 11: a blessing. So I guess wanted to get a little
• 38:42
  Speaker 11: bit deeper and kind of understand how has this made
• 38:45
  Speaker 11: this chapter of your life more meaningful working together?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, for me, it's been wonderful because you know,
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: like you you're in it and you're raising your child
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: and you're doing all the things, and then they go
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: off to college and you're like, oh, my gosh, I'm
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: an empty nest for now, what am I going to
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: do with myself? And so that was kind of the
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: first part. But then when mine went off to college,
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: COVID struck, so she was home very quickly, so it
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: was kind of like she's back in the nest again,
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: and so it was a slower transition into that phase.
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: And then she went off and she you know, worked
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: and she moved to New York, and then she came
• 39:29
  Speaker 6: back and then when she said yes, I'm interested in this,
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: let's do it. I mean, it was so rewarding to
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: me to be able to take that and to share
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: her passion and my passion, you know, of giving back
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: and be able to turn that into something beautiful. And
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: this festival has just been it's been beautiful and it's
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: growing and we're excited and it's something super neat to
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: share with your order.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, ditto.
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  Speaker 5: And I think watching my mom just now being an adult,
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: seeing her step into this powerful role and you know,
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: have start watching you have a new chapter and make
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: new friends and see all that. That's been really cool
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: for me to watch too. So it's been fun.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: I know. Wow, you know we were going to eat tissues,
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: the tissues.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: In this new studio of ours. That was that was
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: quite inspiring, Ladies. I wish I had a daughter. Now
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: I have two sons.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: You have many daughters between us, that's true.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, thank you so much, ladies. Has been so
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: enlightening and exciting and we can't wait to we're gonna
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: be there. We're going to see us there at the
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Film Festival. Absolutely, so remind them again where they can
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: get tickets. Where can people find the Film Festival.
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: We'll all come and join us. We would love it,
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: and buy your ticket wide widewi dot round top filmfest
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  Speaker 6: dot org.
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  Speaker 5: Also you can go on the Instagram Roundtop Film Festival.
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: And there's a link under the bio that you can
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: click on, and I'd recommend following it if you want
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: quick updates because we're always sharing little sneak peaks and
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: upcoming things.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Perfect way to know what's going on, right, Yeah, absolutely
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: social media.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you ladies so much for joining us. We
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: really appreciate and.
• 41:32
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• 41:35
  Speaker 2: Newcom helps us sleep better, focus, It's kept us together
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: as roommates when we're here lay because we would not
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: be able to function actually without Newcom. So you want
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  Speaker 2: to check that out. And if you put Mom's Club
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  Speaker 2: in the code at check out, you get fifteen percent
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: off every month of your membership, so you definitely want.
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: To do that.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Also, ladies, this is very exciting. All over the country.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: We are going to have Mom's Club events like we've
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: had in Dallas and in other cities around the country. Boston, Texas, Austin, Texas,
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: We're gonna be in Nashville, Atlanta again in Dallas. We're
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: gonna be all over the country. Bring your mom to
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Rage to one of our many events there. And also,
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: if you want to be a zoomer mom, like one
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: of these ladies that were with us today. Get on
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: our website inside the Momsclub dot com. There's a button
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: you can hit and you can put your submission in
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: to be a zoomer mom, just like these moms were
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: here today. So this is all amazing fun. As always,
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: it's it's always, and it always goes by so fast.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: I can't even believe time way it is I can.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: I'm very excited. Now I've got add our test else
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: to add to my itinerary. Yes, my trips to the
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: Round Top Film Festival. So it's going to be exciting. Well,
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: we will be back next time, ladies with celebrities and
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: extraordinary moms. Just like you moms out there, we know
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: that all your me time is precious and valuable. Thank
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: you so much for spending it with us. And remember
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: our Mom's Club motto. If you don't laugh, sometimes you
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: are going to cry. So laugh out there, ladies, stay
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: positive and we'll see you next time inside the Mom's
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: Club